If the person is moderately security savvy I explain passkeys as a
combination of three things - a unique site-specific password, something
you have, and something you know/are. Wrapped up in a convenient (ok, not
always) UI/UX.
If the person isn't security savvy enough to know why those three thi
Passkeys are awesome and I use them whenever possible. They should replace
passwords and 2fa as soon as possible and that day can't come too soon.
-- Charles
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 2:51 PM Martin Senftleben via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 30.07.25 um 08:44 schrieb
It's not so much for recreating state, it's for giving them access to
digital accounts. Mostly financial but also to social media.
The offline backups are of my own digital media, photos and videos. If
Google deletes my Gmail I don't have an up to date backup, though that does
seem like something
To me it sounds like digital preppers and I have no more "digital plan b"
than I have a "bug out bag."
However I do have off line backups of my important digital files, and my
wife and I share a password manager. We have given a sealed envelope with
the password manager password to a trusted relat
Unsurprisingly there's an app for that. We use "Splitwise" Let's you put in
who paid what who owes what and accumulate it till you want to settle.
Allows you to split evenly, by percentages, you name it.
-- Charles
On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, 9:18 am Udhay Shankar N via Silklist, <
silklist@lists.digera
Yes, that's it!
On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 1:17 pm Thaths, wrote:
> Charles, is it this one
> <https://www.amazon.com/Food-Northern-Thailand-Austin-Bush/dp/045149749X>?
>
> Thaths
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 9:55 AM Charles Haynes via Silklist <
> silklist@lists.dig
I don't keep track of my reading in any systematic way (or any way really)
but I'm right in the middle of reading "The Food of Northern Thailand"
which is half cookbook half culinary exploration. Northern Thai food is
very different from central (Bangkok) and North Eastern (Issan/Esarn [think
green
To riff a little on what Alaric said, since moving to New Zealand and
learning a bit about Māori culture, there is a Māori custom of the "pepeha"
which is basically a short bio introducing yourself, Telling people who you
are, linking you to the land, mountain, river, sea, tribe, subtribe,
whakapap
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 01:04, Jeremy Bornstein via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
> I think the answer to this is "anything, depending on the quality of the
> evidence." What other answer is reasonable?
>
> I think the important trick is not to let one's own biases interfere too
>
On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 at 13:11, Jeremy Bornstein wrote:
> Oops; I knew there was something wrong with my math. If the proposal is to
> pay $1 for an 80% chance of winning $2 and a 20% chance of not getting any
> money back, the EV of that bet is actually $1.60. Right?
>
Right. EV is the sum of the
Somehow I never saw Jeremy's message that you replied to. Hm... Jeremy -
feel free! It can be fun :)
Though I am a degenerate gambler. I once made the apparently outrageous
statement that most gambling was a way to purchase variance, and that like
most markets you should figure out how much you w
and a leg to retain it although
> there are other variables acting on me like having built a whole life
> around the location of said place (smells like a justification and it
> probably is). I'm not sure I completely understand "setting a betting
> line".
>
> On Fri,
One other way that economics (and specifically behavioural economics) has
changed my way of looking at the world is that I'm now more aware of my
own paradoxical behaviours. Like the endowment effect and the sunk cost
fallacy. I have also found one tool to be particularly valuable and that's
the n
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 22:17, Huda Masood wrote:
> Can you convince yourself that you receive 500 dollars worth of health,
> motivation and resilience benefits to withstand 180 seconds of 12-15
> centigrade water every. Single. Day. for a week?
>
Could I? Certainly. But I've looked into the pur
I would do the shower thing for somewhere between USD$100 and USD$500 per
day. ($100 is probably not enough, $500 definitely is.)
One learning about money is that looking at investments daily makes me
unhappy and that for me the "asymmetry of happiness" is real - that losing
$100 makes me more unh
"From each according to their ability" plus a bit of distributed planning.
What are you, some kind of socialist?
I remember that. I like how well it worked.
Among a different group of my friends (degenerate gamblers) we play a
different game. It works out the same as splitting the bill evenly bu
"math is just a language we use to describe things. It is not fundamental."
That's certainly one of the poles of the "is math real" philosophical
debate - but it's a debate, and a lively one. I fall firmly on the "math is
real" end of the spectrum.
— Charles
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 15:19, wrote:
Ah, ok. How much of the theoretical foundations of math are you familiar
with? The 9 axioms of ZFC are the things that underly math that no one can
prove. Sort of by definition. Which is one way if getting around the
"faith" argument in math. Those axioms are "definitional" if you like
rather than
Hi Tim,
In that piece you seem to be conflating "Faith" and "Religion." Do you
think that faith always implies religion? I personally define faith as
"things I believe that are true but that I can't prove" and it seems to me
that doesn't particularly imply religion - unless you define religion so
What a great story! One of my big regrets is never actually becoming a
peace corps volunteer. The closest I came was working with UNICEF in
Kampala. Hardly the same.
John, are you still in touch with anyone in Senegal?
-- Charles
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, 5:30 pm John Sundman via Silklist, <
silklist@
The fact that certain "countries" ever existed will be considered a relic
of colonialism. Current anti-China sentiment will be considered quaintly
naive, and reaction to China will be the primary driver of international
relations.
World population will flatten out at about 11 billion people, and h
Smash the patriarchy?
On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, 12:39 pm Udhay Shankar N via Silklist, <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
> So, silklist will turn 25 years old later this year. Any ideas for
> things to do to mark the occasion?
>
> Udhay
>
> --
>
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