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Their partner can use the same key. or they also register their own yubikey and keep it safe elsewhere.

Long time ago I used to run qmail for my school (about 2000 users). It was a lot of fun to do as a student sysadmin. Today, I'm tempted to build a minimal mail system for 1-10 user…

They should buy a Yubikey (a physical key) and keep their passkeys resident on that. Then they can truly keep that physical key locked up in their safe. And it is truly safer than …

The right question to ask is if it is enabling us to do more interesting things or take on harder or bigger problems that seemed too daunting before. That's what all delegation of …

All payment rails in India are RBI regulated directly or indirectly. NPCI is a non-profit section 8 company which is basically owned by the major PSU and private banks of India. An…

AFAIK banks don't charge for NEFT transfers when initiated via their mobile app or Internet banking website. Fees apply only when you do it via their physical branch.

Yep. Here's the accurate Month-to-date stats published daily by the network operator NPCI https://x.com/NPCI_NPCI . If you want official stats across all banks, across all payment …

The right comparison for Nasdaq's order processing volume or messaging volume would be India's National Stock Exchange (NSE). It does more executed orders per day than nasdaq. I wo…

Right now, almost all the incentives are to build very large models that run across many machines in huge datacenters. There is very little incentive to build models that can run w…

I have not used voice mode much with chatgpt. I was surprised to learn that they were already not running the voice model like a UX orchestrator while utilizing other models in bac…

You can externalize the things you consider as taste by writing down generalized statements, but those statements need boundary conditions and exceptions to be also specified. Exce…

Even if you are on modern 5G network, and set your phone to never connect to 2G/3G network, your location is still compromised because the overall network is still backward compati…

Didn't he also say you are holding it wrong?

I'm not buying another expensive AirPods from Apple until they have their story straight w.r.t battery health and battery repair that is cost-effective. I'm done wasting money on t…

> that require legal to get involved and you do end up with documents that sound excessively broad If you let your legal team use such broad CYA language, it is usually because you…

This. I got overload error on the very first prompt just now. Didn't expect google to run into overload error.

If cheap is what you are looking for, then yes, a wireguard running on your home server is the way to go. Instead of exposing your home-server directly to Internet, I would put it …

Well, you are better off using Google Photos for securely accessing your photos over Internet. It is not a matter of securing it once, but one of keeping it secure all the time.

Interesting blast from the past. We built an oblivious p2p mesh network that did this in 2010. Back then, nobody cared about security as much as we thought they should. Since then,…

Find Zen in mundane daily repetitive tasks. Avoid all screens for first hour after you wake up (and the hour before you sleep). Stay focused in the moment – focus on your body and …

The most common lock and key ergonomics that everyone is familiar with is the following: 1. You have a lock, you have a corresponding physical key. You can have more identical phys…

When someone puts a significant and useful software under an open license (like BSD) and nurtures a vibrant open-source community around it, sure, everyone else can definitely take…

co-develop := we are in f** around and f** out mode, please bear with us.