I also hate those verifications with one box per number

And the worst of those don’t have auto-advance between the boxes. Whoever designed that is hell-bound. Equally bad are the one used by one of my banks that randomly orders the boxes just to add to your cognitive load without actually providing any more security. And their passphrase validation rules massively reduce the search space, while still being a pain in the ass.

Remember what the Praetorian Guards would do when they demanded a pay raise and didn’t get one.

Then you negotiate down to just taking their money.

Unless they’re the De Wtit brothers.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who was car-bombed, did not discover the Panama Papers. Instead, she used them as a source. She was a Maltese journalist who researched the involvement of highly-placed Maltese politicians in the Panama laundry.

They’ve probably re-engineered it since the acquisition, in order to make it easier to further enshittify it and to spy on their users more effectively.

Like Microsoft did to Skype.

I grew up in the city because my parents couldn’t stand the gossip, conformism and backbiting of small-town life. I’ve been to where they came from (there are still relatives there), and getting the hell out of there was one of the best things they ever did for me.

I’m in a small city now. The neighbors are friendly but not over-curious and the crime rate is minimal. I live near the center so everything I need is within a 20-minute walking radius. And the last time there was a racist demonstration here, the counter-demo was five times larger and the fascists got back on their bus and fucked off: they weren’t even locals, they were a rent-a-mob. That matters greatly to me since we’re an ethnically diverse family. If those assholes get the upper hand, they’ll be coming for us.

Sorry, pal, thorn hasn’t been a þing since Middle English.