Until security forces the password manager session to expire after 1 hour, and forces the master password to be 16 char long with a combination of lower, upper, digit, punctuation, moon phase, astrological sign. And then they force you to change it every 2 months, and you can't reuse it until the next time Halley's comet is in the solar system.

You're missing the systemic problem the parent is talking about.

None of those hypotheticals apply in a company where "123456" was allowed as a password to begin with.

And if even if they did, which of these two is easier?

1. Typing your 16 char password with the current moon phase once an hour, and remembering the new one every time a comet passes

2. Pressing your password manager keyboard shortcut (or tapping your yubikey) once an hour, the exact same action that never changes for the rest of your life

> None of those hypotheticals apply in a company where "123456" was allowed as a password to begin with.

True.

> And if even if they did, which of these two is easier?

You didn't understand their point. The password manager itself locks and tapping doesn't work until you put in the master password again.

The fact that password managers can be implemented badly, doesn't mean we shouldn't implement them well.

Yes, but at the same time we need to remember that "password manager" can only do so much if reducing friction isn't a priority.

For a while now, "tech" has been solving problems that don't really exist. Having to scan a QRcode to read a restaurant menu, having to use a kiosk to order your fast food while the employee is standing right there but can't take your order, connecting your fridge to the cloud, etc. Why do I need an app on my phone to control my sprinklers instead of just a panel in my garage?

Of course it helps reduce costs and increase profit for corporations, but it solves nothing for end users. Every new "tech thing" also feels like a stupid charade for a manufactured "need".

> it solves nothing for end users

It's not just that it solves nothing for end users. That would be tolerable. It's that it actively makes things worse for users.

And the interesting part is that health care is mostly privatized, while education is mostly public. So the private/public conversation may make very little sense.

The article appears to be written by an Australian in Australia, FWIW.

Which votes exactly led to that?

Nations don't have friends, they have interests.

I'm not sure what you would call it, but the Whiskey War sure reads like a running gag between two friends to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War

Democratic populations have feelings towards each other, including friendship.

There are plenty of nations I feel my nation has friendships with - if they were bullied, we'd stand up for them on pure reaction.

Not everything is interests. People are people.

Thanks for the good laugh.

Interesting that you didn't feel the need to say what your "nation" is, or their nation BFFs. It would have allowed us to dig into real data, but no, let's just use feelz instead :)

People are people, and nation states are nation states. These are different entities.

If we say that nations can have enemies then it stands to reason that we can also say that they have friends.

You can of course be needlessly reductive and say that friendship is just two temporarily, mutually aligned self-interested parties, but… yeah. That’s pretty verbose. And not even correct.

The fact that this is downvoted tells a lot about the average level of political literacy on HN

What does the short story have to do with the scenario exactly? Seems completely unrelated.

And OMG, you need to edit the AI slop way way more. This is unreadable.

It involves one life, drawn at random, from human history. I can't imagine how you could miss that if you read it.

But I am realizing that AI writing is so offensive to many people that if they get that vibe, they just won't read it, and therefore won't have any idea what is being attempted. Maybe there could be a context where that wouldn't be the case, but HN is probably not it.

I read it all, and the central theme seemed to be more about collecting random thoughts/memories rather than "lives", with a final twist about the apocalypse or something like that.

You really need to stretch quite a bit to find similarities between this post and this short story.

And since you incorrectly assumed that I didn't read it, I'll give you more unsolicited feedback. Yes the writing is horrendous, but the idea itself is not novel or thought provoking. The general idea has been done many times in the classics like Dick, Asimov, Chiang and others. And the twist at the end ("Oh my god! They couldn't see things in the future because there is no future!!!!!") is immediately predictable when they can't get samples in the future.

That being said, keep writing and enjoying yourself but 1) try to dial down on the AI assist, it really makes for a poor experience for the reader, 2) don't get on your high horse when someone points it out.

Brexit also impacts 12 year olds.

>And if your thought is that 16 year olds don't have the education yet to understand the implications of something so big, I'd say they're much better informed than most people over 60 who are consuming Facebook AI slop and believing it wholesale.

Care to back this claim?

Were these conditions implemented in a referendum to join the EU?

That's the policy we have at my work. Use AI if you want, as long as people can review it and if it breaks, don't go blaming Claude, it's your fault.

So the US is being very selfless here and deciding that all these "exceptional" migrants should instead improve their own country. Pretty noble of the US if you ask me.

Yeah, but unintentionally. I think, you were being sarcastic with your comment. I am okay with it, since we both arrive at the same outcome.