malepoon2

For what it's worth, here's what Moroney is saying:

"I’m out on vacation right now, and will respond when I get back. But these allegations are completely untrue, and massively distressing to me, and to others."

https://twitter.com/lmoroney/status/1702695501542597080

How convenient he's on vacation right now. Why didn't he respond sooner if it's all untrue?

(Also why am I not surprised to see this guy paid for a blue check...)

But honestly, it freaks me out that Google might someday disable my account.

Then don't wait. There are plenty of alternatives such as Fastmail. You pay a small amount of money but you can talk to a human being if anything goes wrong.

I also don't get why people put all their eggs in one basket. I'm so glad that my email, password manager, YouTube profile etc are not the same account.

It still shows it's a good idea to separate your e-mail from your YouTube or whatever account though.

When I still used Gmail I was always worried something like this would get me locked out of everything. I use YouTube much more now that my e-mail is safely stored elsewhere.

4. I like separate services/accounts. So many stories of people being locked out of their account because of YouTube or something.

I feel much better now that my Google account is only used for Android and YouTube.

Yes but they don't support the WebAuthn/FIDO2 standard. The Yubikey option they have is less secure because I think it's OTP under the hood, so it doesn't protect against phishing.

1Password is also inherently more secure because of the extra Secret Key. If a breach like this ever happens to them, users with weak master passwords will still be safe.

Also, Lastpass doesn't encrypt URLs. There's really no excuse for that.

1Password does encrypt URLs. It also requires an extra Secret Key [0] in addition to your password. This makes it much, much harder to use the data even if encrypted vaults were stolen.

They also have a development team that's very active. Lastpass had been coasting for years.

[0] https://support.1password.com/secret-key-security/

It's not a large development team. I moved away from them years ago because support for FIDO keys for example was always "coming soon" and still isn't there. They've been coasting for years and this breach doesn't surprise me at all.

All providers mess stuff up occasionally. Everyone has a customer support crisis at some point, with someone.

I think this misses the point. With Fastmail, if they mess up, I can still talk to a human. With Gmail there is no customer support to begin with so you're screwed whenever something goes wrong.

I migrated the important stuff and then just incrementally moved things over whenever I happened to login somewhere. At this point, the only emails I get on Gmail are random crap I don't care about.

It's so nice to have my Gmail only for Android and other Google services. It was a big relief.

people will realize that only 50 of their thousands of followers can be found on mastodon, and then move back in a few weeks after giving up on the experiment

My Mastodon feed felt very empty a few months ago, but nowadays it's pretty good. A lot of folks switched or set up cross-posting, many of them not technical. Mastodon is doing much better than I expected back then.

I'm fine with Gnome, but what bothers me is when really basic features are missing.

For example replacing a desktop wallpaper with a solid color required manual config changes. Even Windows 95 let me do this from the GUI. Removing the wallpaper is useful for VNC connections for example.