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Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

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I think they are being pushed because cool technology on paper. Whenever I read an article about them, I can't help but think about the human factors. How are passkeys created, often by a password or email. okay... that looks a lot like a password. Oh you lost the passkey, here lets send you one again. It stinks of a second factor without a first. Sure, the passkey itself is hard to compromise, but how about its creation. If your email is compromised I see no difference from passwords or passkeys.

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Assuming he believes his words (as opposed to using rhetoric to get what he or someone around him wants, in either case unfortunately, I think he's serious). I think he sees anything purchased from another country as "subsidizing" that country. To him, its money the US had that Canada now has. I sometimes think he somehow thinks the US should be given things, because...??? Every transaction has to have a "winner" and a "looser" and whoever has a + on the balance sheet is the winner, it doesn't matter what that + really means. (I can only bend my logic so far to try to figure these things out)

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Update Regarding Pawb.Social Media Loss

I give to the Internet archive every year, I get a lot of use from them and they deserve it.

Things happen, the fact you were able to recover after a mistake is good.

If you didn't already know Asonix (creator of pict-rs) is here on the fediverse, and a furry, I'm sure they can help with the pict-rs stuff.

Something else strange is going on. My profile picture is still there at https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/7c611a5a-efd6-4df3-99cb-5c484978c254.png , but the format link from pict-rs is broken. https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/7c611a5a-efd6-4df3-99cb-5c484978c254.png?format=webp , https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/7c611a5a-efd6-4df3-99cb-5c484978c254.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96 , Spot checking has similar results for other images. https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/bb4749ec-590a-41c2-8b26-9d26dae4ed00.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96 (the original exists)

Pict-rs does support admin direct upload with a specific name, but its been a while and I don't remember the details.

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Trump voter surprised trump is doing exactly what he said he would do

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I don't know I've though about "rule of law" quite that way before. I'll have to add it to my list for when it comes up. There are several other terms that mean different things to different people (I wish I remembered a specific one to demonstrate). Its one of the reasons its hard to have political discussion online. You have to determine what the words your using mean, before you can start arguing the points.

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US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser

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I don't know if this is part of the case, but browsers basically control standards, and with the size of chrome, that means google controls the standards. The browser is a big aspect of the ad pipeline. Because they have the browser they could direct page views to themselves more than they do by using amp links. Even with blocking cookies and such, chrome still sends data back to google. There was the whole logon scheme they were pushing (I don't remember the name) that only chrome would be able to do. There is a lot you can direct to yourself if you control the main access method.