tway235
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Posted by
tway235 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:35PM
from the self-post dept.
looks like we've been kidding ourselves all these years prefixing our advice with "IANAL". Maybe let's switch to IANAA from now on.
password managers that allow to export OUR passkeys: Bitwarden, Enpass
it's all backwards, I agree, even worse that we trust "sync to the cloud" but don't allow users to own their credentials.
token counting is useful though. There's also other ways to reduce size, ie a plugin API.
the .self root itself should self-host itself
compilers, IDE, syntax highlighting too, everyone should learn assembly, ed, and stick to b&w
hyperbole: a lot of tech we give for granted today, started as niche products for "whales" like government agencies, so I suppose computers and Internet shouldn't exist and life would be better
this kind of dismissive comments is why many apps have an awful usability. If someone thinks a web interface would be easier than a text terminal, there's at least one customer in need for a product (which either doesn't exist or they could not "googlify") - it's also why I welcome AI generating apps on the fly, "replacing" engineers who "know better" ;)
just wait for Microsoft to productize and commoditize employee tracking - see the CEO's recent "learning loops" idea - what could possibly go wrong?