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  • I don’t love an abstract legal identity. I’m capable of being happy with institutions, the culture composed if the people living there, and adoring the natural splendor.
    Right now I’m actively angry at the institutions, a huge number of people have taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and I’ve got no problems with the forest still.
    Me and the forest are cool, and that’s part of why I’m mad at the institutions.

    I have no desire to live in the forest because, if nothing else, that’s not good for the forest. Then the people who opted to live there became insane, and decided to largely gut all of the institutions, and make it easier to destroy the forest.

    “I live in a state of natural splendor, and I’m willing to fight to let you cut it down, splash me with mercury , and blot out the sun with smoke because I don’t have healthcare and fuck you for asking. It’s the refugees who are the problem”.




  • It can totally be fine for your needs, and secure while it does so, and not be two factors.

    It’s a question of what’s required for access. In this case, they would need your password and to have had some manner of device access at some point to steal the value used by 1password to verify you at one point had the secret key. Someone with a keylogger from a random untargeted malware infection could plausibly get sufficient information. It’s really good 1 factor.

    To be two factor there would need to be a requirement for two factors to be demonstrated at auth time. For example, if 1password encrypted the passkeys in such a way that the passkey could not ever leave the device, like via certain types of hardware backed key storage, then unlocking the vault is proof of something you know, and the usage of the signature is proof you have the chip.
    The trickery comes about in the techniques available to move the passkey between encrypted hardware devices without it ever being exposed or loosing the “device you control” assurances.

    For the record, I use 1password. Just not for passkeys on desktop. I prefer the Bluetooth connection to my phone, since phones currently do a much better job providing uniform targets for what’s needed to provide the proper two factor for something like passkeys.


  • … How if flying a spaceship different from driving a car? They’re both controlled applications of kinetic energy to move people or objects.

    At the end of the day, it’s all a pile of transistors and the only thing that is of import is the intent behind usage.

    In one case it’s saying you can use a neural net to take something rendered at resolution A/4 and make it visually indistinguishable from the same render at resolution A.
    The other is rendering something and radically changing the artistic or visual style.

    Upsampling can be replicated within some margin by lowering framerate and letting the GPU work longer on each frame. It strives to restore detail left out from working quicker by guessing.
    You cannot turn this feature off and get similar results by lowering the frame rate. It aims to add detail that was never present by guessing.

    Upsampling methods have been produced that don’t use neural networks. The differences in behavior are in the realm of efficiency, and in many cases you would be hard pressed to tell which is which. The neural network is an implementation detail.
    In the other case, the changes are more broad than can be captured by non AI techniques easily. The generative capabilities are central to the feature.

    Process matters, but zooming out too far makes everything identical, and the intent matters too. “I want to see your art better” as opposed to “I want to make your art better”.




  • My passkeys are tied to my phone, which I use via the browser and OS. I keep them in my password manager running on the phone. My password manager supports the open spec for securely migrating credentials between vendors.

    It may be difficult to believe but they want you to use them because they’re legitimately significantly better.

    Users are silly. They blame Microsoft for bad passwords. They blame Google for forgotten passwords. They blame Facebook when they click on a phishing link. They blame apple when apple “lets” someone who they gave their password to see their pictures. They blame apple when they don’t let the user in just because they forgot their password and every recovery mechanism.

    Everyone involved has a significant issue with passwords because they cost them user satisfaction, credibility, or money directly. The reason cross vendor transfer has been slow is because everyone wants to be the leader, since if everyone follows your lead you get to make it work better with your stuff.



  • They inevitably didn’t write it for that reason. They wrote it to say the field is invalid until the user changes it to be valid after someone landed on the page holding the enter key down and instantly locked themselves out after submitting the form 50 times in 3 seconds.
    Unless you know otherwise, it’s easy to think that “form interaction” is the same as “form changed”, and one of those is much easier to check.

    I’m unsure what you mean about passkeys. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone mention significant concessions to os makers and I’m pretty tuned in on the topic.





  • I mean, I’m here so my politics are predictably best described as “complicated”, but you can elevator pitch it as “human rights; morality and utility are different; context is everything”. France does more to improve the human condition than north Korea, so I much prefer France, although some of their actions are also not great.
    I do know the type you’re talking about. Quite frustrating indeed.

    Most of the point of my comments was purely to say that that type of hawkish mindset exists, initially for the purpose of clarifying things for the original comments question.
    Beyond that, I just don’t feel I have reason to doubt his words on the subject, including beyond the speech.
    They’re consistent with his actions, not particularly uncommon, and stubborn in the face of reason since it views the reasonable opinion as specifically weak.

    I can’t speak for the veracity of the claim that it was intentional itself, since I don’t have the information.



  • I didn’t ask you to prove anything. You were reassured that the people in Afghanistan being in charge here meant there was someone who would cut off any of the idiocy certain types of people think make a good war. I wondered why, given the administrations rhetoric, their willingness to fire people who might push back, who they’ve put in charge, and what those people have done.

    What specific conspiratorial world view do you think I’m going to express?
    I think some people think we could have won in Vietnam or Afghanistan if we just hadn’t “held back”. They’re not secretive about that opinion. I think those people have political power right now because I see no reason not to believe them when they say so and they seem to be behaving in line with that belief.

    I’m unsure why you think him having no relevant experience makes him less likely to hold a profoundly awful opinion. If he had experience I’d be more likely to think it was just talk, but given the lack of experience, being a talking head, and the company he keeps I see no reason to think he’s secretly holding different opinions.