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Yubikeys are by far the faster and most secure way to do login and two factor authentication today, by FAR. It's true that UX along platforms does not make it easy, but the TLDR is:
- Get at least 2 new yubikeys, if you get three better.
- Check that the firmware is at least 5.7.x
- Set them to require PIN mandatory
- Disable the modes you are not gonna use like TOTP
- Use them with the FIDO2 mode enabled (that's basically putting a passkey inside a yubikey)
- This way, you have phishing resistant login and 2fa and no risk of cloud totp apps.
Yubikeys are great, but their customer support is not great, I would say if you have any question, let us know, we research them a lot from @opsek_io
You also have our guide here:
github.com/Opsek/Yubikeys-ch…
he truly is…
and he’s been doing this at the same level of energy and dedication for the past nine years. If you somehow don’t know how and why @austingriffith is a G, here’s some context…
youtu.be/Dt0MvChh97c?si=ibzH…
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Glad to have you back and yes, health, recovery and unlearning old ways of functioning is hard but so worth it for your own sake. Happy to chat as you acclimatise to new you 🫶
Hormones are one example of how we still don’t fully understand individual biology. Their influence extends across cognition, mood, metabolism, immunity and physical health in both men and women.
But how often do we investigate their role beyond the usual age segments, reproductive milestones or textbook symptom profiles?
We seem to be more comfortable asking whether someone fits the statistical pattern for a hormonal condition than exploring whether hormonal changes could explain what they’re experiencing.
Yes, levels fluctuate and testing isn't always clinically informative etc. but the issue here is if drs remain curious when someone falls outside the expected demographics or symptom profile.
Ai has increased my research ability massively and it can identify patterns that can be missed but it also has limitations based on what it's trained on.
My personal aim with my “arguments” is that asking probing, reasonably well informed questions (with Ai help now) may not make medicine more accurate immediately but it can make it more curious for the benefit of the individual.
My doctor told me the other week, “I have learnt not to argue with you.” lol
What she means there is that I ask a lot of questions and if I am not comfortable with something or have doubts, I dmor and we discuss until I am satisfied. (I’m sure I’m her “favourite” patient…)
Makes me think more about our relationship with medical authority - medicine is remarkably good at identifying what’s statistically likely but that statistical probability isn’t the same as understanding the specific individual.
And for so many including a lot of friends stories I’ve heard, questioning expertise has become confused with rejecting it.
But then the greater the expertise, the greater the capacity for inquiry, not the greater the resistance to being questioned, no? Yes, I know they’re stretched etc so I am sure I am not making her life easier but tbh my priority here is…me.
Started reading Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” and I think this is interesting particularly re chapter on The Lazy Controller I just got to (spoiler: we’re inclined to conserve cognitive effort and our willingness to think depends on motivation/incentives)
Thinking requires effort and our minds are always negotiating how much of it we’re willing to spend from the mental energy bank.
Maybe AI’s strongest retention dynamic won’t be entertainment or indispensability but our growing preference not to expend the effort ourselves.
Not only because agents do said tasks reliably (will increasingly do so) but because they remove the cognitive and emotional burden of having to think, make a minutiae of decisions and manage uncertainty ourselves.
Also, dependency doesn't instantly come from indispensability, it can slowly start with the incremental loss of our willingness to do something ourselves.
Which then ofc brings up the question: are we outsourcing cognition to free up capacity for deeper/creative thinking or just outsourcing the need to think at all🙃
i've been talking to a lot of normal ppl outside of tech about personal agents & the convos have been incredibly fascinating, particularly w.r.t. to retention.
most consumer products typically have one of two types of retention, one is desire driven which is just pure dopamine (like insta, tiktok, games). they often don't even need notifications because you know there is a reward for your desire always waiting. the second is dependency driven, like emails, calendars, even credit cards & banking. most ppl have to do this, it's not something they necessarily desire (unless they are a sociopath).
the challenge with personal ai agents right now is that they occupy a weird third space where they aren't emotionally rewarding most of the time to become entertainment like the first category, & they're not reliable / indispensable enough to become pure infra. i.e. they fail, & there is a lot of friction. outside of pure research driven tasks, even one failure is often enough to not come back for the utility value prop.
which is why i think vertical agents that focus on making your life more interesting & entertaining are worth deep exploration still. & even very focused vertically integrated utility agents that work reliably will still be in demand. tons of ppl still think in jobs to be done when reaching for anything & with general purpose agents that's just not as crisp yet on what those critical jobs are.
I always find it helpful to think of training your brain like you would a dog. Tell it to sit…(not easy and mildly annoying but it does work)