Notices by Matt Birchler (matt@isfeeling.social), page 2

What happens when you defederate a server https://birchtree.me/blog/what-happens-when-you-defederate-a-server/

#Passkeys truly are the new lock in for password managers. I'm trying to be a good citizen and use passkeys wherever I can, but now I can't properly try other password managers without needing to create dozens of new keys. I'm trying Proton Pass now, and it's a major pain.

Extrapolate this out to a world where passkeys are the norm and effectively all of my accounts authenticate this way, and moving your data becomes impossible. :dumpster:

I know the FIDO Alliance and passkey enthusiasts will say that the passkey standard isn't built to lock users in, and migrating them should be possible.

That's well and good, but we're several years into this and zero of the major players support this. Whether you use Apple, Google, 1Password, or anything else, your passkeys are locked to those accounts today. maybe you can move in a few years, but you can't now. Yay.

Something something, don't get a product today based on hopes and dreams of future software updates…

As an aside, Apple is the only place I've been that makes it impossible to use anything besides their password manager for setting up a passkey. It's maddening.

Windows Recall seems like it may actually be a security mess https://birchtree.me/blog/windows-recall-seems-like-it-may-actually-be-a-security-mess/

My desire to kill iPadOS has been greatly exaggerated https://birchtree.me/blog/my-desire-to-kill-ipados-has-been-greatly-exaggerated/

I’ve defended Goolge search for years, but their AI answers suck so hard https://birchtree.me/blog/ive-defended-goolge-search-for-years-but-their-ai-answers-suck-so-hard/

Currently imagining the chaos that would ensue in this community if the new iPad Pro is the same as the last 3 models but with OLED 🙈

#Threads reminds you after 30 days of sharing to the fediverse that you’re doing it and gives the option to go turn it off if you don’t want it anymore.

I miss having an iPad https://birchtree.me/blog/i-miss-having-an-ipad/

Links prominently at the top is an improvement.

I’m not against using generative AI tools to help, I am opposed to them being used to pretend the rest of the web doesn’t exist.
https://www.threads.net/@parkerortolani/post/C5EOX35uoPt

Although I will say this generated pros and cons overview is supremely unhelpful. Generic and broad as horoscopes 😂 Apply this to basically any big budget movie based on existing material and those general things would be said.

There are people in this world who meticulously rename their browser bookmarks and those who just use whatever the page title was and don't care.

These groups will never understand each other.

Like buying an iPhone in 2007 https://birchtree.me/blog/like-buying-an-iphone-in-2007/

@thomasfuchs Interesting, those all seem to be people selling before it came out, but the ones since then have gone for much higher.

Anyway, just thought the blanket statement that their value on eBay was below market was incomplete ✌️

@thomasfuchs Filtering for which ones have sold shows them going for upwards of $1,000 over retail price, though, so that one listing isn't really telling the full story right now. Maybe it'll drop across the board, but I don't see that yet.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=apple%20vision%20pro&_sacat=0&_fsrp=1&_udlo=2000&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

“Mom, can we get a Vision Pro?!”

“No honey, we have Vision Pro at home.”

Vision Pro at home…

Shot in the dark, but does anyone have a Shortcut that converts a file to .mp3?

I do this quite often with .m4a files, but my workflow is:

- open m4a in Fission for Mac
- export file as mp3

It's not terrible, but it really feels like this should be automated, and I'm kinda surprised Fission doesn't support shortcuts at all.

PS when on iOS, I do basically the same thing with Ferrite, although it's numerous more steps in the app in that case.

Am I crazy or are Apple’s changes based on the DMA actually quite good? Their press release is as sassy as I’ve ever seen from them, but the changes seem to be positive to me on first read.

"Concept: a new Mastodon UX for asking questions https://birchtree.me/blog/concept-a-new-mastodon-ux-for-asking-questions/"