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New comment by jackson1442 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

jackson1442 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:03:31 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)"

jackson1442 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:43:28 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules"

jackson1442 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:06:06 +0000

what if someone else takes your stuff and puts it on the internet unrestricted?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...

New comment by jackson1442 in "Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page"

jackson1442 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:47:17 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

jackson1442 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:56:36 +0000

[ citation needed ]

New comment by jackson1442 in "ChatGPT Pro"

jackson1442 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:58:20 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers"

jackson1442 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:44:36 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System in Europe"

jackson1442 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:58:36 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

jackson1442 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:49:25 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

jackson1442 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:48:42 +0000

It's a real input field now!

New comment by jackson1442 in "Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the US"

jackson1442 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:46:43 +0000

The best part is GPay also included a messaging component. It was close to feature parity with Google Allo.

New comment by jackson1442 in "Uganda's surveillance state is built on national ID cards"

jackson1442 — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:16:57 +0000

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).

New comment by jackson1442 in "What We're Working on in Firefox"

jackson1442 — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:22:56 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode"

jackson1442 — Tue, 14 May 2024 01:12:30 +0000

could use a hardware key

New comment by jackson1442 in "Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users"

jackson1442 — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:18:47 +0000

you can get this data from a compliance export

New comment by jackson1442 in "Passkeys: A shattered dream"

jackson1442 — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:31:29 +0000

> 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.

[0]: https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/

New comment by jackson1442 in "Passkeys: A shattered dream"

jackson1442 — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:25:57 +0000

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…

New comment by jackson1442 in "Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught"

jackson1442 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:29:07 +0000

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.

New comment by jackson1442 in "Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks"

jackson1442 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:51:29 +0000

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.”

New comment by jackson1442 in "What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your legal name"

jackson1442 — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:58:46 +0000

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.