Triumph

If.

And here we are talking about it.

Long ago, I made a four line recursive HTML that did this with frames. Browsers didn’t have protection against that at the time, so if you opened it and let it run, your machine would lock up.

You’re missing it. It got sneaked into a museum and hung on the wall. That’s an extremely important part of it.

Depends on whether you’ve gone to Harvard or not.

I agree with the first part, disagree with the second.

Jackson Pollock was just some idiot with a paintbrush. John Cage was just some idiot with a piano when he wrote 4’33". “I could have done that.” Sure, but they did. Having the concept and then executing it is as much of the art as the finished product.

I do; or at least I can. But really, Device #2 should be in a fire safe, and Device #3 should be in a safe deposit box. These should be “set and forget” devices, not just “the laptop that I use and the phone that I use”. Those are additional costs, additional planning, additional effort, additional administration (because you need to also be checking that these cold devices still work on a scheduled basis), maybe additional required skill (depending on what you want these set and forget devices to be). You need to have an appropriate place to keep that fire safe. And when one of those cold devices doesn’t work anymore, you have to figure out why and likely replace it.

To do it right, you really have to have your shit together. That I don’t.

Could, yes. In 1990, the standard was to call 411 if you needed to find a phone number. And that often cost money, so parents would drum into their kids not to call 411. “We have 411 at home. ::slams phone book on table::”

Which means they’d have had a phone book, and everyone knew where it was. Sometimes local police/fire/hospital emergency numbers were printed on the cover, or on the first page. If not, there’d be a place on the cover where you could write them in yourself. They’d also come with a refrigerator magnet sign that you could write in with marker later on.

I’m not saying any of this to be disagreeable; there are a zillion plot holes in that movie. Just reminiscing with some late 1980s “day in the life” nostalgia.

Now get off my lawn.

Think of passkeys like they’re backups.

If you have one, you have none. If you have two, you have one. If you have three, at least one of them has to live offsite.

There are a ton of people who can’t reliably meet the “three” threshold, and plenty who can’t meet the two.

I really don’t want to turn my devices into hardware keys. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to recover if, say, there was a fire or flood. Hardware breaks, gets lost, stolen. How about people who can’t afford multiple devices? What about the unhoused? How about if you get arrested and your one device gets confiscated- you can’t even give anyone else access to your data. What if you’re a good witness recording something and the police decide to make your device into evidence (or destroy it).

MFA? Absofuckinglutely. I’ll pass on passkeys, sorry.

While 911 as an emergency number in the US began in 1968, it wasn’t universal until 1999. Home Alone came out in 1990. It was completely normal in my youth (earlier, yes, but still) to just not know what the number to call the police was.

Mr. Regular looking on MapQuest for directions to BROWN TOWN

“Freed”