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When was the last time you tried to log into something like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc without your phone nearby, on a fresh computer?

What if my phone is dead? Stolen?

In the same vein as 2fa, going up to a fresh computer and trying to log into anything is now a nightmare. Every service has a 2fa that somehow loops into another provider that also has 2fa.

And some 2fa, if not many, make accounts weaker. Apple's solution to get around 2fa is to put in SOMEBODY ELSES phone number that I trust, as a backdoor. It's an insane solution. And its normalized, and nobody questions it.


While we're at it, the insanity of those "recovery questions", made even worse when many companies demand the same ones.

but you can type anything in the recovery box.

its just three additional passwords.

should you type the same brother name in each time? should you even answer with a name?

don't get me wrong, they were insane, but they can be repurposed.


Good luck remembering what you put there when asked 10 years later.

Yeah, many do not even allow you to enter in a custom question, which would be marginally better--at least for users who care about security.

Then you'd have the option to craft a question which is (A) personally memorable (B) specifically phrased to avoid ambiguity, (C) not public or guessable, and (D) unique to a service.

* "Where is your first pet buried?"

* "While on vacation, The Noodle Incident happened in which city?"

* In what year did you first see Example Band live in concert along with Alice and Bob?"


put it in your password manager?

It’s literally translation technology told to guess what’s most likely next instead of translate what it was given.

It makes total sense it’s good at regurgitating the edge cases of language.


Am I looking at the academic theater of sycophantic LLM fed cranky prompts?

"fractal recursive residual coding" = 45% size reduction per iteration after 13 passes of the output of LZMA2 piped back into LZMA2? If true, that alone is crazy.


it reads like Adam Curtis, although a bit more repetative - https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk...

IKEA has a trademark on STYR?

Did you look at the screenshots?

IKEA has a trade dress and the game matches their color scheme and font exactly. The building is clearly an IKEA with the exact same branding, just different four letter name.


That would apply to like a competitor, right? Another store that copies their motif to fool customers.

Has a court enforced trade dress with a mock version of a store within a game?

Would a reasonable person, seeing completely different letters actually think IKEA is sponsoring the game?

I would give IKEA almost a 0% chance of winning that case if both sides had equally sized pocketbooks. (see E.S.S. Entertainment v. Rock Star Videos (2008))


still prefer the simplicity of a reverse river, with a focus on votes and comments https://hckrnews.com/

its incredibly easy to immediately tell when something was posted, and how popular it was. there s no automagic rearranging or movement.

similar to https://techmeme.com/river


Open up the settings bar at the top and set the story layout to "hckr". That layout is directly inspired by hckrnews.com.

Nice. The word "show" threw me off, given it is on the far right and the cog is on the far left. Menu, settings, config etc would make more sense.

Great feedback. After all this time I just realized a lot of people may not even know that menu exists. It's been like that for so long I'm literally blind to it.

tap to pay is handy, i would wear something just for that if it lasted all week on a charge.

having a fitness / sleep tracker that i cant wear while i sleep cuz it needs to charge defeats the purpose. doesnt quite fill during a shower.

apple also made it prohibitively cumbersome / confusing to own two devices that boot up to identical instances. why cant i have two pieces of hardware, and whichever one i pick up resumes the session. i dont want them to have two configurations, i want them to mirror each other, if a setting changes on one, it changes on the other.


> tap to pay is handy, i would wear something just for that if it lasted all week on a charge.

https://www.swatch.com/en-us/swatch-pay/how-it-works.html

(just the first that comes to my mind, no battery usage)


Sadly not supported in the USA.

there might be others. this is the first that came to my mind

Garmin Pay? My Vivoactive lasts about 7-8 days with sleep tracking and phone notifications. 20 days if you disable phone connectivity.

>They're also moving toward more in-person writing. Instead of long essays, shorter writing segments as part of the test

Why did this ever go away? That was a completely regular part of college a decade plus ago.


>Makes me wonder how much the reviewers actually read the text.

How many of the college students voting have years of ai use under their belt, where ai voice itself has shaped and influenced their stylistic choices of language preference?


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