Re: hmm
No, the KSR book trilogy: Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars
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I blame Skype; this used to happen all the time in the Linux app, and the same file would work fine in the web version.
Maybe "integrating" the two broke it ?
Not that we care, we've moved to something not-Microsoft at 3 quid per user per month, and uninstalled Skype. That's how much people hate Teams, even though we have a 365 sub for Office that (probably) includes it.
Well then, you won't be stepping through the high regulated, 2FA requiring, oAuth-like flow (that's why even mentioning 'passwords' is just Apple being a dick) to grant Meta limited access to some Apple APIs with your account then.
For other people, being able to do this wil be valuable.
I assume he's talking about a microkernel, so nothing more than a message bus, and everything else lives in user space, including the device drivers and application software. Which of course aren't "OS" and so don't count when they have the inevitable exploit in PNG parsing or hard coded credentials in the provisioning app.
"encrypts a user's storage to keep it safe from prying eyes"
Kinda-sorta?
It prevents someone without the key being able to decrypt it when powered off, e.g. by connecting to a different machine.
Once it's booted, it's decrypted and anything running on the machine can read anything e.g. malware