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johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•[LGR] Unboxing a PlayStation 2 Console 24 Years LaterEnglish
26·1 year agoYeah definitely hasn’t been a single good game release in the last 20 years.
Why is “DAE games suck now??” such a meme among olds? Do you only buy games made by Ubisoft and EA or something?
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your prediction for the 2024 US election?
71·1 year agoBetting markets don’t really have any predictive value. It’s all vibes.
Randomness is often desirable in party games because otherwise it’s usually a small number of people who are competitive and the rest are bored/quit.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Former PlayStation exec says there's a "collapse of creativity" in the industryEnglish
5·1 year agoWhen you’re spending $300M on a game budget you don’t want to take a lot of risks. But I don’t think there’s any lack of creativity coming from the market as a whole. Most dire pronouncements on the state of games are only really true if you ignore indies.
Like honestly, I think GOW and Spider-Man and Horizon are fine, but I’d rather see Sony put out several AA games that take risks than crank out another sequel to those.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish
0·1 year agoIf you’re paranoid about this, go buy a yubikey and use that to secure your device/access to your passkeys. Being able to secure your own data instead of relying on the admin who may or may not know what they’re doing to secure the server is an advantage of passkeys.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish
0·1 year agoIt’'s really up to the end device (and the user of said device) to decide how much security to put around the local keys. But importantly, it also requires access to the device the passkeys are stored on which is a second factor. And notably many of the implementations of it require biometrics to unlock.
The “one password” thing is also true of password managers, of course. One thing about having one master passphrase is that if you do not have to remember 50 of them, then you can make that passphrase better then you otherwise might, plus it should be unique, which prevents one of the most common attack vectors.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish
0·1 year agoIf you’ve ever used ssh it’s very similar to how ssh keys work. You create a cryptographic key for the site; this is the passkey itself. When you go to “log in” the client and server exchange cryptographic challenges, which also verifies the site’s identity (so you can’t be phished…another site can’t pretend to be your bank, and there are no credentials to steal anyway). Keys are stored locally and are generally access restricted by various methods like PIN, passphrase, security key, OTP, etc. When you’re entering your PIN it’s how the OS has chosen to secure the key storage. But you’ve also already passed one of the security hurdles just by having access to that phone/computer. It is “something you have”.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish
0·1 year agoPassword managers are never going to hit anywhere near 100% adoption rate. It requires knowledge on the part of the user and in many cases money. No grandma isn’t going to roll her own with keepass. Most likely she’ll never even know what a password manager is. And as long as those users are still out there, admins still have to deal with all the problems they bring.
Incidentally I looked and it’s been over a decade since I started using my first password manager. They’re not that new.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish
0·1 year agoYou’re looking at this from the perspective of an educated end user. You’re pretty secure already from some common attack vectors. You’re also in the minority. Passkeys are largely about the health of the entire ecosystem. Not only do they protect against credentials being stolen, they also protect against phishing attacks because identity verification is built in. That is of huge value if you’re administering a site. Yes if everyone used a password manager there would be less value, but only about a third of users do that. And as an admin you can’t just say “well that guy got phished but it’s his own fault for not using a password manager.”
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish
0·1 year agoI do think that we need more standard procedures around what a reset/authorize new device looks like in a passkey world. There’s a lot about that process that just seems like it’s up to the implementer. But I don’t think that invalidates passkeys as a whole, and most people are going to have access to their mobile device for 2 factor no matter where they are.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•When we finally get to a 4 day work week, will you be happy to see Friday go, or Monday?
18·1 year agoPart of me thinks Wednesday. I wouldn’t be surprised to see flex schedules more common in a 4 day work week world
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do some people defend the billionaires and capitalism?
2·1 year agoITT: A lot of people answering for people who have diametrically opposed views to them.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•When can we expect 500TB drives to be available?English
0·1 year agoDid you try evolving them?
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossibleEnglish
0·1 year agoThere are a lot of subreddits for which there is no real replacement. Sometimes the strength in a community is the people. Doesn’t matter if reddit sucks if the people are there.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossibleEnglish
0·1 year agoIt seems like the new account deleter scripts replace all comments with random text rather than actually delete them, which I’m sure makes it harder for reddit to undelete.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossibleEnglish
0·1 year agoA lot of subreddits have done that. The problem is nobody notices…
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Beyond enshittification, why does tech oftentimes suck?
11·1 year agoTL;DR software development is hard.
Hard to respond with anything else since you haven’t really given examples.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rulesEnglish
0·1 year agoFrankly I’m mostly annoyed that my browser allows web sites to block cut and paste, ever. I am capable of making my own decisions over whether I want to cut and paste.
There are plugins that will disallow this. I think the one I use is “don’t fuck with paste”

Talk to your boss in private and say that political talk at the workplace makes you uncomfortable and you don’t think it’s appropriate.