Notices by Ron Gilbert #KamalaHarris (grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 7

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Pro-tip: Never argue with your follows, no matter how wrong they are.

If Apple (incorrectly) suspects fraud on your iCloud account they can lock you out with no way back in, which would then kill all your passkeys. I don't see why Apple or Google should have the power to lock me out of every website I visit. Passkeys are not a well-thought our plan. Apple and Google love it because it locks you into their device.

I gave up over a 150,000 followers on Twitter to be on Mastodon full time. Yes, the engagement and reach is a lot less, but I'll build it back up and it will be worth it. I hate to see people run back to Twitter because of friends or careers or whatever. You know what changes that? Being on Mastodon and bring those people here. Musk is a horrible person, don't be one of his enablers.

I'm 100% in favor of 2fa, but use a standard system that allows for my password manager to solve it. Don't send me a SMS or email or require your custom goofy app.

Whenever I watch someone live streaming Return to Monkey Island I spend the whole time saying "Please don't crash", "Please don't crash", "Please don't crash."

ChatGPT and AI could completely replace the need for StackOverflow for coders as long as it constantly told me my question was irrelevant, had already been answered, and berated me for not doing my own research first and then downvoted me.

I've been programming for 40 years, 35 of that professionally. I've built my own compilers and entire game engines and I don't think I could pass a programming test for a job interview these days. We never gave programming test for RtMI, we just talked about programming with the candidate and never got a bum hire.

Why is it so hard to follow someone on a different server if I have [at]foobar[at]mastodon.social. It keeps asking me to login to mastodon.social which I don't have an account on. Small stuff like this will stunt any real adoption. What am I doing wrong? This should be simple.

Real or The Onion headline: "Sonic the Hedgehog Creator Is Arrested in Japan"