"Go for the eyes, Boo!" — Minsc

The nice thing about passkeys is the challenge/response system means you only send one-use-only information.

The bad thing is that large companies are trying to force a lot of stupid extra limitations so that you are permanently tied to their ecosystems.

In Kansas, children can be married off by their parents at 16, 15 if a local judge approves. 🤮

kslegislature.gov/li_2022/b202...

It's worth noting that the Dow Jones is also a really dumb/weird metric.

Imagine trying to measure how much water you have by counting up how many containers exist, without paying any attention to the different sizes.

rationalwalk.com/dow-jones-in...

They don't need to cheat everywhere though, they just need to intimidate/attack enough critical places.

That's assuming the law will be logically and fairly enforced in all places... That concept was already shaky, but it's rather c[r]ooked now.

I'm confused, is this like a 0.1 second video or something? Bluesky is showing a play button...

To be fair to the judge, sometimes "likely" is literally the legal question in the flowchart.

Kind of like how grand juries decide whether there's enough suspicious stuff going on to start a trial. They might think the person is guilty, but it's not for them to say at that point.

A middle ground might be for the user to take a one-time representative screenshot of their home screen, and put that into the app. That would sidestep a bunch of creepy permission issues.

Then it just needs to start up, show and jiggle the fixed picture, and close itself.

You mean, on the phone display itself? Hmm... Easiest would be for it to just play a canned video, but actually simulating something happening to your live display would be many times harder.

So what you're telling me is that the transformer was named for what it does to people. :p

Also know about jury nullification, but if anyone asks, no, you don't know about it. :p

TLDR: In civil trials like lawsuits, you can go "I don't believe you could just lose all that evidence, I think you're hiding it, and I'm going to assume you hid it because it makes you look bad."

Dear prospective jury members in future civil trials, look up "Adverse Inference" for future reference...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse...

If another state adopts vote-by-mail and screws it up, that just tells you they can't be trusted to competently run regular ballots either.

I have a sudden hankering for a classic "Degauss" button. (vwummm)

It's really frustrating to see some people clutch their pearls about mail-in voting as if it's some new scary radical thing, when millions of Americans in several different states have been doing it for decades.

Systems exist which are proven and battle-tested.