CMYKninja

There is an elegant solution to Floatplane's iOS troubles that is very straightforward. And you could give the platform full functionality without giving Apple a 30% cut or even deal with their App Store people. I think it should be implement until LMG or Floatplane become large enough for Apple to negotiate with. So here's how it works:
In iOS you can pin websites to the Home Screen through Safari. It creates an independent Safari window that is separate from the main Safari app. And customization is completely unrestricted from a functionality perspective. When/if LMG/Floatplane smooth things out with Apple, the work that has gone into making this won't be lost. Many apps on the iOS are essentially a web app and nothing is iOS native. People don't even realize it, for example the Yahoo Finance app. The work is to optimize Floatplane for Safari or create a Safari-friendly UI that is shown only to mobile Safari users. Here is how you can pin a website to the Home Screen in iOS:
   
 
You can see that the page is full screen, devoid of Safari's interface, FaceID works and basically you can't distinguish it from a regular app here:
  
 
Currently, Floatplane.com is not optimized for Safari. So if you pin it to your Home Screen, it will show a browser tab and it's not even full screen. But it does't have to be like this:
 
 
 
You can see launching LTT.com from the pin looks a lot like an app already. That's because Invision, which the forum is based on, is fairly optimized for iOS. But the optimization can go a lot further. Safari allows websites to push notifications if the user gives it permission, a lot of sites have a popup that ask. If you noticed the Twitter icon, thats not the official iOS app. Thats just Twitter.com pinned to my Home Screen. It's actually much more optimized for Safari than even the LTT/Invision forum:

 
Anyway. Personally I think pinning a website is as simple as installing an app from the App Store. Pinning takes 3 steps (going to the site, tapping Share, tapping Add to Home Screen) and installing an app also takes 3 steps (searching the app in the App Store, tapping install, FaceID/TouchID identification). While Floatplane would need to spend a lot of time optimizing the site for Safari to look good, you won't have to deal with App Store at all. Also, if the site is optimized well enough, this method should work on iPadOS and maybe even WatchOS!!!

Technically yes but if it's not configured correctly you'll run into issues where the system will try to use both NICs for Internet incoming/outgoing traffic & local device traffic. This can cause all sorts of other Windows bugs.
 
If you really want to segregate the way devices communicate with your computer you'll have to create two separate networks or subnets. This would ensure your Internet traffic stays on your Ethernet LAN and your wireless traffic only goes to these other devices.

Skype can't fix a nasty security bug without a massive code rewrite
The bug grants a low-level user access to every corner of the operating system.
By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | February 12, 2018 -- 21:28 GMT (13:28 PST) | Topic: Security
 
source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-cannot-fix-security-bug-without-a-massive-code-rewrite/
 
 
I feel that there are so many ways into systems now, that you have to assume that you are on an insecure system, unless you know it's secure.
For personal it's one thing, but as someone who has sensitive embargoed designs comes across his desk, I get a little worried about the business disruptions, and industrial espionage opportunities.
Even more alarming is this it's too hard to fix, and we're all doomed to getting hacked anyway mentality this seems to be evlolving...
Even Linus says he uses Skype... 
 

Yeah they use it but Linus has been quite clear about how he uses it only because others do, and he'd much rather use something else.  I think it's still around for the same reasons as VGA, Windows XP, and other things like that.  People are used to it, it's everywhere, etc.
 
I mean they even did a comparison of some chat programs and concluded (to paraphrase) that Skype should not be used for any reason
It's basically the Internet Explorer of chat programs

Ok, let me explain better than the crappy news article.
It affects Skype DESKTOP app (so Windows 7, 8 users). UWP (Win10 built-in Skype app), Android, and iOS are not affected The system needs to be infected by a malware to inject code in the DLL files of Skype to make it download the wrong file off the web the way it affects you (if you are infected) is that it relies on you giving Skype updater admin privileges to allow the update setup to run, which instead of being a Skype update it is some other .exe it was fooled in getting due to the hack. Technically, this hack actually can affects nearly ALL auto updater systems of programs. You can do it with Firefox, Chrome, Java, Flash, and just about anything else. Technically, you can even infect Steam by rerouting traffic from Steam server for games update to another one, and the moment you run the game, it runs the malware/ransomware. "Massive code rewrite" is laugthable statement. All that needs to be recoded or patched is the automated updated system to scan for injected code in itself, and find ways that to make sure the data downloaded wasn't from rerouted and is indeed correct (many challenges to solve). The attack is unlikely to happen, as it would require mass servers and internet bandwidth for the attacker to have in place to support the hundred of thousands if not millions who will be infected, as they'll all have Skype connect to its server that he setup to get the infection possibly at the same time as well. MS has the mass numbers of servers and infrastructure including being a kind of Tier 1 ISP by having direct lines connect to other Tier 1 and Tier 2 actual providers (much like Google, and even Facebook but to a lesser extent). That hacker has no chance to do a real impact... Also, if the malware maker make a solution that it managed to infect people, why not just have it do what it wants to do.. why go through the complication of making Skype download something else, to run as admin, and infect again the system. Just make a ransomware... much easier, if you ask me.. not even need to go past UAC prompt, and that is why they are popular these days.
 
It is clearly a much lower priority issue in Microsoft eyes, as their focus is on Windows 10, Android and iOS, and not the legacy desktop app, and that the risk of infection is clearly viewed to be nothing critical.
 
And this things sounds like an over-hype for attention by the discoverer... I mean with statement like:
Sooooo a normal Administrator... true administrator is the highest level you can be on a Windows system. That is like saying "the malware will be a root on steroid!!!"  on a Linux based system. It's root, there is no higher!. You have full access to all!
 
So what is "on steroids"... clearly playing with the lack of technical knowledge of the journalists (basically click-baiting them, making you click-bait.. cleaver, I must say!) to get his name out-there, I guess. Probably him or his company seeks a job?