Ricky Mondello
@rmondello.com
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🧛🏻♀️ It’s not a phase
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🏳️⚧ Trans, nonbinary, they/them
😷 Caring, careful
🔑 Pass{keys, codes, words}
🧛🏻♀️ It’s not a phase
🦔 Speedrunner
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Ricky Mondello
@rmondello.com
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Authenticate 2025 Keynote | Ricky Mondello, Apple | Get the Most Out of Passkeys
YouTube video by FIDO Alliance
www.youtube.com
I gave an opening keynote at the FIDO Alliance’s “Authenticate” conference a few weeks ago! My goal was to explain, as clearly as I can, why passkeys are important and how we should use them to reduce the harm that passwords cause. [1/2]
YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOb...
YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOb...
Seems like I picked a weird day to be mostly offline.
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Seems like I picked a weird day to be mostly offline.
On macOS, when a web browser uses passkeys in Apple Passwords, it works in two steps:
1. They have no idea what passkeys you have, but they can summon secure system to do passkey auth.
2. They can optionally prompt to know which websites you have passkeys on so they can offer deeper integrations.
1. They have no idea what passkeys you have, but they can summon secure system to do passkey auth.
2. They can optionally prompt to know which websites you have passkeys on so they can offer deeper integrations.
Yes, I would love to give Open AI / ChatGPT access to my Passwords and Passkeys
ChatGPT’s Mac browser just got new features, like iCloud passkeys
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
On macOS, when a web browser uses passkeys in Apple Passwords, it works in two steps:
1. They have no idea what passkeys you have, but they can summon secure system to do passkey auth.
2. They can optionally prompt to know which websites you have passkeys on so they can offer deeper integrations.
1. They have no idea what passkeys you have, but they can summon secure system to do passkey auth.
2. They can optionally prompt to know which websites you have passkeys on so they can offer deeper integrations.
"we take those" might be one of my favorite things to say.
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"we take those" might be one of my favorite things to say.
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fuck…Yamcha is mentioned in the Epstein files
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
fuck…Yamcha is mentioned in the Epstein files
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It's not a warning. It's a threat.
"A nice economy you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it."
And all we have to do is keep pretending that the amount of money invested in AI is proportional to the value we're getting from it. Easy enough, just don't anger the mobsters
"A nice economy you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it."
And all we have to do is keep pretending that the amount of money invested in AI is proportional to the value we're getting from it. Easy enough, just don't anger the mobsters
BBC: Pichai said while AI investment had been an “‘extraordinary moment’, there was some ‘irrationality’ ..
“Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Mr Pichai said .. ‘I think no company is going to be immune, including us.’”
$GOOGL
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Mr Pichai said .. ‘I think no company is going to be immune, including us.’”
$GOOGL
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's not a warning. It's a threat.
"A nice economy you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it."
And all we have to do is keep pretending that the amount of money invested in AI is proportional to the value we're getting from it. Easy enough, just don't anger the mobsters
"A nice economy you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it."
And all we have to do is keep pretending that the amount of money invested in AI is proportional to the value we're getting from it. Easy enough, just don't anger the mobsters
I, uhhh, left my heart in Argentina, so you can say I'm pretty confused about things.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I, uhhh, left my heart in Argentina, so you can say I'm pretty confused about things.
Elizabeth Stokes, Jonathan Pearce, Benjamin Sinclair, and Tristan Deck must be protected at all costs.
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Elizabeth Stokes, Jonathan Pearce, Benjamin Sinclair, and Tristan Deck must be protected at all costs.
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
i've never really been a fan of the phrase "heavy petting"
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
i've never really been a fan of the phrase "heavy petting"
We came here on a plane. Just a couple of scientists.
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
We came here on a plane. Just a couple of scientists.
I am very, very sad about the passing of Alice Wong.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I am very, very sad about the passing of Alice Wong.
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“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
Reposted by Ricky Mondello
this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
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thank you, katie wilson
Earlier this week, all 74 of the Northwest’s endangered orcas gathered into what researchers call a superpod — a sort of all-inclusive family reunion.
Rare orca superpod comes to Seattle
They came together Sunday evening not far from Port Townsend. Why, no one can say for sure, except the participants themselves — and no humans speak their language.
www.kuow.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
thank you, katie wilson
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absolutely Olympic-caliber feats of passive voice in this sentence
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
absolutely Olympic-caliber feats of passive voice in this sentence
Yes, this is huge news. Passkeys continue to march forward.
Microsoft have finally released native support for password managers in Windows, starting with 1Password and Bitwarden. That's a massive step forward, and could really drive the adoption of passkeys within enterprise.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Yes, this is huge news. Passkeys continue to march forward.
One could argue that it is outrageous that X invalidated a ton of user credentials just because they didn’t like them being labeled for “twitter.com”. I wrote up more about their decision over on Mastodon: hachyderm.io/@rmondello/1...
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
One could argue that it is outrageous that X invalidated a ton of user credentials just because they didn’t like them being labeled for “twitter.com”. I wrote up more about their decision over on Mastodon: hachyderm.io/@rmondello/1...
Make Schumer's life hell.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Make Schumer's life hell.
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Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
This week, I'm in Kobe for W3C #TPAC. I'm looking forward to a week of talking passkeys and WebAuthn, and more generally authentication technologies, and even more generally security and privacy on the web! If you're here and see me, say hi! If you wanna meet, let's!
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This week, I'm in Kobe for W3C #TPAC. I'm looking forward to a week of talking passkeys and WebAuthn, and more generally authentication technologies, and even more generally security and privacy on the web! If you're here and see me, say hi! If you wanna meet, let's!
Reposting this for the weekend crowd. tl;dr: I gave a talk about passkeys at a conference, I’m really proud of it, and I want as many people to watch it as possible. (Reposts and blogging welcome!)
I gave an opening keynote at the FIDO Alliance’s “Authenticate” conference a few weeks ago! My goal was to explain, as clearly as I can, why passkeys are important and how we should use them to reduce the harm that passwords cause. [1/2]
YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOb...
YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOb...
Authenticate 2025 Keynote | Ricky Mondello, Apple | Get the Most Out of Passkeys
YouTube video by FIDO Alliance
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Reposting this for the weekend crowd. tl;dr: I gave a talk about passkeys at a conference, I’m really proud of it, and I want as many people to watch it as possible. (Reposts and blogging welcome!)
Reposted by Ricky Mondello
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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Mitosis would be a beautiful name for a girl.
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Mitosis would be a beautiful name for a girl.