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This blog post doesn't have the answers. I'm trying to learn about passkeys, but I don't claim to be an expert. I do have a lot of questions, especially for Apple, because I'm an Apple user and developer. According to Betteridge's law of headlines , "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the…
Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...
Marc Andreessen famously said that software is eating the world. But the latest and greatest software trend–generative AI–is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law. Like a cruise ship hea…
Do you favor amending the Constitution of Maine to require that all of the provisions of the Constitution be included in the official printed copies of the Constitution prepared by the Secretary of State? A “yes” vote on Question 6 would restore certain original sections of the Maine Constitution to printed copies…
Worldcoin doesn't seem to know what problem it's trying to solve, but they want to scan your eyeballs anyway.
How a series of errors on the ground and in the air caused a fully loaded passenger jet to run out of fuel in the mid-Atlantic.
This article addresses that Web Environment Integrity is not being worked on at W3C, and proceeds to explaining how work is brought to W3C and the processes that foster the development of Web standards and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
This week, the European Parliament's negotiators reached a broad majority agreement on a common position concerning the controversial EU chat control bill. The Commission’s bill proposes bulk scanning and reporting of private messages for allegedly suspicious content by using error-prone algorithms,
An unhinged polemic
Changes will allow us to better balance the impact of bad policies in NYC for everyone who uses our platform and continue providing the best possible experience.
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
The official videos from DEFCON 31 have been posted! Below you can watch our talk “Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you”. The talk, slides, files
When did Silicon Valley Bank insiders begin to realize they were potentially in trouble?
Low-quality literatures mean meta-analyses are frequently worse than single studies
AI has an Instagram problem. Just as Instagram’s parade of perfect physiques makes many people feel they don’t measure up, AI’s parade of exciting...
There’s now an open letter arguing that the world should impose a six-month moratorium on the further scaling of AI models such as GPT, by government fiat if necessary, to give AI safety and …
Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm. The complaints I voiced were hardly new or unique, neither was the text what I'd consider my best writing. It was, honestly, mostly a way to blow off steam. It seems I struck a nerve, though, because it's proven to be one of the most…
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements—A Review
How to make better software with systems-thinking
In a 1994 qualifying match for the Caribbean Cup, both Barbados and Grenada attempted to score deliberate own goals – because it was the best strategy available.
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
The struggle for distinction
How to keep an external brain using ideas from 1945 and technology from 2023.
First published in Nature magazine, November 1999.
We offer tax credits for electric cars — but ebikes are arguably even more transformative
