How hard is it to open a file?
Sebastian Wick has a great explanation of why opening files - programmatically - is a lot more complex and fraught with dangers than you might think it is.
It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be:
very simple, just call the standard library function
extremely hard, don’t trust a
https://www.osnews.com/story/144825/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
What makes people trust an email provider for 25 years? 🤔
✅ You're the customer, not the product
✅ Real human support when it matters most
✅ Since 1999, pre-Gmail
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Read what our customers are saying 👉 https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-customers-trust-fastmail/
The original Secure Boot certificates are about to expire, but you probably won’t notice
With the original release of Windows 8, Microsoft also enforced Secure Boot. It's been 15 years since that release, and that means the original 2011 Secure Boot certificates are about to expire. If these certificates are not replaced with new ones, Secu
Today is Change Your Password Day 🔐
But changing passwords constantly doesn’t make you safer.
What does?
✔️ Unique passwords
✔️ Password managers
✔️ Passkeys (no passwords at all)
Why it matters →
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/change-your-password/
#Fastmail #Email #EmailMadeBetter #BetterEmail #PrivacySecurity
About two weeks ago, I wrote on exactly this question: Should you use biometrics on your phone?
https://decentproject.org/should-you-use-biometrics-on-your-phone
The new TikTok is freaking people out
Microsoft gave FBI BitLocker keys to unlock encrypted data, because of course they did
Encrypting the data stored locally on your hard drives is generally a good idea, specifically if you have use a laptop and take it with you a lot and thieves might get a hold of it. This issue becomes even more pressing if you carry sensitive data as a dissi
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