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You still have a separate password that authenticates you without biometrics.

The touch + passcode is nice because even if someone watches you enter your passcode it won't matter unless they can spoof the fingerprint reader too, which is highly unlikely. And you can use a much shorter passcode for convenience.

Technically all framework 13 laptops always have four things plugged into it because the ports are modular such that the user can choose which ports they want.

Unless you're crazy and leave the expansion ports unpopulated.

The institutions and trust that generations of Americans carefully built has been gleefully torched by cruel incompetents in the space of a handful years. The damage, physical and social, is incalculable. The unpunished crimes, endless.

The reconstruction, if it happens at all, will take decades. It was all so unnecessary, so foolish.

That's a fantastic point haha, I've never tried it myself.

It's funny to see all the commenters who didn't read the article closely enough or at all. This is basically the bluetooth device equivalent of "left S3 bucket open to public".

That said, really cool work. I honestly thought it would be harder to turn a usb connected device into an exploit vector.

That it's as easy as emulating a keyboard that pops a local terminal and runs a malicious command is actually pretty funny. Though it will be a non-admin terminal so the damage should be somewhat limited. And on Windows, users often just click through any UAC prompt so I bet you'd get full access on many windows boxes.

Effective as a social signal, absolutely. Not for anything substantive.

Again, besides the point.

> but pretending nobody knows what is being referred to is not a serious argument

The claim is that it's too broad to be useful. But as I said earlier, this is all besides the point.

That's what it means to you, most users mean "something liberal/progressive I don't like".

That's a fair point. Is it actually common for CEOs to live on a company property? I can see how transport would be company controlled.

No one can even agree on what woke even means. "Woke mind virus" 99% of the time is uttered by extremely unserious and contrarian people. It's a fantastic signal that screams "Ignore me, I'm not worth the trouble."

So the issue is that you're insufficiently socialized to understand this or don't care, both of which are very poor signs for someone who wants to lead a long lived organization which stewards a open global platform. IMO your behavior in this thread is very strong evidence that any org you lead is unlikely to thrive. You seem to lack the disposition and people skills.

If you look at the graph I linked, you can see that the world average for that statistic has consistently been higher compared to the US, though the two series have been converging lately. So according to that data the US has not been uniquely unfair, but it has been getting worse.

I do think there will have to be large changes soon.

It's not the phrase that's the issue, but you knew that.

That phrase is on par with "chemtrails" and "vaccine truther" with its ability to vaporize one's credibility, if used unironically as OP did in those emails.

Fun, I was only confident in one answer but got lucky with a 3/3.