I try to keep this blog positive but need to vent a bit today about logins. In the good old days you’d use a username and password to log into a website. We’ve all been educated now to use good passwords too and some of us use a password manager, like 1Password, for extra security and c... miraz.me

@gpittman Thanks for the explanatory feedback. I checked my Amazon account and found a two-factor authentication section where I hoped to be able to turn off the annoying behaviour, but No! I could have turned on even more roadblocks!

@pimoore I love that my iPhone and iPad recognise my face for some things, eg banking login.

@pimoore Oh, thanks. Pretty sure I customised the mentions. I'll rummage around a bit…

@pimoore This CSS might or might not work, but may give ideas:

/* webmentions */

.comment-avatar.u-photo.js-avatar, img.u-photo.js-avatar { width: 75px; height:auto; float:left; margin-top:0; margin-right:1rem; }

replies li , #shares li , #likes li {

list-style: none; clear:both; padding-top:1rem; }

.p-author { font-style:italic; font-family:serif; color:gray; }

like-count, {

display:none; }

@Miraz URK! Don't know what happened to make the text in that reply look so utterly bizarre!

@Miraz @pimoore Ah, something about having a hash messed up the look of the reply and omitted the hash itself. There should be one before ‘replies li' and before ‘like-count’.

@Miraz You can use three backticks (```) before and after a code block to prevent this. (I think).

@odd Thanks. That means remembering to do that! 😂

@Miraz True! 😅 The backticks aren’t obvious on the iPhone keyboard either…

@Miraz I've been thinking more about adding a text message as an option instead of email because iOS and macOS (and Android?) do such a nice job now of auto-filling codes, so you don't have to leave the web browser to check email. I know it's not the same as passwords, but might help.

@manton Thanks. A particular use case for me recently was a stinking hot day and a traffic accident that closed the only road for hours with my phone battery low. I turned round and went back to Levin to sit in the cool Library and use their computers. I’ll just log in to Micro.Blog, I thought. Then I had to log in to email to get the link to click. (Apart from the fact of remembering which email to check as I have 3 blogs and 3 separate email addresses). A 6-digit code texted to me would have worked well.

@Miraz @manton — Which raises the question : can 3 separate Micro.Blog accounts all use one single address for text messages?

@manton can you do it via iMessage instead of SMS ('email' vs 'phone number')?

@SciPhi I'd love to, but probably not. I think I would need to run a Mac server and script it, and I can see some things going wrong with that.

@pimoore Didn’t Steve Gibson of GRC make a secure passwordless login system called SQRL?

@pimoore Perhaps that's a future extension/benefit of 'Sign in with Apple' could provide?