I still remember regions! https://www.folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html
great story :')
Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
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Re: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if you forgot your password but retained all other memories?
Well see, that's why I keep my "password" memory stored snugly next to "breathing" and other such. If I'm walking around conscious, then I must still know my password.
I must have missed that option in the character creation part of being born (along with choosing my parents). For the record, human memory doesn't actually work in practice. It's unbelievably uncommon, but TBI have weird effects.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
yes! I am starting to do some planning on that myself, that's why I'm in that kind of mindset. If you know more people in this space, please share this with them! would love to get feedback
I wrote a project to do this a few years ago[1], it's mainly missing an automated mechanism to scan the PDFs and a GUI. Maybe you'll find it interesting. [1]: https://github.com/cyphar/paperback
hey, this is a great idea! I'll link into your app from my readme.
I really like that the PDF contains the entire dataset, not just the keys. I see lots of little details around organizing the PDFs, like document hashes, etc, very nice job!
Since you wrote it in Rust, I'd suggest compiling it to wasm and releasing a browser-based version
Re: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
We did that with major hail damage a few years ago. I learned that in a disaster, you should count on everything being junk, and you're lucky if you can salvage anything. We also learned the value of itemized lists. 1500/piece for 20 junk windows I was building a greenhouse with that I dug out of the trash the year before. $250 for a bird feeder because they couldn't find one outside of specialty stores. $40k instead…
How do you open the bank vault? Key? Passcode?
We have keys. In the event those are lost or destroyed, they will provide access to an approved list of individuals and drill the lock for $40.
Also they're small town banks, so that makes it easier as well. We don't really need to worry about providing ID, but if we did and couldn't access ID or something like that, we have four other people listed with access, one of which lives hours away in case of a disaster impacting everyone else on the list. They don't have keys but could get into it for us. So for a few hundred dollars, we're set and insured for the declared value of the contents of the boxes (250k max for another $15/year) if the banks are both destroyed as well!
Re: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
#195This system introduces a fun question: What’s more likely, that you suffer total spontaneous memory loss or your best friends betray you?
I think you'd have to plot a curve based on the potential reward of betrayal... I suspect that many Americans* would have their 5th closest friends committed or worse for low 6 figures. If in ~dire straits, as about half all Americans are, that number could get much lower.
* If my use of the word 'Americans' above is triggering, feel free to substitute it with 'people'.
Re: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
#196not just illness but age too will "bitrot" your brain
fifteen years ago I decided to fiddle around one winter and learn a newfangled thing called "bitcoin" and setup my computer to run 24/7 and heat my apartment as a benefit
after mining a dozen coins which were worth next to nothing then, I gave up and took apart the PC and put it away
fast-forward to 2020 and covid/long-covid has now rotted my brain, swiss-cheesed my mind to the point I cannot remember the password for the life of me
I was too clever then for future me, and used a long passphrase that made funny sense then but beyond me now
(they are worth over a million dollars at times now)
In hindsight:
go find a book in your library and pick a random page and write the password or a significant hint to the password on that page and then put it away (don't put any other indication on that paper)
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#197Unfortunately, for this to work, you need friends...
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#198Low tech: I put my secret manager password in a physical journal that is locked in a fire proof, water proof vault and hidden somewhere only my partner and myself know where it is. I use a password manager. Everything else goes in the password manager.
This is what I do too, but be warned about “fire proof” - a fire that results in the total loss of your house will create enough heat for enough time that fireproof gun safes and smaller fireproof lockboxes will be destroyed, or even if not, their contents will get hot enough to combust anyway. A bank safe deposit box offers a different security profile that’s probably more robust against fire because banks burn less…
Only thing about safe deposit boxes - make sure that things needed in the event of your death, especially your will, are not there.
The bank will seal the box as soon as they discover you are dead, and require a court order. Without a will, the executor will be whatever statutory person your state calls for.
Re: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what I do too, but be warned about “fire proof” - a fire that results in the total loss of your house will create enough heat for enough time that fireproof gun safes and smaller fireproof lockboxes will be destroyed, or even if not, their contents will get hot enough to combust anyway. A bank safe deposit box offers a different security profile that’s probably more robust against fire because banks burn less…
That inventory will be available for seizure by court order for any variety of reasons, and you won't ever know about it until it's too late. Something you keep in your home that no one knows about won't be inventoried.
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Re: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
#200Low tech: I put my secret manager password in a physical journal that is locked in a fire proof, water proof vault and hidden somewhere only my partner and myself know where it is. I use a password manager. Everything else goes in the password manager.
This is what I do too, but be warned about “fire proof” - a fire that results in the total loss of your house will create enough heat for enough time that fireproof gun safes and smaller fireproof lockboxes will be destroyed, or even if not, their contents will get hot enough to combust anyway. A bank safe deposit box offers a different security profile that’s probably more robust against fire because banks burn less…
Yea, bankbox is probably the best choice. In the extremely unlikely case the bank box gets robbed you will find out about it and can rotate the key.