It’s called A/B testing and it’s incredibly common, not just on YouTube, not just on the web, but literally everywhere.

Companies will release two slightly different versions of a product in two different regions and measure which sells better before rolling out further. Or they’ll trial a change in a few areas before deciding if they want to make the change permanently.

They won 5 seats, not 4 but they had considerable share of the votes which is what makes them dangerous.

TNG’s the inner light is one of its best episodes and it spectacularly fails this test.

Looks like the YouTube account was compromised, given they uploaded 2 videos 15 years ago then nothing until a few days ago when they started posting full movies.

Cases like this only prove that a better lock doesn’t improve security when the old lock still lets you in.

The takeaway here isn’t “passkeys are bad”, it’s “keeping less secure methods of authentication as a fallback is bad”

It’s like saying all 2FA is bad because SMS 2FA is dogshit.

Why does it make you angry?

I’d be surprised if it’s directly linked

Who would you recommend as an alternative?

(I don’t want to back up and host my own music server before anyone suggests it)

You’re literally describing windows recall

What a real shame, the red faction franchise would have been great this generation. We have ample power to really show off some cool destruction physics, but no