Do I know the song automatically? Or like, do I have to defeat someone in single combat to get to learn the song?

I can teleport instantly to any location I have previously visited.

I agree, but the doomer in me just figures we’ll be on to the next grift. Fuck.

That was my ending of choice as well.

I think you’re making my point. First, you’re right that passkeys can’t be phished. But access to the passkey manager can be. And now you’ve doubled your exposure to leaky third parties, once with the service you’re accessing and another with the passkey manager.

Why do you have the 4-digit PIN? Well, it’s just to unlock the part of your device where the private key is stored.

And there is the problem I have with passkeys. With a password it is me authenticating to the service I’m using. Pretty straight forward (if you ignore the operating system, web browser, network protocols, etc., but that’s part of using the tech).

With passkeys you’ve got this third party storing your keys that increases your attack surface. It could be your web browser, your OS, or some cloud provider that you’re now relying on to keep your data safe. I get that for people whose password is “password123” or who aren’t savvy enough to avoid phishing maybe this helps. But with decent opsec this overly complicates authentication, IMO.

To my point, later in the article:

Securing your cloud account with strong 2FA and activating biometrics is crucial.

What’s that now? The weak point is the user’s ability to implement MFA and biometrics? The same users who couldn’t be bothered to create different passwords for different sites? You see how we’ve just inserted another layer into the authentication process without solving for the major weakness?

With my tinfoil hat on I suspect this push toward passkeys is just another corporate data and/or money grab – snake oil for companies to get their tentacles tighter around your digital existence.

Happy to be proven wrong.

I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.

Been cutting my own hair for a decade. It wasn’t pretty at first, but I got better. Have done several different styles over the years, too. Now it is easy, quick, and looks good.

I’ve saved so much money and, more than that, time and stress. I can cut my hair first thing on a Sunday morning or late on a Monday night. No appointments, no idle chit chat, no leaving the house… just 20 minutes and a shower and I’m good for another 3000 miles.

You can totally tell when something was designed by committee. Lack of consistency in flow and purpose.

ITT: People with legitimate reasons for long showers.

Me over here: Just because I want to. It feels good. I’m paying the bill and I’ll stay in it as long as I’d like. I think, I daydream, I warm up on cold mornings, I cool off after long hot days, I listen to music or sing along while a warm rain dances its way to the drain. I can, and often do, shower and dress in 10 minutes, but I’m an adult damnit and if have the time and the desire I’m gonna hang out and sway gently while the steam fills the shower.

Fifteen year olds: Masturbating. Lots of masturbating.

Looks like a DIY opportunity.

I’d still have wires IF MY PHONE HAD A PLACE TO PLUG THEM IN.

Don’t think so… Found the HISHE video [here].(https://youtu.be/WG3_gnKSDh4)

Did see that scene in the video. Any other guesses?

This is it. I’ve never been able to learn a new programming language looking at tutorials. I always start with a problem (use case) and build from there. A basic knowledge of concepts like loops, conditionals, and passing/returning values in a function are the building blocks. Eventually you start to get tired of copy/pasting code so you find things like abstraction and inheritance. Then you’ll find ways to optimize or use someone’s library of premade functionality instead of starting from scratch.

And if you get really, really good you start writing things from scratch again in unique and highly optimized ways. Those are the really fun projects, imo, but not the ones that pay.

I created a satirical Employee Handbook that, among other things, mocked the entire management chain and codified some of the unwritten rules among employees.

It was a crappy retail job so no real loss.

Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.

Worst I’ve seen: Shithead

Pronounced: Shih-theed

Spelled: Shit head

I’m sorry I asked.

Example?

Be me, 16 yo., in basement bedroom chilling. Hear/feel a thud feels like the whole house just got picked up and dropped a few inches. Meet dad’s fiance who had been chilling in the den at the top of the stairs, confused. Eventually look outside through the darkness to see something strange in the front yard. Jump in the car, swing the headlights around to reveal a smoking wreck wrapped around a pine tree in the front yard. Rush out to find what remains of the driver gurgling his last attempts at breaths. Call 911, volunteer firefighters show up within minutes. Nothing to be done. Dude was paste from the inside out. Drunk driving, speeding, and didn’t make the curve.

As an aside, DOT shows up a few days later to trim all of our pine trees with branches at ground level to have no branches below about six feet. Presumably to make it easier the next time? Looked ridiculous.

But yeah, that gurgle was something else. Never heard anything like it before or since.