Ricky Mondello

I gave an opening keynote at the FIDO Alliance’s “Authenticate” conference a few weeks ago! My goal was to explain, as clearly as I can, why passkeys are important and how we should use them to reduce the harm that passwords cause. [1/2] YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOb...

That wasn’t anyone at Valve. It was an improvement to Apple Mail. Also in the 27 OSes: compatibility with Bluesky’s codes.

we cannot co-exist with people like this. we either find a way to excise them, or we let them choke us with their ignorance.

This is a long shot, but does anyone have an extra ticket to see CHVRCHES on Mon, November 16 in Los Angeles? I adore them, but might not be able to make any of their shows in February and March in the US, so I'm trying to go to this one. I will pay you for a ticket!

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

nobody wants to _think_ anymore

Extremely happy to be at the FIDO Alliance's member plenary today and tomorrow to talk about next steps on passkeys and other phishing-resistant authentication technologies.

Passkeys next?

In November, Dems will likely win big. Liberals will feel relieved. In 2028, a milquetoast corporate Democrat will win the presidency, spend 4 years maintaining what Trump did as liberals go back to brunch. Then, in 2032, as life keeps getting worse, we’ll get something like President T Carlson.

One Mac tip that I’ve seen surprise people is that some (not all) popovers can actually be dragged off into a separate window. The downloads popover in Safari, for instance.

tfw you're supposed to be having fun but you're doing emergency sysadmining

Sysadmins lately

I heard someone say recently that generally, parents deserve how their adult kids treat them, and I could not agree more.

OH: “Bookmarks are the me I was. Tabs are the me I want to be.”

What a strange and wonderful life it must be, to be good at parrying in video games.

is this anything? rubber cuck debugging

Nice to see Tesla reclaiming from OceanGate the cutting edge of new and embarrassing ways for the very rich to kill themselves.

forgot to make this joke (but it's not a joke) yesterday: looks like we have to ban targeted advertising

Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.

what the fuck are you talking about

wow the whole rest of the year?!

i love when subscription services send me those coy emails like ‘the price of your subscription is changing.’ yeah? it’s changing? in what way? what sort of personal growth will this already expensive subscription undergo?

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

I didn't have time to write something as polished as a blog post, but over on Mastodon, I responded to the "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." post going around. hachyderm.io/@rmondello.com/1...

The most succinct way I've found to describe X is, "A social network for punching down."

“I have come to bluesky to post about how everyone should go back to Twitter and then when I get yelled at I go, see, it’s so unfriendly here” is exceedingly tiresome at this point

Can we take just a few seconds to acknowledge the birth of a new classic meme

This rocks.

All-time post.

fuck these people :)

My neck? My back? No. Our neck, our back. Through unholy experimentation, we both occupy the same body.

My neck? My back? No. Our necks, our backs. Solidarity paves the path to freedom.

I can think of one thing.

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

I'm definitely not the first person to notice this but it's almost impossibly funny that the rechristened "Department of War" immediately lost a war

the tech industry is about to invent books

Does the Bluesky development team communicate their priorities somewhere? What are those priorities? Do they include helping users secure their accounts to prevent fraudulent account takeover?

will you people shut the fuck up