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Spunkie··on The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
I was really hoping they would go back to having a headphone jack on the 'a' series of pixels.

I picked up a 7a pixel and fooled myself into thinking it "can't be that bad". But bluetooth is the worst technology to ever grace our airways, dongles fucking suck, and it's been a constant source of annoyance since I got it.

I guess I'll be picking up something other than a pixel when it comes time to upgrade. But there is an ever shrinking number of options that have both a headphone jack and allow bootloader unlocking/locking...

Spunkie··on Passkeys: A shattered dream
I would say the exact opposite, traditional ssh key management should eventually give way to resident keys. Aka, treating them just like passkeys.

We've been storing ssh keys directly on our yubikeys since before passkeys were a thing.

Not only is it clearly more secure it's also been a usability lift. Plugin your yubikey, start an ssh agent, and run ssh-add -K to get all your resident keys added to your current session.

Spunkie··on Passkeys: A shattered dream
Oddly enough you don't. We've been storing our ssh keys(ed25519-sk) as resident keys for years now without issue.

So basically we've been storing ssh keys directly on yubikeys the same way passkeys are stored since before passkeys were a thing.

It seemed a clearly superior option compared to letting ssh private keys roam around on random computers.

Spunkie··on Nintendo forces Garry's Mod to delete 20 years of content
Whatever marketing agency and ™&© corporate law firms convinced the Internet to regurgitate this line ad nauseam didn't get paid enough.
Spunkie··on Readme.txt vs. README.txt (2015)
I still instruct employees to never use spaces or weird characters in filename because they are a pain when I run into them in a CLI.

I don't foresee that advice ever changing lol

Spunkie··on Explicit Sync Merged into Wayland
So will this finally fix my 2060super being a seizure inducing mess of flickering and visual glitches on kde Wayland?

Or is that some other "final blocker" for Wayland Nvidia users?

Spunkie··on Barriers would make the New York City subway safer
I normally can look at a government project and understand where bloat and delays come from... but 7 billion dollars for installing subway gates is absolute insanity.
Spunkie··on Improving cursor rendering on Wayland
Is displaying a few hundred KB of data on the screen really enough of a "problem" that it warrants putting image libs and potentially other dependencies in the middle of something as basic as cursor rendering?
Spunkie··on I mapped out all the name changes of Google's AI products
The move from bard to gemini seems especially dumb to me.

I never know what anyone is talking about when a headline mentions gemini. I usually have to start reading the article before I realize it's about Google's Gemini AI. Didn't have that issue with Bard.

Spunkie··on Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
My laptop has a 4g module so I use WSA to run my mobile providers app. So I can monitor usage and buy more packages when I run out of data.
Spunkie··on Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
The heavy handed tying of WSA to the Amazon appstore is so stupid it almost feels malicious. I've used WSA on multiple computers and every time it's a pain to get it to the point of usability.

Gotta mess with MS store > find WSA > install WSA > get adb working > install f-droid > install aurora appstore.

WSA should have just gone with f-droid or better yet been tied to no appstore by default and just ask for you to provide your own appstore apk on first startup.

Spunkie··on The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)
I've been traveling issue free for a long long time before these things started happening. It's really only in the last couple of years it's become a problem.

Also I don't have issues with classic eCommerce stores like Amazon, Newegg, B&H, ebay. It's only the new wave of eCommerce stores trying to enter the market this decade, like all the big box stores. It's like they all got sold the same crap anti-fraud software/service.

Spunkie··on GitUI
Similarly, tortoisegit is the only windows application I miss on a daily basis since switching to Linux.

No other git ui program has ever come close to how naturally I feel using a context menu based system like tortoisegit.

Spunkie··on The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)
Anti-fraud departments have apparently not gotten the memo, and the whole situation has gotten obscene in the last few years.

I regularly travel for work and it's impossible for me to make any purchases on major sites like Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Costco, etc. They all will accept an order, charge my card, and then randomly cancel the order some hours to days later, and refund me.

Similarly when traveling internationally, Schwab bank decided they didn't like one of my debit charges and blocked the card. I called Schwab and they gave me some "publicly sourced" 3 question quiz about myself that I apparently failed and they locked my entire account until I can fly back to the states and come into a branch.

Luckily I have a 2nd bank account and was able to change my payroll. But it's just insane to me that some random debit charge has resulted in my inability to access most of my money or my brokerage positions.

I hear similar issues and horror stories from all my coworkers and friends that travel.

Spunkie··on Details on Xiaomi EV
All the impressions I've read about the ex30 is that it is much smaller in person than the pictures let on.
Spunkie··on AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro
I've been pretty excited for the airjet to start making it into products but also I hope they open up D2C orders for tinkerers soon. As a normal consumer I can buy every other part of my laptop or desktop all the way down to most individual electrical components.

I get that it's a new product that requires good engineered integration to really show off how amazing it is, so they want to start with some flagship products... But if Frore Systems starts treating the airjet like it's a secret sauce to be slowly doled out to manufactures it'll just make me suspicious of their claims and the airjets real world usability.

Spunkie··on A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
AGPL is a misdirection, the CLA reveals what is likely their true long term intentions.
Spunkie··on A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
I contacted the foundation funding channel, multiple times,specifically about becoming a member to support p2p development and they don't even have the decency to respond.

Honestly this whole thing feels like a bait n switch. Get the community based matrix popular and cozied up with the public sector and then lock that shit down under the element Corp.

The foundation, who's job it is apparently to protect/guide matrix outlook and development, now has no ability to actually govern said project.

Spunkie··on A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
Such a casual blog post for what is essentially the announcement of the death of the matrix project.
Spunkie··on Bitwarden adds support for passkeys
One of the benefits we saw moving from lastpass to bitwarden is it allow us to much more easily reduce duplicate entries for the same site/account.

So it's pretty annoying to see in the docs for this passkey feature that they just expect you to make a duplicate bitwarden entry for every additional passkey you need to add to an account. Especially when it's standard to register a backup key for any service that uses passkeys.

Spunkie··on Atlassian Acquires Loom
I consult with a very large variety of businesses and literally my only interaction with loom in the wild is when a few LMS I'm in started randomly started replacing youtube embeds with loom embeds.

Everyone hates it though because the loom embed player is hot garbage and actively distracts from the experience. I've heard much the same from most of my colleagues also going through the LMS courses.

$1B seems a crazy price, but I guess overpriced garbage is right up Atlassians street.

Spunkie··on So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
I've been a big fan of wayland until a few months ago when I tried to put my friend on KDE with a nvidia card. It was still completely unusable as a daily driver.
Spunkie··on Mexico’s underground vanilla economy
They kind of gloss over the whole "he only has one day to notice a flower blooming" which implies he is doing hand pollination.

But I thought Mexico was one of the few places in the world that had natural vanilla pollinators?

Spunkie··on LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
I wanted this when D1 was first teased, and before I figured out that D1 is a database product that happens to be built on SQLite rather than SQLite being the star of the D1 show. Nonetheless, what I want is to be able to point a CF tunnel at a local SQLite file and instantly be able to leverage all the benefits of D1.

I should be able to...

    1. Configure a CF tunnel through the config file or the dash, pointing it to a local path of an existing SQLite file.

        1a. On startup, the SQLite file should create and link a new D1 db.
    2. Configure a CF tunnel through the config file or the dash, pointing it to an existing D1 db.

        2a. On startup, the local sqlite db should be either overwritten or created.
    3. Create read replicates through CF tunnels on another server or the local computer/wrangler for development.

    4. Have automatic global read replicas on the edge, which is inherent to D1 no?

    5. Have automatic/rolling backups and export and import those backups automatically with S3/R2.

    6. Do a PITR through the dash or CF tunnel CLI.

        6a. PITR should be possible to either the existing live DB or restoring it into a separate new D1 copy.
    7. Leverage my SQlite files in workers, another automatic bonus of connecting it to D1.
There are likely plenty of more cool things that could be done if D1 could be exposed as a normal SQLite file. Ultimately, CF tunnels are just in the mix because it seems like the obvious choice for plumbing SQLite files into and out of the CF network/edge.
Spunkie··on LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
I'm really glad to see this complete solution drop. I've cobbling together sqlite point-in-time restores, automatic snapshots, and S3 backups with litestream and scripts for too long.

I've been bugging cloudflare to do this with D1+tunnels since D1 was announced and they constantly seemed confused what I was even talking about.

Spunkie··on Why are lithium prices collapsing?
Rounded induction cooktops exist for woks anyways so it feels like its basically all FUD in that other thread.
Spunkie··on Multi-Account Containers
I went through the same process when I tried it a few weeks ago for multiple GitHub accounts.

I also uninstalled the extension after fumbling around with it for 5-10 minutes and not being able to open multiple containers of github without it forgetting what I just tried to setup or constantly bugging me about switching the default container.

Spunkie··on LastPass will autorenew a cancelled account
We went to go cancel our lastpass business account last year and it was basically impossible to do without calling them up on the phone.

We also switched our billing CC to a generated one with a $1 limit before canceling because this is the exact type of shenanigans one should expect with lastpass or any logmein company for that matter.

Spunkie··on Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes
Actually in this case it's likely AWS is also responsible for having trash 2fa restrictions. AWS will only allow you to setup one single 2fa method.

If you register with a yubikey, you can't register a 2nd yubikey as backup, nor can you register an authenticatior(TOTP) as a backup.

Spunkie··on GoDaddy Rant
Google will nuke your entire domain at the registrar level and put it on a malware/phishing list just because one subdomain generates some traffic google does not understand.

Don't trust google with your registrar needs.

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