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>Not even Google reliably lets you fall back to a password, according to the comments in this article.

I logged in with my google password (on my TV, the other method using my phone wasn't working for some reason) the other day even though I normally use a passkey from my phone or computer. It worked just fine.


Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've had Google block my login because it was sus (it was a new computer or something...) and they wanted to verify a whole bunch of information. If you haven't given them that info, you just get locked out.

What services implement it like this? Don't services usually implement passkeys as a more secure alternative to a password, but password login is still available?

Some sites allow passkeys as an option for MFA, so that could be an issue if the passkey is your only MFA option and MFA is required. But I imagine email would pretty much always be a fallback.


Didn't Outlook.com famously rolled out passkeys with no recovery option and no option to sign in using username and password once enrolled. So if you lost your trusted device, you couldn't sign in, nor could Microsoft send you an email, because... Outlook.com is your email provider.

I don't know if they fixed it, they probably did. Edit: Maybe not, because the recovery option at the end is just nuts: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5454924/...


When was the last time you tried to log into something like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc without your phone nearby, on a fresh computer?

Just make sure you don't lose the passkey to log into your email.

Isn't it the same as my password manager's vault? I only remember my master password so if that vault is lost I can't even log in to my email

Kind of, but I have some of my most important passwords and account recovery codes duplicated on paper in a secure place. If there was ever a service that only allowed passkey login (do those exist?), you can't print those out.

I'd still prefer password+2fa+backup codes for email.

Is he there again? I thought he did everything on his own service, whatever it's called.

Why build pine wood derby cars? Why paint pictures? Or take photographs? Why memorize poetry? Why build things with Legos?

Because it makes your brain think through problems, breaking them down to the point you can build a solution from the smallest pieces. AI may be a big part of the future, but we need to maintain our own human creativity and problem solving skills, and learning the tools that are available will help us to build and create useful things throughout our lives.


The logo has a lambda in front, and I assume that's where the "Λ" came from in the title of the post. But I don't see it in any of the text on their site.

Correct, it's not part of the name, which is just "Snap!".

If people really start not connecting them. TV makers will just start including a cellular modem.

I bought 4 quite large heavy duty canvas bags in like 2005 and have been grocery shopping with them since then. I almost never buy more than will fit in those (actually, most trips I just take two of them).


Firefox on win11 here, scrolling the page is super choppy and it pegs my GPU at 100%.


Pushed a fix, let me know if it hasn't improved for you.


Very fixed!


Here is a thread about how OpenStreetMaps handled it: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-amer...

>So far, the Lake Ontario relation (1206310) as well as at least one other nearby feature has already had its name=* changed once, though it was swiftly reverted and changed to official_name:en-US=* instead, which is the current status quo as of this writing.


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