Slashdot had a redesign?

The summary states "Passkeys on users' phones and computers are backed up and synced through the cloud to prevent lockouts in the case of device loss." Doesn't this also introduce an attack vector where my passkeys could be stolen and used to auth as me?

Several years ago I posted a video of a bumblebee nest. I used a MIDI generated rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee as my music. They came after me. https://boingboing.net/2019/12...

It would be really nice to have an installable version that just works on Windows 10 and doesnâ(TM)t require a bunch of community patches!

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Kabam did a Star Wars game after 2012. It sucked, but it existed.

$2 says itâ(TM)s an expired cert.

Last I heard he quit his job as sheriff to go looking for it.

I wrote this after suffering through several attempts, some successful, to get into my bank accounts. https://www.ghostwheel.com/201...

The ASUS sub on Reddit is filled with stories detailing horrible customer support. If the new CEO doesnâ(TM)t put some effort into improvements in that area their time selling expensive components to gamers will not last very long.

This has been pretty obvious from the outside, but it's nice to have confirmation from the inside. Innovation at Apple is dead. 'Pro' products have become a synonym for Expensive, while lacking the features pro users came to depend on. There are a number of things Jobs would not have tolerated: 1) Dongles. He would have fired anyone who tried to replace all the ports on a pro laptop and suggested users buy dongles. 2) Grinding out new products and releases on a deadline, quality be damned. He had no problems dragging out a release date until a product was perfect. 3) Micro-iterations flogged as innovation. Can anyone here imagine Steve Jobs wiggling a mouse and proclaiming that the pointer getting bigger was an Innovation only Apple could bring you? I've been an Apple user since the 80's, and a 'fanboi' since the early 2000's, but I may be typing this post on the last Mac I'll ever buy if Apple doesn't get their heads out of their arses. Sadly, with the way they are raking in money hand over fist, their current approach is being vindicated by the market and the Apple we once loved is never going to re-emerge.

Amazon pays its employees pretty well. I've known a few, and I've been hit up my Amazon recruiters. The people known as 'Amazon workers' are not Amazon employees. They are temps, managed by a third party. Amazon isn't the direct employer. Amazon has done some amazing legal gymnastics to keep from being these people's employer, and in doing so will likely have shielded themselves from the effects of this bill.

Walmart's digital services haven't worked out so good for consumers in the past. https://boingboing.net/2008/09...

Sign the NDA; so nvidia feels confident in their control of the flow of information. Then, just stop writing about nvidia. Nothing. Some new autonomous car maker is using an nvidia processor? Refer it to as a 'generic industry ML engine'. When writing about AMD, refer to the competitors as 'unspecific reference cards'. Don't give them a single word of free advertising. Let them choke on their own attempt to smother the media.

In metropolitan markets, moving to another ISP is an option. In my area, I have three providers that offer bandwidth in the 100MBps to 1Gbps range. If Netflix can strong-arm the big providers in metropolitan areas where there is competition, they can shape the way those providers behave in rural areas where they have no competition. My point is that things like tiered service levels are swords that can cut both ways, if the big players are willing to risk revenue in the short term to ensure long term benefits for themselves and their customers.