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

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.

*opens Threads*

*closes Threads*

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

Yes, you heard that right! iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma add support for sharing passwords and passkeys in groups with friends and family.

- share passkeys, passwords, verification codes, and notes
- edits and updates seamlessly sync between group members
- end-to-end encrypted
- share with family, friends, and other close contacts
- the password manager that’s built in to iPhone, iPad, and Mac is free to use and easy to switch to :)

It is quite the thing to present whatever this is as a privacy feature.

I’ve written up a blog post with my personal thoughts on Twitter restricting SMS 2FA to Twitter Blue subscribers.

My post explains what 2FA is, why SMS 2FA is actually awesome, why Twitter did this, how Twitter can restore some security benefits to its users, and why passkeys will ultimately be the solution for account authentication. https://rmondello.com/2023/02/18/twitter-sms-2fa/

I fear that lots of people didn't realize that this was a joke.

Have we really not yet standardized a “lttp:” protocol for linking to resources from The Wayback Machine? You know, a link to the past.

If you’re annoyed by those floaty prompts on websites to sign into them with your Google Account, you can turn them off for your Google account! Link: https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/permissions