App-based authentication assumes that you have your phone at hand always. But I don’t and won’t. The primary alternative is a hardware key, but then you have to keep that key at hand always, and I would definitely leave it in yesterday’s trousers and have to dig around in the dirty clothes for it. I could ... social.ayjay.org

@ayjay The assumption in all of this is that the machine is central.

The goal should be make the humanity central.

@ayjay yubikey has a glorious bug that if you put it on the key ring, it deactivates the NFC function. Something about the center metal being an antenna, and it grounding it with the ring.

@jonah Fabulous.

@ayjay @SimonWoods I thought of suggesting a new (and, uh, more healthy and helpful) twist on Leary’s “Tune in, drop out.” Something like “Turn outward, tune in, log off.” Then I discovered that Leary got the phrase from … Marshall McLuhan!!?? Life is weird, man 😵‍💫🤯