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bkdbkd··on Passkeys are not a trap
Thank you!
bkdbkd··on Passkeys are not a trap
Same. Fully agreed.

New and interesting ways to get locked out of your system.

bkdbkd··on Passkeys are not a trap
Agreed. They put someone else between you and your access, between you and your security.

Lets give the guys at the Home Depot all the keys to our super secure house locks. Any time you want to get in, just roll down to one of 5 convenient locations, authenticate with the HD, and they will issue you a one time entrance pass to the house. Easy.

Bullshit.

bkdbkd··on Passkeys are not a trap
--------- Oct 14 - 12:30pm... --------- There is a wall of text below your question and _none coherently, concisely answer your question: "What do passkeys offer users that rand strong password + password managers don't?"
bkdbkd··on Passkeys are not a trap
This ^. It introduces MORE layers to phish. More external 'trust me'.
bkdbkd··on Thunderbird Littering My Home
often my solution. I usually touch 'ForbiddenFolder', then chmod the file a-x.

Yes, this does not unclutter the home folder, but it does keep a program from touching places I don't want it to.

I don't care to have the machine rm -rf'ing on its own.

bkdbkd··on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
1. because they know better. You don't have to understand it, for them to be right.

This comes from their years of experience. When you also get those years of experience, you may come to similar understanding.

bkdbkd··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
yes. and it's what I use every day.

the plan evil though.

bkdbkd··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
Funny how a $20 cert is enough to prove identity and provide security for any domain on the web, but in order to run a calculator Apple hw, Apple HQ is the only entity on the planet capable of such complex security.
bkdbkd··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
Contempt. use any apple device 2 updates back or more. you're screwed.

You would accept this in no other place in life, except that apple gives it for free, and puts a 'security' sticker on the box.

It's a racket. Planned obsolescence 2.0 - Users forced to update, update removes features, breaks working apps, breaks paid for ip ( literally removed from phones), apple blames the devs. bullshit.

bkdbkd··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
All that, and not a single one here is surprised at zero days or trojans or malware that come right out of this process every week.

If it works, then why aren't we surprise when it doesn't?

Because we know it doesn't work.

bkdbkd··on Stop picking my Go version for me
It forces a change, where none is called for. Compatibility works both ways. What doesn't matter to me the lib dev, may for matter for someone else. The world is built on portable, flexible code, and pinning to something unnecessarily, breaks that one small part of the world. It's adding an unnecessary requirement. Life is hard enough.
bkdbkd··on Stop picking my Go version for me
Couldn't agree more.
bkdbkd··on Stop picking my Go version for me
that is not a thing. it's not how compilers work.
bkdbkd··on Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
really really awesome.
bkdbkd··on Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
Awesome. Well done.
bkdbkd··on Apple to end support for Intel Macs next year: macOS 27 to require Apple Silicon
"That 3000 dollar tool you paid us for? It's a brick." -Tim Apple
bkdbkd··on Ask HN: How to Learn 'To Think'?
You might find the book: "Conceptual Blockbusting", James L. Adams helpful. It contains thoughts and activities that focus on the 'process of thinking' or problem solving. And how we go about characterizing a problem or situation.

One of the best I've read on how to think about thinking.

bkdbkd··on Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C?
former Mac dev here, and completely agreed. Refactoring an app because someone else decided to change the language is a bridge to far. And if they do it this time, they'll do it again. Meanwhile the ObjC compiles.

--- Rant - With Swift Apple shifted dev power to themselves. Having gotten fat on the open world, they've backed away from every 'Open' technology they can, and replaced it with their own, ( presently all the way to CPU architecture). Yes, they are giving tremendous powers, but have they also crafted the One Ring.

bkdbkd··on I made a thing: A Musical Motivation machine (play's that 1 good break)
I'm a sw eng. and sometimes I just need to hear the drums from "In the air tonight". Sharing in case anyone else does.
bkdbkd··on Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
Yes, Great analogy. Remember the 2017 "Apple Commits to Pro Users" exercise? They flew reporters out for a boondoggle, gave them a tour of 'secret labs. With fresh competitive hardware coming 'real soon now'. Just spin.

https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-sa...

bkdbkd··on Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
This ^^
bkdbkd··on Spark email client goes subscription path
So my carpenter should be happy to keep paying for his drill or his circular saw? He should be grateful for the subscription to the lathe that he inherited from his grandfather?
bkdbkd··on Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
Andreas Spiess https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu7_D0o48KbfhpEohoP7YSQ Small electronic projects, tutorials, and reviews for sensors, ESP8266, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32

Adafruit - new stuff they sell, and tutorials that are fun.

TheCrafsman - a puppet learning how to craft, 3d print, mold, etc.

Bitluni's Lab - https://www.youtube.com/user/bitlunislab elaborate and funny tutorial videos about building gadgets.

Branchus Creations - board level repair for older PC's and gadgets https://www.youtube.com/c/BranchusCreations/featured

Choll W. Kim - Laser spine surgery and info https://www.youtube.com/c/ChollKimMDPhDSanDiego/about

David Bull - https://www.youtube.com/user/seseragistudio/ Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker, video presentations of his work, including a number of videos showing the complete process of making his prints.

Devoxx - developer tech events, talks, presentations https://www.youtube.com/c/Devoxx2015

Electronics Repair School - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCooKQlg-HZ0PFAPc4Ymg3RA

Evil Ted - visual effects, prop., modelmaking from a pro.. https://www.youtube.com/user/evilted40

HomoFaciens - maker, elecronics https://www.youtube.com/c/HomoFaciens/videos

Jeremy Fielding - home engineering, learning, motors, robotics, making https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_SLthyNX_ivd-dmsFgmJVg

Just A Printer - behind the scenes, explantation, at a small printing business https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSuSPbvmwLZv9CMdeSsWkFA

Just have a think - Climate and Sustainable Energy, Technology discussion, education https://www.youtube.com/c/JustHaveaThink/videos

Kens Karpentry - garage builder, explains process, business https://www.youtube.com/user/ken311953

NorthRidgeFix - electronics repair. Often fixes without schematics, explains diagnosing and tracing faults. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLaXgfNlVxY149shiA1pykQ

SixtySymbols - cool videos about physics and astronomy https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols

Stock Markets With Bruce

The Signal Path - electronics tear down, analysis, and repair. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSignalPathBlog

Two Minute Papers - video summary of interesting or exciting CompSci papers https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz

bkdbkd··on Formula for a Shortage
Exactly. It's a reasoning error.

They equate "Ensuring any recalled products remains off market" with "keeping formula off the market".

As you said, there are many cases in which it is far wiser stop to ensure safety, than to move forward with risk.

Well said.

bkdbkd··on Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure
exactly. "its not that the lock is insecure, its just that sometimes thieves figure out how to make keys."
bkdbkd··on Apple Approved Malware: malicious code now notarized?
Notarization is moving the problem to a different place, but not fixing the problem.

Imagine we take our city - Anycity, USA, where only good, trustworthy, and honest folk live, and we simultaneously decide to replace door locks with neighborhood locks.. then the city likes the idea and sponsors us to replace neighborhood locks with town locks - locks on the few roads leading in and out of town.

Now you start the see the problem. Yes we need walls, yes we need fences, and bigger walls, and bigger fences, and the city needs more authority, and then more authority. And we have to put much more trust in the city, but they really need it in order to keep us good and honest citizens safe.

By the way, what happens if a "bad guy" from Thosepeople, USA gets in disguised in a Minivan?

This is not a one-to-one analogy I know, but again, I hope it points out the innate problem with Notarization. It just moves that one problem to Apple's lap. Meanwhile creating several more innate problems.

bkdbkd··on Mac sandbox escape
iirc remote mouse & keyboard control was added recently.
bkdbkd··on A choir decided to go ahead with rehearsal, now dozens have Covid-19
In this interview Professor Kim Woo-joo describes a similar incident in Korea, where a choir contracted the virus. He adds that 5um is the min for 'droplet' infection, and that if the droplets remain airborne they can desiccate, and shrink , and then move from 'droplet' to 'aerosol'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU&t=923s

bkdbkd··on Max Crashes Strengthen Resolve of Boeing to Automate Flight
Those crashes are like: You tell your machine to open the file with Emacs, but this new distro has unbeknownst to you (and you find out later, undocumented) symlinked the emacs command to a version of vim with a emacs-like overlay, because of some issue they had. The file crashes vim, but in a crazy memory overflow before he dies manages to take out the system, causing spurious disk writes which corrupts your boot drive.

- The MCAS system. Got bad information and did a very bad thing. It was the entire time operating as it was designed. The fact that the astronauts were not given the information on how to turn HAL off in the event he goes berserk isn't really their fault.

Just to be clear - The MCAS system was actively trying to fly the plane into the ground. It thought it was trying to save the plane from a stall. It was wrong. The pilots attempted to override the system. They could not. They attempted to outfly the system. They could not. They could have killed the system. Boeing did not teach them how.

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