QR has trivial format and code is easily extractable.
Spot the developer who never had to setup anything for his mom.
Readit NewsrPlayer6554 commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev
rPlayer6554 commented on Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year bbc.com/news/articles/c74... · Posted by u/Someone
People aren't "choosing annihilation". There is no weekly meeting. One Japanese person having 10 kids does not change the headline. Birth rates are a textbook-perfect example of a tragedy of the commons coordination problem scenario. Furthermore, if we believe that social or institutional trust is an input to birth rates, the implication is that Sweden is a low trust civilization and South Sudan is high trust. It just doesn't pass the smell test.
People have fewer kids when the medium-term alternatives are better. This is why desperately poor people have tons of kids and why fabulously rich societies like Japan have fewer. An extremely poor person does not lose opportunity by having children. A rich person does. We fix it by inverting the cost and benefit. If being single and childless has fewer medium term rewards than being a parent, people will become parents.
And the "medium term" is I think an illuminating point to emphasize. Humans, I have noticed, tend to operate on 2-3 year time horizons. If humans operated on a 5 minute time horizon we'd have more kids because unprotected sex is fun. If we operated on a 50 year time horizons we'd have more kids because being 75 years old with no surviving family is for many a terribly lonely thought. I think it's also why so much of the birth rate conversation focuses on childcare, diaper changes, and sleep loss, in spite of the fact that the years involving those challenges are an extremely small portion of the life-long parenting experience.
Hit the nail on the head, this is one of the best explanations I’ve for this phenomenon . People keep regurgitating lines about costs when it’s so much more complicated than that.
rPlayer6554 commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev
Did people not realize they can save their 2fa token and just use that with a new authenticator?
I haven't used a phone 2fa forever, but it was a much better system than this "email me a code" BS.
For a long time 2fa apps (other than Bitwarden and maybe some others) would lock you into the app and not let you export it. Websites don’t usually expose the text version of the code, just the QR.
rPlayer6554 commented on Palantir is extending its reach even further into government wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mooreds
Palantir is unique in that one of its founders has publicly stated he doesn't believe in democracy, the bedrock of the American system.
Source?
Ferrari spends $140mn on F1 and brings home $90-100mn in prize money, plus another £150-200mn in sponsorship.
Ferrari is a very rare thing in modern motorsport. A team that races to fund racing.
Part of that is because they get an extra bonus just by being Ferrari
https://www.sportspro.com/decision-makers/politics-and-gover...
This article is explicitly about how J.D. Vance (age 40) & others at the White House are forcefully advocating for preserving E2E encryption. Arguably not for the right reasons, but still.
I'm not sure what you mean by "more" but what you are asking for is in fact happening.
> In a combative speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, Vance argued that free speech and democracy were threatened by European elites.
> Trump has also been critical of the UK stance on encryption. The US president has likened the UK’s order to Apple to “something... that you hear about with China,” saying in February that he had told Starmer: “You can’t do this.”
> US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.
I think that’s exactly why I want encryption.
rPlayer6554 commented on New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation etany.org/statements/impe... · Posted by u/Ericson2314
Whenever I take the train at night I always sit in the front car because that's where the operator is and it's safer. Having trains with no MTA emlpoyees at all is not a way to have a safe and reliable transit system.
Why not pay someone specifically as a guard if that’s the aim? That way they can focus on security instead of having to operate the doors too. And they can handle unsafe situations.
Also NYC door operators are in their own cabin so they cannot really see the people anyways. They don’t have the training to do anything about an incident
rPlayer6554 commented on '123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/nan60
Your favorite part? Are you sick? I can't imagine having a "favorite part" of any of this.
Chill out man, it’s a common ironic expression
On a laptop, on a desktop, on a phone?
Train for 5 minutes, an hour, a day, a week?
On a boat? With a goat?