Vendors will use passkey implementations as vectors for lock-in. Guaranteed. Workplaces need to accept BYO.
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The elephant in the room is that parental controls development is a total wasteland, and has been for years. There's no money in it. FAMAG is actively hostile to it and phone OEMs haven't got a dog in the race and already contend with razor-thin margins. It's one dimension of a broader political problem of digitization that smarter legislators and politicians have surely noticed by now, which is that unlike human beings, users increasingly don't have any rights or agency worth a damn, and are treated with contempt.
I like that a grassroots movement has remembered that parenting should be at the heart of children's technology access, but I fear such groups' 'useful idiot' value to authoritarian elements up to the same old tricks.
THEY KNOW
SHUT IT DOWN
This write-up articulates the issues from the perspective of a security lecturer. The core issue really is ownership of technology.
https://techrights.org/o/2021/11/29/teaching-cybersecurity/
Whatever the appearance of competition between, say, Apple and Facebook, Big-Tech companies collude to maintain interlocking systems of controls that enforce each others shared values including sabotage of interoperability, security and inviting regulation upon themselves to better keep down smaller competitors. Big-Tech comes with its own value system that it imposes on our culture.
Sean, are you a risktaker by nature?
Oh yes. I once read a pop-up picture story book about giraffes.
Pepper grinders exist so you can make sure you're not at a diner.
The threats are what keep us alert, circumspect and fleet-footed in our use of web technology. Always have done.
I want to view multiple tabs at once, in a split-page view where I can scroll on one tab, then mouse-over to another and start independently scrolling on that one. It's probably the key feature I miss from Vivaldi. Is there some insurmountable obstacle in the engine that prevents implementation, or is it stubborn devs?
No one with a passive user mindset will appreciate Lemmy in its current states. There's no algorithmic feed. It isn't pre-populated with stuff they like. Active curation is required. Slow updates aren't seen by this set as an advantage (my attention isn't being constantly funnelled toward nonsense) but a deficiency (I can't doomscroll; 'if the place isn't busy it mustn't be good').
It probably also has to do with a collective loss of any sense of ownership of digital space. I too would treat the web as an appliance (or television) if I thought I was a guest everywhere I went.
Getting people to attach a(ny) value to it is the biggest hurdle by far. I think the complacent attitude is part genuine incapacity in dealing with abstraction (what is a data profile anyway? How is knowledge of my purchase history a risk to me?) and part exceptionalism/denial. People like this tend never to think in terms of power dynamics.
PMing you shortly