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Ricky Mondello
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💚 Friend 🏳️‍⚧ Trans, nonbinary, they/them 😷 Caring, careful 🔑 Pass{keys, codes, words} 🧛🏻‍♀️ It’s not a phase 🦔 Speedrunner
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This is a take that gets it. The reason that passkeys exist is that passwords harm people and that harm needs to end.
Serious take: the solution to Safe Browsing false positives like the Immich one is passkeys.

Phishing regularly upends people's lives. The Safe Browsing cat-and-mouse with all its opaque false positives will be necessary until we roll out phishing-resistant auth.
let’s launch Andrew Cuomo into the sun
This made me smile so much.
Info: Mac web browsers get the ability to use passkeys from Apple Passwords (and other passkey managers that plug into “Authentication Services") by applying for this entitlement: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

This is how Chrome and Firefox support passkeys from Apple Passwords today.
com.apple.developer.web-browser.public-key-credential | Apple Developer Documentation
A Boolean value that lets your app make registration and assertion requests for passkeys and security keys for any relying party identifier.
developer.apple.com
I had never seen this quote before and it just made me (ugly) laugh out loud. Incredible.
Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...
+1

As an industry of technologists, we cannot let the solution to the password problem be just email. Emailed magic links are an important component to a solution in the consumer space, but can’t be everything. More thoughts on this topic: rmondello.com/2025/01/02/m...
I DONT WANT A CODE SENT TO MY EMAIL I WANT TO LOG IN WITH MY PASSWORD OR PASSKEY
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is there a metroidvania out there that explores trans themes? because i would love to play a transylvania
what could possibly go wrong???
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I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
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i’ve been wanting to write something about AI as the ultimate fascist anti-aesthetic but then he posts stuff like this and it just makes my point for me
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
hey! I need something to fall asleep to.
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What's up Bluesky, this is the Department of State and we're here to post some Hatch Act violations
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Mr. Mamdani, what do you think of the calls to include a Vegeta balloon alongside Goku at the Thanksgiving parade? Piccolo as well
Extremely reasonable take, David. Let me know if you have any questions about passkeys and I would be happy to answer them. (I work on website and app authentication at Apple.)
A bad actor can trick a person into giving their password away, which can compromise an account.

Passkeys are cryptographically bound to the website and app they’re created for, so they are phishing-resistant. Phishing is a source of lots of pain for regular people.
*You* use a strong password and authenticator, and you probably use them well. But they’re not secure by design. You need to be vigilant. And one day, perhaps, even you could be phished!

For people other than you, passkeys are a game-changer because they’re phishing-resistant and one step.
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JD Vance seems to be making more public appearances recently. I have to assume it is to remind the public that he has the energy of a dude who corners you at a party to ask (with thick, gummy, catshit breath) why you don’t like him - tearfully begs you to kiss him - then calls you a bitch.
Genuinely curious: why not?
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Oh wow, Rolling Stone going appropriately hard here. I did not have that on my 2025 bingo card.
#LongCOVID

« Tout cela suggère une crise de santé publique qui se prépare pour une génération d'Américains. »

@rollingstone.com
If anyone from Bluesky would like an introduction to passkeys as a technology or an introduction to the FIDO Alliance, where passkeys are standardized and improved, these are services I am willing to provide.
My weekly @bsky.app feature request is: Passkeys
Friends don't let friends getting 2FA codes over email 😁