Passkeys are a trap | EP #190

Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred. ninety. And folks, I gotta tell you, the AI world is moving so fast my head is spinning like a busted washing machine on a spin cycle. We got four stories today that'll make you think, make you laugh, maybe make you want to throw your phone in the lake. So grab your coffee, settle in, and let's get into it, alright, let's go. First up, passkeys. Six hundred twenty-nine upvotes on this one, folks. And I'm telling you, this is a trap. You think you're being all secure and modern, but passkeys lock you into one company's ecosystem, and if that company goes down, you're locked out of everything. It's like having one key to your whole life and giving it to a stranger you can't even call. Heh. Hhh, okay, that's something. Second, Total Annihilation. Five hundred twelve upvotes. This is the classic real-time strategy game from the nineties, rebuilt for modern computers. And I remember playing this on a Pentium machine that sounded like a jet engine taking off. Now it runs smooth, looks sharp, and the AI opponents are still mean as ever. If you never played it, you missed something truly special. Go find it, I promise you. Third, New York City's Click to Cancel rule is now in effect. Four hundred seventy-three upvotes. So basically, if you sign up for a subscription online, you gotta be able to cancel it just as easily. No more hunting through menus, no more calling some poor soul on hold for forty minutes. It's about time, honestly. I've been burned by this stuff my whole adult life, folks. Every single time. And finally, this one's big. Four hundred sixty-two upvotes. The gap in shared understanding of what large language models can actually do is widening. Some folks think AI is magic, some think it's a parlor trick, and the truth is somewhere in the messy middle. And that gap? It's getting wider every single day. We need to talk about this more, plain and simple, folks. Really, we do need to. That's your daily byte. Have a great day. Until next time. Stories covered Passkeys are a trap — Hacker News Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers — Hacker News NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect — Hacker News The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening — Hacker News