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basch··on I don't like passkeys
put it in your password manager?
basch··on I don't like passkeys
but you can type anything in the recovery box.

its just three additional passwords.

should you type the same brother name in each time? should you even answer with a name?

don't get me wrong, they were insane, but they can be repurposed.

basch··on I don't like passkeys
When was the last time you tried to log into something like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc without your phone nearby, on a fresh computer?
basch··on I don't like passkeys
What if my phone is dead? Stolen?

In the same vein as 2fa, going up to a fresh computer and trying to log into anything is now a nightmare. Every service has a 2fa that somehow loops into another provider that also has 2fa.

And some 2fa, if not many, make accounts weaker. Apple's solution to get around 2fa is to put in SOMEBODY ELSES phone number that I trust, as a backdoor. It's an insane solution. And its normalized, and nobody questions it.

basch··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
It’s literally translation technology told to guess what’s most likely next instead of translate what it was given.

It makes total sense it’s good at regurgitating the edge cases of language.

basch··on Sovereign: A Unified GPU Inference Substrate (Fractal Memory, Manifold Routing)
Am I looking at the academic theater of sycophantic LLM fed cranky prompts?

"fractal recursive residual coding" = 45% size reduction per iteration after 13 passes of the output of LZMA2 piped back into LZMA2? If true, that alone is crazy.

basch··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
That would apply to like a competitor, right? Another store that copies their motif to fool customers.

Has a court enforced trade dress with a mock version of a store within a game?

Would a reasonable person, seeing completely different letters actually think IKEA is sponsoring the game?

I would give IKEA almost a 0% chance of winning that case if both sides had equally sized pocketbooks. (see E.S.S. Entertainment v. Rock Star Videos (2008))

basch··on Nobody wrote the Matrix and AI code-writing will be dead by 2036
it reads like Adam Curtis, although a bit more repetative - https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk...
basch··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
IKEA has a trademark on STYR?
basch··on Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
Nice. The word "show" threw me off, given it is on the far right and the cog is on the far left. Menu, settings, config etc would make more sense.
basch··on Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
still prefer the simplicity of a reverse river, with a focus on votes and comments https://hckrnews.com/

its incredibly easy to immediately tell when something was posted, and how popular it was. there s no automagic rearranging or movement.

similar to https://techmeme.com/river

basch··on Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening
tap to pay is handy, i would wear something just for that if it lasted all week on a charge.

having a fitness / sleep tracker that i cant wear while i sleep cuz it needs to charge defeats the purpose. doesnt quite fill during a shower.

apple also made it prohibitively cumbersome / confusing to own two devices that boot up to identical instances. why cant i have two pieces of hardware, and whichever one i pick up resumes the session. i dont want them to have two configurations, i want them to mirror each other, if a setting changes on one, it changes on the other.

basch··on Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help
>They're also moving toward more in-person writing. Instead of long essays, shorter writing segments as part of the test

Why did this ever go away? That was a completely regular part of college a decade plus ago.

basch··on Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help
>Makes me wonder how much the reviewers actually read the text.

How many of the college students voting have years of ai use under their belt, where ai voice itself has shaped and influenced their stylistic choices of language preference?

basch··on AWS Acquires DuckDB
Still says

>Independence: We are fully founder-owned and not externally funded. Our priorities align with the long-term health of the project and its users.

basch··on Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
Stillwater you can probably start at birth, if you need something to put you to sleep, which you will. Kiddo can listen without watching.
basch··on Tracking Costco gas prices
Costco isnt losing $10. They can sell gas at cost to run a gas station if they want to. They break even and get people there instead of a normal gas station.
basch··on Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
When you do introduce some video, which is easy to slip into around 18 months, there is tons of good stuff.

Stillwater, Shape Island, Slumberkins, Interrupting Chicken, Not a Box, Duck and Goose, Frog and Toad, Get Rolling with Otis and Snoopy are all on Apple TV.

Tumble Leaf, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Creative Galaxy, Stinky and Dirty, Fireman Sam Classic are on Prime.

PBS still exists for now.

Caitie's Classroom / Super Simple is on Youtube, Prime, and Spotify.

basch··on Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
Apple TV is an available option though. Saying "screen time" vs "low effort stimulating content" muddies the conversation around it being the screen itself and not the contents of the media.
basch··on Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
>kids that age, don't learn from screens.

I'll disagree a bit, although arguably its mostly the audio. Good calm shows with wide vocabularies are similar to reading. Watching Stillwater is quite a bit different than watching Paw Patrol.

1 is quite a bit different than 2 though. It's good this differentiated between 1 and 1.5.

basch··on Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
>benign animations

But why. Why are we stimulating with mindless color movement, like a modern lava lamp?

You can tell which kids shows care and which dont by how much unnecessary movement they introduce into the background plate. Some have a breathing and swaying so every element is in motion, others have stillness so your eyes and attention are drawn to the actual action.

basch··on WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust
>No human involved thought that it was wild they would stop something like 100 or 1,296 vehicles?

Because each city or county is doing its whole thing.

Which comes back a bit to, it's one thing for my county to be tracking its residents, but should officers in Texas have carte blanche? If anything, the local county should have to "release" before search results are opened up to someone foreign. My officers should be protecting me from invasions abroad.

basch··on WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust
Part of the problem is the people reacting to the data. Cops coming at an innocent someone, guns drawn, because of database and human error. If that person weren't so calm and level headed in the moment, when they were attacked by confused and mistaken aggressors, would they still be alive?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-trac...

basch··on File Recovery in Process
could you run the backup slower?

Google quickly found me "NVMe M.2 Duplicator with Cooling Fan, 8TB Dual-Bay Offline Clone Enclosure, 10Gbps M.2 SSD M Key Hard Drives Enclosure, for NVMe SSDs PCIe Size 2230/2242/2260/2280"

basch··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
or that trillion in health care isnt going into the oligarchs pockets, and could be..
basch··on Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Brave also has native rust based psudo reimplementation of ublock, so it also doesnt necessarily need the functionality to accomplish what most people end up needing it for.
basch··on Our Reality Is Shifting and It's Just the Start
We are also using these things to like 1% of their ability. The amount of manual process in the world that could be documented once and then automated is staggering. Decoding and transitioning such process is time consuming, and change is slow until fast.
basch··on Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record
"In the final quarter of 2019, U.S. credit card debt reached a record high of $930 billion."

Which equals $1,208.46 billion today

So it is past inflation by $52 million?

basch··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
There is also an element of how you process information. Some people jump to instantly refute an idea with a counter example. Some people jump to statistical likelihood. There’s elements of trust vs trust but verify.

Some people, through practice and experience are better than others at breaking down foreign information and making sense of it, or jumping to an assumption.

I also think there’s an element of just remembering what my final conclusion was on an opinion, vs all my old opinions and all the work to get there. It’s easier to just store current belief and re-work-it out how I got there later.

basch··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Brilliant way to get people to waste tokens.

Maybe just don’t generate garbage in the first place?

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