⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

“The web's biggest super power is that you do not have to install an app. You can just scan a barcode, click a link, search for something or even type an address and BOOM! you're there! There is no need to install anything!”

This is the thing I think is important. A web app can be ephemeral; I use it today, and then never again. A platform-specific native app isn’t like that; I’m forced to embrace it even if I don’t want to.

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2023/ios-web-push-requires-install/

So I do an internet search for "What is a Passkey?"
Not wasting my time with Google or Bing for that one but responses I get are just Seo blogs telling me how wonderful passkeys are and how they're better than passwords but that's all I see and I can't be bothered to click further. No onboarding, nothing to set up with with a passkey, whatever that is.
Is there some stupid app with a cringey name I need to use?
You know what I understand and use?
SMS texts

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

A tale as old as time

My heretical opinion: for most users, SMS 2FA is good. As long as sites don't reuse SMS as a way to reset passwords, SMS 2FA is strictly better than no 2FA. Yes, it's the easiest 2FA to compromise - but it's still better than no 2FA at all. If you re-used a password elsewhere, SMS 2FA will still prevent an attacker getting into a different account.

Here's the chart that really matters.

Average Mastodon posts per month are going up.

Here's a comparison:

* Sept 2022: ~460M posts
* Dec 2022: ~573M posts
* Feb 2022 (so far): ~678M posts

This is a dramatic upswing in posts, and indicates that activity on Mastodon is continuing to increase.

The chart tells the story. The jump is dramatic.

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I’m in Morecambe Bay this week bringing Laser Light City to the Baylight festival. Winter gardens looking good! #lasers