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   json web tokin' (est@social.emily.news)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 12:26:27 JST json web tokin'

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs what an injustice

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     Nathan Anti Fascist (nathandh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 12:52:45 JST Nathan Anti Fascist

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Is choosing a server really that hard though? Folks have been choosing email (and native IMAP apps) for a good long while now

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     Bela Lugosi's Dad (jimbob@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 13:07:39 JST Bela Lugosi's Dad

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs it's not great to just assume "normal users" are too stupid to learn about these things. It's completely reasonable to help people understand and use the internet in a safer way - assuming people are stupid and treating them as such is how Facebook operates, not how we should operate.

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     Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 13:10:37 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Nathan Anti Fascist

     @nathandh @thomasfuchs Have most people ever considered multiple email providers, compared them, and chosen one? Or do people more often just use Gmail because that's the thing people tend to use for email? Or gotten an email from their ISP when that was more common.

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     Kyle Coops (0x6b@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 13:16:26 JST Kyle Coops

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs “just” don’t have a Twitter account.
     Ok seriously though, SMS 2FA needs to die in a fire globally. Conpanies should charge money for it because it’s a means to drive change.

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     Kyle Coops (0x6b@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 13:29:04 JST Kyle Coops

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs SMS two factor authentication is like putting a second Band-Aid on a haemorrhaging wound. Sure, it helps but it still doesn’t do much for a targeted attack.
     U2F and strong unique passwords is the way the world needs to go to be safe online, you can’t just throw your hands up and give up if you’re like my parents and “too old” to understand this. Hackers, spammers and scammers don’t care if you’re too old.

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     Orion Edwards (borland@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 13:29:53 JST Orion Edwards

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs attaching URLs as a substitute for quote-tweeting is miserable.

     I do almost all of my mastodon-reading on my phone. When I encounter one of these things I click it, and get launched into a web view showing the web interface of whatever that mastodon server is. Where I’m not logged in and can’t follow/boost/favourite the thing. Argh!

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     C.B.Leslie (cbleslie@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 13:40:10 JST C.B.Leslie

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs "just" is the most toxic word in the English language.

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     smidbot (smidbot@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 15:12:14 JST smidbot

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs As a dev it is extremely helpful to have reminders like this.

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     Woodrow Douglass (bigfishrunning@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 02:09:02 JST Woodrow Douglass

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs why does every technology have to target "most people"? Most people are lazy. Instead of making interfaces simpler, we should make the people better -- slight disclaimer, I don't know how to accomplish that

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     Daniel Paoliello :rust: (tehpenguin@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 05:36:20 JST Daniel Paoliello :rust:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs ?
     Any time someone uses "just" they probably didn't consider the full situation. I also put it with "quickly" and "simply" as words to eliminate from your vocabulary.

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     mr. semolina mr. bob semolina (shiftleftist@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 06:00:00 JST mr. semolina mr. bob semolina

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Worth referring to QR codes as a case study; they were an abject failure when reading them needed a dedicated app.

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     Steve Hocking (stevehocking@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 06:46:14 JST Steve Hocking

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs until we as an industry move on from doing this _to ourselves_ there is little hope that we'll do it for users.

     (No joke, I have recently been in a meeting where I was told that the dev teams I work with need to introduce massive architectural change, despite looming regulatory deadlines.)

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     [object Object] (objectobject@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 12:37:39 JST [object Object]

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Dare Obasanjo

     @thomasfuchs @carnage4life I have a personal style rule that whenever I write "just", I remove it or rephrase. I think it's very helpful to come off as less arrogant and force myself to see the other person's POV.

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     Josh (joshfreedman@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 21:57:42 JST Josh

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs There was an article I read awhile back (I need to find it again) that argued to remove language like “just” from your writing, alongside words like “of course” and “easy”. They don’t add anything to your writing and only make people feel bad if they don’t understand.

     100% agree with you on the work that needs to be done. IMO, the opinions and experiences of people who aren’t tech savvy are _more_ valuable than ours are as technologists when it comes to how software should work