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Musk has never been scared of vertically integrating something that's too expensive initially.

What has he vertically integrated that's as technologically sophisticated as LIDAR?

My bank uses the banking app for auth if I try and login via a browser.


Barclays in the UK offer (or used to) a hardware device with a keypad allowing the user to do a challenge-response using the bank card's chip and PIN. Not sure if they still do, though.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program


What if one doesn't own an android/iphone device? Banking is a fundamental need, so most countries regulate them to cater to a wide range of users. In this case it's possible that the bank could be compelled to provide you a 2FA device if you don't have one.


I don't think there is such regulation. Many banks simply do not have any other means of authentication any more. They can't give out 2FA devices because their systems just don't support them.


Good luck with that, in Germany many public transport operators are moving into app based tickets for the monthly/yearly subscriptions.

You can still get a plastic card, however it requires paying extra and some additional forms, the reasoning being it is not environment friendly.


Do they offer a physical 2FA device? Mine does and it's really useful


That's because they're stupid or doing something suspicious, probably both.

There's legitimately zero reason to allow 2FA only on your own propreitary app. You can't even make a financial argument - allowing other TOTP methods is cheaper because now you don't need an app!


Unfortunately the EU regulation makes the truly user controlled 2FA methods essentially non-compliant.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

> Article 7 Requirements of the elements categorised as possession

> 1. Payment service providers shall adopt measures to mitigate the risk that the elements of strong customer authentication categorised as possession are used by unauthorised parties.

> 2. The use by the payer of those elements shall be subject to measures designed to prevent replication of the elements.


This says something along the lines of "it should be hard to extract the TOTP secret".

However if you can get so far as to get the secret from the TOTP app, you can as well back up the entire phone and restore elsewhere, can't you?


No, because phones that lock keys in hardware effectively prevent that, and that works only with hardware that prevents its owners from having full control an doing what they want with their hardware.

"Unextractable keys" works with hardware that you don't "truly own".


What if you truly want the security properties provided by a device which can keep keys in a way where you fully control their use but its extremely hard for anyone to extract them?


I mean case in point, this is exactly what a Yubikey does for people.


> That's because they're stupid or doing something suspicious, probably both

Small comfort for whoever needs to use that bank. This is the disconnect geeks and Free Software needs to bridge to make any headway.


I mean, I concur, but ultimately I can't fix shitty banks being shitty. No geeks can. Banks have been shitty for a long, long time.

Do you know how we usually stop them from being shitty? Forcefully, with legislation.


it costs basically nothing to change banks. you sign up to a new one and they transfer your account and direct debits. you just tell your employer where to send your next salary payment.


Sometimes it’s more complicated than that. And the other banks aren’t any less “stupid”.


Lloyds has perfectly good online banking through the browser. there, done the work for you.


Sorry, not available where I live and not the bank I can use for what I need. I won't give personal details but my options were limited for multiple reasons.


What about the Apple watch?


The Apple Watch seems to have suddenly found its pace.

I am seeing them everywhere, around here.

I suspect that quite a few are SEs and maybe last year's model, but I do see a lot of Ultras.


Battery does seem to be a limiting factor and I don't wear mine unless I'm doing activities where it's especially useful. But, for a lot of people, something else to charge doesn't seem a big impediment.


When we heard young people don't wear watches any longer at the time. And certainly many people didn't think yet another bluetooth earphones were anything to get excited about.

AR does seem to be a potential big deal. But the tech and implementation probably has a ways to go before it's interesting outside of a bubble audience.


If people don't wear watches, they probably wouldn't wear scuba gear either. Unless AR comes in rose tinted glasses.


What about it? I'm not going to recharge my watch every night. Yawn.


Yeah, we have basically infinite battery on "dumb" watches, as long as you use them. You know, so you can rely on them.

The Apple Watch to me just seems like a worse earbud. If I want to be that interrupted in tge middle of something might as well hear the thing and not have to look at it.


I never had any interest in wearing a watch to bed. Still don’t, although theoretically I could charge it for a few minutes in the evening to make that possible.

The Watch has helped me lose 30 pounds, has significantly helped motivate me to exercise more, and has let me keep my phone on silent mode for at least 5 years now. For me, it’s a great device.


I have a Garmin with roughly the same functionality and I only need to charge it every other week. If you use the GPS the battery gets drained in about a 6 hour activity, but I've recharged it at a refuge while eating.


I think that roughly is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Part of the point is that Apple doesn’t do “roughly”.


I understand, and I don't care. I charge my watch overnight, and if I don't have a charger, I can power it off overnight and still have juice for the next day. It's simply not a big deal for me.


I don't personally sleep with my watch on, so I just charge it every night. But it actually only takes about 15 mins to charge a decent amount, so if I did I'd just charge it while I was in the shower...


I wonder if, from a staffing perspective, it's actually easier to cancel a show under these circumstances than through a more traditional cancellation process.


Is it possible that they wanted to pull the show and this was just the excuse they were looking for?


Why would a broadcaster want to pull a show and need an excuse to do so? Shows get cancelled all the time if the broadcaster decides that they're too expensive etc.


Unlikely they’d want to politicize the canceling of their show. Quiet and uncontroversial is better for ABC.


I do the same accept I created the parent account that is stored on my computer.

The friction of having to go to my computer to grant access to my apps on the phone is enough to keep my off social media.


I can't seem to find any car related videos on the competitor. :)


Disproportionate amount of bus and taxi related videos though.


It does since humans where able to invent a programming language.


Have you tried asking a modern LLM to invent a programming language?


Have you? If so, how'd it go? Sounds like an interesting exercise.



We like MasterChef Australia for the same reason.


Have you found a good Head for Kafka to easily query the Topics using a SQL like language? Especially something that can infer table schema from the Schema Registry.


KSQL?


It's not a create solution and Confluent is not really investing in it anymore.


True, they've gone all in on Flink, which can also do what you want. And I suspect SparkSQL can do it also these days, but I haven't looked at that for ages.

Good luck!


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