CaptObvious @ CaptObvious @literature.cafe

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It’s hard to believe that anyone still needs to be reminded to keep offline backups.

There are alternatives to Google that are as good or better. Skiff comes to mind, but there are also others.

No.

Except for those of us who, you know, like to see where we're going rather than relying on a limited FOV camera. Of course, if I could learn to remove and replace them while keeping both hands engaged in actually, you know, steering the damn car, that'd be great.

Backup cameras are useless for many people. I can either wear glasses so that I can see where I’m driving, or I can take them off to see the fisheyed backup screen. Not both.

We do. They just send the windfall to exec salary and shareholders rather than to tax paying customers.

In light of recent events, it’s a probability.

What if they’re “mistakenly” attacked by Israel?

In fairness, Surfshark appears still to work.

No, but at work it's someone else's problem. I'm so glad that my employer agreed to replace my Windows machine with a Mac.

Sounds like a James Bond movie

Since the US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, what exactly do these clowns think they can accomplish? Make it difficult for international war crimes investigators to visit a country that they have no interest in visiting in the first place?

It’s too bad we don’t still have Nash or Edsel. Even Mercury would be nice.

Then it’s a good headline. :)

::groan::

Thanks for this. For the first time, an explanation of passkeys makes sense.

I take your point. But I would argue that the user needs at least to understand the basic theory. Otherwise you get me, who sees no benefit, resents when it’s imposed unilaterally, and finds ways around the inconvenience.

I must be dense. I just don’t see how that’s an improvement.

Admittedly my primary experience is with the code kiddies at my campus trying to implement Duo through a dozen redirects to Google, Microsoft, and whichever vendor platform we’re trying to login to. It’s a hot mess.

How do you authenticate your passkey?

That makes no sense to me — and I’m not technically illiterate. If it makes no sense to someone like me, there was never any hope that it would be adopted by the masses who just want things to work. Google may not have helped here, and I’m certainly not among their fans, but it’s hardly entirely their fault that it never caught on.

I’m sorry, but this still sounds as much like “Mares eat oats” as it did when I first heard it a decade ago. You still enter a username and password somewhere (ideally in your password manager) to gain access to your account.