Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ...
by crote on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:03AM
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Maybe Gmail, but definitely not GCP. I have to re-auth every day or two for that.
And even with Gmail there's a decent chance it isn't just "blindly trust unlimited-duration token". Cookie stealing is now one of the main forms of credential compromise, so I bet there's some form of browser and/or IP verification going on to demand a reauth when some `curl` instance from a Russian VM tries to make use of it...
And even with Gmail there's a decent chance it isn't just "blindly trust unlimited-duration token". Cookie stealing is now one of the main forms of credential compromise, so I bet there's some form of browser and/or IP verification going on to demand a reauth when some `curl` instance from a Russian VM tries to make use of it...