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What’s extra terrible is people being harassed in a ny organized fashion are now easily written off as crazies.

Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal


Big disagree, if they distribute the code they’re on the hook for the gpl source, too!

That’s about as ridiculous as buying a plane and knowing you’re entitled to the gpl sources used.


Wow this is so crass!

Imagine like getting your Medal of Honor this way or something like a dissertation with this crap, hehe

Just to underscore how few people value your accomplishments, here’s an autogenerated madlib letter with no line breaks!


Works for google (should!) but man there are some platforms that don’t expose the Totp code, or let you redisplay it! Sometimes they make you remove the old one before you can make a new one, too.

Few, but screenshot the qr code and print it out.

Even Facebook supports totp it's just well hidden.


Print or print to pdf works but feel terrible leaving pdf and printed QR codes around when I have an actual handful of HSM/security dongles in that very same desk drawer :(

So don't put it off until it is too late -- if you haven't already, regenerate and copy TOTP seeds to paper now.

When you set up TOTP on a new account, copy the TOTP seed to paper then and there, resist the "I'll do this later".


If it isn't backed up it doesn't exist.

Corollary (likely unpopular I'd hazard) - hardware token implementations that I can't back up to paper don't exist as far as I'm concerned.


My policy is to enroll multiple WebAuthn keys and treat the second, third etc. key as the backup.

I stopped using webauthn for this reason, plus the fact requires a ton of intrusive browser features and access. This surely will enrage most readers, which itself reveals an interesting conditioning that has taken place.

thats funny, i interpreted this as "Hosted Asterisk People Sell a Default Experience" (and probably charge for custom messages) so its cool to see something different and marketable

in my experience, in/out porting with google is super quick and works great. It costs $20.00 IIRC. I port my primary phone number around to avoid unlawful surveillance, handy tool in the bag.

My primitive instincts lead me to believe that sometimes they end up being Case-Sensitive and Sometimes NoT! (depending on implementation)

This is really brilliant.

Once thing I've noticed whe dealing with support cases in a variety of industry is, while there are different types of customer needs/comlaints (ex. a customer who is afraid of losing their warranty service via chicanery versus a customer who is dissatisfied with the results of the warranty service) customers sometimes really need to first feel like they are being heard.

Sometimes the emotional response of a person is literally "Can i speak to your manager?". It comes off rude, and it sure and shit is rude, but maybe they need to feel acknowledged, like maybe someone farther down the line was a jerk to them and they just feel blown off, or could just be a bad day. You sometimes do indeed need to perform emotional labor in order to achieve the best customer service.

I like this approach because it acknowledges the customer intrinsically and they feel like the maze has ended. The process has now become pro-active: There is light at the end of the tunnel.

This is not easy to bang out @work 9-5!


well, I think its relevant to tech, vc, and startups.

An event like this exposes a chink in legacy media practices that could be distrupted by a new media player like youtube, or whatever.

If 60minutes had used a more modern distribution platform such as Apple TV or YouTube they could have programmatically squashed the distribution of the episode without the need to police their various global distribution partners. I mean frankly, global bespoke distribution deals are a terrible UX anyhow.

They failed to do that in this case and here is the fallout.


Big disagree that integrated always works better than modular writ large, but in any case maybe they could just hire this guy to do it? https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods

Its mostly true when the integrating company cares for the user experience. Which apple clearly does.

The example you shared is the opposite. I am imagining a kernel today written in a manner that airpods would be able to use it to extract the max out of it. Now, it has to support 10 other third party pods, so at the minimum, kernel would be more generalized.


I guess if apple changes the way it works completely it would be different, with the kernel and such but like

Aren’t peripherals inherently modular kind of definitionally?

You should check that GitHub, it makes AirPod functionality mostly agnostic. The warts could (in some world) be mere bug reports for the manufacturer firmware team.

Personally, I think the Bluetooth standards suck a big one even recognizing how good it’s gotten and I _almost_ resent apple for not pushing this out as anither standard.


Modular in the sense you have to support multiple hardwares (of different kinds) instead of just one. Eventually you arrive at a place where software is good enough, and hardware + kernels cannot do the exact heavy lifting that is happening today in conjunction. Not the intel level but directionally similar kind of tradeoffs.

A company that produces a wireless mouse that charges upside down really does not care about user experience.

Steve Jobs loved the iMac's terrible hockey puck mouse. Jony Ive is probably to blame for the terrible (yet very thin) butterfly keyboard making it into Apple laptops. However, these missteps do not prove that Apple doesn't care about user experience.

> told disgruntled iPhone 4 users that they were holding their phones wrong

That was never proven. Although their PR response was atrocious.


> That was never proven

“All phones have sensitive areas,” Jobs wrote. “Just avoid holding it in this way.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-ant...

https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/24/steve-jobs-describes-ip...

Jobs wasn't exactly wrong - bridging the antenna with your finger was not a good way to hold the iPhone 4.

What's hilarious is how they "fixed" it in software - by changing the signal bar display curve, and then making the lower bars appear taller.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-...


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