My SSH keys aren't on my computer: they're safely hidden on a hardware token, behind a secure element, like a Yubikey.
Devices like the Yubikey do precisely exist because computers aren't things to be trusted. So their reason for being is to offer a minimal attack surface.
When I git fetch/pull/push I just do it. But it requires me to physically use my Yubikey. It's not 100% foolproof but it's way better than having SSH keys only protected by a password.
So Git over SSH, on a Git/SSH server that supports Yubikeys.
I like the ad (it's really cute) and I'm a big fan of the old Claude Francois song used (Le Mal aimé) but...
There's nothing cynic about it: he who spares the wolf sacrifices the sheep. My kid loves plushies: but when she's playing with a white tiger I'm reminding her that in real-life the tiger would shred her to tear and eat her without any afterthought.
Plushies of dangerous animals, just like that ad, are a way to cope with the brutality of nature, not a way to make nature not brutal.
My life is split between Emacs (no mouse usage at all), terminals (no mouse usage at all except the occasional copy/paste... but typically I'll use commands for this, including a nice "pipe into Emacs" pipe I found online) and then browsers.
Ah, browsers. I didn't bother (yet?) trying to set up a mouseless browser experience because the Web was built by people who obviously love their dear mouses (apparently the plural of mouse is either mice or mouses). And I didn't bother trying to integrate my browser into Emacs either. I'm not that rad.
So I'm in two worlds at once: the mouse world when browsing and the keyboard-only world when terminal'ing / Emacs'ing.
The UK is the country with the biggest yearly outflow of millionaires in the world. And the numbers are huge: there are about the same number of millionaires in the UK and in France, about 3 million. And yet there are 20x more net millionaires outflow leaving the UK than leaving France (16 000 vs 800 net outflow).
Make of that what you will but to me the net outflow is the canary in the coalmine.
Yeah basically the same here. And many people on paid ChatGPT subscription like us noticed just that. Gemini 3 Pro "thinking" is really good.
> Overall, my conclusion is that ChatGPT has lost and won't catch up because of the search integration strength.
I think the biggest issue OpenAI is facing is the numbers: Google is at the moment a near $4 trillion company. They can splurge a near infinite amount of money to win the race.
Google is so big they they created their own TPUs, which is mindboggling.
Which new user is going to willingly pay an OpenAI subscription once he knows that gemini.google.com gives access to a state of the art model? And Google makes sure to remind users who search that they can "continue the discussion" with Gemini.
Maybe the dirty Altman tricks like cornering the entire RAM market can work but I don't see how they can beat Google by playing fair. OpenAI shall need every single dirty trick in the book, including circular funding / shady deals with NVidia to stay relevant vs the behemoth that Google is.
> Another issue is due to the font size and font metrics
The biggest issue is that you don't replace a serif font with a sans-serif one "because diversity".
There's a reason signs on the highway are using sans-serif and there's a reason letters and books are using serif fonts.
I did both write and typeset books and honestly it's facepalming that the previous administration did switch to Calibri "because of diversity and because it's now the default in Word".
Ah, OK. Microsoft is, partly, behind the move. This explains that.
Back then we were playing WarCraft II over a LAN with... The neighbors. We managed, as teenagers, to snatch some old 10BASE2 "ethernet over coax" gear: cables, BNC connectors and terminators, and most of all ethernet adapter cards.
We weren't fully geared though, so we'd assemble the cables manually, using whatever we could find to attach the connectors.
Then we'd use a long piece of string with something attached to it that we'd throw, from the 2nd or 3rd floor of the house, to the neighbor's house. And then we'd use the string to pull up the coax cable.
And then humans and little orcs would transit through the coax cables.
Oh the memories.
We'd also play and be ranked on Case's Ladder, for back then Battle.net didn't even exist yet. So it was all KALI to simulate a LAN over the Internet and play against strangers.
And we'd mod our WCII to use sound files from different languages: for the example for the flying machine I was fond of the italian version "machina volante".
It was... Our life? Only got dethroned as the best time-waster in our lives when the Counter-Strike beta came out (in 1999?). (I didn't like StarCraft but boy oh boy did I play Warcraft III a lot later on).
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