It is just adapting to the changes.

Increasing fitness in one’s environment is an upgrade. Being smaller or bigger, by itself, is not an upgrade nor a downgrade, it depends on context.

The issue is precisely in your mix up of “linear progression” and implying “smaller” is somehow a counter argument to that. While it’s true evolution isn’t linear, being smaller is not a downgrade at all.

This title is also misleading, though. By claiming “evolution isn’t linear” and then showing a massive dinosaur leading to a chicken, you’re suggesting the chicken is a downgrade (otherwise, what “linear” would even mean in this context?).

The chicken is, however, a massive upgrade - for the specific environment it lived in. Well, “proto-chickens”, let’s say. The actual domesticated chicken is the result of artificial selection.

I have no idea how to respond to this lol, I couldn’t understand a single phrase on this comment. What’s anything got to do with anime here?

Great argument!

That’s what I’d guess too, though I’m not a programmer so I don’t really know. All my accounts that were logged in by myself were immediately compromised, while accounts I hadn’t logged in in months (and had no active cookies) started getting logins after about 30 minutes - no passwords being reused at all. So I can only guess they took the data from Chrome, where all passwords were saved.

Yeah, that’s the actual lesson and the best practice. Unfortunately though, I only have a single PC that needs to be my personal use device and workstation. What I’ll likely do is move Windows to a separate SSD and not log in to any personal accounts there.

Probably - specially during my teenage years. But to be fair, I never had any accounts reporting logins from unknown devices, leaked photos or any other issues to this day, and some of those like my Google account have existed for over 15 years. Except right now with this hack.

My work-related accounts do not use a traditional password system, so they were all safe. The session cookies expire super quickly, I need actually robust 2FA to login in, and they all log in using a specific service that will block the suspicious activity quite well (and warn IT). Those were untouched and I’ve monitored any attempted logins and there were zero.

But my personal accounts? Yes, most have been hijacked by the session cookie itself, while many others were stolen directly from Google Chrome’s password manager.

That’s true for virtually every game. Diablo IV: hated by many, considered a major downgrade, Blizzard bad, gets boring, doesn’t handle live content updates right… yet go watch the videos with the team that designed the dungeons and the assets, they’re extremely passionate, they are proud of their work, they explain how they spent a looooong time just working on little details they thought people would appreciate.

It’s super unfair to raise Helldivers and Baldur’s Gate to this elevated “worthy passionate developer” status and disregard others while, at the same time, being selectively blind about the issues both of these games had and still have. In fact, Baldur’s Gate straight up required months of Microsoft intervention to finally (partially!) fix CPU affinity issues.