turdnagel

I was curious about the use case of using a YubiKey to unlock 1Password.

Can you use the Yubikey as a keyboard on iOS?

Hackers is a fun movie. It has a fantastic time capsule soundtrack, fun sets (the arcade, the computer room) and some fun little performances (Matthew Lillard! Fisher Stevens!) It's interesting what the show gets right (little bits of phreaker culture, social engineering) and what it gets wrong (almost everything about how computers actually work). From a realism perspective, Mr. Robot blows this out of the water, but it's still fun.

This is definitely a pandora's box type issue. I believe it is different from the "code is speech" series of arguments around PGP because a deployed smart contract is not merely source code / compiled bytecode, but also a wallet containing funds. Of course, you still need the Ethereum "world computer" to make it run, and Tornado Cash is not very helpful without a significant amount of liquidity to sufficiently provide cover for people who want to obfuscate the source of their funds. These issues are likely to arise in court and I don't believe the conclusions will all be favorable to crypto supporters because I don't think the situation is as clear cut.

"Enemy of the State" (1998) tech becoming reality.

Why does it require macOS 12? Is it going to require a driver?

Betteridge’s law response to headline: no.

Short answer: not any time soon.

Long answer: Maybe, in the long term. Node is really entrenched in orgs and 99.999% compatibility is probably a must have before they’d would consider switching. Also, don’t underestimate the strength and persistence of Google’s V8 team. Year over year incremental performance improvements may prove to be enough to ensure Node’s dominance for another 10 years.

There was a tool that could find the "equilibrium" called Translation Party. I don't think it works anymore. I'd love to see one that goes back and forth between DALL-E and an image description algorithm.

My current move is creating initial versions of images with Midjourney, which seems to be a bit more "free-spirited" (read: less _literal_, more flexible) and then using DALL-E's replace tool to fill in the weird looking bits. It works pretty well, but it's a multi-step process and requires you have pay for Midjourney and DALL-E.

I've actually found some of Ken Rockwell's info on analog cameras (especially Leica & lenses) to be super helpful, but I can't speak to his digital knowledge. Also, his photography itself isn't great.

Imagine a world where every product category had someone dedicated enough to build a site like this and keep it up to date. I'd specifically love one for cameras, lenses, and for the analog shooters out there, film.

I miss when you could jump to the cached version of a page which would have all your search terms highlighted in different colors on the page. Peak Google search.

I'm generally in agreement with you, but what I don't agree with is the author's assertion that it is a "magic" phrase that "ends the conversation". Realistically, it's very easy to imagine someone saying "why?" afterwards, leading to the exact kind of debate the author is trying to avoid. Anyway, I think it's a useful tool in the toolbelt, just not magic.

I'm not sure "we don't do that here" is any more neutral than any other way of telling someone to stop doing something. It has the added weight of "we," which implies a shared set of cultural values, which in turn may help get the message across. But it does nothing to defuse someone feeling defensive about their actions.