I sure hope the US stays on Montenegro's good side /s

I'm having a Mandela Effect / Berenstain Bears moment where I swear people say "pled" as the past tense of "plead" ... but half of the spellcheckers don't like it?

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So if you initiate the phone-to-phone Signal account transfer process, and it almost completes, such that the account is transferred, but the data isn't, and then errors out ... and if you didn't have backups enabled ... then your entire chat history just vanishes into thin air with zero recourse. In other words, Signal nukes your history from orbit on the old phone before validating that it actually successfully transferred to the new phone. I am indescribably angry right now.

I swear, they studied how people accidentally touch their Android phones ... and put all of the Gemini buttons there.

"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?

I thought one of the core remaining value propositions of a brick and mortar store was that you could and see and feel and play with things before you buy them.

Actually, you just significantly reduced my security, Gandi. You should have let the users manage this transition, or at least warn them ahead of time what was going to happen if they didn't. Replacing unphishable auth (old school U2F is still quite functional!) with phishable auth (email) without user consent is not acceptable. #Gandi #SecurityKeys #U2F

I understand why the "homework doesn't improve test scores" assertion is appealing, but the big thing that jumps out for me: Maybe homework [in moderation] is ... good for something other than test scores?