lol it was a reference to your joke about going to the theatre, but the theatre being no fun.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in a theatre while sitting next to his wife. So the question "other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play" is a quip used to highlight that something really nasty is being ignored.

Like if Mrs Lincoln walked out of the theatre having just lost her husband and someone said "well other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play".

Man it's not funny now that I explained it.

"If you trust Apple to secure the secure domain on the phone, why don't you trust them to sync to another secure domain?"

Because trusting the keys into the secure enclave on the device is worlds away from trusting the enormous amount of untrusted infrastructure needed to transmit those keys to a cloud service.

"The "phone as second factor" has terrible usability. Apple isn't interested in it."

Congratulations. You win the "most wrong thing said on Slashdot today" award.
https://support.apple.com/en-a...
https://support.apple.com/en-a...

I could probably Google a dozen more links. Not only is Apple interested in it, but they are a member of the FIDO alliance and have already implemented it:
https://www.apple.com/au/newsr...

Have a nice day!

What a coincidence.

Neither can most of their equipment.

Think of passkeys as building the TOTP device directly into every device you use. Your laptop, phone, ipad, digital dildo, whatever. They all have TOTP built right in to them. So when you turn it on and scan your fingerprint, enter your code, swipe the pattern, use face unlock or whatever, that's factor one. The device itself is factor two. So with the regular unlock mechanism you're used to, you get 2FA for free bound to a device that is (theoretically) not cloneable.

In other words, logging in to every service yo use is as easy as unlocking your phone and twice as secure.

...provided it runs, e.g. because it was started automatically, which it cannot in our setup. So I'd have to start it. If I find it.

Passkeys are SUPPOSED to be device dependant, because they turn your device into a big second factor of auth. Allowing them to be synced across multiple devices would break their fundamental nature. If you need multiple devices, just add a passkey on your other device to your SSO provider and done. You just need to enroll each of your devices once. It's really not as much trouble as it sounds and it's MUCH more secure than passwords.

Passkeys were designed pretty carefully. There's no perfect balance between security and convenience, but Passkeys are not at all a bad solution.

So, other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

Nope, that's not the program. Unfortunately the Windows-internal screenshot program is inferior and not suitable to my needs.

That they found an easier way to spy on their citizens.

No. Growth is not the default state of natural systems. Equilibrium is the natural state of natural systems. Long term stability is the only reason life is even possible on Earth. Of course, over geological time frames change is inevitable, but in timeframes that are relevant to humans and human society, stability is the norm and indeed required for life and our civilization.

Growth beyond equilibrium is characteristic of cancer and parasites. Markets are NOT akin to natural systems; they do not establish a natural equilibrium despite what post-Keynesian economists would have you believe. Don't believe me? Get your head out of your first year economics textbook and have a look around ffs.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it's called an economy". That phrase might sound all edumacated in your head, but my point was that privatised debt on public services like education, healthcare, or infrastructure represent a "bleed" on that economy. And a bleed has exactly the same effect as it has on a human body. It might play out over a far longer period of time, but the effect is the same: A slow an eventual deterioration of health and if not stopped, eventual death. The debt servicing load on the collective OECD countries now exceeds even optimistic growth forecasts. In other words, blood is being extracted faster than the body can produce it.

But whatever. History will show which one of us is right. Let's talk in 20 years. If the OECD has emerged into bountiful prosperity, you were right. If it has shrunken or worse, I was.

Just because student loans are discounted does not mean that they cannot be packaged and resold to the private sector. Look up SLABs:
https://www.investopedia.com/a...

Is that like the old Aussie saying "Try to catch the snake that bit you, we need it for our statistics to know which species killed you"?

I'd rather try to invent something that makes kid spit those things out instead of swallowing them.

If we give it a couple generations, evolution could take care of that.

It's not critical to my daily workflow. That's the problem. Case in point, the snapshot program. I need it whenever I find something worth reporting and need to do a screenshot. What's its name? I know it's in the "graphics" program submenu, and I remember the color of its icon, but what was its name? Somethingshot. But what was that something, because search for "shot" sure won't produce what I'm looking for. What colorful name did their marketing department come up that really made a lot of sense in the mind of a coke-fuelled markedroid's head but certainly won't in a normal mind?