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  • Yeah:

    “The only perpetrator arguably from the Left is Black nationalist Quintez Brown.”

    So they did acknowledge it, but kind of gave it a pass because he wasn’t “affiliated with the Democratic Party or any other mainstream reformist, progressive or leftist organisation”.

    I think it’s still a bit up in the air about whether Tyler Robinson had a consistent ideology. He is 22, an age where political leanings can be all over the place and evolve pretty rapidly. Whatever the case, it seems he operated alone. So we can consider how much online rhetoric influenced him one way or another, but it doesn’t seem like there was any organizational pressure or even a forum that had a chance to talk him into or out of his plan.

    The article does make a broader point well supported by data, broadly speaking the right has gotten more violent and we don’t see a similar pattern on the left. No matter which way Tyler lands or just attributed to less ostensibly political ideology, I think the trend is still valid. It’s somewhat less dangerous if they can definitively establish him as a Fuentes like, but I fear he might be credibly “grown out of it”.



  • It’s client specific and my phone requires whatever can unlock the phone and chrome requires either windows hello or a pin if under linux.

    Certain implementations do whatever, and as far as the backend is concerned, there’s no way of knowing, unless you want to get into the business of locking down specific vendor keys…

    But I say MFA is overrated versus just getting away from generally crappy password factors. Also passkeys are less phish-able than OTP type solutions.



  • I wouldn’t even mind wrangling some normalized data, but it doesn’t seem very normalized in their examples.

    Their first example suggests “great, there’s a human appropriate title and detail, and maybe this standard will say you should at least have those and they should be ready for pass through to a human operator”, with extensions providing room for more sophisticated behavior.

    Then the second example, no more top level detail, now there’s an ‘errors’ array, and detail is under the children (which they don’t formally describe the concept of reparenting attributes, just incidentally showing it in an example of what an implementation could do with ‘extensions’). Well, at least I can still pass through the details if I find them and it will make sense right? “must be a positive integer”… Ok, nope, error information that requires the client to process a json pointer in order to manufacture some sort of actionable feedback. Again, this could be a neat optional feature, but a generic core client really has nothing they can bite into that generically applies to the standard.

    The cited RFC I think is close to some ideas but softens it by trying to be open ended. If it specified mandatory top level “detail” member that is reasonably directly informative to a human operator without further processing, great, I know exactly where to find it even if I don’t otherwise understand your problem type. Mandate that errors may be a collection under an ‘errors’ list, but otherwise identical to top level? Cool. Saying that here’s some recommended members, but they are all optional and the behavior is really up to you, and you can just freely change everything you want and call it ‘extensions’… Just not prescriptive enough despite the long words…


  • Buses and trains work long distance too

    It’s less about the distance and more about the distribution. It’s really hard to come up with solid bus routes to cover how rural America is distributed. My area has been trying repeatedly to extend the municipal mass transit into even the suburban areas and has struggled to come up with any vaguely decent coverage. You basically need people to move into a more orderly arrangement.