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Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
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#172Seems similar to a Show HN from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26256726
I gotta say Horcrux is a catchier name ;)
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#173I personally do not really care if my relatives are able to access everything I was able to access once I am dead or forget everything. But they should be able to access anything of monetary worth. So, without any crypto my belongings are either real estate or depots and accounts at banks. Both can easily be discovered in case of my death. I think there is a similar discovery process if I am subject to guardianship (…
goal for the rest of your life: prepare and leave after your death more that real estate and bank accounts to your relatives and friends.
I am already doing this with our shared experiences and memories. But why do I need to add my online activities to that? I see no good reason.
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#174If you're not encrypting your hard drive, cracking a local Windows password is easy... Linux is even easier, but you just need a livecd to get back in either way...
Online accounts on the other hand... I hope you used something like lastpass. :)
Honestly, anything more than this is completely overkill.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220059 (Funny how I can remember this comment from many months ago after never implementing the bowls, but I currently can’t remember where my car keys are. Should have implemented the bowls…)
Oh God, Yes. Now, in my favorited posts and comments. For keys, there is only one place: the Keyholder wall-mounted near the main door, while still visible from the main Hall. Not easy to pick and go by “guests” without being seen by someone, but easy for residents to just walk out with one. I got the exact same ones from Amazon and wall-mounted them in all the homes where I serve as Printer-Repair Guy. 10+ years, I…
“A place for everything and everything in its place”
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
My insurance agent has recommended that once a year or so I carefully walk through the house with a video recorder, opening every cabinet and drawer and tool box and so on. It's easier than constructing a detailed inventory, but gives you the raw data you need to construct one in the unlikely even that you need it.
I gues the key here is where do you store that video!
Apple iCloud, because most people are not using secure tech.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
A real innovation from the Bitcoin world! There are several physical password store systems that they have suggested for this kind of use case. The simplest is basically using a nail to punch out a password onto a piece of sheet metal.
Just make sure that the metal you use has a high enough melting point.
Do people usually find big pools of metal on the ground in burned houses, or is everyday metal fine?
Especially inside a fireproof safe.
Wouldn't trust aluminium, solder, Wood's metal, gallium, or mercury, but apart from that...
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#178Sticky notes?
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Safe deposit boxes are not safe. There are many stories of peoples stuff going missing. ex: https://www.cbc.ca/news/safety-deposit-box-protection-1.7338... https://archive.is/www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-...
What if you RAID01 it, so you have four safety deposit boxes, two with the first half of your password, two with the second half of your password? Then no snoop at a particular bank would be able to get your password, but also if one or two go missing, the password won't be lost. And you just check all four boxes once or twice a year to make sure everything is good.
Better do Shamir's Secret Sharing instead, set threshold to 2/4, and regenerate all parts if any part goes missing.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just went through this. Sample size one: While the fire resulted in the total loss of the house it was actually the water from the fire department not the heat that did proportionally more damage. As a mental model you shouldn’t think of it as “what if my house burns down?” so much as “what if nice strangers roll up to my windows and chainsaw through my roof and spray 50,000 gallons of water in here?” Yes everything…
> I am very anti black and yellow tubs. Would you mind sharing more about these tubs and why you are against them?
I've seen Breaking Bad. They're a hell of a lot better than a porcelain bathtub for dissolving bodies!