Makes sense. The only parts of your car eroding so quickly that it needs to be replaced ~10 times over it’s lifetime are the tires
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Well… hmm. I taught my daughter how and when to do that by that age. You never know. That could end up saving a life. She knows not to do it frivolously. This does not seem too advanced a concept for a kindergartner.
That said, intercom-like internal system Bertrand built seems to be much cooler than having the real phone.
1. That is how I knew that Dropbox had been hacked; I had a couple temp/throwaway Dropbox accounts and the otherwise-unused email addresses associated with them started getting lots of spam.
2. Yes, sometimes it is slightly awkward when a rep cannot comprehend companyname-at-mydomain, but not enough to make me regret anything. Smile. Say "it will reach me!" or "I own my own dot-com!" It’s fine.
3. "Did I use BR or bananarepublic before the at sign?" That’s why we use a password manager :-) The author says he uses one, but then suggests he needs to guess the email before the password manager will tell him the password? Sounds messed up. Use 1Password. Be happy.
4. The most interesting 'downside' is that sometimes I get spam for addresses that have never been used. Why? Because there are spammers out there who have scraped my website for anything resembling a human name (e.g. John Smith) and then sent emails to my domain that fit the typical pattern (jsmith@mydomain.tld). So, I blocked a number of these addresses. Had I not set up a catch-all, they would have otherwise been bounced.
5. "Every so often I need to email a company from one of these emails" -- The "from" problem of catch-alls is a bit tricky at times, but using Fastmail + PHP I can easily send "from" any address at my domain when needed.
6. I am a big fan of the Fastmail + 1Password 'masked email' solution! It’s so great! Sign up at a website, get a brand-new email address that seamlessly forwards to you, it gets stored in your password manager, and you can kill it whenever it starts getting spammed. The random username generation even avoids that problem of telling the Hilton rep that your email is Hilton@hacker.tld. Using masked emails instead of a catch-all would also avoid the minor problems of #4 and #5. Shout-out to iCloud's somewhat similar solution, but Fastmail+1Password really is top-tier!
But thanks for contributing some actual information; that is exactly what I was suggesting should be the minimum bar to contribute to such a conversation.
This might seem pedantic, but it is not a new result to have find microbes that can digest plastics; AFAIK no "bugs" (insects or other creepy-crawlies) have gained such abilities yet, so the result is a very clickbaity headline.
Edit: OK, I see where this is going. Lol
> 1. Allow users to automatically access their FIDO sign-in credentials (referred to by some as a “passkey”) on many of their devices, even new ones, without having to re-enroll every account.
> 2. Enable users to use FIDO authentication on their mobile device to sign in to an app or website on a nearby device, regardless of the OS platform or browser they are running.
Point number 2 directly invokes cross-device, cross-platform authentication. It sounds like "you can use your iPhone or Android to sign into a website on your Windows PC" to me. Whether passkeys might actually sync between iCloud keychain and whatever Microsoft offers seems unclear but much less likely
Some people really have the ability to keep their cool (for one reason or another, trained or personality-driven).
Personally, I’m with you, but, I think, making progress on becoming more like the person you’ve replied to.