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I did a deep dive on this since progressively more places are taking a hard line about Passkeys.

The most flexible, independence preserving thing to do is to use a third party password manager like Bitwarden, and make that the default passkey flow for your devices. If desired, you can self-host something like Vaultwarden so that you can both keep the keys independent of third parties and walled gardens and also propagate them to other client devices.

To be clear I'd much rather not have learned / implemented any of this, and I don't use passkeys unless forced, but this seems like a valid coping strategy.

I'm a happy self-hosted Monica user, I like that I have alerts set to remind me of birthdays and other events, and that there's a place to list, e.g. everyone who got a Christmas card from me last year. I recommend it to people.

I'm agnostic about a rewrite, I never used Chandler and as far as I'm concerned it's perfectly serviceable for me the end user as it is. I rarely use the UI. I have been contemplating interacting with it more agentically, maybe having a bot update the record that I had a beer with someone instead of doing it by hand, but I like that it's focused.

I have started musing about how I might bridge it to other systems, like the people I have resolved from faces in my Immich photos, but I neither want or expect Monica to do this for me.

I like where this is coming from but I'm afraid it's totally backwards. Apologies if coming off as unfriendly.

I picked a spot on the map and no store within 25 blocks in any direction has any deals. That's fine, and it's not the author's fault that they don't publish deals, but after that the next thing to do is to search for a particular thing. If you live at that point on the map, is the rational thing to then go to another borough to save a dollar on tofu?

I think most people look for grocery deals opportunistically and if it's not where they are then it's not interesting. The question isn't "where's the cheapest X", it's "what's cheap near Y".

I don't think there's a good way to do that either without sharing device location. I asked the bot "what's the best store near St. Patrick's Cathedral?" and it hadn't the faintest idea, even after multiple follow-ups.

The distinction they're drawing isn't WLAN vs LAN but WAN vs LAN. Remember that in the peak days of the LAN party it was an alternative to gaming on dial-up or DSL - even if you had a good connection it was unlikely the whole game had one. A reasonable Wi-Fi connection today is miles beyond the WAN connections of Y2K.

Remember that with the dorita980[1] project and similar you can liberate roombas from their cloud. I run mine with a ready made docker container.

[1] https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980

Fastmail has had it for a while.

It's worth noting that the pyramids were more ancient to Julius Caesar than Caesar is to us by a significant margin.

The tension this article writes about can be expressed to a tech audience as a compression problem.

Dollar General wins out on low prices - essentially compressing their value prop onto a single dimension, prices. They won't do the Strong Towns things like sponsor a park or thoughtfully curate what they sell to fit community needs. There's no button to press in a DG that says "sell more eggplants please".

The value of a small scale community business is many things on different axes, of which delivering goods for money is one. Much like when you compress a jpeg for size at the expense of image quality, you can optimize for one thing to the total exclusion of others.

For a customer at the till it's totally reasonable to think on that one axis, but it's important that there be voices tasked with appreciating the whole. It's a need of society to think of what's a better lossless algorithm so that we can efficiently enjoy the benefits of all dimensions.

Not cartooning exactly, but there is Boterismo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero

One thing I don't see anyone mentioning here is that OpenWRT allows you to configure your router as code via config files in /etc/.

If you straddle the worlds of preferring a "normal" router to a custom built box but also want to keep your configuration history in git I think OpenWRT may be the best option.

My Roomba is on a VLAN without internet access and is controlled via rest980[1] running in a container. It has a basic but functional web interface. Valentudo is probably nicer but I opted to trade that for the broad iRobot install base and spare part/consumable availability.

1. https://github.com/koalazak/rest980

I think this was wry humor.

I did an exhaustive search scraping all of the supported Lineage OS devices to find a good tradeoff between modernity and a handset that isn't giant, resulting in my Zenfone 8. I'm not ready to upgrade yet but I'm very pleased to see Asus fighting the good fight for reasonable size.

One great benefit that she doesn't touch on is LaTeX makes for a great on-ramp to generating resumes programmatically. I like to use different emails for different services (service@mydomain.com), especially when data is being hoovered into HR systems. Building a pdf at the command line made it easy to create a one-line command (via makefile) that generates a small png with the desired email and insert it into the resume with 0 effort or fuss.

They have limitations, but I drive my second external display from my 2020 M1 MBP using a usb DisplayLink adapter plugged into my TB3 dock. DisplayLink is the chipset/driver but there are several manufacturers. You may need two adapters.

"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays." -- The Dead Poets Society

Immensely powerful, especially in concert with tidy data [0]. It's really remarkable how having a 'language' for the relationship between concepts can allow for so much flexibility.

As a python user, I use the plotnine[1] implementation religiously.

[0]. https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf

[1]. https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

It keeps configuration in files in a *nix-esque file system, which allows me to keep router config and changes in git.

I think in the last decade or so he certainly learned how to end (REAMDE had like 90 pages of climax) but I'm not sure the reader is actually better off for it. Seveneves denouement is almost its own book with its own characters and the end of Fall and Termination Shock just left me wanting to know the next development in their respective worlds.

I learned handwriting in schools (early 90s) and like many it turned into absolute chicken scratch by high school as with many.

Somewhere between high school and college I decided it was worth fixing and after a few years it got much better, continuing to improve for the next ten years or so.

I'm really glad I did it - my notes flow more easily, my written correspondence impresses and I have the common sense to simply hand print when one shot understanding is more important than aesthetics.

You might be thinking of the "genetically enhanced" Uruk Hai orcs created by Saruman.

I once worked as a lowly front line help desk tech I and snuck around getting the MAC addresses of all my coworkers so I could specifically target them with this without affecting the broader office.

Someone logged it as a ticket and people got progressively more tense as it got escalated from desktop toward infosec. I finally came clean before it got too out of hand. The head network admin shook my hand, it was a good day.

Fastmail lets you send email from <arbitrary_string>@yourdomain.com.

https://www.ordersnapp.com/, who do order processing for a local pizza place.

They got hacked and didn't even reset customer passwords, very glad I use unique passwords and limited the blast radius to them.

No suggestions for Google Voice replacement :/

One party rule? The mayor before Deblasio (D) was Bloomberg (R)?

When I was in university IT ~2008 our main concern was people accidentally serving their own DCHP onto the network and colliding with ours, generally by plugging in a router LAN port out. I could imagine a decree with this goal saying "no personal devices" to keep it simple.

If his name is unfamiliar, Jeff Hawkins was, among other things, the founder of Palm and then Handspring. After leaving Handspring circa 2000 he's been doing interesting Neuroscience research full time.

In case it's not obvious, Taboola hasn't been making money by connecting people to content they want to read, but rather by selling passive tracking data.

If a browser goes to ten sites which have Taboola boxes on them, then Taboola can sell the history of that cookie and its browsing history to a targeting company. If the targeting company has a cookie of its own in the same place as a chumbox then the company is able to map everything Taboola knows to everything they know.

Given the efforts of Apple, Google and Mozilla to choke off this type of tech (third party cookie tracking) it's interesting their valuation is this high. I guess they can still make much of counting anonymous visits and mapping them back to IPs for sale.

I'm a fan of the podcast but one argument they cited seemed to have a pretty glaring error - they looked at the case where eBay was comparing incremental gain on search ads over no ads. It's methodologically hairy because eBay is a very major player with significant brand recognition.

"When Tadelis was working for eBay, the company was in the practice of buying brand-keyword ads. Which meant that if you did an online search for “eBay,” the top result — before all the organic-search results — was a paid ad for eBay."

This doesn't show that advertising doesn't work per se, it shows that eBay didn't hire a competent ad buyer. Whether or not you can prove the efficacy of advertising as a whole, this is not a valid approach.