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  • consumer sound cards top out at ~48khz (which is far above the range of human hearing anyway

    When talking about digital and analog, the specifics of what the frequency that’s being talked about is. The Nyquist rate is the digital sample rate you need to reproduce an analog signal. It is double the maximum analog frequency you are looking to reproduce. So a sample rate 44.1khz (CD sample rate) is the sample rate need to reproduce < 22kHZ signals. So if you wanted to reproduce an analog signal at 144kHZ you would actually need to sample at greater than 288kHZ.






  • Changing handles is a common feature on websites, and request on those that don’t. There are probably good arguments for both from both usability and technical standpoints. FA doesn’t support changing names, its been a request for many years at this point. Weasyl allows you to change, and the most recent old name will redirect. I know SF and IB both allow name changes, but I don’t remember the details, I think one had a previously known as label that could be shown. You can’t allow perpetually holding a name, I can think of many malicious ways to abuse that. Bluesky has the did for perpetual static links, it doesn’t change because that is what all the data is really tied to, the handle is just a nicety.




  • The flow I hear about when people talk about passkeys is sign up with email. Code gets sent to email. Code is entered, passkey gets generated. There always seems to be some similar step that looks like that, and often you have new device or reset that looks the same. Sure the passkey itself is secure, but how do you get it, how do you generate it, how do you validate the first time?


  • I think they are being pushed because cool technology on paper. Whenever I read an article about them, I can’t help but think about the human factors. How are passkeys created, often by a password or email. okay… that looks a lot like a password. Oh you lost the passkey, here lets send you one again. It stinks of a second factor without a first. Sure, the passkey itself is hard to compromise, but how about its creation. If your email is compromised I see no difference from passwords or passkeys.







  • (From a US perspective) It would be good. As an analog, take a look at patents, the surge in 3d printer tech is because the patents expired. The idea is a “limited exclusivity”, the permanent nature it has become is stagnating, and only there to benefit the corporate rather than personal nature that the system was designed for.