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- Comment on Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay $3.2 million over manga piracy 1 week ago:
Can you imagine an internet where the owners of every router was responsible for the content of every packet that crossed it?
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 1 week ago:
I agree, but the doomer in me just figures we’ll be on to the next grift. Fuck.
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 1 week ago:
That was my ending of choice as well.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re making my point. First, you’re right that passkeys can’t be phished. But access to the passkey manager can be. And now you’ve doubled your exposure to leaky third parties, once with the service you’re accessing and another with the passkey manager.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
Why do you have the 4-digit PIN? Well, it’s just to unlock the part of your device where the private key is stored.
And there is the problem I have with passkeys. With a password it is me authenticating to the service I’m using. Pretty straight forward (if you ignore the operating system, web browser, network protocols, etc., but that’s part of using the tech).
With passkeys you’ve got this third party storing your keys that increases your attack surface. It could be your web browser, your OS, or some cloud provider that you’re now relying on to keep your data safe. I get that for people whose password is “password123” or who aren’t savvy enough to avoid phishing maybe this helps. But with decent opsec this overly complicates authentication, IMO.
To my point, later in the article:
Securing your cloud account with strong 2FA and activating biometrics is crucial.
What’s that now? The weak point is the user’s ability to implement MFA and biometrics? The same users who couldn’t be bothered to create different passwords for different sites? You see how we’ve just inserted another layer into the authentication process without solving for the major weakness?
With my tinfoil hat on I suspect this push toward passkeys is just another corporate data and/or money grab – snake oil for companies to get their tentacles tighter around your digital existence.
Happy to be proven wrong.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 2 weeks ago:
I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.
- Comment on I just want it, jack! 4 weeks ago:
Looks like a DIY opportunity.
- Comment on World would be a better place 5 weeks ago:
I would keep snacks and beverages on the ready. “C’mon in! The iced tea is cold and the muffins are just about done. Now, what were you saying about cumulonimbus formations and their impact on dairy production?”
- Comment on it's that time 5 weeks ago:
I love the animals with bone ears. Dogs, cats, rats. Should have people with bone ears on the sides of their skulls. That would be fantastic.
- Comment on See ya. 1 month ago:
Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 1 month ago:
They’re ads for microphones. Any brand logo you can see clearly in-frame I assume is a paid product placement. Your favorite folksy, down to earth content creator just “keeping it real” has to make a living. And sponsorships and advertising is how it has been done since the start. Your favorite personality, at the end of the day, is an actor working for corporations.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 month ago:
Easy Macius
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
That sounds completely logical to me. Did having a hunk of aluminum answer the question for you? Or did it only drive a more insatiable desire to hold elemental materials?
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
Six years later, at least I know how to weld now. Sort of.
The most important part of the Dunning Kruger curve! And welding is a fantastic example. You go from “this hot melty thing is scary” to “dang, I can make metal stick to itself!” to “that weld looks kinda professional” to “holy crap there’s a whole science and art to this I will never have the time to fully learn”.
Is your school bus now something usable? Would love to hear about a successful impulse buy!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Thinking about the whole “Antifa is a terror organization” announcement from our dear leader.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Next step: “It is un-American not to have Disney+ in your household. Only members of Antifa or trans people don’t have Disney+. It will be mandatory for every patriotic God loving US citizen to have Disney+ in their home and on at least three hours per week. Anyone found not to be watching the party approved level of Disney programming will be taxed $21.99 per month and the proceeds put into a new ‘Mickey Patriot Fund’.”
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 months ago:
A-fucking-men
- Comment on labubu 2 months ago:
I am a good benchmark for this stuff. If I know what Labubu is because I had to find it on Urban Dictionary then it has run its course.
The other canary is NPR. Anything on NPR is a dead meme.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 months ago:
Here’s the thing… I want to be sold something. Not anything, but certain somethings. There was a brief time when Google AdSense was new that I was excited for the experience. (I now know how fucking stupid I was, but hey, I was young).
The idea that a new product aligned to my interests and designed with me in mind would be advertised to me instead of feminine hygiene products or mesothelioma lawsuit ads seemed awesome.
I do not want your bullshit hype machine alpha male inside club cool kid image peddled as the reason I should hand you my money. You’ve got the wrong guy. Tell me what it does with a side of what I can do with it. And the “what I can do with it” shouldn’t be “get laid”.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 months ago:
Anyone who bought one of these ridiculous monstrosities and didn’t expect ads is an idiot.
- Comment on Hardest battles 2 months ago:
This applies to so many facets of life. It is only hard if you care. Like parenting.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
In your analogy I think Google sells chainsaws, lumber, wood stoves, and paper pulp.
- Comment on A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat 2 months ago:
Glorious.
- Comment on success 2 months ago:
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 2 months ago:
I will fake apologize if it helps get me what I want. Maybe that makes me a narcissist or disingenuous but so fucking what. It’s manipulation all the way down. Always has been. My “pride” is a small price to pay.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 2 months ago:
- Talk more with your neighbors
Unless your neighbors are part of the problem.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 months ago:
And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can’t fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 2 months ago:
This. I’m watching it in real time. I want to grab these fuckers by the shirt and shake them until they get it.
Instead, they’ll get promoted and leave the mess to be cleaned up by someone else.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 months ago:
Maybe to help the OP I’ll add a bit to your answer. The entire face of an analog clock is divided into fractional sections. Sounds like you’re really good at parsing those fractions, likely due to lots of practice.
So, big hand after the nine and before the ten? Between :45 and :50. First half of that? Between :46 and :47. More toward the beginning of the split? :46
Maybe OP hasn’t had as much practice so has to think about what 9 is in minutes? Nothing but practice would help get over that, I guess.
- Comment on New memory unlocked! Chips Challenge 3 months ago:
Loved this! This was the same era as a game called “Castle of the Winds” that was a top-down RPG with a similar tile based layout with a distinct Win 3.1 feel. I remember getting it as a part of one of those shareware compilation disks and ending up actually buying the extended version because it was so much fun.
Link for those craving a bit of nostalgia.
