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I documented how I did it here, which definitely involves downloading an older version of Steam: https://web.archive.org/web/20240412101635/https://datacu.be...

1. Doesn't matter. ZFS or whatever. I use ext4, it's good enough. 2. Buy as many 3.5 inch external USB drives as you need to reach 23 TiB, then connect them all over a single USB h…

Your comment is incompatible with mine, so one of us must be incorrect; I will leave it at that.

This! Your bank should never get a say in what you run on your phone or even if you have a phone. Do not take any such bullshit.

I can show my government-issued ID to any third party without the government knowing about whom I've shown this ID to. The third party needs to trust the government and the authent…

That sounds nightmarish. I don't want the verifier to know what porn sites I visit. Someone else proposed the following system to me: a third party authority issues a certificate w…

Some more clever sites asked for my birth year… forcing me to do the arduous work of taking the current year and subtracting 14. But why? You could have just picked a year that wor…

We have no reason to believe you. However, there is one party who really benefits from people considering all encryption weak and all cryptography broken: the NSA.

You should not require users to change their passwords periodically, as this will piss them off and make them use many weak passwords rather than one strong password. Only require …

You can technically do this with TOTP if you save the secret instead of simply enrolling the account. You're not supposed to do that, though.

Both are true, #2 is huge. I would like to add: 3. Self-checkout displaces workers to the benefit of stores and the detriment of society at large.

Surely, this computer must have come with a non-BT keyboard and/or mouse, though?

Even if I do have keys, they are safe in my pocket, not sticking out the side of a fragile USB port. It's difficult, though not impossible, to break your USB port with a Yubikey du…

where can I read your paper

But it's a key though. It goes on the keychain. Unless you don't carry around keys either, in which case yes, that would be very inconvenient indeed. Also, your Yubikey is probably…

I'm a bit confused why the author is unfazed by "eleuthero root" and "cordyceps mushrooms", but puts "nascent iodine" in scare quotes. Is it not nascent iodine? If no, then what is…

That's also possible; my mind was going the prostate route.

Give it a few years, pops :-)

Your web app is most likely rubbish and 20 times as complicated as it needs to be, and probably still nothing special. A website that requires JavaScript is, and always will be, wo…

Do this only if you don't care about the people that use (sometimes: have to use) your software. Otherwise, >> Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose. (Don…

"I drink, and I know things. The things I don't know, I research. But I mostly drink."

It probably is to some extent, too.

I used to wonder, as a kid, why most traffic lights in my region of Germany were red, orange-yellow and obviously turquoise. I remember drawing traffic lights (I loved drawing road…

This just in: people whose main source of stress is lack of money happier with more money. More at 11.