Notices by Ricky Mondello (rmondello@hachyderm.io), page 2

PSA: The reason people say “nice” in response to “69” is because 69 is evenly divisible by 3.

Would it be a little too extra to bring a tiny roll of electrical tape in my standard luggage to block annoying LEDs in a hotel room? Has anyone done this?

“Google says passkeys have been used to authenticate users more than one billion times across over 400 million Google Accounts since the company launched passkey support in 2022. Google says passkeys are used on Google Accounts more often than legacy forms of two-step verification, such as SMS one-time passwords and app-based one-time passwords combined.” https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/google-brings-passkey-support-to-its-advanced-protection-program-ahead-of-the-us-presidential-election/

The beautiful purple button should say “Set up passkey”, but I’ll take it.
https://infosec.exchange/@timcappalli/112362688896331613

may TikTok radicalize an order of magnitude more people into demanding a more just world

big. egg.
https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@babe/112291962688460811

i'm a tire

okay, speaking of which, do y’all remember the movie Rubber? that was a wild time.

business who ask you online for your name, phone number, and email address, who then turn around and email you a phone number to call: the worst

I’ll bite. Quoted post is a poll about whether quote boosting is good or bad. https://mas.to/@codedbydan/111925142915631178

Y’all know how mint.com will sometimes ask you for your user name and password for other services/websites to log in on your behalf instead of doing a proper OAuth? What other popular websites do this?

no matter what else I can say about 2023, Kissinger is still fucking dead

If you recently joined Threads because of the Europe thing, I’ve (reluctantly) been trying to use it more, because I’ve missed some of my people. You can follow me here: https://www.threads.net/@rickymondello

Albertsons Companies, Inc. is fucking with me.

Please stop using “mom” as an example of an unsophisticated user of technology. This reinforces harmful stereotypes.

Instead, I suggest using “congressperson”.

If you can drop a single device in a lake and lose your credential, it’s not a passkey. Passkeys are backed up and synced across your devices to deliver a great and safe user experience, while also eliminating phishing.

If it’s device-bound, it’s not a passkey. :)

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but passkeys are a *replacement* for passwords — a step up in usability and security over passwords synced in a password manager. Passkeys are not phone-based security keys, or some other easy-to-lose, device-bound credential.

‼️🔑 macOS Sonoma brings Apple’s password manager to Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other browsers using their extensions stores with the “iCloud Passwords” browser extension.

You can AutoFill passwords and one-time codes, save new passwords, and right-click QR codes to set up code generators.

If you’re running the macOS Sonoma public or developer beta, you can try it right now!

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj
Edge: Coming soon.

[*] I am not breaking news here; this is public information.

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hey, anybody have opinions on facebook joining the fediverse? I haven't been able to find any