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Feross

@feross

14 Sep 20

@1Password

My friend has a @1Password Family subscription and let the credit card lapse. She didn't notice the emails asking to update the card.

1Password completely deleted her account and logged her out on all devices. Now she can't access her 100+ passwords and 2FA tokens

WTF

@1Password

I feel terrible because I recommended @1Password to her as I have to countless friends over the years.

For as long as I've used 1Password, their policy was to make passwords read-only when a license or subscription expires. Never to remotely wipe your passwords as punishment

@1Password

She's now been logged out and had her passwords wiped on both her Mac and iOS devices and hasn't been able to access her accounts for several days.

@1Password support - can you fix this now, please?

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Feross

@feross

3 Jun 20

I just built a site to help you make a friend in 2 minutes! My goal is to help people stuck indoors because of COVID-19 (or police curfews) to make meaningful connections with strangers. Hope you love it!

virus.cafe

Here's how it works:

1. You are matched with a random partner for a video chat
2. You're given a deep question to discuss
3. You have 2 minutes to discuss it!

The only rule is: no small talk!

Here are a few samples:

- When in your life have you been the happiest?
- What would you be willing to die for?
- What is the biggest lie you’ve told without getting caught?
- What is a belief you had as a child that you no longer have?
- What human emotion do you fear the most?

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Feross

@feross

5 Jul 18

🤯 Just read a fascinating paper called "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution"

🤣 It's a bunch of HILARIOUS anecdotes showing how Artificial Life systems often produce SUPER surprising and SHOCKINGLY ridiculous results. 😲

👇 THREAD

😜 "Selection Gone Wild"

"It is often functionally simpler for evolution to just exploit loopholes in the quantitative measure than it is to achieve the actual desired outcome"

🙄 "Evolution had discovered another cheat: "somersaulting without jumping at all. ... At the start of the simulation, the individual 'kicks' the foot of its pole off the ground, and begins falling head-first, somersaulting its foot"

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Feross

@feross

4 Jun 18

@electronjs

My thoughts on GitHub...

Microsoft in 2018 isn't an evil monopolist anymore. They've actually invested heavily in open source, recently becoming the #1 contributor on GitHub including to many projects that are not their own (e.g. @electronjs) but there are some downsides. 1/10

Downside 1: One less independent tech company. GitHub used to be an independent advocate for open source. Now, it'll be yet another service of Big Tech Inc. Historically, companies use acquisitions to push users into their ecosystem to sell more products and services. 2/10

Acquirers often make it slightly annoying to use the acquired product with competitor ecosystems, letting integrations with competitor services languish to the point that they stop working or are removed entirely. They also might start pushing Microsoft Azure in some form. 3/10

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Feross

@feross

7 Jan 18

❤️ Alan Watts:

"My goodness, don't you remember when you went first to school?
You went to kindergarten.
And kindergarten, the idea was to push along so that you could get into first grade.
And then push along so that you could get into second grade, third grade, and so on,

Going up and up and then you went to high school and this was a great transition in life.
And now the pressure is being put on, you must get ahead.
You must go up the grades and finally be good enough to get to college.

And then when you get to college, you're still going step by step, step by step, up to the great moment in which you're ready to go out into the world.

And then when you get out into this famous world,
Comes the struggle for success in profession or business.

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