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  1. Comment on AMA with u/spez going on right now - "Addressing the community about changes to our API" in ~tech

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    /u/Deimos Here's my request to implement a tildes gold, that would make a donation to a nonprofit of the receiver's choice (ideally configurable in your user profile, maybe as a list if the giver...

    /u/Deimos Here's my request to implement a tildes gold, that would make a donation to a nonprofit of the receiver's choice (ideally configurable in your user profile, maybe as a list if the giver is opposed to your first choice charity)

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  2. Comment on 1Password releases Passkeys in public beta channels in ~tech

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    Here's a rundown from google on passkeys: https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys Here's the demo page google lists in that site: https://passkeys-demo.appspot.com/ As I understand it, it...

    Here's a rundown from google on passkeys: https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys
    Here's the demo page google lists in that site: https://passkeys-demo.appspot.com/

    As I understand it, it functions essentially like a keypair like you might use for ssh auth. This is a long time coming, as this kind of authentication has been in use for decades in other spaces.

    I tried to run the demo listed in the app in FireFox, but it did not work. It did work with Chrome on my macbook with TouchID, and I was able to authenticate. It was a pretty intuitive workflow. I did not attempt to use 1Password, since I don't know that I want to be on the prerelease and I don't know how easily I could downgrade.

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  3. Comment on Resources for learning to code in ~comp

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    I make pretty heavy use of GitHub Copilot in my daily. One of my favorite things about it is that it does a decent job of interpreting my human readable comments into code. In the same vein as...

    I make pretty heavy use of GitHub Copilot in my daily. One of my favorite things about it is that it does a decent job of interpreting my human readable comments into code. In the same vein as EgoEimi's suggestion that you learn by doing, I suggest that you would take an intro to programming concepts video course online, then try to create something that you might find interesting to use. Heck, even a recreation of something that already exists would do it. Type out what you want to do in comments, then see what suggestions copilot has for you. Read through the code and decide whether or not it will fulfill your requirements and make modifications and additional comment clarifications as necessary to prompt for more suggestions.

    This is a strategy I have used to learn new languages, where I'm not as familiar with the syntax but I have a handle on the higher level code concepts.

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