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by coldpie 2y ago
I take the bus in to work every day even though I have a car and the ability to WFH. I love the bus. I get to spend some time outside, walking to and from stops. Most days I just read a book or browse my phone for 40 minutes, and then magic
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by coldpie 2y ago
Figuring out how, and how much, to pay, and then fumbling with cash and change or whatever, during the fairly stressful experience of boarding, is something of a barrier to using transit. So removing the fare payment entirely removes that b
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by coldpie 2y ago
> HN's takes on cars are shockingly bad. For a community as thoughtful as HN, their responses are (to use an insult provocatively) car brained. Hm, as a big public-transit advocate coming here 5 hours after your comment, I actually
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by coldpie 2y ago
> Really makes you think why the 50-person bus doesn't get priority over all of the single occupancy vehicles They're building up more and more Bus-Only lanes here in the Twin Cities, and as a daily bus commuter, the change has
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by coldpie 2y ago
I don't think anyone suggested they should not accept credit cards. You asked why I like to use cash, and I answered that one reason is it gives more money to the vendor than if I used a card.
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by coldpie 2y ago
So, you agree that the points do come from the transaction fees after all?
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by coldpie 2y ago
> Which is not true. Oh. Where does it come from then?
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by coldpie 2y ago
I'm not really sure what you're trying to do in this thread. You asked why people like to use cash, and we're answering your question. You don't have to agree with us, it's OK for people to have different opinions a
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by coldpie 2y ago
Those points don't come from nowhere, they come from the business you're buying from. For local businesses, I'd rather I keep 1% and the business keeps 2%, than Visa takes 3% from the business and gives me 1.5% back.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> There are very few places in the US that up charge for credit card transactions I actually see it quite often here in the Twin Cities at small stores, bars, restaurants. A 1~3% discount for cash. > The merchant gets all except for a
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by coldpie 2y ago
The people behind SSO efforts or whatever aren't going around to open source projects and threatening them with their users being blocked if they don't implement anti-user features. The people behind Passkeys are doing that. It&#x
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by coldpie 2y ago
Yeah, thanks. I think most likely I'd start by emailing the spec authors in question, since there's a decent chance you & I are misunderstanding something. Maybe a small tweak (like "services shouldn't reject clients
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by coldpie 2y ago
Yeah I'm trying to understand the landscape myself. Until I learned about attestation, it seemed like a cool tech and I even spent all morning writing this positive blog post about it. I was really disappointed/hurt to read the sp
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by coldpie 2y ago
Are you willing to sacrifice the entire concept of open source software to gain that? You're really OK requiring everyone on the planet to use exactly three proprietary software vendors' software stacks?
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by coldpie 2y ago
Okay, but I don't have that problem with passwords. So passwords have an enormous advantage over Passkeys, in that they don't allow the service to dictate what I can do with my own data.
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by coldpie 2y ago
A website could use this feature to require that I only log in using (say) Google or Microsoft or Apple's implementations, right? Under those conditions, how could I log in using my Linux desktop?
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by coldpie 2y ago
OK. I updated it instead.
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by coldpie 2y ago
Oof, I found a whole ton of anti-open-source-software quotes on the related Github issue https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406 : > When required, the authenticator must perform user veri
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Passkey marketing is lying to you (it's actually really simple)(smokingonabike.com)
26 points by coldpie 2y ago|24 comments
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by coldpie 2y ago
2024 was the successful culmination of 50 years of efforts to turn the US from a democracy into a single-party state, similar to Russia & China. That's a huge shift both for people who live here, and the entire world. Net neutralit
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by coldpie 2y ago
> The more direct solution would be a law that required distributing human-editable code alongside software. Hmm okay yeah, I buy that. Good rebuttal, I retract my comment :)
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by coldpie 2y ago
I dislike this framing. I was paid money for over a decade to write GPL'd code; I didn't do it as a gift. I release my code under the GPL for selfish reasons: I want others to be able to improve it, and me to be able to take advan
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by coldpie 2y ago
> The GPL does the exact opposite of copyright; the fact that it uses copyright to achieve that is just an implementation detail. > If you believe information should be free to share and remix, you would believe that copyright infring
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by coldpie 2y ago
Update for anyone who stumbles across this: I've found passkeys are still not ready for prime time :( I tried creating one in Google with Firefox, but apparently they don't allow desktop browsers to create passkeys. I tried setti
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by coldpie 2y ago
> Everything on this can be programmatically simulated by a bot with bad intentions. It will be a cat and mouse game of finding behaviors that differentiate between bot and not and patching them. Forcing Facebook & Co to play the adv
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by coldpie 2y ago
You know, at this point, I wonder if an allowlist would work better.
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by coldpie 2y ago
Imagine being one of the monsters who works at Facebook and thinking you're not one of the evil ones.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> 1/10th is still high Based on what? The FDA's safe dose by definition means there are no known significant risks. They build in pretty hefty safety margins in these things. It definitely could still be too high! We get things
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by coldpie 2y ago
I don't think so. The authors recommended stopping using these utensils based on their faulty risk analysis, and all of the media coverage repeated that. Even after the correction, the authors are still pushing their conclusion.
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by coldpie 2y ago
Their conclusion that these utensils are dangerous depended on the results that showed these utensils are at or about the FDA's maximum safe dose. But after correcting the math error, it turns out they're actually about 1/

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