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by coldpie 1y ago
Yes, the problems are obvious and the spec authors definitely know & understand the issues. Their refusal to have a public discussion about it indicates they just don't care, and their maintenance of a "naughty client list&qu
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by coldpie 1y ago
You'll probably enjoy this article from one of the original creators of the Passkey ecosystem: > Since then Passkeys are now seen as a way to capture users and audiences into a platform. What better way to encourage long term entrap
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by coldpie 1y ago
You could have used an open source client to manage your passkeys as you like, including backing them up in your own storage format. I wrote about it here: < https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/01/04/passkey
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by coldpie 1y ago
> I would say "I'm sure they mean well", Yeah, I wouldn't say that. It's clear from their public comments[1,2,3] that the spec authors don't believe the private key actually belongs to the user to do what th
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by coldpie 1y ago
> I don't see how remote hardware attestation avoids being spoofed I don't disagree, but is that really a game you want to be playing with your government and your bank?
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by coldpie 1y ago
Passkeys are another brick in this wall. The authors of the spec built in client software identification and attestation, which means authenticating parties can require you to only use certain, closed-source passkey clients. It's not
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by coldpie 1y ago
Are you disliking the big honking watches with like 3 subdials? I don't like those either. I lean to the minimal style, so I recently got one from Obaku. The one I got is technically in their women's line; women's watches ten
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by coldpie 1y ago
I think it'd be cool to be able to remove those from the UI if you're not using them, yeah. For me personally, I find the Firefox UI is pretty streamlined, so suddenly seeing new right-click menu elements that I'm not going t
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Why do people care? It's clutter for a feature that I'm not going to use. I'm not upset it's there for those who want it, but it's also nice to be able to get rid of it.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Good to know. I tried to find an off switch in the settings for the AI junk when it first popped up and didn't find one. It's mostly unobtrusive, so didn't bother me too much, but it's nice to have a way to get rid of a
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by coldpie 1y ago
> I doubt there are many people in rich countries that follow this rule I agree, there definitely are many people who don't follow the rule! And so we get things like this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_ce
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by coldpie 1y ago
Rule 0: Any networked computer should be considered semi-public. Don't store any information you do not want to be public, or give access to controls that you do not want to be publicly accessible, on a networked computer. There are si
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by coldpie 1y ago
uBlock Origin settings, enable the Cookie Banner and Annoyances filters.
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by coldpie 1y ago
And all it took was ending public science funding and trust in public health and regulatory oversight and destroying the legislative and judiciary branches. Crazy how all the things it takes to get to Mars are also the same things that make
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Isn't the entire point of SpaceX to go to Mars? What? No, it is to concentrate public wealth into the hands of one man.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I just use my hands to turn light switches on and off. Worked for 200 years so far and I see no sign of that ever changing.
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by coldpie 1y ago
The parent was asking about EV charging experiences outside the Tesla ecosystem, so I replied with my experiences charging an EV without any Tesla products involved. Hope that helps!
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by coldpie 1y ago
> highly dependent on the region Oh, I hadn't thought of it that way, but I bet you're right! I bet denser areas got chargers earlier, so they're stuck on the stupid-app-based model that was popular 5 years ago. Where I
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Tesla really makes charging about as seamless as can be. It integrates into the navigation system (the car will automatically add charging stops, pre-warm the battery, tell you how many spots are open, etc.), integrates the payment, et
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by coldpie 1y ago
Amazing work. I briefly explored trying to RE a more modern piece of hardware, the Tascam Portastudio DP-24SD, in order to try to fix some well-known bugs and limitations. Your article inspired me to maybe give it another go. Previously, I
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by coldpie 1y ago
That wouldn't be at all surprising, no. Floppy disks were all but gone by the turn of the century. People born after 9/11, who will never have encountered floppy disks, are in their mid-20s and having their own kids by now.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Same! This coin would be a cool little Minnesota artifact to own. I guess they'll be available to purchase here some time ($~35 for a set of 25 of them, or $~14 for a single "proof coin", whatever that is): https:/&#x2F
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by coldpie 1y ago
Little of column A, little of column B ;) This was a fun day in the office: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2011/1/18/all-dresse...
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, I buy that, so I think we are actually agreeing with each other. The very rough backwards support story Apple has had for the past decade, which I mentioned, has made people uninterested in supporting the platform, even if they'
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by coldpie 1y ago
I mean, I worked in this space, and I'm telling you why many of the people I worked with weren't interested in supporting Apple. I'm happy to hear your theories if you don't like mine, though.
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by coldpie 1y ago
The primary reason is Apple's environment is too unstable for gaming's most common business model. Most games are developed, released, and then sold for years and years with little or no maintenance. Additionally, gamers expect
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by coldpie 1y ago
Just wait until you hear how much of our country's critical infrastructure is hooked up to the Internet. Traffic lights, water treatment plants, power plants.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Given the state of the software industry, it's honestly more surprising that this doesn't happen more often. Our industry is a complete joke, and somehow we've been given responsibility over people's lives.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I don't have kids, so I can't 100% relate, but have you dug into the notifications settings on your phone? They're extremely flexible. I've set mine up so any non-chat notification gets batched into a group that shows at
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by coldpie 1y ago
It's not revenge, it's just good policy. It will be vastly cheaper for the US if we pay these industries to shut down and replace them with renewables. We could pay every person working at a fossil fuel job their full wage to do a

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