I was confused also, I use my Yubikey a passkey, so I did not get the rant.
Yubikeys can be used as a device-bound passkey, that the FIDO2 thing.
Now software managed passkeys are also a thing and can be stored in a (good?) old password manager, of course this is less secure and could be disallowed in the future.
Thus the rant is about people without dedicated hardware keys that would have to use things like device-bound passkeys their OS instead of their password manager.
Yes it's very common on sites, and even somewhat forced to have these digital passkeys. It's almost automatic setup and there's a lot of skepticism about them.
Yeah, I mean currently a lot of people still prefer using 5.6 Sol over Astra for implementation tasks. If 6.1 hasn't fixed output alignment (vs task completion) this is a huge price increase for those wanting to keep using 5.6 Sol...
It was the case in France too, it was called Bloctel; you just had to register your phone number and telemarketing companies had a legal obligation to look it up and not call you.
So it worked for a time, legit companies stoped calling; however most people didn't knew about Bloctel as it was little advertised.
Meanwhile, spam calls turned into scam calls, and a real issue especially with the elderly.
So I think that banning all unsolicited calling kills two birds with one stone, spam becomes illegal and scams as a consequence becomes easier to spot as there are no more unsolicited calls.
We have that kind of list in Italy too. I registered my number and I keep getting calls, so I stopped answering to numbers not in my contacts list. If I know that somebody will be calling me, I ask for the number and I add it to the list.
Have you tried answering and then just saying the name of the list you've enrolled in? Tends to help propagate to the companies that they absolutely should not call the number again. At least here the companies tend to actively self-moderate and cross-reference against the lists, as the law does get enforced. When I worked in cold-calling call centers in the past, I remember they being strict with teaching the "marketers" what to do when people brought up the local list(s).
Yes it’s very codebase dependent, and changes over model versions. In my case codex was so bad, until it suddenly became better than Opus at 5.5, which surprised me. I am sure it can be the inverse for some codebases.
The way I keep an eye on model performance is alternating between models for code review. It shows how much the model understands the codebase without disrupting my workflow.
Yubikeys can be used as a device-bound passkey, that the FIDO2 thing.
Now software managed passkeys are also a thing and can be stored in a (good?) old password manager, of course this is less secure and could be disallowed in the future.
Thus the rant is about people without dedicated hardware keys that would have to use things like device-bound passkeys their OS instead of their password manager.
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