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by lapcat 8d ago
"Hackenburg found that models trained to become more persuasive also ended up being less truthful." It sounds like the arguments were basically AI slop hallucinations.
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by lapcat 8d ago
> Hackenburg found that models trained to become more persuasive also ended up being less truthful. > Even in Hackenburg’s recent preprint, Claude spouted numerous inaccuracies and falsehoods > when Hackenburg ran his competition o
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by lapcat 8d ago
> The browser handles the passkey matching to the domain which is obviously a better place to do it. I'm not sure why you're making a distinction. In many cases the browser is the password manager.
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by lapcat 8d ago
> Some password managers will only fill if a domain matches, but IRL the response I've seen from most users when it doesn't match is to assume the integration broke and manually copy/paste it in. I've also seen lots o
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by lapcat 8d ago
Two crucial things you can do with a password that you can't do with a passkey: 1. Write it down on a piece of paper and put it in a safe deposit box. 2. Read it on one device (or from a piece of paper!) and enter it manually on anothe
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by lapcat 10d ago
This submission title has been editorialized, contrary to the HN Guidelines. The actual article title is "The Only Thing Capable of Uniting Bernie and Bannon". The news media shamelessly focuses on Bernie and Bannon, as clickbait
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by lapcat 15d ago
> doing the test on the same computer wouldn't have caught this problem. Doing it on a second computer wouldn't have caught this problem either with macOS 26.3 and earlier, because it was introduced in 26.4.
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by lapcat 15d ago
Look in the Keychain Access app.
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by lapcat 15d ago
> This is pretty much how it's suppose to work... No, it's not, and that's not how it ever worked in macOS 26.3 and earlier. This change was introduced in 26.4 for some reason.
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by lapcat 15d ago
Then you're in trouble.
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by lapcat 15d ago
This was introduced, unannounced, in macOS 26.4! See my blog post for more information: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/4.html
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by lapcat 15d ago
I've tested with VMs. However, I'm unclear about the relationship if any between VMs and the secure enclave.
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by lapcat 15d ago
The iCloud keychain is separate from the login keychain. The Passwords app doesn't use the login keychain.
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by lapcat 15d ago
Migration Assistant uses the old Mac, which can unlock its login keychain and allow the keychain items to be copied.
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by lapcat 15d ago
Does the macoOS login keychain get backed up by Time Machine backups Yes > in a way that could restore the keychain if the original machine's Secure Enclave is lost or destroyed? Apparently not
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Copying login keychain no longer works on Secure Enclave Macs with macOS Tahoe(derflounder.wordpress.com)
4 points by lapcat 17d ago|1 comments
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by lapcat 17d ago
Original title "Manually copying login keychain files from one Mac to another no longer works on Secure Enclave-equipped Macs running macOS Tahoe" trimmed to fit HN maximum length.
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by lapcat 18d ago
I've just learned that initial-scale was removed from the MDN recommendation only a few days ago... by the submitted article author! https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/45479
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by lapcat 18d ago
> I argue that the latter is preferable I disagree vehemently. I couldn't disagree more. The text has to be readable. If you force the reader to zoom in order to read the text, your website is fundamentally broken. Moreover, neither
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by lapcat 18d ago
> I researched and tested this extensively the other day. `<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">` is all you need. This is incorrect. Try adding an <img> that's wider than the device wid
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by lapcat 18d ago
I would add this: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> All you need is initial-scale=1, not width=device-width, which is redundant. "You do not need to set every viewport
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by lapcat 19d ago
> when incompetence becomes an accepted excuse I couldn't have been any more explicit that it's not an accepted excuse: "Google has no excuse for incompetence".
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by lapcat 19d ago
Fielder's "The Rehearsal" on HBO was madly brilliant.
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by lapcat 20d ago
> just for "I want to show you the address bar" I just said that there was another reason: "Also, the first screenshot shows that my start page in Chrome is not Google Search, which is in fact quite relevant to the content
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by lapcat 20d ago
This submission appears to be a self-promotional advertisement by the developer, who created a HN account literally an hour ago. "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, b
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by lapcat 20d ago
Interesting, thanks for testing!
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by lapcat 20d ago
Huh? I can't make sense of this criticism. What "faith" do you need? Every screenshot in the blog post is the same size, which made it easier to do the <img> tags. (I write my blog in raw HTML.) Also, the first screensh
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by lapcat 20d ago
> Wonder if OP is experiencing a version of that on his Mac? No.
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by lapcat 20d ago
I did: "As far as I can tell, www.google.com is the only site exempted by Chrome." My screenshots do not show this, but my screenshots were not intended as proof, merely as explanation. Chrome is available to everyone and used by
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by lapcat 24d ago
Idiocracy was not a prediction. Rather, it was a satire of the present, set in the future, much like Woody Allen's Sleeper. The future setting was merely an excuse to exaggerate the present. This is why Idiocracy appears predictive, be

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