Slackwise

I was trying to say, nobody should be using Passkeys via browsers because they all fail to secure them. You need a password manager of some sort. But this is also true of passwords. My ultimate point was, passwords are a burden because unless you use a password manager and unique passwords for every single account, then passwords are strictly a burden. The average user doesn't use a password manager outside of the junk in Chrome, so... they're really just creating a security disaster for themselves.

So, therefore: passwords shouldn't exist, and you should create sessions via email links/tokens. Then also offer Passkeys as a faster login.

I recently logged into my CVS.com account after not touching it for years, and I couldn't find the password reset..... turns out they no longer use passwords at all; only Passkeys and tokens via email/SMS.

Aside from email accounts potentially being compromised or SMS interception, this is honestly the way all sites should be going now. But more seriously, there should be a way to use only Passkeys with a backup identification method in case you lose your Passkey.

The new threat? Browser password managers are insecure. Anyone can sit down at my machine if it's unlocked and Passkey their way into any of my accounts. What good is that? Why doesn't Chrome use my Google account password before allowing auto-fill/login? (Obviously I don't use Chrome's password manager, but it's a real concern for everyone else.)

If you asked an "agent" to make something for you, you yourself did not create it. By definition. Whether it's AI or a person. You contributed only a piece. It's no longer yours. This is why any piece of art/music has everyone involved documented in credits. The phonies in the industry have ghostwriters write songs for them, like a majority of pop artists. Pop music is going to be even more fake soon.

When smartphones took over computing and landed in everyone's pockets, and the shareholders realized they have access to every single eyeball on Earth, and so the squeezing of tech for profit began. The big watershed moment for me was when Google Reader was killed off; it signaled the end of the web for users.

> Your life isn’t tied to a company

Health insurance isn't tied to a company? Your ability to survive and feed your family isn't tied to your company? Lack of opportunities in the job market? Lack of equal salary/benefits at alternative companies? Non-competes, H1-B visas....

> so if you don’t like how they chose the leader or what they’re doing, you can leave.

Just one small thing Ben: leave to work for who? Who isn't hiring CEOs and running businesses the same way as everyone else?

> because it is fast and keyboard-driven

How is it faster to press `*` than `Ctrl-I` in any other rich text editor?

> The idea that it is meant to be seen is no more than a personal preference.

Actually, the entire philosophy of Markdown is that, even if you didn't process it into HTML or some form of rich text, it uses common conventions that have been used across Usenet, IRC, and plaintext files for years, and is thus readable without ever being processed. In fact, you can likely take various plaintext files and process them and they'll gain many incidental markups and highlights.

Meaning, Markdown is Markdown without needing to be turned into HTML or rich text. It is, in itself, a great way to universally markup text as people have been doing online for years.

> Is Tableau dead?

Yes, Salesforce consumes companies whole. Just like they did with Heroku and others.

Since it's all just Guile Scheme, a full programming language, you can extend it in any way you want, and use the Scheme libraries you want, doing whatever network access you please.

> An old employer used this instead of Docker for managing build distribution. Can the Guix stuff be used the same way?

Yes, and, Guix is actually a "meta" package manager that understands other packages like Python PIPs and Node NPM packages, so you can define all of that in one build config file.

Looks like Google is pushing or at least trialing full-screen, non-media-content, loud advertisements on their "Google TV" branded products. While this is for Chromecasts, it is possible it's coming to regular Google TV next...

I use PWAs extensively and Firefox decided they won't bother to implement them, so that's going to be a no from me.

Rather than wanting the web platform to be first class, they really want it to languish as a second-class citizen. Really sad, seeing as they also fired devs, and invested in "AI" instead.