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!

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?

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...

No. Grow or die is a false dichotomy and it's why we're about to grow ourselves out of our planet.

That's true if you look one level deep. Dig deeper.

The government sells bonds against those debts which essentially transfers all of the profit on those student loans to the private sector.

The good news is that Roku has also introduced a recommended content row, that will compile picks from across various streaming services and use AI to point customers toward new shows and movies they might like.

How the fuck does this merit the description "good news?" Here, let me translate this for you:

"We're going to take away the channel selection menu that you put together and prioritized according to your own wishes, and replace it with paid placements and whatever our half-baked Mechanical Turk chundered up. And replace the lower-third of the main screen with video ads."

While you're at it, why not dump dogshit on my plate and call it chocolate cake?

Of for fuck's sake it's a MacBook Air not a supercomputer you fucking wanker. If the 8 picoseconds difference in ram latency is a problem for you then you should not be using consumer laptops.

As a long time Android user, no, I do not recall that.

I guess my joke was not obvious enough.

Well to be fair, those are kept secret. Police officers can't have random members of the public calling them disrupting their consumption of donuts and coffee.