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@ mleku
2025-06-03 06:39:38
the topic of people being unfamiliar with cryptographic signature based authentication on the internet isn't just user side
even yesterday i have a colleague wondering why using usernames on a request endpoint returned an error containing a message about being unable to encode hex
people are used to governments giving out database identification numbers, but those are always relatively short numbers that a person can memorize, around the same size as a phone number
the struggle to teach people about the necessary limitations of database systems is real, and even you bump into *programmers* who have trouble with it.