I never understood this take, or most takes implying that the “take 'em apart and put 'em together” form of teleportation wouldn’t be the holy grail of science.

Being able to teleport something is cool and all, but the thing that people should care about much much more is what that actually means: you are disassembling and reassembling a person or object at the atomic level.

This means, you are able to take an arbitrary collection of atoms, and build it into an arbitrary formation.

That’s not a teleporter, that’s a matter printer. Any and all economic implications of teleportation become mute, as the entire concept of an economy becomes irrelevant with the ability to print anything out of literally dirt and rubbish.

Even the concept of human life becomes practically worthless, since if you can put together a human, what’s to stop you from putting together 2? Or 20? Or put together the latest backup of someone who died?

If anyone ever manages to invent this kind of teleportation, it would matter for about 3 seconds before being eclipsed by whatever consequences this has for humanity as a whole - good and bad.

Longer is always better, but a fully random password will always be stronger than a “memorable” password of equal length.

You need exactly one memorable password, and that should be the one to your password manager, maybe two if you need to log into your device first. From there everything else should be long and random. Hell, with most of them you don’t ever even need to know your own passwords, the tool just handles them itself.

XKCD has it right that you need length over complexity, but it’s also from 2011. Today, we very easily can and should get both.

Passwords should be like bad experiences.

The more you remember the worse they were.

I don’t have hard evidence for this (might try and find some at some point though), but I feel like outages have become progressively more common in the last 4-5ish years.

Feels like every time the AI tools “get better” there’s an increase and no one gives a shit. Like, what the fuck? When did stability and reliability become so irrelevant to people?

Hell, GitHub might as well just close up shop with the amount of outages it’s had recently! I get that the bubble is a bubble but how has AI not cost companies enough in outages to show it’s a waste???

First they made you fear someone, then they told you they lived down the street.

Debatable how deliberate that was, but it’s certainly not not what they wanted…