I’m specifically peeved about this. My personal 2016 mbp has nearly identical specs to my work 2017 mbp but my personal one is being left behind. Maybe there’s some minuscule hardware issue they couldn’t be bothered to work out but 5-6 years of OS updates is upsettingly short. I’d expect that for an android phone but not a high end laptop…
There does seem to be a dev working on porting over the OS if anyone has an earlier mac and really wants the new OS.
I’ve got a new and somewhat-old Mazda. The new one does have an internet connection but it really only seems to be used for remote start and door lock status/control. Its using the Verizon network (in the US) and it also pings a location when you power off the car. (All these things are available through a python api so thats fun)
Someone else in the comments of this post has the same issue and they think it’s static from the weave of the material. (I lost track of the comment, sorry for not linking it)
While I would rather use a password manager myself to keep accounts separate and not reliant on a single big tech account, I’m sure your average user would love the convenience of this and its overall security benefit would be a positive
It's much more likely for the average user to forget their password than have their account banned deliberately. This would, overall, reduce friction when logging in.
As far as I can tell this doesn't actually require a "big tech account".
I am imagining this working like OTPs that are generated on phones. The actual standard will be open and the implementations do not require a specific platform or any kind of "account", but most people will run it on their phone with Android or IOS because it's handy for them.
I also don't think it's going to require running on a phone, just like OTPs. I can generate OTPs for 2FA purposes on my desktop system running Linux and it works great!
If it does end up working like that, I think it's a great idea.
It doesn't require one from a technical perspective as you've pointed out, but every business incentive is to lock people in to accounts. It makes it easy to collect data on the users, to enforce payment by locking accounts, etc.
I too prefer offline-first tools, but the market doesn't, and people are trained to sign up with an email account and password so for the masses "this is just how it is".
I don't want to be a pessimist, but examples of user respecting systems are mainly commonplace in certain corners of the highly technical FLOSS world, it's certainly not the experience of the average person.
The villain is locked in in a room which requires a retinal scan from the guard to leave. So he proceeds to stab the eye globe of the guard with a pen to be able to unlock the door.
As such I tend to prefer cloneable credentials. Everything that is unique (cellphone, ...) would imply that access credentials could be stolen (as in, actually stolen, not copied), which could imply the threat of violence to succeed.
I would much rather someone attempt to steal my phone irl, as opposed to someone on the other side of the globe cloning my method of accessing my accounts without me even being aware until it's too late.
To clarify, this wasn't meant as an attempt at a "tough guy" acting. If someone tries to coerce my phone out of me irl by threats of violence, they will get the phone. But this being done irl at least has much easier path to being able to trace the criminal, actually prosecute them, and to minimize the damage to my accounts.
Not even mentioning that it is much more risky for them to attempt, given it would have to be done somewhere around a public place with other people and law enforcement around. Meanwhile, some guy from an eastern european country cloning my access credentials to compromise my accounts will almost certainly never be traced, and 100% won't get prosecuted (and that's on top of me not being able to be aware of that happening until after the fact).
Thanks for this thoughtful list. I try not to flood my ML dev team with too much academic reading but obviously some are too important. Seeing another persons take on what’s important helps me refine what I give to the newcomers to get them up to speed.
Could you add Facebook and instagram sounds? Not so it makes you sound busy, but as a few other commenters have said, it may help with desensitization of notification sounds and I like that idea a lot
If this is your first time hearing about distill, they have so many more articles that are of equally astounding quality. I’ve been reading them for a while now and love what they do!
There does seem to be a dev working on porting over the OS if anyone has an earlier mac and really wants the new OS.