As title says. I haven’t used my Google account for more than 3 months. Prior to abandoning my Google account, I unlinked my phone number, deleted my recovery email, and logged out every device. I also never had 2FA TOTP setup....
I understand that Google already has my phone number. That’s not so much of a problem for me. I am trying to limit the amount of personal information that I hand out to websites & services. I believe that companies shouldn’t need my personal phone number to create, maintain or secure my account. If I need security, I’ll install 2FA TOTP. If not, that’s still my decision and I shouldn’t be forced. Especially not in form of having to provide my phone number.
While that is true, I do not fall into that category. I let KeePassXC generate all my passwords and most of them are longer than 30 chars. I’m just simply tired of being forced. I believe I should have the say in how I want to secure my account. Not the companies.
Times simular to your exaggeration will come and people will say “But it’s their service! If you want to use it, you have to follow their rules”. Not understanding that they’re slowly handing over control over their lives because we live in a modern time where everything is about technology. Sad to see how many people don’t understand this and disagree with me when I say that I’m infuriated over this.
Yes. Because I don’t want to give Google that information about me any longer. Which is my right and according to you Google is justified in locking me out and demanding that I give them that information to regain access to my account?
People like you fail to see the implications of this. We more and more live in a world where technology rules everything. Soon the CBDCs might take over. And when and if they do, you’re gonna be forced to provide all sorts of information about yourself. Lets hope that you too will be okay with handing over your data just so you can buy groceries. After all, it’s their system, their service. If you don’t like their rules, don’t use it. Right? :)
I’ve seen a quick video about it on YouTube from a reputable Windows security YouTuber. Can’t remember which exactly, probably “ThioJoe” or “The PC Security Channel”. I wrote the softwares name down a long time ago and decided to give it a try today.
I just lost 44 GB of data that I downloaded in the past two hours. My PC started to get laggy and it got stuck so I just shut it down believing that all will be well since the data has already been written to disk…
The 44 GB of data that got lost consisted of 191 files each around ~220 MiB in one single folder. I used testdisk to inspect my drive and I couldn’t find the data…
I have no clue what a RAID is to be honest. I was using a VM with 6 GB RAM to do some work in another operating system and passed through my physical hard drive (Host to Guest) to write the data on when suddenly my VM got stuck.
It actually might be, because now a magic file appeared on my hard drive (a file that was once deleted) that I can’t delete. When I try to delete it, even with admin rights, it says No such file or directory
“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.
I did initially try this on two different browsers, Firefox & Librewolf (with uBlock) and it didn’t work. After reading your comment, I downloaded ungoogled Chromium, didn’t install any addons or change any settings and it worked. Thank you!
Locked out - Google's absurd security measures won't log me in (files.catbox.moe)
As title says. I haven’t used my Google account for more than 3 months. Prior to abandoning my Google account, I unlinked my phone number, deleted my recovery email, and logged out every device. I also never had 2FA TOTP setup....
"New Twitter animation" (lemmy.world)
Love to see it
You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1576052...
Raymond Robinson (Green Man) - Severely disfigured man whose years of nighttime walks made him into a figure of urban legend (en.wikipedia.org)
Friendly reminder to never forcebly shutdown your PC
I just lost 44 GB of data that I downloaded in the past two hours. My PC started to get laggy and it got stuck so I just shut it down believing that all will be well since the data has already been written to disk…
Deepfake voices improving kidnapping scams (www.cnn.com)
“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.
Can't submit help ticket (lemmy.world)
Been trying to submit a ticket to Mojang for weeks now, still doesn’t work. Anyone else having the same issue?...
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Based Odysee (lemmy.world)
Happy to see him get the recognition he deserves