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A fingerprint sensor isn't possible, appreciated, but what about a U2F activation button? It could even just be a wireless pass-through for USB to allow your yubikey to work for ex…

Perhaps your supposedly unique work is more repetitive than you thought: it just has a decision tree that's difficult to model with a regular algorithm, and annoyingly, it turns ou…

Which region? I've been using it consistently all day in Ireland and London. I just tried some USA endpoints and it seems to work fine also.

1k sounds like a discretionary amount that would quite neatly fit within a manager's budget for external consultants and so on, which is probably what they'll say you are when acco…

I have hidden recovery information in a few places on the internet - someone stumbling across it would not know what they are looking at, or what it's for. For example, you can hid…

Email is not a good second authentication factor anyway. I have 6 u2f tokens on my high priority digital accounts, as well as printed recovery codes in several places. Only 1-2 tok…

You can use the powershell command Add-MPPreference -ExclusionPath[0] and ship a script with your app if you want. I do the same for Terraform providers - whenever a new version co…

I would hope that high value target sites such as banks would implement CSPs to prevent that or make it more difficult though.

I'd make it a pluggable middleware with a document on how to implement your own and provide a reference configuration that uses something like Vouch [0] which will redirect the use…

One of the techniques for a voice assistant to distinguish its own voice from background sound is called a Fourier transform, although I expect that the state of the art in this ar…

Companies can quite happily hold two opposing viewpoints when it suits them. Apple's products usually have some kind of pleasing consistency but that doesn't mean their corporate d…

Do tell?

This is relevant to a discussion I am having at work right now. I am not a fan of using a templating language as such to generate string templates, especially for a whitespace sens…

> Okta isn’t a password manager. It’s an Identity Provider. They're best known for being an identity provider but they do have a password manager product[0], which is what I think …

> Obviously, this would be less convinient and wouldn't sync between devices. But would do the job. Seems like you answered your own question. While it is less secure, my password …

I love the idea, unfortunately having read a few of these contracts (albeit not for a space so large), they do specify what the premises are to be used for and what they should not…

I now haven't used Mercurial in about 8-10 years or so. However, I recall enjoying the workflow a bit more, and I did like how commits were explicitly linked to branches as opposed…

The two came out at roughly the same time and for the first few years it wasn't really obvious which was better. Personally, I chose Mercurial to start with, because I liked the Wi…

I hadn't heard of this website. Is there a page that describes what it does? When I navigate to poe.com, it just wants me to enter my email address and make an account, and I'd lik…

That you can imagine, clearly. There is definitely worse.

I too am not a lawyer. The current patent owners are Samsung and a Czech university [0], so I agree with this comment. It is always possible that rent seekers will appear but remem…

How you solve this problem depends on why you want to solve it in the first place. Is this a business partner, a colleague or a friend? What makes you certain that the technical de…

A search engine for physical shops, which indexes their items and inventory so you know where to go when you want a specific type of cheese for a recipe and you're in an unfamiliar…

If this discovery is confirmed then someone will figure out how to do this safely, using robots or other kinds of machines to produce superconductor wires. The benefit derived woul…