Oh, oh no no no it wasn’t

The reason he wants it is he doesn’t want secrets to setup auth

Yes I’d like auth without the auth please

This looks great! Thank you for the recommendation!

That really sucks, I’m sorry :/ yet I’m not surprised at all. Airlines, while absolutely terrible, can see if you booked through them and if you’re a loyal flyer, and they’ll help you out. Priceline just don’t care at all about you, you’re a single transaction, and they already got their money

above my paygrade that last question. As for the first, we did automatically pull it out of the email, but it was sent to us manually

Rules I’ve learned from software engineering for almost 2 decades.

• Never roll your own ORM
• Never roll your own Auth

No matter what you think, someone else did it better. Trying to do either of those outside of a hobby environment is pure hubris. “But I can do it better” - no you fucking can’t. I have wasted much much more time debugging shitty “home grown” ORM solutions that clearly some dev just was bored and did than I have spent figuring out the quirks of whatever one I’m using. Same goes for auth. Just learn it.

I worked for a mid-sized government entity where we handled PII data. Underneath us were local municipalities who were in charge of sending us that PII so that it could be registered at our level. For PII think licenses, IDs, sensitive stuff for sure.

Most of the municipalities were easy to work with, they did an SFTP drop or used a VPN or something.

A couple though were rural. Very rural, and didn’t have IT departments. They had Martha who works the counter from 1-4pm. Those places were… horrid. We had a special email where they would email us whatever formats they had. Unencrypted, completely open, we couldn’t do anything about it because it was their data and their rules, it was our job to simply accept what they had. We could of course make serious suggestions, point out how horrid this was, but at the end of the day it was their decision. So we had a job to log into an email account every day, check for an email from Martha’s hotmail account, and parse the excel file she used to read out private IDs and license numbers which she manually typed into it.

This was 20 years ago now so dear god I hope their laws improved.

Interesting, had no idea!

Okay so years and years ago I worked for… let’s say smexpedia.com. These third party booking platforms are just notoriously awful all around. They’re bad to you the consumer, they’re bad to the hotels, they’re bad to the hotel staff, they should be the last resort of booking. Hotels put their worst inventory up for sale on these sites that they know isn’t worth much. Then, these third party sites take those rates and do everything they can to squeeze every penny out of it. You are completely at the mercy of these two booking systems talking to each other, and bets are if something goes wrong you’ll end up at the hotel thinking you have a confirmed booking when in reality it’s gone missing.

If you booked via the hotel, if you get to the frontdesk they’ll help you. So most hotels do go empty, and front desk is happy to help, but if you booked via a third party you have to get it resolved through them. So front desk will have no ability to help you, and you’ll call the third party booking site and they’ll have you sit on hold for 40 minutes, then you’ll get someone who’s job it is to get you off the phone, and they’ll eventually call the hotel and try to blame the poor front desk person, and eventually maybe you get something worked out. This was the common story. We knew we were selling rooms that weren’t available, but the error rate was “manageable”.

And don’t think the bundles are saving you any money. Airlines operate on razor thin margins already, so they’re not wanting to give you a deal and remember now the third party wants a cut too. Rental cars are less and less bundle-able, and again, third party wants a cut.

Book directly through the hotel. Do research, pick a chain you like, and join their loyalty program. If you book third party you will get dick when you get to the hotel. Join the loyalty program and they’ll sometimes hook you up. Remember, many hotels go pretty empty regularly. If you’re nice to the front desk agent and they have the corner room open, they may give it to you, they have to me quite a bit. You’ll get nothing if you book third party, that was all decided well before you arrived.

I’m mostly venting to the abyss, but I hope someone sees this and it helps them

That’s all 100% a slippery slope argument. Fact is is that they’re already trying to do that. Saying no is only going to be ignored, as it already is. It’s better to provide a solution that works that also respects our privacy and allows us to maintain control over our devices, otherwise they’ll mandate the exact thing you’re worried about.

That is not at all what we were talking about. California passed a law that only requires an admin on a PC to be able to create a child account which will be marked as under 18. Standard OS behavior there with permission systems that already exist. That then is passed up the stack. It’s quite literally a boolean, one that was created by a parent. It’s the most sensible way for a compromise.

Yeah out of all the meh Star wars and they go to rogue one? To me there’s only the originals, andor, and rogue one

My mind went to this one

Exactly, it makes sense up and down the stack. Parent says junior is under 18 to the os. Os passes it into the browser, browser passes it along to sites, or prevents displaying them. There would of course be ways around it, but it solves 95% of the cases immediately, and lets us adults continue being adults.

Because if they don’t do something like this they’re going to lose a massive amount of their user base. If something like this doesn’t happen then it’s id verification, and it’s pretty clear republicans want that nationwide, and UK proves that other countries also want it. This would provide a format to say “I’m over 18 let me in” without needing to provide an id, and so most of their users could still enjoy privately. Decent compromise imo

This is what California just passed into law, I think they’re thinking the same thing and trying to force the hand a bit before I’d verification becomes the only option.

That’s not enshittification, that’s just a price increase. I’d hardly say it’s the same as this change to arduino

If someone says 10x it’s probably bullshit. 100x it’s definitely bullshit. I don’t even have a term for 1000x

Trying to regulate it is close to the alt right christians doing the same thing. My mom left me a book about how touching myself would lead to drugs and hell eventually.

She is very nice from what I hear