Top 10 reddit moment: worthless agreeing meme response to an unhelpful comment that doesn’t even answer the question asked.

Some hobbies have minimal levels of skill/knowledge/equipment to properly do them, and I’d argue that self hosting is one of them. You can say people are hostile to beginners, but I might say people are trying to save them from themselves by not just telling them how to slap shit together so they can put it on the Internet and get owned by Internet Background Radiation in a short period of time.

My personal opinion is that beginners are too over confident in their skills or expect setting things up is like setting up an online account, and expect everything to be ready for them to install in their preferred method, and get upset when people tell them they need to upskill to be able to accomplish their goal.

An example of this is a conversation I had with someone online about some docker distributed app, and people were trying to get the person to use docker like the install doc says instead of trying to figure out how to just install it directly into the OS, because that’s the way they’re used to doing stuff and they were determined they weren’t going to change now despite the software author’s supported path not including direct install. If the person was willing to learn docker (which is not very difficult if you can follow a tutorial and use compose files), they’d be able to quickly accomplish what they want while also opening more doors for them in the future.

“Some might argue that the authors of this article have their head so far up their own ass that they haven’t seen daylight in years”

So Wu Tang really is for the children!

Well shit, you’re right. I must not have been paying attention when they updated them to include that

No, but the two tend to be correlated.

Example, MFA authentication is a security feature, but inconvenient as shit with low or no lifetime. Same complaints about short lived sessions on app sites. Especially when every login requires MFA…

Yeah, not voting works super great to keep the fascists out of power, just ask the Americans!

One without the other is never enough

Or they’re using it as intended. I’ve had more than one account I’ve gotten by cost sharing with friends. That’s not a problem, that’s a solution.

You know that not every account is only used by a single user, right?

If it’s more convenient to be insecure than secure, users will pick insecure every time. There’s a reason there are so many bad password in the top passwords in breach dumps.

I have to tell myself every time I go through some of my login flows that inconvenience to me means more so to an attacker, but most people don’t have an adversarial mindset and just want it to work.

I’m still mad SQRL never got off the ground. It was smartphone based initially, though they quickly made it work in browser. You had a private key that was ‘you’ and it generated unique user assertion certs per domain, and you completed the login flow by scanning a QR code with the app, which pinged a URL with the user assertion. It was really cool since it had the option of working alongside a password, or you could set it to only work with SQRL logins. No password or anything for the login, just pure math and key material.

But given it put all recovery on the user (if you didn’t back up your shit, it’s fine if you lose it), I can’t say I’m that surprised.

Your passkeys aren’t synced to anything, so the passkey is no different than your password hash. They’re device locked unless you use something like bitwarden, so you’re no more dependent on American mega corps than you are right this second.

I’m wrong.

Replace ‘mene’ with ‘comic’ and the artist would have been describing themselves. Award and all

You don’t see any state run bread lines do you?

You do, they’re called food pantry lines, and they tend to be run by churches in my experience

There are still plenty of local government run food pantries too, since I have to spell this part out in crayon for some people…

“It’s not slavery when we call it something else”

Brb, setting up tons of instances for my area so it looks popular