I imagine most people are still using a single email address for everything and very poor passwords, probably the same couple variations everywhere. I try to think about the liability associated with some systems. Like it pisses me off that my bank forces SMS 2FA activated (even though I have OTP enforced - they really should let me deactivate it if I have something better and reactivate if that changes, but whatever), but I also get that the alternative is to just let their average client get fucking annihilated.

I try to take a reasonable stance and be fair on these sorts of issues. I fully understand that I am on a pretty extreme end of the technical spectrum and don't expect everyone to do as I do. Even though this issue isn't really that hard, most people view it that way and probably just do what is easiest. And what's easiest is incredibly insecure for most people without something like passkeys or even SMS that I hate (I reserve the right to sometimes make inflammatory statements 😂)

I'll file this under shit I will believe when I see it. Hype is one of the most abundant things in the universe these days.

Playing it up to be more meaningful than it is isn't helpful either. An unproven (as of now) ten times statistically nothing is cool but not end of the world for gold bugs.

This reminds me of how Bitcoin *could* be fucked with too, but it just isn't economically feasible right now.

Maybe it will be feasible at some point but have you looked at how much it costs to make gold right now? Lol It's really goofy and I doubt we're just going to wake up to a sudden finding that reks the gold market. Call it downplaying but physics is what it is. It may never be economically viable.

Yeah I've seen some of the rigor involved in DIY electrical work lol Funny enough, this was one area where I actually saw in real time where the major codes came from. None of them were particularly unfair or burdensome to anyone who doesn't want to die or burn their structure down. You wouldn't believe some of the dumb shit we fixed. The bigger issue in my experience was the quality of inspectors. That's where the scam was in some jurisdictions, usually in Nowhereville. The codes themselves were pretty fair there are avenues for proper DIY work in my state at least. As for licensing, those rules pertain to people who do that work for money, not people who do work for themselves.

You mean by doing things themselves?