CaptObvious @ CaptObvious @literature.cafe

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"You" was both singular and plural throughout the history of Middle English. Singular "they" emerged in Late Middle English around the 14th century.

Same here and agreed. I deeply believe that people deserve equal respect and recognition no matter what form their genitalia takes. This situation is not about respect or recognition. It's either a personal vendetta or the Eternally Offended and Perpetually Outraged cadre went digging for a new target. Either way, what's happened here over the past couple of days is wrong.

TIL GitHub doesn’t appear to have a “Block User” function.

Great gods. They did as asked, but they weren’t sorry enough? I don’t even know what the complaint is. I’m obviously not the only one.

Political correctness makes my teeth hurt.

This whole thing has jilted-lover vibes. There is no other reasonable explanation for dredging up a three-year-old PR denial than simply shit-stirring for the sake of trying to embarrass or hurt the dev in some way. It reeks of simple childish revenge.

Arguably, it’s more like someone is able to hide the door altogether and force you to climb through the less-well-secured window. The fact that they can hide the door at all makes its locks meaningless.

I get that this is an inherent problem of security mechanisms in general and not of passkeys in particular. But it still reduces passkeys to just fancy passwords. They’re obviously not any more reliable in practice.

I haven’t either because I don’t see the advantage. Cases like this show that there may not be any.

If The Next Big Thing can be sidelined by simply blocking its login option, that’s a problem. Not only is it not secure, it’s not even reliably usable.

Wait, haven’t some sources been touting how ultra-secure and unbreakable passkeys are? And now we find that they’re susceptible to comparatively simple MITM attacks?

Certainly efforts to influence the newsroom should be reported. But it’s a stretch to say that this may imperil the Post.

Short of buying the IP catalog, Microsoft seems to be doing right here.

I’m not suggesting that you should. But if the government that controls a TLD is not trusted, then no site under that TLD should be trusted either.

Avoiding “crypto” obfuscates the truth and avoids the scammy reputation that crypto now has. Calling it “open source” also lets it slide into more communities.

It’s just marketing for a YouTube channel.

Bless you. I do have them blocked. I don’t need the aggravation in my life.

If you trust the government that controls a TLD, then use the site. If not, proceed with caution.

Good to know. Thanks!

It would also be nice if there were a way to use them anonymously. ChatGPT seems to allow this, but I’m not entirely comfortable with OpenAI.

One suspects, for numerous reasons, that your employer will never allow any user, especially a North American, to stop data collection by the central servers.

However, you might refer the customer to your colleagues in the EU. They will have stronger data protections that could be used to force the issue. The Europeans might be able to share how it works with your North American customer.

So has this been addressed in OS updates?

Mint on a couple of old laptops. Debian command line on a hobby server. Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi.

Didn’t love Arch (too complicated for my skills at the time). Fedora was okay and would do in a pinch. I remember liking OpenSUSE, but went back to Mint for some reason that I don’t remember (probably driver- or repo-related).

I’ll likely never try it myself, but I’ve known new users who did ok with Zorin.