Posts by Dan 55

Re: How is the device added...?

The Prime Video app on the device generates a six character code, you go to primevideo.com, log with Amazon credentials, and enter that code.

You can turn on 2FA but that won't get rid of devices which are already paired. Also on Android, if you pair the Prime Video app, the main Amazon shopping app works using those credentials too.

Which makes me wonder if they're real devices as one smart TV per compromised account seems a pretty expensive way to go about it. Perhaps somebody's spinning up Android VMs with Prime Video and Amazon apps linked to compromised accounts.

Re: Splendid response

When people say that, I ask myself in what quantifiable ways might Labour be worse than the present shower of shit who are currently in charge?

They might be just as bad but for different reasons but I really doubt that they'd be worse.

Re: Slood

I don't think Slood would be of any help to Ikea, it's let its certificate expire.

Re: Identity theft is a bummer

Amazon does allow TOTP and so does PayPal, finally.

You can get a list of 2FA websites here.

Re: while in rural areas the individual cells will stretch for miles

Cell data is mapped to areas which cover 5,000 inhabitants so in theory someone living in the country will have no more or less chance of being identified than someone living in the city.

Re: Why?

Way do people need to download 3rd party keyboard apps in the first place.

Because I don't trust the Google Keyboard, every so often it's updated with a new slurpy option that you're opted into by default.

Re: Paypal are the ones that p!ss me off at the moment

NewPipe on FDroid (alternative YouTube player), gets rid of all that nonsense.

Re: Not got much hope

My bank has also implemented two factor authentication via SMS, as have numerous other websites I use such as Amazon etc

I'm afraid we'll have to take your commentard licence off you sir, Amazon have a choice of SMS or TOTP and faced with that choice you clearly should have chosen TOTP.

Re: Buying Intel

It's only systemd distros which are unbootable. Poettering decided calling the kernel to get a random number wasn't good enough for him. You know, the kernel routine which mixes in other sources of entropy instead of just using the CPU's entropy generator. Instead he just calls RdRand, which also has bugs on some Intel chips and doesn't exist before 2012.

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, and YouTube. Can we get our money* back?

* data.

You're joking, of course. Every time they publish a post mortem it turns out one thing goes down and that in turn makes the whole lot die on its arse globally. Doesn't sound like it has "integrated segregated security with fully constrained delegation capabilities", whatever that is.

Re: Settings

Why, full of pointless white space, oversized and confusing GUI widgets, and easy to get lost in, and every third button you press produces a spinner for 5 seconds followed by "Hey, buddy, wouldn't ya just know it, something went wrong" in red text. Doesn't everyone define "much better" like that?

Re: "you all love to hate"

Try picking one yourself. It's either PowerPoint graphics, suits, padlocks or hoodies.

Re: 10%?

As the EU browser ballot choice screen showed, people often don't know about the alternatives and, when given the chance to try them, they quite like them.

First there was:

Writing to disk -> What happens if I suddenly don't have permission/it's full/it disappears.

Then there was:

Connecting to the database -> What happens if it's down or won't let me connect?

So really, this this not beyond the bounds of imagination:

Connecting to an online service -> What happens if it's down or won't let me connect?

If they're fulfilled by Amazon, it's supposed to be in Amazon's warehouse ready to send alongside Amazon's own stuff. If somehow they have to wait days before telling you it's dispatched, it's in another warehouse of theirs on the other side of the continent or it's not really in their warehouse at all.

Got to keep the Prime racket going though.

Obligatory Mitchell and Webb

Re: Productivity? I really don't see the benefit of Catalina over High Sierra.

One day for a test if I've got some time to spare (probably never) I'm going to run Snow Leopard on the same hardware and watch it fly like shit off a shovel.

Re: Aren't you thinking of

I think SeaQuest DSV more closely encapsulates Windows 10's soul-destroying mediocrity.

Re: TL;DR

The UK is one of the most welcoming and non-racist countries in Europe.

Indeed, they even accept you if you're bright red, over 50, and outrageously bigoted.

Re: Samwrong

Corporate net nannies usually say "dodgysite.com has been blocked because it falls into the following categories: file sharing" or something similar and as they send it using the net nanny MITM certificate, the browser will complain unless it has also has the corporate root certificate also installed.

Re: authenticator app does not "receive" codes

There is, however, an option to use a non-MS authenticator app and there might be a slim chance that that is still working.

My parents have admitted to me that they sometimes used an open drawer as a makeshift cot.

Never did me any harm. (twitch)

First of January 1970 if you're asking.

As for location, since GDPR I changed that from United States Minor Outlying Islands to Germany.

Re: The EU is not a wet dream..

TV, browser, and ISP parental controls, a law aimed at Google, and job's a goodun.

Re: I beg to differ

Its a major frikken surprise. And its a giant bag of samsung fail.

Is there an other size bag of Samsung fail?