This is Apple's implementation, not Passkeys per se.

I was confused by this when they announced it, because I couldn't think of any reason why you'd want cloud sync for device keys. And it turns out, you don't.

Apple uses "sync passkeys", not device-bound passkeys, and uses iCloud to distribute them to your other iThingies (but of course not other platforms).

I won't use them either, for the same reason. I refuse to sync authentication creds - I will not store them on something I don't control. And even if I were to do so, Linux would need to be included for it to be useful to me.

Anyway, yeah, it Apple didn't need to require cloud nonsense, but they chose to. I understand where they're coming from, I just don't like it and won't do it.

They are taking a complete 180 on a core aspect of their interview.

I predict is will have mo measurable impact on their engineering capability.

I also predict their HR will hail this as a great success.

McMegan is a clown. A wannabe Maureen Dowd without the turn of phrase or hint of self-awareness.

I'm totally fine with people like that trashing Bluesky. By all means, enjoy Musk's blog.

And Xitter is exactly that. Open forums don't look like this.

People who are enjoying a party don't sit around trying to convince themselves that some other party sucks more.

I have this mental picture a retirement home full of demented nerds flashing printed copies of Goatse at each other.

The thing that gets me is the consistency. It feels as if there's a union foreman somewhere who has been ensuring at least one is assigned to every story since the late 90s.

Dude, you've got to update your talking points. You sound like you've been watching Fox reruns on VHS in your trailer for the past 20 years.

Everyone should block any traffic to AS32934 at their border. I do, and the internet is so much better without it.

I gambled on bit of their stock after their big drop last year, but if their senior technical folks are bailing, time to get out.

Prior to Stumpy's reign of error, the best and the brightest worldwide wanted to come here to learn, collaborate and frequently stay and continue research or start new businesses.

Now he and his xenophobic self-defeaters are being deliberate assholes, trying to scare anyone sane into going elsewhere. And it is working.

So if you're a smart, capable kid who can attend a top-tier school, do you want to go to the US school in that's in decline, or to the overseas school where all the other smart people are?

I will happily commify my numbers forever more if that comes bundled with the metric system.

Sorry, Liberia and Myanmar, it is time.

BNPL is structured a bit differently than credit cards, and the lending decision is made at purchase-time.

It is also typically more expensive than credit card transaction fees for merchants. The more it is used, the more it raises prices for everyone.

Think of it as a simple notation for a subset of HTML. The idea is it is easy to write inline as you're composing text without having to think about markup.

If you're a long-time front end developer, it probably won't do much for you. The target market is folks who want basic layout and typographic control without having to become a front end developer.

Personally I question it as an export format. There are several different implementations that all behave a bit differently, what does interop look like? But maybe it is just someone in Apple giving John Gruber a little ego boost.

"I used to do my taxes and masturbate at the same time while driving to work. I'm a good driver, those nannies can't tell me no different."

I'm glad you don't drive here anymore, too.

Their entire existence is predicated on the mass-objectification of their user base, this is just innovation in market segmentation.

It turns out, some customers will pay substantially more to kill certain audience segments than their expected lifetime NPV from advertising would ever provide, so to someone like Zuckerface, it is just good business, right?

Growing up, we lived in a tiny southern town. Let's just say education was not emphasized and curiosity made you a nerd/troublemaker/heathen, depending on what you were asking about.

One of the things that saved me was an army surplus store in the bigger down down the road. Aside from enormous tents and bayonets and such, the owner was a Ham, and sold radio-relevant stuff, too.

He was a surprisingly nice guy, and over time he encouraged me through getting my license, drilling me on Morse (this was back then) and teaching me about basic electronics theory. I ended up hanging out there quite a bit and did odd jobs for him.

I was saving for my own radio when he called us one day, saying he had something to show me. It was an old radio he said was pulled from a WWII airplane, and he'd give it to me if I built the buck circuit to power it - I remember the radio was a 28 volt system. He verified I wasn't going to burn myself down with what I came up with, - I didn't really trust myself with AC, and my mother certainly didn't.

That radio was a lifeline for me. A little window where I could talk to random folks from all over, reminding me that tiny town was just that. The most common response from other kids was, "Well, what do they have that we don't?" It seemed to be a mantra there, this weird shared inferiority complex.

I moved away for school, then my family left. The only time I've been back there was for his funeral, and I still kick myself for not making time to visit him before he died.

(The radio was destroyed in a move. First time I paid someone to move houses and they somehow crushed it.)

Show your proof that Zelenskyy is corrupt or stop promoting black propaganda.

We have reams of proof of Stumpy and Vlad's corruption.

We have bullshit and innuendo for the opposite case.

Put up or shut up.

And frankly, I'm coming around to the idea of partitioning Russia. Russian folks, at least the ones I know, are lovely people. But left to their own devices, they have given the world some of the ugliest, nastiest governments across centuries.

At some point, removing their ability to keep doing so is self-defense.