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frankish commented on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure tailscale.com/blog/freque... · Posted by u/ingve
I despise this. With username and password my password manager just fills it in and it is one click to click "login".
With email magic link I need to enter my email (it seems to rarely auto-fill for some reason), then wait (often it takes 10s for the email to be sent for some reason), then if I was logging in on something that isn't my default browser I need to copy+paste the link (often just clicking the link authorizes the source session but not always and you don't know what this site does so you need to do it to be safe). Now you are finally logged in but probably have two tabs open. Either you need to find the first one to continue your session (if it logged that one in) or close it and lose your history for that tab (and hope that the website actually maintained your target page which more often than not it didn't).
My preferred workflow as well, but now many websites are starting to do this thing where you have to enter only your username, hit next, and then the password input shows up; however, the username only input breaks my password manager from trying to autofill! Argh
frankish commented on As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook hamatti.org/posts/as-a-de... · Posted by u/ingve
Choosing something that is not connected to electricity, an OS, or the internet to be a software developer's _most important_ tool is, in fact, the strange position here.
Like a human brain? I'd say that is the programmer's most important tool, and it is not connected to electricity, an OS, or the internet.
Hmm, but doesn't the brain run on electricity? And why couldn't it possibly have something like an OS? I don't think we know exactly how the brain works
frankish commented on 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself reuters.com/business/heal... · Posted by u/healsdata
My shocking 23andMe story:
I reached out to a guy on 23andMe that was a DNA relative (2nd cousin) and said hi. Curious how we were related, I gave him some family names going several generations back, and asked if any of them rang a bell in his family history.
He responded quickly and said no, they did not.
Then a few weeks later I get another response. He said that one of the names had faintly rung a bell, and when he dug into it, it turned out that was the name of his mother's boss for much of her career as a secretary. His heart sank when he realized it. He and his siblings did genetic tests and confirmed that he, the youngest, was only a half-sibling. Both of the parents were deceased so there's no way to know what really happened.
After dropping that bomb in the poor guy's lap I stopped using the DNA Relatives feature.
Personally, I'd prefer to find out the truth in these cases.
frankish commented on The Ethics and Rationality of Voting plato.stanford.edu/entrie... · Posted by u/frankish
Very thought-provoking for me.
One thing that I think might be missing is the scale/population of a government's jurisdiction and perhaps the considerations of moving to more local government when it comes to the context of voting.
I'm thinking in terms of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Skin in the Game[0] where broader forms of government (eg, US Federal Govt) are smaller (ie, more "Libertarian") by only focusing on protecting our constitutional rights while more local forms of government can become increasingly more socially democratic, but impact fewer people overall. This allows for controversial ideas to be experimented in smaller scales while allowing for competition and escape from undesired policies. A policy that proves itself useful can spread due to the actual proof of it working. Voting at the highest form of government should be a rare occasion where we can maximize the incentive to vote.
Perhaps proportional voting enhances citizens’ autonomy, by giving them greater control over those issues in which they have greater stakes
Thus, I wholly believe this study.