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My take: (1) I've had passwords handled pretty well for a long time now: same password manager for something like 15 years; (2) companies are pushing pretty hard to get me to use passkeys instead.

From (2) I assume that the companies see benefits to themselves. I don't care about benefits to them. I don't see much in the way of benefits to me, so I'm not changing anything if I don't have to.

I'll admit to not having looked into passkeys all that much. Someday, I might. But for the time being, I don't see much point. I imagine that eventually I'll be more or less forced to deal with passkeys in at least some contexts. Will leave that for later.

For now, it's all a big "no thanks" from me.

You make this too hard to read. Constant scrolling for tiny little chunks of text. Sorry, ain't putting up with that.

The author seems to be setting up a send-only server. Mox is not a good fit.

That's a successful small business, not a claim to "greatness."

He might be a great software/business leader

There is little to no evidence of him as a great business leader. How many people does his company employ? I don't think it's as many as a hundred. This is the scale of, say, a single car dealership.

If all you ever read is what you can read for free, you're condemning yourself to reading nothing but slop forever.

oh you bet they are

A shot at the Tolkien-obsessed SV dipshits who think they understand theology better than anyone else?

Honestly, I would have preferred the ability to search within PDF files.

"Added a command to the View menu: 'Gather Untitled Documents'. This will collect all untitled (never saved) documents into the active window, removing them from other windows (and possibly closing those windows in the process)."

Honestly, this alone might be worth the upgrade price. I use BBEdit all day every day, and untitled docs tend to proliferate. I use the scratchpad a lot but still end up with lots of untitled docs.

The question doesn't make sense. LLMs don't "hold opinions."

This app is a good idea but the help refers to a "Help > Install Command Line Tool" menu item that does not appear to exist.

Been constructing a lot of infrastructure servers recently, almost all of them FreeBSD VMs running under bhyve on FreeBSD physical hosts. It's a very simple, clean, pleasant environment to work in. And they all run tarsnap. ;-)

This is an interesting project.

I like it. Simple, fast, easy to use. Much better than most of the web these days, although honestly, that's a regrettably low bar. Most of the web these days is horrible and has been for a while.

"Fuck me"?

Not sure how that's relevant. Still think the statement is false.

I think DFW is wrong and the statement "Everybody worships" is false. I don't worship anything I can think of in any meaningful sense of the word.

Question as posed is unanswerable. There is no "best" in general. There are only horses for courses.

I've been watching this with some interest so congratulations to the team on this milestone. I think there's a lot to like about this editor.

For me, though, the showstopper that makes it impossible to use it as my primary editor is that editing files on remote hosts seems to require a zed server on the host rather than just relying on sftp.

That won't fly: I routinely edit files on hosts that zed does not support and on hosts that it does, but on an ad-hoc, now and then basis that does not justify installing the zed server. I need or at least want very much to be able to edit files on any remote host I can reach via ssh.

It's kind of a shame. Like I say, I think there's a lot to like about it, but for me, this really is a showstopper.

Has anyone actually been waiting for this? Maybe, I guess.

Author discovers that doctors and hospitals know more than he does and actually have reasons for using acetaminophen as their analgesic of first resort.

Also, "The body is really complicated!"

Came here to post this if it wasn't here already.

I'll point out, though, that it's still only April. Plenty of time for even dumber conspiracy theories to take hold!

FWIW, I think the article "Passkeys: they're not perfect but they're getting better" at the NCSC web site is a pretty fair assessment of the current state of things.

I certainly understand and appreciate the benefits of key-based authentication: been using ssh keys for decades, wouldn't go back to password auth in that context for anything.

But I don't really see passkeys in the much wider context of web authentication for the broadest possible audience has having all the kinks worked out yet.

AIs can never fail, they can only be failed.

Introducing children under the age of, say, 15 or so, to video games should be considered child abuse. Nothing good can come of it.

FWIW, I had a conversation with an AI about passkeys. Seems to me like there are real potential benefits to (1) companies that implement them, (2) people with bad password practices, and (3) people who use one or two devices, like a laptop and a phone, or a tablet and phone.

I suspect the lion's share of benefits here go to (1) and I could not possibly care less about that.

I recognize that (2) is a huge group of people, but I'm not in it.

For people in (3), it might work pretty well especially if both are from the same company. For example, if you only ever use an iPad and an iPhone, passkeys might work out pretty well. But I'm not in that group, either.

I'm gonna keep ignoring them as long as possible.

Exactly. "Passkey ties it to your device" sounds like a huge step backwards to me. Tech companies seem to have no idea how much I hate my phone.

I've been avoiding them and intend to keep doing so as long as possible. I've had passwords handled perfectly well for almost 20 years. I do not see passkeys as having any particular benefits to me and do not want to manage them.

I don't know what most people did. I know that the business I worked for then needed to transfer relatively large sets of files on a regular basis. We owned hundreds of zip disks.

This was after Syquest disks and before CDs. At the time we used zip disks, CD burners were still very expensive. Later, when CD burner prices came down, we switched to those. Still later, mostly FTP.