selbyk's comments

On: They see your photos

[selbyk]

Don't be irrational

On: Meta Movie Gen

[selbyk]

I think that's the joke

On: Men Stall Waymo Driverless Car to Catcall Female P...

[selbyk]

In this case, the driver would also be a victim and perhaps not stop for the people acting suspiciously, or try to drive off as soon as a threat is identified.

On: A Stock Prius just drove across America averaging ...

[selbyk]

And distance. As the distance to get from A to B increases, mpg becomes less important of a metric than total fuel consumption.

(1 mile / 60 mpg)/(2 miles / 90 mpg) = 0.75

Traveling 1 mile @ 60 mpg consumes 75% of the fuel as going 2 miles @ 90 mpg does.

Edit: *Assuming the route planning grand-OP mentioned to optimize for mpg goes significantly out of the way.

On: DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them ap...

[selbyk]

By whackamole, you mean choosing one of the same two browser extensions that have been around for 2 decades and forgetting about it?

Or one of the DNS blockers that have been pretty consistent too.

It may be a game of whackamole, but it's virtually invisible to end users of these tools.

On: Ask HN: What's (in your opinion) the best authenti...

[selbyk]

I hate being forced to use passwordless logins. I avoid apps that do it unless I have to use it for some reason

[panarky → selbyk]

Passwordless logins where the session expires after a couple hours of inactivity are good for services that are prone to password sharing. For example, if you subscribe to Anthropic's claude.ai you can only log in with a magic link delivered by email, and it's a short-lived session. That makes it difficult to share one subscription with multiple people.

[fragmede → panarky]

just setup an auto fwd email rule, or login to your friends email account. No one here would commit such a crime of opsec, but we're not most people.

On: Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M...

[selbyk]

I'm a bit confused how this is relevant. Authy is a OTP app, nothing to do with SMS.

[yieldcrv → selbyk]

Authy uses SMS based recovery of your entire account, a weaker link that a single service using SMS based OTP

[ingatorp → yieldcrv]

You can always disable multi-device, so it can act like a regular OTP auth app.

On: Prisma language server update adds in-editor adver...

[selbyk]

Not to mention, the Prisma library itself is one of our biggest regrets. They support them now, but not until some version 5.* did it even support native SQL joins. Extendability is also a nightmare.

I'd think twice about falling for the great marketing around it.

On: Kate editor on all platforms

[selbyk]

KDE Connect has been around and amazingly useful since 2013

On: Volta – Fastest Node version manager in Rust

[selbyk]

Or if you need to manage more than just node, asdf has been around for over a decade and works great. You can use a .tool-versions to change runtimes for each project you have, in addition to managing your global runtime versions

https://asdf-vm.com/