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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’ve always felt like I don’t deserve my role, I climbed the proverbial ladder quick and I am very young for my position (Principal Engineer). But I sleep fine at night because at the end of the day I was always honest with my skills, my intentions and my motivations, and I’m always sure to get full agreement from everyone before doing stuff. If after all that nobody figured out I’m a fucking idiot just making an informed guess, that’s on them.

    I always fear the next company I join will have “real technical leaders” who will inevitably show me my place, but it hasn’t happened so far (3-4 massive companies in the last decade).

    Maybe one day I will meet this person, but it is not this day… And then I try to teach the same to younger engineers to work through problems as a team and just do it until somebody stops you, because in a lot of cases nobody has a clue either, and that’s what it means to lead.



  • Normally phones provide an API to use your fingerprint, but the fingerprint itself isn’t shared or stored. Just like passwords there are ways of sharing this without sharing the plain data or storing it.

    It would be much easier to lift your fingerprint IRL and use it than through a website like that. At least without skipping through a lot of warnings.

    To avoid always having to login, there’s a token cached on the browser side which lately has been the target of attacks. A temporary ticket store on your computer that people copy to use for a while and access sensistive info as if they had you crendentials. With this type of attack it doesn’t matter what the password type is.

    TLDR fingerprints are as safe as any other password, which isn’t very safe.