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  • Yes, you have to trust the company storing the passwords.

    A good company can store passwords in ways that are secure to most hacking attempts. It isn’t impossible to break the encryption typically used, but it is difficult enough that most thieves will not have the resources or time to make use of the data. They want the low effort password databases, not the difficult and expensive ones.




  • While the lock-in issue is annoying and a good reason not to adopt these, the device failure issue is a tech killer. Especially when I can use a password manager. This means I can remember two passwords (email and password manager), make them secure, and then always recover all my accounts.

    Passkeys are a technology that were surpassed 10 years before their introduction and I believe the only reason they are being pushed is because security people think they are cool and tech companies would be delighted to lock you into their system.


  • This is multiple articles mushed together. I suggest separating into articles that each have a specific purpose and message. The windows/Microsoft discussion can be on, the intro to Linux another (the burger shop stuff), the distros another, and lastly the installation stuff.

    That said, having switched to Linux about a year ago for exactly the reasons you mentioned, I would not have found this article useful. There are many other resources that cover each of these topics in more helpful and friendly ways. This article is both too broad and lacking depth where needed. It sounds a little bit like your personal journal and a narrative of your path. It may be helpful for you personally to write that down, but I’m struggling to see how this helps a potential reader.

    Some questions to consider:

    What do think a reader would do next after reading your article?

    What value or message would they take away from it?

    Who is your audience and what new knowledge should they have after reading this?








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    The “willingly” makes the difference there. That changes it from negligence to intentional, and those are legally distinct.

    If Amazon, or another marketplace, isn’t aware of the danger of a product sold by a vendor on their platform, it’s not clear if Amazon, or the market provider, is responsible. Amazon is arguing that they aren’t, but I don’t know enough of the law to say if that is a settled question.





  • Unfortunately, this is one of those fun ideas that simply won’t ever be possible. Even if we start with the easy one of just breaking chemical bonds, those bonds exist because it reduces the total energy of the system.

    To “disrupt” those bonds, energy must be supplied, and to do it for even a small amount of material would require a tremendous amount of energy. Delivering that much energy over a distance just isn’t possible because atmosphere in between would also be “disrupted”. The disrupted material would also fly apart at high speeds and high temperatures. So any type of “ray” or “gun” would just turn into a bomb with a pistol grip trigger. I expect that the user experience testing would have lots of very negative reviews.



  • I think in their crazy world, the north pole is at the center of the earth disk and Antarctica is actually an ice wall around the perimeter that keeps the water on the disk. Therefore, Africa and Australia are on opposite sides of the disk (like left-right not heads-tails) or are near the out perimeter and no one would build a cable going across that long of a distance.

    If that makes your brain hurt because of the stupidity, that’s because it is. Flat earthers are only good as the target of a joke because we can all agree that it’s stupid. There are some entertaining videos on YouTube of people making fun of them, or of themselves proving themselves wrong.