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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…

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 …

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. T…

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…

This is not a safety filter. The owner/author is explicitly geolocation IP blocking UK users: https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-n...

> 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 …

> Glad to see more exploration in this space. I mean.... ParEdit [1] and ParInfer [2] have been around for a long time now. Structural editing is basically ancient. Lispers have be…

The actual statement in the video is: > ...because this is a frontend like LLVM or GCC that compiles instead of bytecode, uh, to Python AST, um, so this Lisp compiles entirely to P…

> 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 persona…

> 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 pleas…

> 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 un…

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 po…

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 rea…

They're in a GitHub repo, so I just use that since GH renders Markdown. I could probably use Obsidian/Logseq mobile if I wanted to. (Again, because it's Markdown... which is about …

No mention of Foam? https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ Fine, I uhh, I'll speak for it. Foam is to VSCode, what Org (and Org-Roam) are to Emacs. As a former org-roam user, I ended u…

I prefer this turtabalist trip-hop version that samples it: https://youtu.be/LOypHvuSDIo It's just chill and sets the mood.

Uhh, no, not really; quite the opposite in fact. Under Eric Schmidt they were engineer-driven, during the golden era of the 2000s. Nowadays they're MBA driven, which is why they ha…

> These are people who invested and created long-term value for shareholders https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5-lDJWCUAAwfya?format=jpg

Like in iCal format? You can get that here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/9t07jqib63if4kecnd...

Thanks! Fixed.

There's also a button in the bottom-right that people seem to always miss. They should put it up top.

I celebrate this and other geeky events, and maintain a public calendar of them: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=9t07jqib6...

Of all the places to publish a talk that criticizes big walled garden platforms....