The problem is this doesn't really work anymore with Widevine protected content. You are not getting Widevine L1 protected content through Windows or other type of home desktop operating system. Even without L1 content, platforms like Youtube won't serve 5.1 surround unless it's through an app and not the browser.

I'm not saying you need a smart TV, but if you want to get the content you're actually paying for via Netflix, HBO etc in the highest quality they offer, you'll need to fork over money for a device with dedicated hardware

Just wait until you lose your devices

all at once? I find that unlikely

No one has ever had a whole house disaster after all!

Sure, but iCloud still has my entire phone encrypted and will backup restore to a new device, I would imagine my Passkey which is stored in the Passwords app regardless would be fine. Alternatively you can put Passkey in your Bitwarden vault as well.

You don't travel? Easy to have all your devices stolen at once on the street.

Backup codes somewhere safe. I mean if you're traveling and your bank cards or passport gets stolen you're similarly in trouble, but there's a contingency plan for those kinds of things.

I thought the working group making the standard was threatening to blacklist any implementation that allows passkeys to be exported for backup, no?

Yes, but unlike with 2FA and SaaS, there's always some recourse. Worst case, you may need to physically visit some bank or government branch, send some registered letters and/or notarize some statements, but there's always a way to recover from losing your ID, passport, or access to a bank account.

Until similar process exist in digital space (read: is legally and culturally forced on SaaS vendors), 2FA is frankly dangerous - it demands standards of diligence and long-term care that not even government affairs do. The back-up codes users are instructed to print out and store securely? No other document in most people's lives requires such long-term protection.

I can't say that I fly with everything valuable I have to my name, no. I leave my iPad and my Laptop at home usually, unless I am staying within my state visiting family and even then, I'm pretty sure my iCloud backup will still work on a brand new iPhone, heck I know it will, since it pushed everything to my newer iPhone even things I don't sync were in the encrypted backup of the whole device.

EU? Brexit, remember?

When that's said, there are forces in the EU as well which try stunts like this, kind of, but in the EU there are at least lots of countries and lots of opposing voices. In the UK the situation is different.

Good news, potentially coming to US soon as well: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpn...

As soon as one country gets away with it, most will follow suit.

I don't think this is limited to the EU.

Chat Control did not pass, because it infringes upon their citizens privacy.

The UK is not an EU country.

Mean tweets - yes.

Very obvious incitement to violence - no.

The 31 months was for literally inciting a mob to burn down a building with asylum seekers inside, in the middle of a riot. Yes, from the Internet rather than in person, and she's now very vigorous in claiming she didn't intend anyone to actually do it. But yeah. Likely criminal even in the US under the "imminent lawless action" exception.

Musk had bugger all to do with the rape gangs scandal, which broke literally years ago, and has been brought up with regularity by the newspapers here since. (For what it's worth there have also been plenty of non-Pakistani groups doing similar things and getting away with it. The main problem seems to be that no one in authority misses, or listens to, dropout teenage girls who have fallen off the radar - which makes them easy pickings for nonces.)

I don't know about the others. The sign holder was likely within the 150m buffer zone put around abortion clinics last year, though. Given the content of the sign (which just steps over the letter of the statutory prohibition not to influence patients' decisions while being entirely morally unobjectionable) I suspect it was a deliberate setup for arrest for outrage, just like the Palestine Action people. But I could be wrong.

It's perhaps also worth noting that Britain's traditions of free speech have never been as absolutist as the US (the last successful prosecution for blasphemous libel was as recent as the 70s and it's still technically a crime to advocate for a republic) but that raucous objections to government have very rarely been the target in recent centuries. The major difference in practice is that being grossly offensive isn't constitutionally protected. You're still not likely to get done for it, though.

Of course, I agree. The UK has nothing to do with the EU, though.

The UK left because the EU was not "thinking of the children"

No they left because the old people didn't like all the brown faces in their street.

That is not what happened to the Graphene project recently.

Basically, there have been a string of anonymous secure phones designed and marketed directly to high-ups in organised crime. Encrochat, Sky ECC, Anom, Phantom Secure, probably more. Their plausible deniability is thin - an undercover government agent goes to the creators and basically says "I'd like to buy 30 of these for my drug-dealing empire" and the creator says "Sure, that'll be $2000 each." Later the agent calls them up and goes "Hey this guy cooking meth was busted by the cops, can you erase his phone?" and the creator goes "Sure." and erases the phone. That's not merely selling secure phones - that's joining organised crime (as the guy who makes the phones).

Someone in the French government basically said that if Graphene is another Phantom Secure, they should suffer the same consequences as Phantom Secure. That's what the comment was. It doesn't seem like Graphene is another Phantom Secure, but they're sure acting suspicious by running away from France because of this comment.

It looks like French authorities did more than than and the Graphene devs were explicitly asked to decrypt devices and threatened with arrests:

https://nordictimes.com/tech/grapheneos-exits-france-after-t...

By this same logic, would Proton also be acting suspicious if they exited Switzerland?

Of course there will be no accountability or punishment.

I pay my taxes, that's not optional. Paying search engine is.

Airdrop has nothing to do with Bluetooth

> Changing defaults doesn't have to mean changing existing configurations. It can be the new default for newly created VPCs after a certain date, or for newly created accounts after a certain date.

This is breaking existing IAAC configurations because they rely on the default. You will never see the change you're describing except in security-related scenarios

> There is precedent for all of this at AWS.

Any non-security IAAC default changes you can point to?

There's community update repositories you can swap out.

I'm not really sure what the difference is.

The difference: the free repositories get the updates before the enterprise repo.

So, the software versions that go into the enterprise repo are considered stable by then.

(If we're talking about Proxmox, that is.)

Enterprise repos are better tested and somewhat guarantee updates don’t explode anything.

Your claim has nothing to do with the parent claim. Truthful or not, you can't write an article, have it debunked or disputed and then move onto another argument.

yea, that's why it's not "pro" grade, and that's my point.

"pro" users need EOL version support because sometimes some client still didn't want to update his age old web app the newest node or python or whatever. sometimes it's not up to the dev himself, and he needs to make money either way.

so in the end brew makes decisions for the most common denominator, and that will be the user that uses it to install youtube-dl and nothing more.

“Pro” users are using containers, venvs, version managers (nvm, rvm, etc.). They definitely aren’t installing project-specific stuff directly to the system.