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TOTP can be used today to authenticate a couple to each other over an untrusted medium. It’s rather high friction; you have to set it up in advance, and then read a six digit numbe…

Related: https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM > A language model trained from scratch exclusively on data from certain places and time periods to reduce modern bias and emu…

I had a similar experience with eBay. The problem is that “unlocked“ typically refers to being able to use it on a different carrier—not related to the bootloader. So I bought an “…

You are probably thinking of `timeout`.

I am a fan of Rackspace Spot, and use it personally. It started out being a pure play Kubernetes cluster provider, but recently they added support for VMs. I was so impressed by it…

OVH Cloud’s dedicated Eco servers

I was also infuriated by this, so much so that I switched to TIDAL. Migrating was easy— I used their recommended webapp ti migrate all my playlists. Have been using TIDAL happily e…

Amazon and its Delivery Service Partners (DSPs) employ thousands of drivers. These drivers are overworked and are owed thousands in wages a year, sacrificing their safety for speed…

Thanks for the transparency. Much respect to you.

To better wrap my head around how FOKS facilitates team collaboration, I'd like to see two comparisons: 1) compare to a team-shared Linux machine with SSH daemon. Each team member …

Max, this looks interesting and I'd like to follow the blog. Would you please add an Atom feed to the blog?

Everyone now has fondness for these and for thin clients in general, but I don’t see this concept used in modern times. Is there any modern equivalent, in particular with the power…

It's an networking term to distinguish between ISP-owned and customer-owned equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer-premises_equipment

Estimating entropy is challenging because it's a reverse process from how it ought to work. I created https://phrase.shop , which generates passphrases with a known quantity of ent…

Not sure how much I like this. With this algorithm, the user would never see 100% displayed, because at that point the UI would change to remove the progress bar entirely. Whereas …

> How many people would use slots if it were just putting a dollar in the slot, then a screen saying 'lose' and that's that? You’ll be surprised by the concept of “risk-free play”:…

This is great in that it creates a grammatically correct sentence, which really helps with memorization, and which is lacking in many other "passphrase generators" that are simply …

Those two aren't even the only options. There's also Lisp-Flavored Erlang (LFE), and maybe other languages targeting the virtual machine BEAM. https://lfe.io/ It's similar to a mul…

I am not the OP, but I believe he's referring to the ability to be logged in to different AWS accounts simultaneously. Without containers, logging in to AWS account B would invalid…

Me too. The closest we can get in consumer hardware is the Ampere Altra Dev Kit: https://www.ipi.wiki/products/com-hpc-ampere-altra It’s a Neoverse N1 architecture, whereas the new…

> The way the US does it (especially detecting if a train has not been separated along the way by using a caboose/end-of-train beacon) may cost less money, but would be viable to s…