Since 2010
The downward trend continues: I completed 19 books in 2024 and abandoned a further 3. I wasted a lot of time with two of the ones that I eventually abandoned - maybe this year I’ll try to be more assertive when it comes to aborting books that aren’t doing it for me.
Excluding those 3 my average rating was 3.4, which is pretty consistent with 2023. I did discover a new 5-starrer though.
I stumbled upon this (via this) and thought it was an interesting excerise, so here are mine:
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I don’t miss much from the UK, but after almost 15 years I still miss the BBC.
David Heinemeier Hansson on hey.com.
Yeah I think he’s spot on with this. Passkeys solve a problem, but I’m not sure they solve the correct problem. The technology is bulletproof - we’ve been using public/private keys for decades - and when implemented properly is unquestionably more secure at the bits-and-bytes layer. But the problem with passwords is almost always human, and passkeys don’t really solve that.
As pointed out by John Gruber at Daring Fireball, passkeys only work if you use some kind of password manager. In my case that means I can only use passkeys when I’m using my own Mac or my own iPhone, which is a pretty big hurdle in some cases. And if you’re the kind of person who already uses a password manager then there’s a good chance that - like me - all your accounts already have long, unique, high-entropy passwords.
I suspect this explains why most services I’ve enabled passkeys for leave the traditional username/password login path enabled, meaning my accounts are still vulnerable to that kind of attack, so… what’s the point of the passkey?