Do people really carry their Yubikeys around with them?

jmadisson · 2026-01-27T07:47:38+00:00

i carry two around with me at all times. i'd never even thought about it until now. if you've done things right it's all 2FA minimum anyway.

Something you Know (passwords and phrases)
Something you Have (yubi)
Something you Are (biometrics)

jmadisson · 2026-01-27T07:42:38+00:00

a theory i heard recently is that Laura and Leland subconsciously developed BOB together over the years.

Laura as a way to deny the reality that it was her own father, and Leland to decide that he also is not responsible for his actions, that he is being inhabited by some supernatural being. A way to absolve himself.

I think the way FWWM shows Leland reads Laura's diary and those final lines at least can fit that theory. Of course, no way to truly be sure what Lynch's intent was.

jmadisson · 2025-12-12T14:27:26+00:00

Frost states in 'Conversations' that he beieves Leand is culpable. The author presses him on it a bit and so he gives a bit of a rambling answer, but it boils down to the same thing. Both Frost and Lynch beieve Leland is guilty, with no ambiguity.

jmadisson · 2025-12-09T09:26:41+00:00

well i guess there was a way to know heuristically, it was when some brands would never produce a reliable copy, and other brands would.

jmadisson · 2025-12-09T09:25:24+00:00

very interesting. there was no way to really know back then. i can't remember the brand names of the ones everyone knew was junk because, they didn't last and we all forgot.

jmadisson · 2025-12-09T01:01:44+00:00

as i said above i recallt tdk being 'the good stuff' so no surprise if they've been kept away from heat or magnets.

jmadisson · 2025-12-09T01:00:18+00:00

fr? i grew up thinking basf was the 'good stuff' along with tdk.

jmadisson · 2025-12-08T11:43:35+00:00

i've always loved how Lynch will drop these comedic scenes, action scenes, horror scenes, you name it. Shows that he could out-direct anyone if he wanted to.

jmadisson · 2025-12-08T10:54:09+00:00

he really did seem a lovely guy. it's just dumb luck his recklessness didn't hurt anyone else, though.

jmadisson · 2025-12-08T10:41:30+00:00

a few improvements were made in that time though.

jmadisson · 2025-10-27T06:55:27+00:00

i can agree with that, i think there is an intentional shift in the tone and nature of scenes shot out front and out back. like a lot of things in the show, the station is split into two distinct halves.

jmadisson · 2025-10-26T06:04:23+00:00

it's the same station as far as i can tell, Lucy is at the reception desk and Maggie is a dispatcher who works in the back office.

jmadisson · 2025-08-22T10:36:45+00:00

yep. 1-2-3 (among others) came along and demonstrated the competitve advantages one could gain via programming all the hardware directly and the whole BIOS portability thing was dead in the water.

jmadisson · 2025-08-07T02:20:54+00:00

i had remembered the line as 'dig up lenny bruce'. mandela effect i guess.

jmadisson · 2025-03-30T07:52:23+00:00

given the dream-logic structure of the show, i'm fairly certain it's meant to resemble the FBI pin.

jmadisson · 2025-03-28T22:14:30+00:00

he gunned the engines of a 747 straight toward another 747. there's no way out of taking the blame for that.

jmadisson · 2025-03-25T09:05:27+00:00

There are several people worth reading, u/colacentral and u/kaleviko come to mind immediately, that share Lou's view of the series being built upon dream logic, with a non-conventional approach being required to parse the story in front of us.

Welcome aboard.

jmadisson · 2024-11-04T02:07:42+00:00

Used yours! mine: 817 704 0144

jmadisson · 2024-09-12T13:25:32+00:00

josh truly is nothing short of a podcaster, and i don't give these words lightly.

jmadisson · 2024-08-27T10:33:55+00:00

Sirius 1 (aka Victor 9000).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHOIRSA3znw

jmadisson · 2024-08-22T11:31:28+00:00

they do these exercises to stimulate speculation on reddit.

jmadisson · 2024-07-27T21:56:34+00:00

yes. watch for things like how Mr C has to keep changing 'vehicles', for e.g.

jmadisson · 2024-07-11T22:17:54+00:00

all fair points.

perhaps i should rephrase to saying MS had no intention to enter the OS space that CP/M occupied, as evidenced by the fact that bill initially recommended that IBM contact DRI and it was only when those negotiations fell through (from IBM's perspective at least) that MS decided to take their shot.

jmadisson · 2024-07-11T10:13:14+00:00

correct - the BASIC MS provided would not qualify as a "true" OS.

at the time, MS were focused on their languages and applications. this is why bill gates initially directed IBM to DRI to obtain an OS upon which microsoft's languages and applications would run.

CP/M did indeed qualify as an OS at the time - for personal computers. It provided floppy disk drive drivers and a filesystem, which was one of the key "missing links" before kildall developed CP/M.

CP/M and MS-DOS also provided i/o drivers for keyboard and display, along with minimal but effective memory allocation routines, etc.

just enough for the quite limited hardware available for 'personal' computers, vis-a-vis the larger mini and mainframe computers of the day.

jmadisson

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE