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zeratax··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
I kind of get what everyone here is saying, but in my experience i love passkeys and use them for everything as much as possible. I especially love the qr code feature where you can login with a passkey that is only on your phone on another machine without having to do any setup.

Also I find it a bit frustrating when people say password or otp just works. No they absolutely do not work. Even technical people on here get phished all the time even with otp.

zeratax··on Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns
sure i guess, but some of the best food i've ever eaten was in some cheap chinese restaurant that didnt care at all about the "experience" or w/e ^^
zeratax··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
Okay but this is just not true here. VSCode always first asks you if you trust the author of this code and if not gives you the option to open the directory in restricted mode
zeratax··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
vscode explicitly warns you when you open a directory and gives you the choice to open it in restricted mode without all the integrations. it's not zero click at all.
zeratax··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
I feel like vscode is doing everything right here and they cant really do much about users choosing to ignore security warnings. Other IDEs here do exactly the same or less. Not saying there isn't room to improve, but again if you're uninstalling vscode what are you going to replace it with?
zeratax··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
if you just clone a repo no githooks are every automatically enabled. but since this was downloaded not cloned it's a different story
zeratax··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
it's just one of the most common complaints i see all the time from plex users and was a big reason i switched too
zeratax··on Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
yeah i honestly like it a lot too, but i wish it was typed and that the tooling around it was better. though it's getting there...
zeratax··on Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
imo the downsides to this are so minimal to a user? you can configure neovim without defining any functions or w/e and it's not like awkward or anything
zeratax··on Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
i find nix a weird mention here. there is a popular segment of people who wish nix would have used a generic programming language instead of a dsl, but i cant imagine nix working with something like toml ever. the complexity to build every program ever in every programming language is just way too high for that.
zeratax··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
every jellyfin app nowadays not only has downloads, but unlike plex it even works relialby
zeratax··on Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand
kinda surprising to me after the macos web demo was apparently done on the $40 monthly coding plan which was like a 6 hour task
zeratax··on Blender 5.2 LTS
i mean blender has to support a lot more than a mapping tool for a game. it seems pretty expected to me that it would be more complicated to have complete freedom to do whatever you want vs the strict limits that such a tool imposes on you.
zeratax··on Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later
Would they actually need to distribute this app outside of the appstore?
zeratax··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
ask any of the people who installed it if they understand what they're doing and especially what the consequences of that are. i doubt you could get a dozen people who do of the millions and millions who installed it.
zeratax··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
of those millions of residential proxies i would be surprised if you could find a dozen people who knew this was happening on their devices
zeratax··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
in what way were they team members?
zeratax··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
in what way is it chidlish to have a principled position like this? you may disagree, i def use llms. but andrew has clear reasons for why he doesnt.
zeratax··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
which they very much are not
zeratax··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
how is it attacking him for using a different product? except for compile times nothing here even indicates that rust would be a bad choice for bun
zeratax··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
seems categorically different to have something beep vs informing law enforcement or w/e. and also don't think politicans are going to get cars without this installed
zeratax··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
i think of those 12k only a tiny minority would go that far. like at the point you are involving other people, why not just ask them to drive you home? like yea people will always find workarounds, but a solution doesnt have to be perfect to be effective.
zeratax··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
what is the metaphorical blowing up here?
zeratax··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
what do you mean by that? were there people brigarding postgres to rewrite to rust? otherwise relative to popularity i do also constantly see posts on here about Project X rewritten in Go, Zig, C etc...
zeratax··on Cloudflare Drop
every website ever (except for github) has this exact same clause and everytime it's posted online, people freak out about it lol
zeratax··on Resetting Xbox
i absolutely agree! my biggest issue is probably that they didnt expand at all on the walking mechanics and gave you vehicles so quickly while also make the terrain so much easier to drive on, that i almost never walked! in my walking simulator!!

that said especially the ending is such a unique experience i cant say i didnt have a great time anyways

zeratax··on Resetting Xbox
steam does not force you to update though. you can just start the game without updating. if it's multiplayer ofc it might require an update anyways
zeratax··on Resetting Xbox
death stranding made just moving through the game world engaging and challenging. and on top of that it has very satisfying combat mechanics and async multiplayer gameplay elements. yeah the game has long cinematic cutscenes, but i do not see how that detracts from the actual gameplay
zeratax··on Resetting Xbox
sony's cinematic games sold well and are well regarded, but when was the last time they released any such game or even just a single player game? when they rerereleased the last of us?
zeratax··on Resetting Xbox
just like the person you responded to already said: cos there is like basically no difference between the two. unless you care a lot about screens (in which case you will know what oled means) just get the cheaper one.
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