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At any moment some change outside my control could occur and my place in society would change. Right now I'm pretty self sufficient and don't really need the support of others in d…

I think this may be a US thing, in the UK at least unions work to promote solidarity.

I'm a director of my small company, and a member of UTAW. The union doesn't just help with employment disputes but also campaigns generally on improving working conditions for all,…

When I read this through 25 years ago I learned more about networking than I think I knew in total up until that point, and that was nearing the end of an A level (English further …

It's pretty upsetting that we've got India's UPI and China's UPI (UnionPay International) and they're both doing exactly the same thing and without geographical context you don't k…

Like QuickBooks Online?

That's nonsense. There are somewhere between 2 and 8 million users of Tor every day. The vast majority of Tor users are ordinary people that want a little more privacy. What a wast…

If you need a primer for the primer: https://web.archive.org/web/20140118063258/http://notabug.co... (unfortunately it wasn't finished)

China and Chinese Red Cross are different things.

I know the title is the title on the actual article, but it's the Chinese Red Cross, not China itself. National Red Cross Societies are independent of the country's government. The…

SSH keys authenticate you. They are an identity. You probably don't need more than one or two identities (maybe personal and work). You can just get a couple of YubiKeys and config…

I see. They didn't mention it on the two factor authentication page I was reading because they've split the security key and TOTP documentation and not made it obvious (enough for …

Ok, I assume that's with FIDO/U2F, so that's not so bad. At that point though, you already have a hardware token capable of holding SSH keys, so I'm still not convinced of the bene…

It looks like 2fa is not required for 1password, and also that even if you did enable 2fa you can only use TOTP. Both TOTP and passwords are vulnerable to phishing as there's no cr…

In modern TLS this just doesn't work, because you generate a shared key. You can verify what you've received from the server because you know you didn't generate it, but someone el…

Missing from almost every calendar hosting thing I've used is the ability to publish free/busy information to allow others to schedule me into meetings without needing to be on the…

I have a TI-83 and an HP 19B II and both see regular enough use that they live on my desks (one at home, one in the office) rather than in the drawer. The calculator on my phone su…

I ran a survey in 2017 and found that around 0.1% of the DNS servers we poked at would negotiate TFO and of those around 94% were Google's. It might be interesting to take another …

I think you're missing a few things here: * Services started with sysvinit would put logs where they want, which is fine if you know where they are but per-service you might be gue…

https://www.irccloud.com/pricing see "Teams"

GDPR is for people. It doesn't help you if you're a business.

This is a common theme. Your employer writes your contract of employment and has fancy lawyers to make sure everything works in favour of the employer. You likely did not have inpu…

If you wanted to do this "enterprise port knocking" on OpenBSD, you could use pf to do this. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/authpf.html The FAQ entry is about building an authentic…