https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug

In Washington the DMV is split between licensing people and licensing cars/etc (2 locations), plus separate emissions testing locations. It's all contracted out with private companies providing staff and services. Last cycle, it took me over 3 hours to update my ID and registration.

Later, one of these places overcharged me on registration of a new car bought out of state. One near my last apartment in Seattle was running a credit card fraud scheme. Some may not have staff when you need them.

Turns out that when you support and fund the program, the government can do a pretty good job. You can, in fact, pay someone to care.

Thunderbolt is also a USB C form factor/port, just has better naming and private control over usage.

I have a similar USB tester as the author. It's rather useful and inexpensive. Good bit of homelab kit.

By single credential, all the passkeys on this browser use my windows user password which is effectively a single key.

and I can't use this on any other device by default. My passkey is locked within the browser used to set it up.

How do I log in to my account if I don't have the specific device the account exists on?

It's objectively worse at every basic command.

One of the few things google did better than Apple was the minimal assistant. That's gone. Gemini is just worse.

If an AI company can scrape in billions of investment and keep going vs Facebook style "cost of doing business" fines, they will make that bet. If OpenAI can inject paid content, advice, misinformation, etc and keep operating or earn revenue today, it's worth doing. There are no ethics beyond optics.

I'm not saying these AI company CEOs would sell their mothers for more runway cash. But also nobody has seen their mothers since the second Sunday in May.

Passkeys lock into a specific device and seem easy until you need to use another device.

But instead of being a credential you own and control, across what could even be a local password manager, it's one password to everything. Maybe it is more secure than a regular password in some cases but it largely seems like a worse fix than existing tools for a problem that has better solutions.

The second you have a second device to log in from they are useless. The second you want or need to share a credential (smart or not) they are more work than a password.

The passkey trend seems lead by platforms that want to make it easier to get or stay logged in, Netflix type companies that want to prevent account sharing, and those that value convenience (if one device) over security.