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samcat116··on Amazon enables passwordless passkeys on iOS and the web
Nice to see Passkeys making it to more places!
samcat116··on Email and Git = <3
Not really a huge fan of this whole method, but the GitHub CLI is really well thought out and means I basically never need to leave the terminal if I don't want to.
samcat116··on K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
K3s is great but I'll also shout out that RKE2 is almost as simple to install as K3s but its full Kubernetes.
samcat116··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
An eSIM isn't a cryptographic secret you need to backup its provisioned by your carrier.
samcat116··on BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon
In theory this won’t matter in a couple months when Threads gets ActivityPub support. Makes sense from a branding perspective
samcat116··on Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
Lag is one of the issues I've never had with any of those services. I think they all have their CDNs built up enough so thats not a real problem for the vast majority of people.
samcat116··on iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues
Haven't had any issues with mine other than transfer day. Its hasn't been noticeably hot since.
samcat116··on Merlin's Wisdom Project
Merlin is probably one of the least pretentious people I’ve come across online.
samcat116··on Tell HN: macOS Bartender disables features, forcing users to buy license again
What features didn’t work on Ventura? Never encountered an issue there. Bartender does a paid upgrade almost yearly. That weird item in the menu bar is due to an Apple API change that they have to adapt to. Plus the new version has the most features I think I’ve seen in any release ever.
samcat116··on EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
I'd say we don't get by fine, things are pretty awful actually.
samcat116··on Passkeys are generally available
The 1Password extension in Chrome does this so I assume there is some API
samcat116··on Passkeys are generally available
I think it’s on Bitwarden’s roadmap to be implemented soon
samcat116··on Passkeys are generally available
Very nice! Passkeys can't come soon enough to more services.
samcat116··on EE is working with Qualcomm to add Wi-Fi 7 to consumer broadband hubs
This article has nothing to do with the next wifi version being bad, rather they're just upset EE doesn't allow bridge mode on their routers it seems.
samcat116··on My solopreneur story
Buddy you’re writing on a venture capital website.
samcat116··on Tailscale Kubernetes Operator
You could say this about any service serving software artifacts?
samcat116··on Ask HN: YouTube keeps suggesting vids I marked “not interested”. What can I do?
Gonna go against a lot of folks here and say I think the YouTube recommendation algorithm works pretty well for me. Definitely helps if you watch a lot of certain topics to give it some positive signals.
samcat116··on 37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time
> "IT departments are hungry to run their own IT again." Tell me you don't understand IT departments without telling me you don't understand IT departments.
samcat116··on ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard
> Is it just me that don't have the necessary cultural references to find it appealing?

Yes, RGB has been popular for many years now. Nice that I can pick any color or color pattern I like

samcat116··on Okta Personal
Welcome to the enterprise sass industry.

(Also accounts with user counts that high aren’t paying MSRP you see)

samcat116··on Okta Personal
One thing I find odd about Okta’s marketing when it comes to Passkeys and passwordless is that they market it as “Biometrics”. I guess this makes sense since the prompts that users see on most platforms are for FaceID/TouchID/Windows Hello. But I, as someone who understands how Passkeys are implemented on these platforms, knows that Okta doesn’t actually deal with any biometrics, nor would I ever want them to.
samcat116··on Okta Personal
I went through the login flow for this and I think this is an architecture similar to 1Password and not just their legacy paste a PW thing. It prompts for a password as well as a second “PIN” for the encryption part
samcat116··on Okta Personal
As a former IT admin who administered Okta it’s pretty feature rich and I thought the UX was pretty good compared to Microsoft
samcat116··on Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups
If this was with Argo shouldn’t finalizes prevented this?
samcat116··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
Cool but I’ll just keep paying for YouTube premium since it provides me incredible value
samcat116··on Flatpak is not the future (2021)
> Personally, I’m much more interested in how to get Excel and Photoshop on Linux rather than untrustworthy drive-by apps and games, so I don’t really care about sandboxing, permissions, portals, app stores, alternate runtimes or really any of the stuff Flatpak does.

Guess what Excel and Photoshop will want if they were to ever port their software to Linux.

samcat116··on ARM’s Neoverse N2: Cortex A710 for Servers
HP is
samcat116··on Disney’s Taylor Swift Era
Nothing from Folklore or Evermore?
samcat116··on Disney’s Taylor Swift Era
> Taylor Swift's claim to fame is that she is an attractive white woman from affluent parents, who is both highly malleable and a very hard worker.

I don't think you understand Taylor Swift whatsoever.

samcat116··on Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security
This might be the most HN comment I’ve seen in a while
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