To be fair, 20 years ago your computer would have choked doing 1/10th the stuff either one of those apps do today. Hell, I still remember writing a prank program that would lock up my school computers because I made it beep too fast.

Experian does it with every. single. login. Really fucking annoying when you have to login multiple times for thawing and whatnot when necessary.

Omfg, one of my banks did this to me and was infuriating. I was able to call in to fix it and made a bug report, but goddamn, what idiot silently truncates the sign up password but not also the login form?!?

That only works so many times before the authorities can see through the ruse unfortunately.

Doing so at the dns layer is a much better option, as it prevents the end user or malware from bypassing those restrictions with a non-standard browser or modifying the client settings (which shouldn’t happen, but can).

In an enterprise environment, which is exactly what this is aimed at, that kind of protection is a boon against the random shit end users click on.

Sounds interesting, and it looks like it covers a lot of what our network VPN does (I can’t get any DNS resolution to any DNS servers other than the designated Corp ones, which is annoying as shit when trying to test other reachable servers). My only concern is if this policy would block local DNS resolution prior to the VPN coming up, as it might introduce a catch 22 where I can’t resolve my VPN endpoint in order to auth and access the internal resolver

Satire would be telling you that you’ll surely get every trace of the virus off your phone and there’s no possibility that you’ll be left with a root kit that can hide itself from the app listing.

Is it downloading them to your app, or just to your server? My server downloads just fine, I’ve just had a couple instances where I haven’t been able to continue what I was listening to after leaving the house.

As for playlists, I really don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I created one playlist but it was more work to use than just using the feed. Haven’t been able to get it to play next tracks on podcasts at all, which has been rather frustrating. Might just be an issue with the app.

Hard disagree, unless I’m missing something. I just set up ABS in the last week to have all of my podcasts self hosted along with my audiobook collection. So far, I’ve seen multiple features missing that make it untenable for podcasts on my phone, including:

• App on my phone doesn’t auto-download episodes

• App doesn’t autoplay the next episode

• • Hitting next only plays the last few seconds of my last episode

• Default sort is newest first, haven’t figured out how to permanently set it to oldest first

• No automatic playlist of all episodes of a series downloaded

I like it for audiobooks, but the podcast side feels very much like an afterthought. I’ll probably be moving to another podcast platform at some point. ABS is usable for podcasts, but at this point I wouldn’t recommend it for that feature unless they’re ok with lack of standard features or already have it set up.

Just goes to show how releasing information selectively (in this case, just 1 state) can influence public sentiment and stereotypes.