It’s actually a very ancient type of…something. Dates back to the Romans or Egyptians at least.

I distinctly recall as a child, seeing some woman on Donahue or one of those mid-day talk shows that were all about making odd people seem more odd, some lady that was all about using her own urine for stuff. Took a sip on the show and everyone freaked out.

I do some freelancing that involves online desk research, and for some topics, it’s like pulling teeth to find a source written by a real human. Even non-Google search engines can’t help but give me dozens of obviously AI-written pages. Which is why I as a human am getting paid to do real research. It’s literally wading through slop to find anything a human did.

The thing is, AI companies are terrified of model collapse because if they train AI systems on AI output, the model becomes useless. But the rate at which websites on any topic are just slop being scraped to train a new model seems to be either unsustainable for using the open internet for that training, or an assured way to reach model collapase quickly.

Well, she also had terrible dementia for years, so the only passwords she was going to remember was the Little Orphan Annie secret code of “Drink More Ovaltine.”

My MIL is a grandma, and I would give her a 75% chance of reading her passwords to “someone from the bank” if they caught her at the right time. Maybe she’s already done that, I’m not sure if she did that or almost did that once.

Today’s cuts are said to impact a couple of hundred employees, largely in areas such as tech and HR, which is a smaller number than the two previous rounds of layoffs earlier this year.

Disney employs around 220-000- 230,000 people. So this is maybe 1% of staff, to put that in perspective.

This is oddly inspirational

Would be 100 right now if she had led out for a few more months.

Ah, gotcha.

So, basically a biometic key, but with a password? Isn’t that basically just a self-signed certificate, then?

No, sorry, I’m a network vegan. I only eat things that are grown at Layer 1. My packets are whole-grain and processed by hand. carried by pigeons. IP by Bird is how I surf the web, dude!

Not CPU costs, processing costs. Password resets are actually quite expensive. Microsoft and Google pushed the FIDO Alliance toward widespread use of a passwordless login credential because it benefited them. Google and MS get tens of millions of password resets a year. So if each one of those cost them $2 (some companies spend as much as $70 on each one if a human is involved), that’s literally tens of millions of dollars saved. Then you say “oh, for security” as the tie-in to not make it about your bottom line.

https://www.authx.com/blog/how-much-does-a-password-reset-cost/ https://journal.jadaptive.com/the-true-cost-of-password-resets/ https://www.m365.fm/passwords-are-broken-passkeys-fix-everything/

I wait for something to break. Then I yell “God fucking dammit, I don’t have time for this right now!” and spend an hour triaging things before I just try docker down, pull, up and everything works.

Passkeys are worthless trash, invented explicitly to save Microsoft and Google money on password reset server time.

They do not solve session hijacking. Any attacker that has your granny on the phone to read them her password can also tell granny to go to a link and give them her session cookies.

So…re-using the same password for every service and site?

Grandma, that’s enough internet for today, OK?

Sure, but I might also become a snack.

One of the reasons I would love to travel to the future is to see all the ways that people and science are confidently incorrect about depictions of dinosaurs now, and how they’re depicted like 300 years in the future. Even within my lifetime, we’ve gone from slow, fat lizard turds to something realistic like this lil’ guy. Amazing stuff.

I mean, I don’t jump from trend to trend, so I’ll support Lemmy until either the project gets depreciated and no more updates happen. I can still see everything because piefed is federated, so why jump from platform to platform every few months? What features really are there that make a difference?

I see a lot of piefed posts on Lemmy - are we not federated across so that we’re getting the milk without needing to buy the cow?