We need to repeal anti-circumvention laws, and yes, it means we might legally be able to do to Meta and its likes what they've been doing to all of us

The idea is about platform solutions vs. best of breed, and they keep betting on the platform. In big organizations with lengthy and complex contracting procedures, platform solutions will always win.

The actual solution for the economy is Interoperability, if we fight for governments to require it, we can get platform providers that allow best of breed bundles. We will gain open market platforms, where you choose the market platform that works for you with the combination of solutions that work for you with one or just few contracts. Markets that close themselves or fight their vendors will lose both vendors and customers.

It is about the question, the answer will become very clear once you understand what was the question presented to the inference model, and of course what data and context was fed

The current law is broken, we know that, but most of us don't grasp broken laws as a threat until it is challenged (and we as a society usually lose), and then we expect the judge to "save" us from the broken law instead of holding the legislators accountable

This circuit should be shortened, we need to react better to laws as they are being drafted, not wait out their inevitable harm to society like with DMCA and PATRIOT act

If anything has proven this lately is the Roe v. Wade overturn, we really need to stop relying on courts to "save" us and instead fight for better laws, be more involved in the legislation process and actively propose and push for fixes

2. Atlassian has a terrible way of managing feature requests priorities, not unique to them, but they definitely have an impact on many developers, which is why they (deserve and) get the huge shaming

3. I managed to move my company from Bitbucket to GitLab, for many reasons, but the main reason for me was that I simply couldn't manage the settings using their APIs, they have a very weird concept of APIs

4. They send people to fill in tickets and on Uservoice, but rarely do they actually listen to reasonable requests (tickets I still get notifications: Bitbucket user public SSH keys and Archiving projects in Bitbucket)

5. So the issue is not this or that product, it is that Atlassian doesn't have the real end users in mind, just the paying users, the end users can suffer, but not many people will resign over a product used at their company, so nobody really fights the company over it, and thus Atlassian keeps getting paid for terrible products that get new terrible interfaces from time to time

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Copyright laws have one major purpose: protect the right holders. It does so by giving them tools to mitigate their loses by deterring people from infringing.

If a right holder has to invest more time in complaining on people about infringement than actually having time to do other stuff, like creating, then we've got it all wrong.

The question is not whether they have internal accountability, but rather if they have public accountability to their declared statements, their stated mission and non-written guarantees given by officials to the public.

Many companies like these paint themselves as for-public, while I know and so do you, that is not true, but companies should be held accountable for the image they try to portray, they should be held accountable for public announcements no matter the personnel change.

So yes, the platforms and banks have unaccountable power, given by us the public, based on false promises and sales pitches. And we the public have the power to stops that, by making them accountable, but we are the ones who have to do that, by pointing the finger at the root decision makers in those monstrous structures of organizations.

2. Developers should always allow restoring passwords for SSO only users, it is ridiculous for it to even be an issue.

3. As a user, refrain fro using free email accounts to identify on a platform, as others already said, buy a domain not an expensive one, and stick to it, remember to renew, and setup your email address with a reliable service, there are good providers for $1 a month.

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I have mainly python experience with python-social-auth, but I see PHP has a few pretty good social auth libraries, to name one, I came across HybridAuth[1].

[1] https://github.com/hybridauth/hybridauth

After dragging the implementation of Smart IDs, law enforcement started to push the coupling of Smart IDs with a mandatory bio-info database of finger prints and facial images. According to the officials, the database is supposed to prevent duplicate ID issuance, but they bluntly disregarded warnings and alternative solutions from known scientists and security experts, such as Prof. Adi Shamir and Eli Biham, saying they are "self-proclaimed experts".

7 years into the bio-metric saga, 3 years+ after the initiation of a should-have-been-voluntary "pilot" program, the Minister of Interior Aryeh Deri, said he will make the DB mandatory, with an optional Opt-out for fingerprints. The current citizen registry was leaked for a century since 1996, over and over again, most of the time through the same channels, official sub-contractors. But the officials in-charge claim that the BioDB is secured and will never be hacked, which they know can't be promised.

So far the citizens have voted with their fingers, and about 70% of the citizens who renewed their ID card in the "pilot" period refused the BioDB. hopefully they will continue standing straight saying no2bio.

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