john_strinlai

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by john_strinlai 7d ago
if the prompt was "pick one of these unsolved ciphers and solve it", i think it's fair to say gpt-6 astra solved it. one of the math breakthroughs was approximately a combination of "do a breakthrough" and "kee
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by john_strinlai 7d ago
the same advice as the last few decades: place it in a fireproof safe alongside your other important documents, like your passport and birth certificate.
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
neat part of history, but i dont think that's what that says. the last sentence starts with " Originating with Thomas Edison in the 1800s, the term “bug” is still used [...] ", and there would be no reason to use the word &qu
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
> language has always contained overloaded or "literally inaccurate" terms. "literally" is a great example of this, because it can also mean "not literally, but with emphasis".
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
corporate employees are typically regular people, and where phishing resistance is most valuable. if by regular people, you meant "in someone's personal life", i would say phishing resistance is still relevant but agree that
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
> passkeys are addressing threats irrelevant to regular people phishing is very relevant to regular people
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
a memorized password is not part of a well thought out recovery flow. double triple emphasis on "memorized"
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
> They are in my password manager just like another password. So what's the point of having them because effectively, the passwords in the password manager and the passkey in the password manager offer the same UX to me? same ux, d
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
> just another password that you cannot even memorize there's some issues with passkeys, but not being able to memorize them is a feature
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
agreed, but i dont think there are many (any?) product launch blogs that cover all the fine details and legal minutia of the product. that all typically comes in pages of terms of service, purchase contracts, SLAs, conversations with your
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
i hope that someone can come up with something catchier than "thing-slop" or "slop-thing". the word has become basically meaningless from overuse.
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
worse, it was trained on reddit law comments
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by john_strinlai 8d ago
presumably that will remain true for the lawyers using the product
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
this used to bug me a lot more than it does now, perhaps because it doesn't really happen to me very often anymore. when it does, i just type "hi" back and then move on with my day.
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
indeed! my "common sense" is to always state the units you're working with, no matter how obvious you think it is. at least, that was the concept was drilled into me throughout all my schooling. perhaps that has changed in th
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
yes, i understand. i was asking specifically whether google has sms recovery flow, not how secure sms recovery flow is compared to other options.
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
i am not a paleontologist and there have been many extremely weird living creatures over the time earth has been around. and as the sibling comment mentions, i am primed for science articles to be metric.
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
i know its the nytimes, so we can assume american units, but i find it sort of crazy that even throughout the body of the article it doesnt ever say "fahrenheit".
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
does google not offer a backup via sms? it's a common enough recovery flow elsewhere. (i dont use google stuff, so i am genuinely asking)
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
"Canada's entire GDP" and "exports" are very different.
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
> Alberta selling oil to USA is, by itself, like 20% of Canada's entire GDP. wow, no, it's not "like 20%" at all. not even close. the entire oil and natural gas industry was 3.8% of canada's GDP in 2025. how d
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
> But precisely how does it accelerate if its instrument in the real world to do harm isn't already trained in the domain of doing so? i am having a really hard time parsing what this sentence means, sorry. > There was a tweet a
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
> no AI needed to wreak havoc most argument i see aren't that ai is needed , but that it can accelerate . in the right hands, ai is absolutely a force-multiplier. at least in cybersec.
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
..why? a journalist that has spent years following a specific scene closely, interfacing with the important players, learning different viewpoints, etc. seems like a perfectly reasonable person to have an opinion. especially if they come wi
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
> We have been doing that all of recorded history and we are still here. while i dont think our species will be wiped out because of it, it's a mistake to not recognize the difference in efficacy and scale that ai enables.
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
> What about AI makes that more risky? 24/7 tireless work, effort is scaled much easier than humans, no ethical qualms, unable to feel fear, cannot be jailed, no care for safety, etc.
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
you can press the "linear" button if you'd like. but i think the primary point of the comment was to highlight the "Bitcoin has been declared dead 478 times" part
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
the potential cascading effects are nice, for sure, but it still leaves a bad taste
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by john_strinlai 9d ago
> New Jersey privacy law that provides for hefty fines against data brokers that publish personal information on state law enforcement officials only for state law enforcement officials (and apparently their families)? and there'
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by john_strinlai 10d ago
while the specific illustrative example they gave may be ass-pulled, the point the parent comment is making is valid.

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