Notices by Jef Poskanzer :batman: (jef@mastodon.social), page 3

There's an exclave of Reno with a corner only 140 feet from the California border, which explains how that guy shot a man in Reno but ended up in Folsom prison.

@jwz @timbray Last year I got scolded by a passkey developer for pointing out that for the huge majority of users, it's one-factor login and the factor is biometrics. So, not really very secure after all. But the dev was like, we put a lot of work into this so don't criticize it.

California: We're going to require all new vehicles to prevent you from going faster than the speed limit. And by "prevent" we mean if you're going 10 MPH over the limit, the car will beep at you. Once.

Drivers: BUT WHAT IF I HAVE TO SPEED TO GET OUT OF A BAD SITUATION? A BEEP MIGHT DISTRACT ME!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/california-cars-speed-governors-19418760.php

@babe Looking forward to reading Prick Astley's infosec blog

@dansup Is it worse than open source development in general though?

Is it time to ditch shared libraries? Static linked executables only?

To recap, shared libraries were invented because exes were large and storage space was small. When I was developing pbmplus, static exes for all the programs would have taken up literally half my disk. Unfortunately, vendors didn't settle on a standard for building and using shared libraries, so they were a portability mess.

Today, storage space is plentiful but the portability mess remains. How about we get rid of it?

Just got to Mayor Breed's Vision Zero announcement and

Ooo signs!

@Gargron I'm getting a blank page and this in the browser log: Uncaught TypeError: Object.hasOwn is not a function focal_point_modal.jsx:328:132

We make ferries stay below 15mph near marinas so no one's boat gets jostled, maybe we should make cars stay below 15mph in cities so fewer people get KILLED, just a suggestion.

So, which SF mayoral candidate will actually fight crime by telling SFPD to either do their job or lose their job? https://mastodon.social/@scott@carfree.city/111881174466410513

Today is the 4th anniversary of the USA's first COVID death. How many have died since then? Nobody knows, since we have stopped keeping track.

@babe

@Gargron Here's when I see. Looks like it's positioned about 50 pixels off the left edge of the window. Yay CSS!

While I'm whining, the Notifications tab recently started updating asynchronously, ignoring the setting that says not to do that.

Happy MAGAt Tasing Himself In The Nuts Until He Died Day to those who celebrate

@thomasfuchs Have you tried the Explore timeline? How close is that?

I've done a little experimenting with a mixer widget to let you create your own custom timeline out of a variety of built-in ones.

@thomasfuchs They're not going to repent, they're going to double down.

@marcprecipice I saw a similar one in SF last week!

@babe Just had an idea and checked if it already exists and of course it does.

The Social Security web site not letting you log in at night is a skeuomorph.