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My main issue with these systems is that they tend to not be able to do anything beyond what I can do myself in whatever self-service portal is available. If I'm calling, it's because I need support beyond what the bot can probably provide, and it just becomes a matter of arguing with the robot to get to a human who can actually solve my problem.
They have not, at least in my region, it's a fun little party trick when I see a locked cart out on the sidewalk.
what if someone else takes your stuff and puts it on the internet unrestricted?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
yep, it can be detected in JS and even CSS with a media query: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
Depends on how the dev wants to implement it, usually when I'm throwing a small animation on a site I'll silently respect the preference and skip the animation without an override option, but for a site like this I'd expect an override switch.
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A more convenient manual that frequently spouts falsehoods, sure.
My favorite part is when it includes parameters in its output that are not and have never been a part of the API I'm trying to get it to build against.
Could also make it a site rule that _all_ jobs postings should include a pay range. Shouldn't have to waste your time applying to a job that has a pay range you would never accept.
I've found that face/retina scans are usually bad UX, especially if you need to use a viewfinder or a statically positioned device. Apple's Face ID works well because it's on a mobile device and you don't have to align your face in a box.
I don't see how this is any more convenient than using a mobile wallet. In fact, it looks less convenient than using the actual card - even if you forget the card you can usually just key in the number at the terminal.
I doubt this will change anything in the space. iOS and macOS (through Safari) has offered password management for years at this point. This is just a more flexible version of that system.
It's a real input field now!
The best part is GPay also included a messaging component. It was close to feature parity with Google Allo.
Washington doesn’t even officially offer a RealID. Instead they have the “Enhanced ID” which functions as a passport card but does not have the security features required on a RealID (though it does have some additional features like RFID).
I really hope the profile management system keeps tab containers working the same. It's incredibly useful to have different containers automatically generated for AWS console sessions.
could use a hardware key
you can get this data from a compliance export
It's up to the server whether it uses it in challenge-response or not. That's application-specific behaviour that's past the definition of passkeys themselves.
Do you have a source for this? After reading the W3 spec[0] this seems entirely antithetical to the Passkey model and additionally raises concerns about the integrity of hardware mfa devices.
You can export them- just did so by touching the context menu on the mobile app then “copy item JSON.” This includes the private key for the passkey. Here’s one I just exported: https://gist.github.com/jacksonwelsh/f5ad519770b1adde40a6ee9...
Whether or not you can import them into something else though…
Surprised mobile boarding passes haven't changed to ticketmaster-style passes that leverage the phone's NFC capabilities. Seems like that would be faster to scan at the gate and prevent duplication.
This is the same behavior as SMS if you have enabled “Messages backup.” If backup is not enabled you will not have a copy of iMessages stored in iCloud (though all compatible and configured devices will still receive messages).
This can be changed by opting in to the e2ee iCloud data service “Advanced Data Protection.”
I’m curious how this works with the new ID-scanning machines that no longer require a boarding pass. Maybe there’s some level of fuzzy-matching name/sex/dob?
I assume for TSA Precheck users there’s some lookup that can just grab your KTN from the database from your ID and look up tickets based on that.
While I would love to see a more open iphone NFC chip (primarily for identification/access control system integration), I shudder to think of bank implementations of contactless payments. Bank apps I’ve used have been “meh” at best, usually bad (and filled with ads!!) and don’t even support modern secure authentication (totp/webauthn). I’d like to see them fix their core technology before trying to figure out a way to sell me a loan using mobile payments.
It even has certain advantages, such as allowing one to unlock a banks doors outside regular hours to access the self-service area for things that are beyond regular ATMs, something that currently does not work with Google or Apple Pay.
Have you tried it? I’ve been able to open Chase bank ATM lobbies using the NFC Jimmy John’s loyalty card in my Apple Wallet (along with every brand of payment card I have in there). This “security” appears to be primarily to keep unbanked (read: homeless) people out.
I've also seen them flip certain symbols so you still get to experience the full font but it's still fundamentally "broken," for example the slashes might be flipped.
Highly recommend doing this - also if you think your employer is reporting data to The Work Number (highly probably if they use ADP), ask them for information on your employee profile. Equifax has lied to me about the existence of my profile even though they did, in fact, have data on me. Only when my employer told me the identifiers for my profile did I find out that they had previous data on me and I was able to opt-out.
Name changes can be locked; I'm in an Enterprise Grid org and our display names/usernames are synced against our employee profile. We're also required to SSO every single time we launch the desktop app so once you're terminated you're definitely not getting back in (they deactivate accounts very quickly too, so mobile is likely not a major concern).
Basically the only thing you can change without filing a ticket is your picture and some mostly-irrelevant freetext fields.
It's already a feature in the Kagi browser extensions! Just summarization (and their FastGPT), not the website Q&A part.
chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kagi-search-for-chr...
firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kagi-search-f...
I just applied for my passport, and am looking forward to worldly exploration.
Congrats! Travel is super important to gain perspective - culturally, politically, and socially.
As an added bonus, having a passport makes ID verification much less of a pain in the ass (typically you just need a passport rather than a state ID + other documents).
Doordash makes money from fees on the customer side and a 15-30% commission on the restaurant side. https://get.doordash.com/en-us/products/marketplace
Biometric capture?
Do sites generally allow you to have passkeys and passwords set at the same time for the same account?
Typically, yes. You can do this today with Github and Google accounts (and certainly at least a few others). The password option might instead be a link in your email or something similar on other websites, but generally I’ve seen it recommended to have at least one other option to get into your account.
I imagine the ban on space heaters refers more to their fire risk, since emergency heat would be permanently installed in a location where there’s not any flammable materials but a space heater can be placed right next to any number of flammable things.