The author is Hugo Landau, so of course it is a bad take, how else could it be. The real question at this point is why his terrible takes reach the front page every two weeks…
Seriously, reading this article made me wish for a downvote option on submissions. I'm glad the top comment is pointing out the nonsense of this argument, but then I'm just left wondering how this made it to the top of HN in the first place. The author's diatribe about "remember device" functionality is just flat out silly, for all the reasons other commenters have pointed out.
> I'm glad the top comment is pointing out the nonsense of this argument, but then I'm just left wondering how this made it to the top of HN in the first place.
The last two posts from the same author[1][2], in the past month, where of the same kind and got the same kind of reception (except that for the fediverse blog post, the top comments were either discussing about the topic of the title without addressing the (dumb) content of the article). So yeah, the mystery is why it keeps coming back.
