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Comment Re:What about backups? (Score 1) 36

You can't multiply THESE (Apple) passkeys, but otherwise nothing stops you, they're just some certificates, or if you want some large numbers. There are plenty password managers that handle (completely, as in presenting them to web sites, etc.) passkeys on your machine, under your control. I presume the GP has such control as he says specifically the passkeys are backed up already in a flat text file.

Comment Re:What about backups? (Score 1) 36

Keep it encrypted on your $MEDIA. You keep multiple Yubis for access.

That's a solution looking for a problem, or more for creating a problem. It's a very common use case for people who want to stay sane enough while trying to unnecessarily shoehorn Yubikeys in their workflows, but these really aren't made to just keep a regular secret symmetrical encryption key to your backups or password manager. You CAN use some feature to achieve that but it's pointless as the host machine sees the secret data and is doing all the decryption. You are better all around by just using a regular password here.

The whole point of these cryptographic tokens is that they're themselves different machines, air gapped (or if you want connected through a dedicated and very limited interface) from the computer/phone that runs a general purpose OS that can be compromised. This comes with great inconveniences, like you can't multiply them (so you need to register multiple keys separately on all your services, and some don't accept multiple passkeys/FIDO - PayPal I'm looking at you), you can't back them up, they have limited capacity and so on. But once you go "darn it, I'll just do everything on my computer in a password manager" you can't roll that back by putting some access control based on Yubikeys, it does nothing, it's still everything done on your computer.

Comment Re: Vim is already available for Windows (Score 1) 105

Well I know that you can't argue over personal tastes, and many people like modal editors, but I don't think it is about "educating yourself". Perhaps the opposite is true, as this interview with vi's creator, Bill Joy, explains:

REVIEW: What would you do differently?
JOY: I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. I think the interesting thing is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as mode-based editors go, it's pretty good. One of the good things about EMACS, though, is its programmability and the modelessness. Those are two ideas which never occurred to me.

Comment The Surface Studio had a good screen, at least (Score 1) 16

I never had a Surface Studio. But I always wanted one for its 4500x3000 display. Microsoft did a good job in pushing 3:2 aspect ratio and driving the PC market away from the horrible letterboxing that dominated laptops and monitors for a decade. It's a pity that panel was never sold in a standalone monitor (Huawei talked about it but the product never reached the market).

Comment Re:MKAAS (Score 1) 11

YES. This happened to syncthing (which IMHO is THE thing for such things...). They got denied to storage in February 2014 https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fsyncthing%2Fs... and eventually in October they gave up developing the Android app at all. There's now syncthing-fork (it was actually since earlier) as a personal project (as opposed to the official one which I presume was under Syncthing Foundation's umbrella, even if mostly a one-man show) and funny enough that had no Play Store shenanigans as far as I know. Sure, going forward anyone in the know should be installing from F-Droid, you never know with Google.

Comment Re:Fundamentally Similar to Fake Quotes (Score 1) 85

Did you try asking one chatbot to check the quotations given by the other chatbot? If you ask the AI to find something then it will do its best to please you. But if you ask it "is this quotation real" or "is there any evidence for X" then at least some of the time it can perform the useful service of saying "no, can't find it".

Comment Re:Why not state which ones? (Score 3, Insightful) 90

Yea, this. Plus they need to spell out what we're looking at, mostly everything nowadays wants some wifi connection and an app, and will most likely leak at a minimum everything you are doing with the device, plus what it can see around, your wifi password and so on. Also it'll have autoupdate ota capabilities enabled by default, so it can literally do anything they might want it to do at some point including to attack other machine, bound only by its hardware capabilities.

Comment Re:My issue here is .... (Score 1) 66

First "all files access" refers just to the files you can anyway see in your file manager, which isn't a lot. You aren't getting any access to OS files or other Apps data, unless they save it in the shared storage.

Second, this access is needed in order to get uncensored files too, yes, for your security Google is generally censoring (as in binary changing) the files presented to the apps otherwise: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FDataH...

Comment Re:That's because you don't understand (Score 1) 135

Some are. I work more with smaller businesses than Big Tech and I don't think we've ever had more interest in our software development services.

There is a rational concern that technical people will understand the benefits and limitations of generative AI but management and executive leadership will fall for the hype because it was in the right Gartner quad or something and that will lead to restructuring and job losses. Businesses that get that wrong will probably be making a very expensive mistake and personally I'm quite looking forward to bumping our rates very significantly when they come crying to people who actually know what they're doing to clean up the mess later. It's not nice for anyone whose livelihood is being toyed with in the meantime, obviously, but I don't buy the arguments that this isn't fundamentally an economic inevitability as the comment I replied to was implying.

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