Ask HN: Learning Web Authentication
What's a contemporary (state of the art) way of authenticating users on the web? Where / how do you learn about it?
my family and everyone i know do it the way @pablobaz describes it. it's simple and effective. change sheets whenever you feel like doing it, because its easy and fast... endof story
1. the medium & technique: what technique is being used to put the artwork into this world? I beg you all, please go to a museum full of paintings (let's not forget that there are sculptures, installations, and so on) and take your time to look at them. you will find out that the digital representation of "the girl with the pearl earrings" is not even half the artwork. it's an oil painting and that has an incredible depth to it. see how the figure is put into the frame - who cares about a hypothetical room she is in - the important part is what is being shown and what is being kept from us. the light and the dark parts.. I could go on... please try to expose yourself to art in person and find out how much more than colour values a painting is! (brush strokes, depth of colour, size, varnish, etc)
2. originality: why have someone paint in the style of someone else? people who are not into art often don't understand that a style is always bound to a person and the time they surface. art after 1945 had many ways of reflecting and processing the horrors of the nazi regime, the holocaust, etc the invention of photography changed the art, but not because craftsman went out of business, but because the subject of the painting changed. before photography abstract art would not have been possible (although artists already changed their styles to less realistic) hyper realyism on the other hand evolved long after photography was invented....
3. history and provenance of the artwork and the artist:
I'm getting tired typing this all out on my phone :) I think i have to redo this in a more concise way with my computer or maybe pen and paper...
What I want to point out is that
1. The interface is so bad on a computer compared to the raw materials we have
2. Ideas are formed in the making of an artwork. Often you develop new ideas while working with the material (that's true for working on a program too). You usually have several stages from pencil sketch to the final piece, or its just the pencil drawing.
3. We don't need a universal medium. Ist great we have so many.
4. I often wonder how broad the English term "art" is. Art as in "fine/contemporary art" is very different to art as in "arts and crafts" or "latte art".
I'm an artist who studied art. I make media art experimental improvised music. I use computers and programming languages for my art, and I'm happy that I can use these tools, but I also enjoy working with physical media, that I can touch and shape.
can't be access from within the EU because of GDPR
here's my ancient website hosted by klingt.org - a platform for musicians of the experimental / jazz / new music genre originally from vienna, now international: https://rossi.klingt.org it has a jukebox that lets you listen to hours of copyleft material by the platforms users: https://jokebux.klingt.org/
and my long time trio "das fax mattinger" has a website and a short (~17min.) video of a gig we did last year. don't skip through, let it unfold. no hdds have been harmed this time. https://dasfaxmattinger.klingt.org/ https://youtu.be/qZHTaHLQfFk
and a little (1min.) teaser I did (sry its instagram): https://www.instagram.com/p/CEQ1EbrhipT
http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-iphone-app-secret-access...
Apple always refuses to comment on bugs, security holes and basically anything they can not use for marketing. You WANT to believe that Apple is better.
What's a contemporary (state of the art) way of authenticating users on the web? Where / how do you learn about it?
I've been using CMS's and frameworks for quite a time now, but i have not dealt with user authentication myself since the late 90ies early 2000s. My question is: What frameworks or libraries are out there, that offer a state of the art authentication method you can use in your web app?
I'm reading Hacker for some time now, but i still havent figured out to sucessfuly search for an article that i forgot to bookmark. for example i read about this free virtual machie hoster 3-4 weeks ago. i cannot find the artice. i even manually tried to go throu the last 800 posts...how do you use search?