Nathan Hammond 張拿敦

TVB is now US$100,000,000 to own. Would somebody please buy it for me? I just want to acquire the rights to their archives.

七年。香港人。

Discourse: passkeys are a user experience nightmare. I never use them because I don’t trust that I’ll be able to access my accounts when I need. They’re strictly worse for me as a password manager user for almost two decades. They also suffer from downgrade attacks to solve the UX problems.

If you want to compromise me you have to successfully phish me while I know that is the only attack pattern that I am vulnerable to. Passkeys eliminate that one, but that doesn’t trump access risk for me. Or a downgrade attack and a SIM swap. Which passkeys don’t protect against.

Discourse: passkeys are a user experience nightmare. I never use them because I don’t trust that I’ll be able to access my accounts when I need. They’re strictly worse for me as a password manager user for almost two decades. They also suffer from downgrade attacks to solve the UX problems.

I refuse to register passkeys because I don’t know if I’ll someday be forced into using the bootstrap path. “Congratulations! Today you have to bootstrap your account access because you have a passkey on a lost device.” 24 hour access delay the one time I was most likely to really need it.

Discourse: passkeys are a user experience nightmare. I never use them because I don’t trust that I’ll be able to access my accounts when I need. They’re strictly worse for me as a password manager user for almost two decades. They also suffer from downgrade attacks to solve the UX problems.

“But you should have multiple passkeys for your accounts!” You’re going to tell an average user that they have multiple passwords to get into their account? And that it depends on which device they are on? And trust that they know how to manage them?

Discourse: passkeys are a user experience nightmare. I never use them because I don’t trust that I’ll be able to access my accounts when I need. They’re strictly worse for me as a password manager user for almost two decades. They also suffer from downgrade attacks to solve the UX problems.

For the average user passkeys are "we're going to put your credentials into a password manager that you know nothing about and won’t tell you in advance how that will interact with your future logins." Given that, passkeys are precisely as secure as the downgrade path, or the bootstrap path.

Discourse: passkeys are a user experience nightmare. I never use them because I don’t trust that I’ll be able to access my accounts when I need. They’re strictly worse for me as a password manager user for almost two decades. They also suffer from downgrade attacks to solve the UX problems.

"We have this new technology that doesn't leak credentials when the server is hacked. And users don't have to remember their passwords." "What if the user has multiple devices?" "Well, they use their phone to do the authentication process ..." "You mean the device I'm most-likely to lose?"

Anyway, just sitting down to my CA ballot and…

One thing that’s happening already because of LLMs: work by experts that would previously be funded by publishing educational materials is simply no longer being produced. “I can’t chart a path to financial viability producing an artifact of my knowledge that exists nowhere else.”

“If I publish a new Cantonese textbook with entirely new presentation formats and pedagogical strategy it’ll be copyright laundered through an LLM instantly and I will be unable to recoup my investment.” If you want that book now you have to give my friend a grant.

"Migrants" in this description doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Language-wise Taishanese still being Yue makes learning it less of a lift for a Cantonese speaker and vice versa. For some huge percentage of the syllables it's a 1:1 mapping to the syllable in the other. The average Taishanese speaker is also Cantonese fluent, though not so the other direction.

PISA shit questions. "In the book, the author describes several civilizations that collapsed because of the choices they made and their impact on the environment." Hypothesis presented by original author, presumably research-based, but unsupported here. Laundered into "Fact" by the book reviewer.

"When the first Europeans landed on Easter Island in 1722, the moai were still there, but the trees were gone." Above quoted question text does not appear in the passage because they introduce "Easter Island" in the question, after using "Rapa Nui" in the passage.

In this day and age if you want to actually print dead tree flashcards the both of you should agree on a single standard size: 63mm x 88mm.