2026-11-02 07:27 UTC
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@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz 2026-11-02 08:02
Related: the time taken for "your computer has been unused for too long and doesn't work any more" is getting shorter and shorter. It used to be that you just needed to run a bunch of updates to catch up, but now you have updates, all the websites have expired your cookies, passkeys have vanished, extensions have expired, even Signal needs to download and relink a whole new version. It's even worse when they depend on each other (passkey has expired/vanished so you can't even get onto your password manager). Once this only happened after months, now it seems to happen in mere weeks. The singularity will happen when you're one of the people who aren't online when the latest wave of mutually reinforcing security updates arrives, and it's impossible to ever catch up so you get left behind. #Grumpy