The phone is not the second factor on your laptop. Your laptop is.

Easy? Which part of a trans person's live is "easy?" The life-long medications? The surgeries? The doctors' and psychologists' visits? The replacement wardrobe? The voice lessons? The education? The expense of paying for all the previous? The post-transition self care? The social stigma? The chance of losing friends and being disowned by family? The chance of losing their housing and jobs? All of the regressive laws being passed to make life even harder for them, up to and including denial of medical care? The ongoing campaigns of hate against them and the danger of being assaulted or even murdered just for existing? Please... enlighten me. Just what *exactly* about transitioning makes it a "shortcut to easy mode in life?"

I'm pretty bad at discerning sarcasm, and worse at using it myself; but I do suspect that's what you were going for there. But I'd also cite my entire above list as reasons why the anti-trans talking points are such total BS. Rowling DeSantis, and their ilk want me to believe that someone is going to put themselves through all of the on a whim, because it's trendy, or to get a blue ribbon at the fucking swim meet? Please.

No. There is not. In fact, the evidence is overwhelmingly in the opposite direction. You people continually fail to think your "groomers" talking point through to its logical conclusion. See, what you've repeatedly failed to understand is that if it is possible to "groom" or "recruit" or "spot" (Yes. I've seen you repeat the exact same talking point, only mad-libbing in a different word, in several waves over the years.) someone into becoming LGBT, it follows that it must also be possible to "groom" or "recruit" or "spot" them into being hetro and cis. And if THAT were the case; given the overwhelming pressure society inflicts on LGBT people to be hetro and cis... to the point that governments are now even banning books about the LGBT community and trying to deny us health care... there would be no LGBT people in the first place.

Ergo, your "groomers" narrative is nothing more than 100% pure, unadulterated, and intellectually dishonest, bullshit.

Oooo... you found an edge case. Goodie for you. Meanwhile, for every Chloe Cole you can come up with, I'd bet I could find a Kim Petras, a Laverne Cox, an Elliott Page, a Hunter Schafer, or even... on your side of the aisle... a Caitlin Jenner or Blair White; none of whom detransitioned and all of whom are (publicly, anyway) doing just fine and none of whom have (publicly, anyway) descended into self-loathing and internalized transphobia.

Oh noes... the sportsball game on channel 2 might become less entertaining than the movie of the week on channel 7. That's *totes* a valid reason to do away with civil rights, nondiscrimination, and equal treatment under the law for LGBT people.

Kids hate the chromebook. Our schools given them to students and a lot of their material is there. But they sit entirely unused around here collecting dust during the summer or when the material is just on a website they can get via their ipads or home computers.

There's no way to get my kids to agree on a single thing, except they they're not going to use their chromebooks without a fight.

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!

This is interesting. I've noticed that most of my parrot's senses seem duller than mine (unlike with, say, dogs) - not as picky with taste (except staleness), no meaningful signs of a significant sense of smell, has trouble seeing things that are right near him sometimes, etc - but he seems more atuned to having rapid reactions to anything unusual than I am. Like, at my old place, whenever a chunk of ice would break off the roof and crash down to the ground below, he'd be reacting before my senses even registered the event. I wonder if the "high framerate" thing is in general a "fast communication with the senses" in parrots. Certainly there's a very short distance between most of their sensory organs and the brain. And it's certainly useful for a prey animal to be able to react to sudden events (like, say, a striking snake, or a diving hawk glinting through the branches)

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.

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?

"I'm here live . I'm not a parrot." ;)

They're intelligent social animals. Even just a change in eye contact from me alters my Amazon's behavior. He's incredibly attuned to my posture, tone of voice, mannerisms, etc, to clue in whether he's going to e.g. be getting a treat or scolded for misbehavior or whatnot. I can't imagine that a video without that back-and-forth would stimulate him.

I don't watch TV anymore, but he used to just tune it out. Rather, he'd tune into *me*. He'd laugh at the funny parts of shows and the like, not because he understood the humour, but because he was paying attention to me, and I was laughing, so he wanted to join in. And then I'd react amusedly to his taking part, he'd get attention, and getting attention was in turn a reward to him. They like getting reactions to the things they do. A video won't do that.

And yeah, he understands what screens are - same as mirrors. Some smaller psittacines are known to strongly interact with mirrors as if they're other birds, but in my experience, the larger ones don't do that; they quickly learn it's their reflection and stop caring. As a side note, I actually tried the mirror test with my Amazon twice, but each time I got a null result. You're supposed to put an unusual mark or lightweight object on their head where they can't see it, put them in front of a mirror, and if they interact with the mirror like it's another animal, they don't recognize it's their reflection; while if they use it to try to preen the hidden mark/object, it's a sign of recognition. But my Amazon didn't give a rat's arse. I might as well have put him in front of a wall for all it mattered; he gave the mark zero attention. Didn't care about the reflection of a bird. Didn't care about the mark on his head. Just sat there waiting for me to put him back on his cage :P I couldn't get him to interact with the reflection at all. Nor does he react to birds on TV. By contrast, he'll VERY MUCH interact with a real bird (he hates them all... he's very antisocial with nonhumans).