We’re going to need to coin a new term, along the lines of “Scunthorpe problem”, for the clusterf*** of mistakes this thing is going to make.

Windows is malware.

Having a home to electrify, on the other hand…

Apple and Microsoft support aren’t exactly awesome, either, unless you’re a big business with deep pockets. At least with Linux, the system is open, so if there is a way to solve my problem, someone has almost certainly found it already and added it to Arch Wiki or Stack Overflow or something.

Taking small climate-friendly actions and community support can help transform dread into hope and empowerment.

I don’t see how. As long as everything’s made in heavily-polluting countries and transported here on bunker-fuel-burning ships, global warming will proceed on schedule no matter what you and I do.

Big Oil will stop at nothing to slam that window shut.

Because that’s where the money is, and a pension fund’s one and only job is to make money.

I’m talking about when the government wants an excuse for shutting down public discourse. Obviously it isn’t going to prosecute itself.

Fascist shutdown of public discourse, step by step:

1. Find out where public discourse is.
2. Post child porn on an obscure corner of it.
3. Take screenshots of the posted porn.
4. Send law enforcement to seize all the things.

Well, they sure aren’t pleasing me.

How the heck did these guys manage to outbid Big Oil to put up that billboard?

If those temperatures were in degrees Celsius, no one would be complaining about them.

Sounds like an interesting idea. Pity MS can’t be bothered to iron out the issues with it.

Horrifying to see Biden and the Dems unite with the Republicans on an anti-LGBT+ bill.

KeePassXC seems reputable, so I guess I’ll try to use that when the time comes.

I’ve only used SMS and Steam 2FA so far. I’ve been avoiding 2FA as much as I can.

The vast majority of the pain and sacrifice would be on the rich—they’re the ones who own bunker-fuel-burning cargo ships and fly everywhere on private jets—so there isn’t much reason for the rest of us to be overly worried.

Trouble is, most people worship the rich…

How do I feed the generated QR code back to GitHub, then? Can I upload an image of it?

How will I notice when the spare fails, if it’s only a spare and I don’t regularly use it? Then I’m down to only one key, and as any grumpy backup admin will tell you, if you have only one copy of something, you have zero copies.

I would have a key plugged into the computer pretty much all the time when I’m working, so anyone who compromises the computer can impersonate me as long as I’m at work. This would be mildly inconvenient to the attacker, but wouldn’t actually stop the attacker. And if the computer isn’t compromised, how is anyone going to get into my GitHub account even without 2FA? They certainly aren’t going to do it by guessing my 16-character generated password or Ed25519 SSH key.

Something-I-know is worthless for authentication in the age of GPU password cracking. Most humans, including myself, do not have photographic memories with which to memorize cryptographically secure passwords. We’re all using password managers for a reason, and a password database is something you have, not something you know.

I can do that with alphanumeric codes, yeah, but can I get alphanumeric codes from GitHub, or is it going to be a QR code? I can’t write down a QR code…