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A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

HappMacDonald wrote: post #138
Sanzig wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm. I wonder if there would be a market for a super simple TOTP authentication device with an e-paper display. Kind of like those RSA tokens with the LCDs, but more modern and able to hold any number of TOTP credentials. Getting the credentials loaded could be a bit of a pain without a camera for QR code scanning. Easiest solution would be via Bluetooth to a companion app, which you would probably want anyway for pe…

Sounds like a job for a second phone, one which you'd just be extra careful to only use for one purpose. It can be cheap as balls, but it will have a QR-compatible camera and whatever else we may have come to expect from such a device. :)

Yup. Just use a secondary 5-year old phone for dirt cheap. I was actually considering doing it once, but the convenience takes a hit.

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Post by chriswarbo »

pmahoney wrote: post #170
jvanderbot wrote: post #107

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You should try a CLI-based workflow for 2FA. As long as you can exfiltrate the secret (and you often can by pretending you can't scan QR codes), then you can use oathtool to generate passcodes. 1. use 'pass' to save the secret: 'pass edit work.secret' 2. use oathtool to generate 2fa given a secret: ' #!/bin/bash oathtool -b --totp "`pass show $1.secret`" >&1 ' use it like '2fa work' If you have 'xsel' you can even do…

Just to add, 'pass' has an otp extension to simplify this a bit [1] With that, you can do $ zbarimg -q --raw qrcode.png | pass otp insert $ pass otp # or pipe to xsel [1] https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp

Heh, I use pass like this; but it's on my (Pine)Phone, so it doesn't solve the parent's original problem ;-)

Although the nice thing about CLI workflows is that I can easily run it by SSHing into my phone (just make sure you set up GPG so the passphrase prompt will appear in your terminal, and not as a popup on the phone!)

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Post by plumbees »

laurieherault wrote: post #2

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

The first two paragraphs made me realize I have ADHD. I had thought I didn't have it.

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Post by turtlebits »

kamaal wrote: post #132
dackle wrote: post #80

This reminds me somewhat of a system by David MacIver: https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/using-a-list-to-manage-exec... He builds his list from scratch every morning. The list is flat, so as you go about your day and subtasks occur to you, they are added to the list without explicit links to the main task. I thought it might be risky to start with a blank list, because something important might be forgotten. But it tu…

It would do people a whole lot of good, if they start looking at a great day as executing well tested 'checklist' rather than a 'todo list' built from scratch every day. No wonder some of the most productive people like Knuth, or people like presidents many times have fixed schedules, clothes they wear, food they eat etc etc. If something is working, do it more often, you want to do more of what works, at some point…

You can't generalize. Everyone has things that work for them.

Taking a few minutes to recreate that todo list for the day from a blank slate helps my brain get ready for the day and makes me more productive. (akin to stretching before exercise). I don't need a checklist for eating, cleaning, etc, but maybe some do.

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Post by laurieherault »

plumbees wrote: post #323
laurieherault wrote: post #2

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

The first two paragraphs made me realize I have ADHD. I had thought I didn't have it.

I think a lot of people are unaware of it :(

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Post by laurieherault »

PKop wrote: post #320
laurieherault wrote: post #2

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

I would avoid massively increasing your exposure to receipts. They have endocrine disrupting chemicals and it's advised to not even handle them from retail stores let alone in higher quantities in your own home. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/receipt-paper-harmful/

Since the article was written, bisphenol has been banned in Europe.

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Post by reddit_clone »

jvanderbot wrote: post #107
al_borland wrote: post #95

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> I'm sure phones are just as stimulating for some. This is one of my big objections do 2FA. My work has been pushing it hard, and from a security perspective, I get it. However, it’s all via an Authenticator app on the phone. We can no longer set down our phones and simply work. To start working, and periodically throughout the day, we are now forced to pickup our phones to authenticate. This invites the chance to s…

You should try a CLI-based workflow for 2FA. As long as you can exfiltrate the secret (and you often can by pretending you can't scan QR codes), then you can use oathtool to generate passcodes. 1. use 'pass' to save the secret: 'pass edit work.secret' 2. use oathtool to generate 2fa given a secret: ' #!/bin/bash oathtool -b --totp "`pass show $1.secret`" >&1 ' use it like '2fa work' If you have 'xsel' you can even do…

We also have Microsoft authentication that displays a number on the browser and asks you to enter in on the device! :-(

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Post by laurieherault »

tines wrote: post #231

This is a topic that's really interesting to me, and I've thought a lot about it. The approach that this guy is taking to break out of the addicting loop of gaming/scrolling/whatever is to try to take the principles that make those things appealing and port them to the things that we know we should be doing. Video games have these short feedback loops and quick rewards, so his idea is to make real life more like a vi…

I agree with everything you wrote. But for many people, giving up what entertains them is just not possible. That is why I think my method can really help those people. Thank you for this very interesting comment.

As for the paper, you need to choose one that is bisphenol-free, otherwise it is obviously problematic.

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