I used to use a Windows firewall which basically hijacked a bunch of WinAPI calls and let me approve/deny every request. Trying to be a good secure boy I ran this setup for a while but it was exhausting. Every single action needed dozens of approval windows. After a while I removed the software. I reckon it is good situationally though, trying out a new program for first time (that isn't risky enough for a VM or sandbox), might be good to turn on a tool like this.

The parody is amazing! They were quick to respond and made a great ad at a time a lot of people are moving away from Ring.

Any modern system with a sizeable userbase has thousands of bugs. Not all bugs are severe, some might be inconveniences at best affecting only a small % of customers. You have to usually balance feature work and bug fixes and leadership almost always favours new features if the bugs aren't critical to address.

I believe the idea is to pick small items that you'd likely be able to solve quickly. You don't know for sure but you can usually take a good guess at which tasks are quick.

Even the PS2 isn't safe from JavaScript.

Lovely attack vector. It's fun to open the various databases stored by browsers like Chrome in SQLITE to see the kind of information they store. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar attack vector existed for a different stored artefact.

Great read. It makes you wonder how heavily optimised the tokenizers used by popular search enginea truly are.

I wonder if there is a real person out there called John Doe who regularly received legal threats for a myriad of alleged crimes.

I wish people would understand how expensive meetings are. Don't get me wrong, a good meeting can be very useful for all parties involved by the vast majority of meetings can be replaces by a blog post or pre-recorded video which can be shared out for people to consume on their own schedules.

Totally agree with this!

I love the landing page for this project. It's very engaging.