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Passkeys offer convenience but strip user control through mandatory hardware-backed attestation.
Two camps: those who say password managers fix passkeys, and those who agree attested passkeys are a future lock-in risk.
Cloudflare bot traffic from Yandex's ASN dropped after strikes on its datacenters.
The drop is from physical strikes on Yandex facilities, not Cloudflare action; commenters debate bot definitions and HA lessons.
A Ukrainian UAV strike destroyed Yandex's third data center in Vladimir, disrupting most cloud services.
Three of Yandex's five data centers have now been hit, prompting debate on war accountability and future data center hardening.
Nanolathe is an open-source, MIT-licensed engine that reimplements Total Annihilation with modern GPU rendering.
Enthusiasm for Total Annihilation reimplementations with hopes for Supreme Commander, plus mixed takes on Beyond All Reason's community.
Karpathy argues the understanding gap of LLM capability is widening into a sharp funnel.
Skepticism dominates: labs' tools are buggy, and human verification is the real wall.
NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule now requires businesses to make subscription cancellation as easy as sign-up.
Support is strong, but debate centers on whether the rule's ambiguity will lead to costly litigation or encourage malicious compliance.
Browser fingerprinting is replacing third-party cookies as a more persistent tracking method.
Two camps: fingerprinting is illegal under EU law, or enforcement is failing and the tech works.
Nitter seeks funding and legal help after X Corp. demanded takedown.
Legal gray area dominates: Nitter's open-source nature versus X's cease and desist demands.
Tao argues AI is shifting math from proof scarcity to abundance.
Dissent on Tao's cancer analogy: efficacy matters more than mechanism.
BBC Panorama finds Deloitte helped falsify documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax.
Cynicism dominates: commenters see Big Four firms as enablers of corruption, not ethical auditors.
LineageOS 24.0 launches based on Android 17 with WebUSB flash tools and app updates.
Mixed appreciation for device longevity versus frustration with kernel limits and comparison to GrapheneOS.
Finland ordered Google to halt two data center projects for failing to complete required environmental impact assessments.
Widespread skepticism of Google's apology; fines seen as trivial; predictions of weak enforcement by Finland.
AI agents cannot yet replace human judgment in code rewrites, as shown by a Rust port's flaws.
Commenters split: most agree thinking remains necessary, some defend AI with expert oversight.
Paying real users to find flaws in a README reveals hidden assumptions and improves documentation.
Approach endorsed as UX testing; main critique targets emoji-heavy READMEs.
Newly disclosed documents show Exxon scientists privately doubted the company's climate solutions.
Frustration that deception by oil companies yields no accountability; split between structural and voter-blame explanations.
IRCv3 defines backwards-compatible protocol extensions to modernize IRC chat.
Two camps: those nostalgic for IRC, those citing its lack of offline messaging.
The Onion is asking for help locating missing print issues from its archive, particularly early volumes.
Mixed reactions on whether the request is genuine or satirical, with some commenters offering to check their stored issues.
OpenStreetMap contributors explain why they map North Korea.
Two camps: those valuing the free data and those questioning the veracity of tourist glimpses.
An unquoted tilde in PATH expands to a literal `~` directory, not $HOME.
Widely seen as a known footgun; camp split on whether to prepend or append to PATH.
An employee was fired after refusing AI webcam photos every three minutes.
Commenters condemned invasive surveillance, calling it treating employees as property.