While I’m as skeptical as you are, I don’t think people recognizing you is a good metric.

A better test would be if an AI trained on your younger face could accurately and reliably identify you with your adult face.

The way AI and human face recognition work are different from each other. An AI may be able to identify you based on markers that human recognition doesn’t account for

I came across this issue on my own discord server, the system kinda encourages you towards those higher security levels without really being especially clear about what it will do to the user experience.

One thing I would clear up though:

I think both sides in the OP are correct here.

Yes, the server admin sets the security level that triggers those requirements.

But it’s also true that the server/admins do not get your phone number, that private information is only kept within discord’s verification system. It is not sent to the server admins.

It depends what I’m backing up and where it’s backing up to.

I do local/lan backups at a much higher rate because there’s more bandwidth to spare and effectively free storage. So for those as often as every 10 mins if there are changes to back up.

For less critical things and/or cloud backups I have a less frequent schedule as losing more time on those is less critical and it costs more to store on the cloud.

I use Kopia for backups on all my servers and desktop/laptop.

I’ve been very happy with it, it’s FOSS and it saved my ass when Windows Update corrupted my bitlocker disk and I lost everything. That was also the last straw that put me on Linux full-time.

This is not news unless he actually took ownership of that Tahoe for $1 in the end.

Beeper Mini is no less private than using iMessage on an iPhone.

It doesn’t even require an AppleID let alone require your credentials for one.

The cloud service that Apple didn’t block is the one that requires you to give your Apple credentials to a cloud bridge.

It’s not the act, it’s the hypocrisy of the act

I used Google Domains for many years.

I think mostly because it came as a package with my Google Workspace account.

But the whole "selling their domain accounts to Squarespace and not even bothering to notify us kind of turned me off to them.

I am now happily using Cloudflare instead.

Frankly I don’t miss it.
The rates seem a tiny bit cheaper and the API/etc is far more advanced.

I suspect I will be much happier with Cloudflare in the long run

This is the problem with standardized testing, it just doesn’t challenge our AI students and forces trainers to focus on the exam questions rather than an understanding of the material

so that I don’t need to fellate myself on public forums

But you still do anyway, because you like the way it feels

I would think it would at the very least improve loading times?

I wouldn’t call it no difference.

I would have to disagree that any sdcard is as fast as an SSD.

Maybe a really fast sdcard and a really slow SSD?

Edit: oh maybe that is a steam-deck-specific thing? It’s the SSD connection over USB2 or something?