Forgetting he exists would be the best punishment.

With Passkeys, they have access to your stuff without any oversight by courts and discovery. There are ZERO 4 and 5th Amendment rights to stuff protected by passkeys. They can compel you to unlock your phone, and put your finger on the print reader, and facial scan you .... all without your permission or CONSENT.

The "With Passkeys" qualifier is unnecessary, ANYTHING you store in the cloud, or on your phone behind a fingerprint is up for grabs for any entity that has access to the cloud or can force you to unlock the phone with the fingerprint (...doh). It doesn't matter if it's a password manager or your secret document to take over the world. You don't like that, just use a password manager that unlocks only with a strong password each time. It makes no difference if inside you have passwords or passkeys, they're just as safe (or not) as you wish. It's up to you if you want them synced with some big cloud, or unlock by fingerprint or a strong password, or anything else.

There's no point having Passkeys if they can be copied from disk to disk, that's repeating the problems with passwords but as a digital file.

By that logic there's no point to have ssh keys, they're just files that can be copied. But of course there is, you're doing a complicated dance to prove you have the secret - WITHOUT TELLING YOUR SECRET PASSWORD TO SOMEONE EACH TIME YOU LOGIN

There's nothing magical with the passkeys, they're just like ssh keys. Their main advantage is that by doing asymmetrical cryptography you don't just hand over your secret (password) to someone, so you don't care if somehow you're talking to the wrong site, you don't even need to rotate your credentials if they get genuinely hacked.

Protecting them locally is of secondary importance, but if you wish to be locked behind a password only you know in your password manager (most good ones nowadays do passkeys too) you can do that too.

Also, if we're talking about being compelled legally - these aren't for giving you access to some encrypted vault you only have access too - they can be shoehorned into all kinds of cryptographic things but not as the main use case. The main use case is just to login to Gmail, Paypal, Github, Cloudflare, whatever. If "they" are investigating you they can get to all those accounts without asking you, often even preventing the provider from telling you they gave away your data.

Yes, Don-boy, I called you a fuckup. Tell the FCC to ban the internet.

There has been erosion over many years, but Trump is doing it's best to make it one right now.

Lucky for us he's an utter fuckup.

I'm more interested in the game than in the packaging.

But for a zoomable world map, the Mercator projection isn't too bad. Most of the time you are not opening Google Maps to see a view of the whole planet. You will zoom in to a smallish area, and within that area, the shape and relative sizes are preserved. OK, zoom level 5 in Iceland is a different magnification from zoom level 5 in Colombia. That doesn't matter much, as you just zoom to whatever level shows the area you want.

By contrast if you pick a projection like Equal Earth, it's great for a whole-planet view, but anywhere away from the central meridian is skewed. Your city map of Vancouver will show roads that run due north pointing diagonally up and to the right -- while east-west roads are still horizontal, so you can't just rotate. The fact that your zoom level shows the same magnification as someone in Madagascar viewing the same zoom level is irrelevant.

US businesses only cry "free market" when they're trying to kill regulatory legislation.

Just from today, and for a change the abomination is not that a 16GB Surface Laptop with freakin' Windows ARM (most niche OS the last 10 years or so) is 1530 Euro (down from 1799) but the charger is extra, 77777 Euros. VAT included, thankfully. ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1w6401r/slightly_overpriced_power_brick/

That's directly from Microsoft, not some Amazon 3rd party seller/scammers.

IMO buying and selling are a matter of gambling on which way you think other people gamble.

I know what .rar and .gz are. If .lz is something similar, maybe dark matter is a compression artifact.

I'm sure that hopping on the AI bandwagon will fix everything.

The fact that it makes a big cloud around a galaxy or cluster rather than collapsing puts a lot of constraints on what it can do.

For more info, you'll have to go to someone who knows more about it than what I've read on science-news websites.

Dark energy is a real puzzle. As I understand it, it's too weak by a factor of 10^30 or 10^60 in comparison from what we should expect the known vacuum energy would cause. You see this mentioned very occasionally, but most treatments of DE that a layman runs across just ignore it in favor of wringing their hands over some issue that is trivial in comparison.

Some boffin cam up with that idea, but they rule it out because DM apparently doesn't interact with itself (very much) other than by gravity, so it can't clump up tight like a star or a planet or a living thing. (Something to do with shedding energy, IIRC.)

But it's a cool idea. If I were a novelist I'd run with it.