I thought this is how it was generally pronounced, it's at least what I say. (It still sounds like a skin disease though.) Is there some other more popular pronunciation?
I mean, "web apps" are just PWAs which iOS, Android(?), and Chrome have all supported for a while now. Still, it's nice to see a better push for web, and it's a bit of a reversal to Apple's historic position on apps (Steve Jobs opposed creating an app store, preferring web apps).
Google's preference of their weird, bespoke authenticator over TOTP is also very annoying to anyone who would rather not. (it is required to add any additional authenticators, and the default authenticator)
TOTP are still phishable, the push notification includes information on where you're logging in from, so you at least have a chance to notice that the login is coming from Croatia and not your house.
Just because it's more secure doesn't mean I want to use it: it's poor UX, especially for those of us who don't carry a phone around 24/7. Even if you use FIDO or TOTP, it will always prioritise push notification and AFAIK you must enable push notification to use any other type of MFA.
Plus (unlike TOTP and FIDO), it's proprietary, making it harder to fit in my workflow. For instance, I can generate TOTP codes from my computer in order to seamlessly sign-in to services.
Any attack that can intercept TOTP codes (= some kind of MITM or local device compromise) can also request the unwanted actions with the IP of your device. All this does is prevent lazy attacks.
With Google Authenticator, there is no notification, is there? As a user, you have to open your phone, open the app, then scroll to the right code, and copy/paste it. (The lack of search in one of the reasons that made me switch to Aegis)
I always thought Okta was kind of weird, because it's just a notification that says "allow/deny" and it's easy to click the wrong one.
It's possible I'm confused by GP, but there's two things being discussed here I think:
First, Google Authenticator, which is in fact just totp which can be used for both Google 1p and any 3p TOTP thing. And second Google's push-notification based auth checks which are used for only certain 1P Google apps (like logging into your gmail or youtube).
Legalities aside, it's morally wrong to hack a server, disregard reasonable disclosure, and publish (even to a selected group) an in-depth list of personal information; all for political reasons! (at least going off what their Wikipedia page describes as their motivations).
I think it's quite brash to say that it's "privileged" to raise children with no screens. Would you like to elaborate? People certainly existed without them.
Windows 11 was the last straw that made me switch my day-to-day computer from a Windows laptop to a MacBook. Unfortunately, I still have to use a Windows desktop for some limited purposes (mainly gaming and computationally intense activities that I cannot do on my laptop) but that will be running a heavily locked-down configuration of Windows 10 until I die.
I look forward to Microsoft policy settings that disable all of Windows 11's clunky, privacy-invading features the moment governments have to or decide to upgrade, or when consumers eventually wake up and stop taking their nonsense.
I bought a Steam Deck to get away from Windows entirely.
I'm not a huge fan of Apple for a lot of reasons, so eventually I'm looking to move to a Linux development environment, but at this point I don't think it's ready.
To be honest, I'm not sure what to do anymore. I hate the modern Operating ecosystem. I find little value in the additions, and the ever encroaching privacy issues is really problematic.
For now I can keep it at bay with MacOS and SteamOS. But where do I go after this?
When people are victims of fraud, the banks are generally expected to do something about it. I would conject that they may have had to refund too many people for crypto-related woes?
I suspect this may more be to do with large organisations (and equally foreign governments) wanting to block Google translate, since it can be used as a proxy in some cases.
I thought this is how it was generally pronounced, it's at least what I say. (It still sounds like a skin disease though.) Is there some other more popular pronunciation?