And I don’t see what I did to deserve this kind of abuse. In your own words, what did I do? Did I piss on someone’s rug or anything? What the fuck is wrong with you? You know nothing about me outside of one internet comment exchange and you think the most vile insults are warranted. What is your problem? You weren’t even involved. Fuck off.

Oh no, anything but the outlook of never getting another huffy reply from you!

RIght, you just happened to forget about those when you really needed them. But yeah, I apologize for giving you advice. That was obviously wrong of me.

Also, yes, incredibly bothered by your joke that definitely wasn’t sarcasm designed to shame me at all since you apparently meant that “imagery of a Terminator” literally. OK. I get it. You take jokes really well. Can we be done now?

you know everything, asshole

I can’t get over how god-damn offended you are by a joke. I don’t need to take your insults just because I pointed out your bad security decision in an unflattering way.

I don’t know everything but I know how MFA works and backup codes have literally been implemented since day one.

nothing has changed about the UI since.

panicking

Let me remind you, that my joke was about your decision to disable MFA, not anything else you’re so eager to accuse me of here.

it mirrors the post we are commenting on

You didn’t actually miss the “I can’t use my Auth app right now” link, though. Come on.

you’re a prick

I don’t go around calling people names because I can’t take a joke, so at least I’ve got that going for me.

Yeah, they’re a true hero for throwing insults over a joke. You as well, for being huffy on their behalf.

Yeah, I read the story, so I’m aware of the plot.

My comment was aimed at removing MFA completely because OP had a problem once. That is a bad idea and I expressed that by making a joke about using a very bad password because I couldn’t remember my actual password which is also a bad idea.

Google (as any other provider) used the phone option for MFA first because that’s what OP had been using multiple times before they lost their phone. OP wasn’t “supposed to log in using the same phone”, Google just offered the default way that had been used before. OP didn’t see the other login options and went on the internet to tell everybody how stupid Google is and proceeded to smugly proclaim they removed MFA entirely due to Google’s stupidity which inadvertantly revealed OP’s less smart decision I made fun of.

The “Try another way” option is literally right below the input field and one of two links displayed at this point (try it out, go to google.com in a private window and enter your password. The other link is “Resend it”.). It’s not hidden at all and OP had more choices than a stranger finding their phone but they never realized it. But again, that’s not my point. My point is that removing MFA because you had trouble logging in without your phone one time is a bad idea which is why I made a joke about that.

You’re overreacting a tiny bit, maybe?

I have no idea what you’re trying to tell me, sorry. I do assume it was something totally devastating, though, so consider me totally devastated. You can stop the hostility now, I just made a joke at your expense, it’s not a big deal, honestly.

Also, I highly recommend reactivating MFA on your account. It’s a good thing to have, generally. Yeah, it can suck when it doesn’t work but now you know how hard it is for someone unauthorized to get into your account.

Someone made you the butt of a joke on the internet. Please get over it and don’t go shoot up your school.

some dipshit on the Internet without a shred of humanity

Fuck right off, buddy. You confessed to making dumb security choices on the internet and got mocked for it, yeah. This has nothing to do with “oh the humanity!”

Believe it or not, the best engineers in the world can’t help if you lose your backup codes. You know, the ones that you can use when you need MFA but don’t have your phone? Removing MFA because you had trouble one time “is the mark of a moron but true genius”.

No, it’s not the same thing at all. It’s an analogous thing. Reducing account security because you lost your credential isn’t very smart and that’s the common denominator in both examples.

A Lemmy post about an article about a Reddit post. The internet feels more and more incestuous every day.

Yeah, I also had a beautiful moment trying to use Google’s find my phone feature in another country when I didn’t know my password. Used “password123” after that near nightmare.

Security works best when it’s really easy to get into my account even though I don’t remember my credentials.

It would be aesthetics if fathers did it because they think it looks better. But that’s not what’s happening. They do it over fear that their sons will be ostracised for having different looking dicks. That’s a social reason, not an aesthetic one.

The America that all America loves doesn’t include grandparents, apparently.

‘She was my little girl,’ he says softly. ‘And they let her down.’

Killing your kid by negligence and then playing the victim. Disgusting.

If the death penalty exists, and honestly I don’t think it should, then it should apply fairly and treat all human life equally.

So all premeditated murder should be punished by death? What do you mean when you say all human life should be treated equally?

OK, that’s fine and all and I get what the models have been saying for 50 years.

BUT MONEY!

How does one become 2025-04-09 years old? What does that feel like?