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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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post #636

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Incoming SSH connections can/should be blocked by the router. There is also likely to be no static IP.

Connect them to a private zerotier network ( https://www.zerotier.com/#try_zerotier ) it's free and you can bind sshd just to the zt0 interface. Instant access from anywhere.

Sounds like yet another hosted/subscription based service.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Google has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you've been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive

Is it safe to put my 1Password's master-password into the message that is sent in case I'm dead?

How about the name of the book on your parents'/friend's bookshelf with your password lists in? Or some clue to a more secure hiding place.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Compute for Humanity https://www.computeforhumanity.org It hasn't really taken off like I had hoped, but I still stand by the idea, and I think I really nailed the UX. For something fairly complex there's no account to create, no configuration, no installer, just open it once and you're done. Anything my 95-year-old grandma can use without help is a success in my book.

The landing page is confusing, quickly looking at it can't really discern what the page is about. Something about charity, by whom for whom and how? Can't tell, already clicking the back button. My two cents.

Thanks for the feedback! That landing page has gone through a lot of revisions, but definitely can still be improved.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Compute for Humanity https://www.computeforhumanity.org It hasn't really taken off like I had hoped, but I still stand by the idea, and I think I really nailed the UX. For something fairly complex there's no account to create, no configuration, no installer, just open it once and you're done. Anything my 95-year-old grandma can use without help is a success in my book.

For an even easier setup and even smaller output, why not implement it in Javascript on the page? ;)

Ha, I originally planned on building it as a browser extension, but this gave better performance, could be more intelligent (e.g. stop running if the computer is working on something else), and was usable without a web browser.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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> getting remote desktop working is always a bigger pain Easy as cake with TeamViewer

>Screen sharing software was just one more thing to go wrong on their computers. This way, I don't have to worry about whether they have a version with a critical vulnerability, or if they'll fall for a social engineering attack and click on a teamviewer invite.

It's no more of a risk really with TeamViewer installed. An attacker can use gotomypc or similar or just send a TeamViewer invite binary (or link to download it and give the attacker access).

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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post #649

https://unshorten.link I work in security and have a paranoia of shortened links (bit.ly, t.co). I got frustrated with the options out there that forced me to right click every shortened link or paste it into a site so I made this Chrome extension / web app. It is pretty simple and keeps a list of 300+ shortened link services to check against. If your browser ever visits one it redirects you to the site to expand the…

Does anyone know of a Firefox equivalent of this extension?

No, but you can use Chrome Store Foxified to install most Chrome extensions in Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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>Screen sharing software was just one more thing to go wrong on their computers. This way, I don't have to worry about whether they have a version with a critical vulnerability, or if they'll fall for a social engineering attack and click on a teamviewer invite.

It's no more of a risk really with TeamViewer installed. An attacker can use gotomypc or similar or just send a TeamViewer invite binary (or link to download it and give the attacker access).

Wasn't there some story a few months back about TeamViewer accounts being hacked in some unknown way and their access used to infect machines? Was that ever clearly resolved? (I remember speculation of TeamViewer themselves being compromised, or just a massive password-reuse attack, or ...)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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post #370

I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

I'm using historio.us for three years now, it's great. Thanks for that :)

Thank you, I'm glad you like it!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

Those photos are absolutely stunning.

Thank you, I'm a novice so I'm kind of insecure about them, so your kind words mean a lot to me.
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