Daniel Aleksandersen

You were a good operating system, macOS 10! Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-10-02

Have you seen all the new fancy and the schmancy stuff in the latest #VivaldiBrowser Snapshot (Preview)? Oh, and this version added folders to the feed reader and the new and faster sync system. https://vivaldi.com/blog/new-look-new-feature-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3483-4/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-10-02

I’m revisiting #Deezer to see if it has improved its music streaming service in the last eight months. The first impression was okay but I quickly ran into intermittent playback issues (Error MS0610). One of their media storage servers uses a security certificate that expired over a year ago. I’m pretty sure this is what caused my intermittent playback issues the last time I tried Deezer.I’m giving them another shot because I believe Spotify is overdue for more competition, and I like the concept of Deezer’s Artist-Centric Payment System (ACPS). (I’m not sure it’s reality or a pipe-dream, though?) With ACPS, you pay the artist you stream instead of pooling everyone’s subscription into a giant slush fund. #CreatorEconomy https://www.deezer.com/explore/en-us/artist-remuneration/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-26

🎙️ Audiobook narrator: “Chapter 11 —”
🧠 My brain every time: “— bankruptcy.” Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-26

Registering for any popular service and being forced to pick a username is torture at this point. Please stop requiring people to pick unique usernames. #OnlineLifeIsRealLife Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-24

Dear all innovative mobile network solutions apps. Please stop using the #VPN layer on #Android. The platform does not support multi-VPN setups. You cannot all be VPN-like apps! (Unless you invent a multi-VPN solution, of course.) Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-23

Minor update (6) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 6.8

This update includes a security fix from Chromium upstream to resolve “CVE-2024-7965: Heap Corruption in V8”.

Autofill Settings – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3405.3

You can now manage your saved autofill credit cards and addresses in Settings: Privacy.

‘Do-Not-Track’ privacy setting gets legal backing in Germany

Legislators are finally paying attention to concerns about how our digital data is tracked, collected, and stored. Find out what this game-changing ruling means and how it could affect us.

Sync privacy incident affecting our Snapshot test users

A privacy incident affected our Snapshot test users in versions 6.4.3160.25 through 6.4.3160.30 for desktop.

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.

The trouble with decommissioning a used FIDO security key

You can’t throw out your worn-out USB security keys when you can’t recall what locks they’re for. Physical security tokens come with their own problems.