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mjrpes commented on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

And what about password sharing? I want to share everything with my partner,in case something happens to me.

Passwords right now are outright better.

And by the way, door keys could be copied.

mjrpes · 8 hours ago

1Password family plan, and I assume similar cloud password managers, let you organize passwords/TOTP/Passkeys into vaults, and you can put credentials you want to share with other family members here.

mjrpes commented on I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me marcusolang.substack.com/... · Posted by u/florian_s

__lain__ · 2 days ago

Hemingway was still a master of word choice. I recall an entire class spent on a few lines that conveyed a sense of heaviness to the scene. 'Plodding' was given a lot of attention.

mjrpes · 2 days ago

I remember a college English class where a good part of the lecture was on this sentence from Big Two-Hearted River: "He liked to open cans." Forget the details but it got into the difference between achievement and accomplishment.

mjrpes commented on Steam Frame store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/Philpax

andoando · a month ago

You can still buy prebuilt though and slap SteamOS on it and youre there.

Dont get me wrong this looks very a nice product, but its nothing revolutionary.

mjrpes · a month ago

This thing is meant for a living room media center. A prebuilt PC with discrete GPU is a much bigger profile (and probably cost). You could say, fine, go buy a small Mini PC. But a system with the current best AMD Strix 890m GPU not only is expensive at $700-1000, but would only have half the performance of the Steam Box if its conjectured performance is similar to an RX 7600.

mjrpes commented on JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart stalw.art/blog/jmap-colla... · Posted by u/StalwartLabs

woodruffw · 2 months ago

Serious question: what’s the differentiator if major email providers don’t support it?

(This should not be interpreted as a defense of IMAP.)

mjrpes · 2 months ago

One big differentiator is JMAP allows one network connection to track new emails that may get delivered across different folders. With IMAP you need a connection open for each folder.

mjrpes commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

indoordin0saur · 2 months ago

Seems like major issues are still ongoing. If anything it seems worse than it did ~4 hours ago. For reference I'm a data engineer and it's Redshift and Airflow (AWS managed) that is FUBAR for me.

mjrpes · 2 months ago

Down detector agrees: https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/

Amazon says service is now just "degraded" and recovering, but searching for products on Amazon.com still does not work for me. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

mjrpes commented on Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game subwaybuilder.com/... · Posted by u/0xbeefcab

mjrpes · 2 months ago

Anyone know how big the bay area map is? Would be neat to build dream BART, including north bay and San Joaquin valley.

EDIT: Nevermind, purchased and answered my own question. Outer cities included going clockwise from north bay: Novato, Vallejo, Benicia, Brentwood, Livermore, Santa Teresa, Los Gatos, the full peninsula northward starting from Half Moon Bay. So a good amount, but missing some outer commuting areas like Santa Rosa, Fairfield, Tracy, Gilroy.

mjrpes commented on I only use Google Sheets mayberay.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/mugamuga

fsckboy · 3 months ago

>>Wasn't Microsoft Access basically that?

>No because the datagrid in MS Access is too rigid and doesn't have the extensive slice-&-dice features of MS Excel.

i'm not saying it worked or worked well, but i'm pretty sure the point of Access in the office suite was so that you could access Access (get the clever marketing?) data from within Excel and then do all the excel things you were used to.

anyone know if that worked or didn't? DDE and all those other projects were always pursuing this as a dream

mjrpes · 3 months ago

Access's database is fairly limited and prone to corruption, especially using in a (local) network setup. The better solution would be to have real backend database and use ODBC to sync in data to Excel and Access. Maybe back in 1995 it made more sense but that's before my time.

Access was pretty amazing on its own back in its day, ignoring its multi-user limitations. It glued together a relational database, visual query builder, GUI/Form Builder, and reporting. You could create forms with sub forms that linked tables together. Also had a datasheet view. All of this without touching VBA code, but VBA was there when you needed it.

mjrpes commented on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework simonhartcher.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/deevus

PhilipRoman · 3 months ago

I'm surprised this required implementing a whole new sleep mode. Since it seems to be mostly used for async background tasks, why not configure the RTC to wake the laptop every hour or so (I think every laptop in existence already supports suspend with timeout) and go back to suspend if no tasks need to be done?

mjrpes · 3 months ago

Microsoft wants laptops/PCs to mimic a phone and remain always connected to the internet and processing real-time emails/VOIP calls. It's all explained here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

mjrpes commented on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework simonhartcher.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/deevus

heavyset_go · 3 months ago

S3 sleep is a solved problem and security issues around it are solved by Secure Boot and memory and disk encryption.

The issue is that firmware vendors disable S3 sleep in favor of s0ix/Modern Standby instead, which just puts hardware into low power states instead of stopping them entirely. This will inherently drain more power over time than just keeping memory powered in S3 sleep.

Modern Standby requires heavy integration with the OS to be power efficient. Turns out that takes a lot of reverse engineering because vendors will not release documentation or tune the kernel for their firmware.

mjrpes · 3 months ago

Not just laptops but affects computers too. I have a brand-new Mini PC with Windows 11 and when you turn it "off" it continues to pull 6-10 watts. Not a lot but still over a year if you were to only used it minimally that's 52-83kwh or around $25-45/year at PG&E rates. Vendors are removing support for classic standby/hibernate so the only way to go to <1 watt is to pull the plug. It shouldn't be this way.

mjrpes commented on KDE is now my favorite desktop kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

everdrive · 3 months ago

Major changes aren't even _desirable_ in UI. People kind of emotionally enjoy novelty, however when it actually comes to using a computer consistency is superior to absolute excellence. Figuring out where settings and buttons are just because you ran software updates is a total waste of time on both ends; it wastes the user's time, and was a waste of time to develop. Maybe I'll switch from gnome to KDE this weekend, this looks promising.

mjrpes · 3 months ago

Is this always the case?

I prefer what Windows 11 has done with settings being a simple two panel window with categories on left and scrollable settings on the right, with a search/filter bar at top. As you drill deeper you have a breadcrumb at top allowing you to see the levels you are in and click to go back up. This also allows space for descriptions of what each setting does. It could even be improved by allowing users to pin commonly used settings.

This seems overall more simple and cohesive compared to the old Windows control panel with icons and nested settings being popups within popups within popups. It also allows easier scaling and viewing depending on DPI, screen size, resolution, etc.