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Hey OP, did anyone drown?

We received an anonymous call from two witnesses explaining that a human was recklessly descending into warm, scented, clean, shallow water, and we have to check.

Again, it was an anonymous tip from two witnesses. They said they’d remain in the scene to make sure everything went okay.

I will be looking for where to watch this

Is this re:boot?

I just can’t communicate why or how an average user should use passkeys.

I use them, I like them even, they’re a decently easy flow with good trust boundaries.

Yes, passkeys are hard/impossible to phish, but the fallback flows are exactly as easy to phish as passwords today and are basically a requirement if you implement passkeys.

I can’t recommend using passkeys in Chrome’s password manager, for lock in and portability reasons (plus every browser should have an ad blocker). I can’t recommend the OS based ones because frankly nobody should install windows anymore, and macOS is on the precipice of enshittification. That just leaves password managers, which I think are a good idea, but also a single point of failure.

A recent 1password update borked something with passkeys. They didn’t work at all for me for a week.

I have to log in to some things daily with passkeys, so it was really annoying.

Might be worth trying again, because they now work reliably for me again.

This is not a ringing endorsement of either passkeys or 1password, but bad releases do happen.

This story, that Cloudflare reported lower identified automated bot and API traffic from the ASN of the destroyed data centres, has been so massively warped it’s insane.

It demonstrates that average people and apparently tech reporters like toms hardware don’t know how the internet works at all.

When residential proxies affect at least a third of US households, you don’t need to route through a data centre that will be flagged as bot traffic. You set up a wire guard config and route to a residential proxy installed on millions of smart TVs, android boxes, smart appliances, desktop computers, and phones.

Seriously, I recently mapped multiple residential proxy networks with over 30 million unique US ips that were just scraping. You can use math to reliably fingerprint these networks, they’re big, with hundreds of millions of IPs involved, and you can rotate them via an API call to clean ones.

Zero of this traffic would be taken down by these strikes. We didn’t even see any perceptible change in internet traffic overall with this.

They took our money, they give our assets back with interest.

This person does not fear their own gun enough

Like the demon core situation?

Worth it to avoid a gattica like situation where someone our dna to control us

Tl;dr:

We continue to build the torment nexus, and your government is excited about it no matter were you live.

It’ll never be over

This is what Russia did with Crimea, it’s what the US is trying to do to us.

I tried this one but I never finished configuring it, I should try again though.

My Linux journey over 1.5 years has been fedora gnome, then cosmic, then KDE, then nix+niri but doing both at one was a mistake. After that I just decided to embrace KDE and learn nix, and that’s where I am many months later.

No, I doubt really use it for launching apps. On most OSes now you press cmd/windows/super button and it opens a text field to launch apps.

Mostly I use CLIs or TUIs in the terminal for 80% of my computer use, and a many apps that are just browser tabs now.

My vim config has dozens of custom hot keys and functions for all sorts of things. Same with tmux and my dot files or user local script bin, they’re full of utilities and scripts and customizations.

That’s never going to help me organize a photo album or be a good existence for checking my email (I know I can check my email from a tui, but I don’t want to)

Your use case is a good example, and as a teaching aid it can definitely be useful. I’d I were a teacher I’d be using it to code up small demos and example visuals all the time.

But I mean if you’re using it to do a task like writing, programming, learning a language, doing researching for you, entering Excel formula, etc. you aren’t hitting the friction that builds neural pathways.

It’s just like how writing by hand is better than typing for memory. That doesn’t mean you should only write an essay by hand, a word processor lets you reorganize and edit, move paragraphs, restructure your points abd connect your thoughts. That process allows you to engage deeper, which is a positive. But if you ask an AI to do that editing and rearranging then you won’t learn as much, just like you won’t remember typed notes as well as hand printed ones.

Using AI for school work is more what I mean, vs leveraging it to allow new forms of engagement.

We do have strong evidence that so much digitization was bad for teaching, and we have good evidence now that AI can erode or block important skills. It should be used selectively, and in that, my anathema comment was too strong.

100%

Anything we as humans choose to be a part of, we can choose to improve. Unions included. Nothing needs to stay the same if it isn’t working.

It would be nice.

Most of my complaints about unions are:

• Seniority is a terrible system to build a foundation from. It just is. I don’t give a fuck who got there first, seniority systems grow complacency, punish competence, and lower labour mobility. I was in a union as a teenager, the company offered lump sum payments for the older union members to literally sell out the younger ones with delayed wage increases, and they all voted for it since it was harming someone else.
• There are many unions that are just greedy pigs. You pay dues in, the union gets fat, but they spend all their time defending the wrong people.
• Unions can add a lot of extra process to things that don’t require it

However, that does not mean we shouldn’t have unions. We should maybe try to improve how we do them, so they work better for everyone.

I just want a union that looks out for unfair labour practices, forced unpaid overtime, keeps the company competitive on salary and benefits, and is willing to fight for workers who are unduly fired or sidelined.

I really like the terminal, most of my use is a web browser or terminal with tmux.

I use hot keys like cray, but I haven’t found a tiling window manager I like yet (I don’t like when things shift automaticallly, it breaks my mental model), and I haven’t found a Linux desktop with the keyboard ergonomics of macOS.

But 95% of my time is with full screen terminals, so I’m actually pretty okay. I have customized vim and tmux to the hilt, and I like that.

Ghost of Tsushima has an optional samurai movie mode you can turn on in settings.

They apply deliberate filters to feel like an old style noir samurai movie and set the dialogue to Japanese. It’s pretty cool, and a fun celebration of that film genre.

The whole game has an incredible art direction, you can feel the soul and passion that went into it.

I would recommend Ghost of Tsushima, it’s a top 10 video game experience in my life.

Legally, they can’t shut this down via DMCA/copyright/etc. This is a clean room implementation of the APIs via decompilation. They’ve lost this lawsuit before, they can’t file fake DMCA, so they’re kinda stuck.

Plus, the PS5 rom encryption keys leaked this year, so no matter what Sony does users can extract and decrypt games from memory using any PS5 made before January 2026. Any software update they push can be dumped from memory (I have no idea how easy or difficult this is though, or what Denuvo style encryption they use).

I’m 100% sure Sony has some fuckery saved up for the GTA6 release though. Maybe that will be adding new required API calls and forcing updates to all games, or a Nintendo Switch style firmware fuse + attestation, or force online validation to open the game (like how many single games are online only). I think the most likely is just requiring online account validation, which will probably get stripped out of a pirated game binary anyways.