manxu

Reverse Uno!

I wonder if the SpaceX IPO people got their hands on the $TRUMP mailing list. It’s the only people I could imagine would buy.

It’s been going on for four years and you are still in deep trouble if you dare calling it a war and not a “special military operation.” I don’t think Russia will be ready to agree to any peace until it’s utterly defeated.

I sense that all started with the stupid GDPR popups. If so, then sincere apologies from Europe.

Russia has a whole history of betraying her “allies” and then pikachufacing when they reorient away.

I sense America is about to experience the same.

It’s very troubling that so many men in America know only one way to express emotions: anger. This kid sounds mostly just heart-broken and lonely, and yet he manages to use healthy emotions, albeit negative, to fuel an increasingly destructive rage.

Expressing sadness and loneliness as anger is bound to make both worse. It’s as if American society had given this kid only one way out of his predicament, and that way out is in fact going to cost lives.

I mean, we are talking about people that confidently state the high gas prices are worth it. Definitely PROUD of their choice.

I think the thought process from the site’s perspective is simple: most of the attempts to hack into an account come from devices they have never seen, from places the user has never been. All a passkey does is tie your account to a “logical place,” a device (whether a browser, a phone, or a specific hardware key).

The passkey itself doesn’t tell the server anything it doesn’t know already, it just confirms it, so there really isn’t a whole lot of privacy implication beyond general concerns.

The big problem, and it’s a more universal problem, comes when you are trying to log in from a device that has no passkey. Maybe you forgot your phone, or you bought a new computer, or something else. The “forgot password” flow, and the related “I am on a new device” flow are some of the weakest spots for computer security, because they presume that something happened that automatically lowers security credentials.

What I like about one-time codes like GAuth is that you can transfer the keys from device to device yourself. You are very rarely going to be in a position where you can’t access the keys, and as a result it’s fine to put you through extraordinary measures to reset your security. The issue with passkeys is that it’s pretty common that you’ll be using a new device, and as such you can’t be forced to go through hoops every time you need to register a new one.

I don’t think we have spent enough time considering how groundbreaking the COVID response was.

Suddenly, there was a safety net. All COVID-related medical expenses were covered by the government, testing was free. When vaccines came out, they also were free and distributed with an equivalency-focused, needs-based attitude.

It was like the catastrophe showed what life can be like, what a huge benefit free healthcare is, and how much being able to rely on stabilization helps out everybody.

Then came 2022 and it was literally all over. Suddenly, you have to pay for everything, and the poorest feel the pain of hunger again. For literally no good reason, as there is plenty money sloshing around.

I am pretty confident Democratic party voters would censure the man at a more than 90% rate for his handling of the Peters affair.

It’s such a shame. Polis was doing good work in Colorado, until the siren song of tax cuts made his bank accounts change his mind.

Yes, but America’s tourism industry is a pretty big chunk of its economy. Someone didn’t think this through.

Thank you for being kind! USA?

many of whom are older people with serious health conditions who had been living in the United States for years or even decades

I wish no harm to anyone, and I hope these people find a way back to the country they love. Still, this is exactly the demographic that voted Republican for decades because they were “tough on immigration.” Did they really think racism stops at Cuba?

I once bought a home security setup from a famous four-letter brand. After five years, the base station to which the cameras connected received and update. After it rebooted, it didn’t recognize four of the cameras and told me I should just get newer ones, because that kind of thing happens with older models.

And that is when the Smart Home bubble popped at manxu’s Newly Dumb Home. Very open to open source connectivity, the functionality was great, but I am never again buying into a closed ecosystem.

But “endless half-assed slop” is the Official Motto of 2026!

$500,000 is absolutely nothing compared to what Brin would save if the tax is shelved. These people are so disgustingly rich that even a .01% tax on their fortune constitutes what other people would consider wealth.

Nobody would have believed you, anyway. Expectations were so high, you would have just come across as a hateful troll.

I haven’t witnessed the edit you mention, but it sounds like it fits in 20 minutes. 🤣

I know it’s ancient history, but I still can’t get over the spectacular train wreck of Star Wars Episode One. So much hype, so much hope, and then you get a two hour arcade game promo with Jar Jar Binks. It was like George Lucas had picked every single terrible trope of 90s movies and packaged it neatly into a movie.

There is no need to put the “sovereign” in quotes: these are sovereign payment processors, run by the countries in Europe themselves. Pressure from an Australian political group is going to make absolutely no difference to them.

The main target in any case is different: when an ICC judge was sanctioned by the Trump administration, they lost all access to online payments and platforms. Depending on American companies for card/online payments is too risky and creates a dependency that could shut down European economies at a whim from the White House.