Comment by hellojesus
12 hours ago
My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth. Does this mean I'd be doomed even if I had a compatible mobile device?
12 hours ago
My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth. Does this mean I'd be doomed even if I had a compatible mobile device?
I also disable Bluetooth on my phone every few months (and never enable it)... or at least after every CCC or such.
We might need to redo this whole Internet thing because this is insanity.
Maybe it’s time to get in to Ham radio or some other hobby
Yes. The technical name for this FIDO2 QR code flow is caBLE (Cloud Assisted Bluetooth Low Energy).
In a free market, the content provider is free to put whatever guardrails they feel appropriate. Loginwall, Paywall, CaptchaWall.
If you don't like that provider, you are free to pick another.
I'm not 'free' to pick another government site. There is only one.
1. Free markets do not exist
2. If free markets did exist they would not conform to the theory that people are using when they think of what free markets are, since people do behave rationally, power dynamics are real, and no consumer can have all of the information needed to make rational decisions even if that information were available
3. The market is providing solutions to its own failures without fixing the underlying failures because it is more profitable this way. Is buying something from a company that mitigates a problem created by the same company actually a free market, or is it just extraction?