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[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 3 days ago

Nvidia isn't too bad these days, especially for 20 series and newer since they switched to using the "open-source" driver by default. It's mainly PRIME that's the problem (where you have both onboard graphics and a discrete GPU and the system has to switch between them), and the problems aren't exclusive to Nvidia.

[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

CEOs and CTOs really need to start caring about their products this much again. These days I'd be surprised if any big tech CEOs even go through the new user setup and onboarding experience and provide detailed feedback like this.

[–] dan@upvote.au 60 points 3 days ago (5 children)

People don't realise that there's more to AI than LLMs and chat bots, and that plenty of software has been using AI (machine learning, neutral networks, forecast modeling, etc) for at least a decade or two.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 6 days ago

At work we're migrating from Google Chat to Slack, and there's a bunch of things I already miss. There's a lot of strange UI issues in Slack that aren't an issue in any other competing products.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 6 days ago

The thing with age verification is that it's a legal requirement, so they're all going to have to do it.

Running an online service with a lot of users is very expensive, too. All these proprietary services eventually realise that they need revenue in order to continue operating. That's one of the reasons why decentralized, federated services are the way to go - everyone runs their own small community, so there's no one company or person that has to cover an enormous bill.

[–] dan@upvote.au 51 points 1 week ago (14 children)

I really don't understand how a chat app for gamers became so big in the software development community. It's such a poor choice, especially for support. Nothing is indexed in search engines, and people can't see messages unless they join. I've even seen some projects use Discord for bug tracking. It's woefully inadequate for that.

[–] dan@upvote.au 57 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Open source is the way. It always amuses me when people move from one proprietary system to a different one, since the new one always ends up having the same issues.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 week ago

This just sounds like using the same password on every site. Am I missing something?

Passkeys have to be unique per site so that you can revoke one without having to change something on every other site.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah it's definitely not as good as countries where university/college is fully covered by the government, but it's also better than plenty of other countries too.

A lot of people in Australia just keep living with their parents while they go to university.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For a VPN for torrents, make sure you use one that supports port forwarding. AirVPN is a good choice. If you're okay with Docker, gluetun is a good choice - you create a Gluetun container for the VPN, then any other Docker containers (torrent client, whatever) can use the VPN. It avoids having to use the VPN for everything.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Bitwarden lets you store passkeys in its vault, which I think is what you're asking for? It's mentioned in the post too.

I have some passkeys in my Bitwarden, and my Bitwarden account is protected with a USB + NFC Yubikey.

The experience is inconsistent across phone platforms at the moment, but it works great on computers. On Android, it currently only lets you use a password manager if the passkey is your primary credential for logging into the site. Android doesn't support passkeys from password managers for 2FA yet.

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