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It sucks Yubikey (or other hardware based auth) isn't more prevalent in the financial/banking world. It helps mitigate a lot of types of attacks: - No tokens to exfiltrate off a co…

In an ideal world, I'd just use Yubikeys for everything. The problem is that it's not universally supported (or only supports a limited number of keys), so now I have a hodgepodge …

It's only a security issue if you don't secure the cloud storage that's used for backups. Google Authenticator and some other 2FA apps allow the user to export their tokens to othe…

Just got off Authy. They've done everything to trap customers into their broken platform, primarily by never allowing the user to export their tokens, either to file, or to another…

Your post is reminiscent of Rogaway's paper "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work" https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1162.pdf

Should this be under Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Kagi also seems to be built atop GCP. Not a great place to be if you want to compete against Google in the future.

Going to be pretty funny when pranksters start putting airtags into places where they can't be found just to annoy people with unknown tracker alerts.

The worst are the apps that will constantly bother you with an in-app popup to enable notifications, e.g. Goat. They make it come up randomly so you'll accidentally click on it. Or…

Already had my fill of Pixel 7 Pro problems. The screen failed to register any touches on it, twice. Once within warranty, once outside it. Best I could do is file a claim with my …

Fun fact: So is the braking. There are no hydraulic backup systems in place.

Is there a plan to eventually switch over to self-hosting? It seems like it might be bad to use a competitor for cloud services, although Kagi is small enough right now to not be o…

On my iPhone 13 Pro, calendar notifications will fail, and the alarm clock will fail to ring. No idea why. I need to reboot my iPhone once a week to fix this issue, and it's been t…

Sounds like you get it. It's unfortunate more people don't follow this mentality. And there's no incentive to stop this. When email inboxes turn into marketing dumpsters, it just d…

Sometimes I wonder if their mindset is, "Hey, even if only .05% engage w/ the marketing email, that's still > 0%!". Maybe their mindset should really be, "Hey, we're annoying 99.95…

Yes

It's not just scrollbars. It's the elimination of window borders. Aside from not being able to differentiate one window from another similarly colored window in the background, it'…

I was a total convert to the Pixel 7 Pro until two weeks ago (check my comment history). Now my phone goes black when the slightest amount of pressure is applied to the center of t…

Hooking up eGPUs to laptops. I don't really game, but I would like to have a separate eGPU to hook up to my laptop for ML stuff, rather than have a GPU dedicated to a single box.

It's comparable to the Pixel 7 Pro (212g) or iPhone 14 Pro (206g), but it would be nice to see that number trend downwards. I had a Pixel 4a in the past, and that seemed like a goo…

I couldn't finish the W11 Home Edition installation on my parent's computer without having them create an account, so I just installed Xubuntu on it instead, and probably avoided a…

A big reason for me to start learning Emacs again is due to the inevitable rot of VS Code. I'm even playing around with Neovim a bit. VS Code is like milk, but with an unknown expi…

Google and Apple do things similar on their devices. I get nagged to backup my Android phone. It's a thinly-veiled upsell to their Google Drive product. There is no way to tell it …

The Dell XPS laptop series (and older Latitudes) seem to be a solid hardware platform for running various Linux distros. I'm running Mint and Arch on some XPSes and Latitudes and t…

Wouldn't a 200% export tax on high water items incentivize the same foreign investors to purchase more cattle operations in the US, ship their alfalfa to those ranches, then ship t…