Another different failure point. I once broke my android phone and bought and set up a new one - only to find I can no longer access my Gmail account that I used before with my Google authenticator, so I am locked out forever from that account. I had a backup but was not able to find it. Despite knowing hundreds of contact emails (all backed up in thunderbird), account history, password history, etc - for years I have not been able to get back in.
So you didn't have one lol. I understand that's an extremely frustrating situation though. Part of making backups is testing them once in a while (at least making sure they exist). Something else you could've done previously was to use Authy or Aegis which helps you backup the seeds themselves encrypted under a passphrase so you can recover the accounts even if you lose everything else. Although of course, all of this depends on your threat model, if you don't care about SIM swaps or if losing the account is still much more worrying then I guess it's just a unnecessary hassle/risk.
With Authy I can enter a backup password and download everything to a new phone. I suppose that's a different failure point but still possibly worth the trade-off? Yubikey is the next level up.
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Agreed, Meta's "good parts" would have a better chance to succeed if it weren't entangled so much with Mark and Facebook at large. Listening to the interview made me feel that Mark/Facebook have good intent with this work (and are clearly doubling down ala rename) but the metaverse feels like something that's being pushed through vs a natural extension of human connection. They are making sure they have a big say on how it unfolds by shifting the focus on the company towards. Good and bad.
I was "defending" the metaverse to a friend outside of the tech bubble last night and I talked a lot about how much I learned about socialization/human connection when I used to play Star Wars Galaxies and World of Warcraft. That those relationships which started somewhat "metaverse"-first meant as much as my "real" connections did... and that's what I feel the essence of Meta/metaverse is really trying to bring to everyone.
Without getting to robotic: given how I also think dang is awesome, has anyone ever tried to compile of list of tactics dang employs to receive such high praise by almost everyone on the site? Meaning, like some sort of case studies that map back to higher order principles/values he's acting on.
If you read through dang's comments he is very articulate about his values and tactics. There was also this recent self-referential article linking to some particularly incisive comments between another commenter and dang, with associated discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28853335
> Any idea that technology is an unmitigated good begins to be questioned.
I think that's where we as the more "common" society may have gone off course: no technology (chair, toothbrush, etc to be cheeky/comprehensive on my use of the word technology) lives in a world where it's an absolutely perfect good. Anything can be abused, and when we've though about adjusting or rethinking big internet-based technologies, including social media services, it seems we're not putting enough responsibility on the operators of these services.
To me, that _doesn't_ mean we expect them to be perfect either with the ability to be responsible actors, but there needs to be some agreed upon standards that we can evaluate performance of their ability to act responsibly. It can just be left up to them, which is currently the state at a high-level.
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It left me with a more fundamental, "first principles" outlook on the 5 key stages of doing _anything_:
1. Understand
2. Explore
3. Decide
4. Prototype/Build
5. Test
So for example, when things often go wrong it's because a stage was skipped, done out of sequence, or extremely neglected.