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"Focus follows mouse" is what I use to keep the file manager from popping up when click-dragging files.

The biggest problem with UX developers is they know better than you AND force you into their paradigm. They came on the scene and decided "Choice is Bad" coupled with "Our way or the highway".

I've decided to be frozen in time with MATE (basically gnome 2). I have problems with it, but I've realized I don't want to be hit with surprise! on upgrades.

Not if there was a clear and present danger. Note: I don't believe there was one (maybe someone convinced Trump there was); this seems to be more a "Shock & Awe" mission for political change a'la New American Century and has worked out similarly so far.

I have said before, I'm personally not interested using "Something I have"/"device bound" as an authentication factor. I'm also not interested in the sync "workarounds" that store keys in the cloud.

People have replied it's possible to extract the private key, but it's not clear to me that that's usable (maybe it is I don't know). It's certainly not in line with what passkey devs want people to do and not do, so I'm not interested in "fighting" against the "flow" so to speak.

I'm happy with TOTP, as I can manage and use the codes where I want, under my control.

It's a "feature" that you can't call google to help with getting "locked out":

"For your security, you can't call Google for help to sign into your account. We don’t work with any service that claims to provide account or password support. Do not give out your passwords or verification codes."

for the future: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7684753

"Something you have"/"device bound" is not what I want if I don't control it. In the case of passkeys, I don't have access to the private key, so I consider that not controllable by me.

I'm happy to be wrong if I am able to extract and import the private keys (it's what I do with TOTP now), but my understanding is designers of passkeys explicitly don't want users access to their own privkeys so they can tie them to physical objects. I get that, I don't want that.

So passkeys are not something I'll ever use or useful or convenient to me.

The argument from the article is when things go wrong (as what happened w/ Taylor), the damage is widespread, whereas damage is contained locally.

NIV is what I grew up with and I kind of tired of it because of that... I have a soft spot for the KJV/NKJV.

Good article. It's a sober look at where we are at.

We lost a lot of strong privacy rights we had with landlines when we shifted to cell phones.

We're actually slowly creeping into pre-crime territory. You could have AI searching for possible pre-crime candidates based on unknown identity in the area, disparate pattern to usually movements, etc.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

"an employee simply forgot to remove it."

And? That's all? This is why no one wants the gov't. to run things.

So the subcontractor is "avoiding regulations" (which are what btw?) by being a "subcontractor" and NYC can do nothing about the "subcontractors" but get rid of "subcontractors"?

"...the model may give different advice even when the underlying question is the same."

Isn't this the point of LLMs? If not it would be deterministic and that's not "new" and/or "exciting".

It seems a lot of people that read about their bio on wikipedia feel the same way. In fact, it's hard not to be suspicious of those that don't.

I heard about one in northern virginia which seems to be the front lines in this debate. It has onsite power generation which seems to be going 24/7 which is positively awful if you have to live next to that.

Labels don't help? The Smithsonian begs to differ.

old reddit is broken... the message/mail notifications don't work/go away.

Utah was the one I remember... have more states passed laws?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulati...

This isn't hacker news... but whatever i guess.

I just go under and over one more time in the initial step of tying a traditional "shoelace" knot. That gives a little more friction on the initial tightening draw to keep it in place, then just finish it as normal.

I've tried alternatives, but in the end keeping it simple is what I prefer.

Just today a website presented me a qrcode captcha. I threw up.

It's not if nothing works, it's what works when nothing works, i.e. the safe thing must always work. period. (i'm not trying to be pedantic or an ass)

Just tried it. Still broken. Maps doesn't respond at all now. I get the beep that maps hears my "hey google", but that's it now.

> I see. So you intentionally broke the feature, now you complain about it being broken.

nope. that was a recent thing when they forced gemini on the phone. woke up one day hearing a different voice and then went searching how to disable that. maps has always been borked.

They've regressed for a long time and there's no signal to consumers that "AI" is anything that "fixes" or brings back what was working.

The example I always give is when google maps got speech recognition, I could ask it "Hey google, what's the E.T.A." and it would magically respond with how long till I arrive. Somewhere along the line it broke and for years now it doesn't work... the last time I tried my phone actually brought up the web browser and did a web search. smh.

The first thing I did when they forced gemini was I went to look how to disable it. Why? It override the old voice I chose to read calender events in the morning... in fact it would start reading like normal, then that stupid gemini voice would cut in and be entirely unhelpful.

its all enshitification.

I've always favoured Tessier-Ashpool S.A. as comparable. The creation of AI's and Freeside and Musk's pronatalism slots in nicely.

Trust is slowly gained and easily lost. The amount of apologia I hear from top-tier developers signals an inflection point downward.

this is the internet sir.

Value to Anthropic's shareholders.

Amazon? I'm sure Macgyver would've had to be a woman. And make her gay.

Oh, a "Human-Cented" study by AI lover:

Julian Nyarko

    Professor of Law
    Co-Chair Stanford Law AI Initiative
    Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Cented AI (HAI)

LOL!

Ehh, more like Rush would've been found dead like Abbott after declaring "I'm a patriot" to internal CIA. What's tantalizing about Bourne is something about who we are and capable of, regardless of conditioning... both good and bad.