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Password manager might be just an algo inside of your head. But if you really need it, consider FOSS for not crying after mainterner do something wrong with the

Password manager might be just an algo inside of your head. But if you really need it, consider FOSS for not crying after mainterner do something wrong with the DB. eBook is nice investment, but it can not read pdf decently (more than half of things I want to read and re-read). What about white noice gen, usually I use a glass of wine for going to sleep rn, but I will try a distuned radio for that goal. PS. My three things: bicycle for your terrain (please not mtb unless you have no roads), x86 laptop + extra hard disks (anything from the Internets may and will disappear, please save as much as possible) and an audiosystem you will fall in love with (comfortable earphones or pair of giant stationar three-way speakers, way of thumb is the bigger the speaker the better).

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 5y ago
> Password manager might be just an algo inside of your head. This is dead in the water as soon as you realize that a leaked and cracked password can reveal all of your other passwords. If you want to say that your algorithm can't be reverse-engineered I'd be more inclined to think that you are underestimating the people around you than that I am underestimating you. Probably best to just consider that your not-randomly-generated password is insecure.
- reducesuffering 5y ago
  There is no perfect security, so it's always an assessment of are the increasing security measures worth the cost? Even a simple algo of (base password + hash(website_name)) prevents the most common issue of any site leaking your password to a black market password list that just attempts brute force on any of the passwords on said list. It would be much much rarer for you to be specifically targeted by seeing base_password_hash(Amazon) on a list and trying to reverse engineer your bank password from that. IMO it seems more secure than entrusting everything to a centralized source (password manager) that can be compromised.
  - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 5y ago
    Yes, that's a fair point. I often forget that my threshold for "secure enough" is higher than most.
    - _tom_ 5y ago
      https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
meristohm 5y ago
In case you haven't tried it and want to: I read PDFs on my Kobo with KOReader (hosted on GitHub). The Mobile Read forums have instructions. The barrier to reading science papers (or anything in columns) is high for me because the text is both small and washed out, but reading The Declaration of Independence (from Feedbooks) is okay (anything not in columns, so far) as is an a collection of poems for children. So far I mostly read epubs because the text can be easily changed.
- triplechill 5y ago
  I'll have to check that out. I've been struggling with PDFs actually.
triplechill 5y ago
Nice! Agree with all of those. I got a gravel bike that is perfect for the trails around my house and I love it. I never knew that there was a bike that crossed between a MTB and a road bike. Also yeah plus one to noise cancelling headphones. I'll have to try that wine trick ;)

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 5y ago

> Password manager might be just an algo inside of your head. This is dead in the water as soon as you realize that a leaked and cracked password can reveal all of your other passwords. If you want to say that your algorithm can't be reverse-engineered I'd be more inclined to think that you are underestimating the people around you than that I am underestimating you. Probably best to just consider that your not-randomly-generated password is insecure.

reducesuffering 5y ago
There is no perfect security, so it's always an assessment of are the increasing security measures worth the cost? Even a simple algo of (base password + hash(website_name)) prevents the most common issue of any site leaking your password to a black market password list that just attempts brute force on any of the passwords on said list. It would be much much rarer for you to be specifically targeted by seeing base_password_hash(Amazon) on a list and trying to reverse engineer your bank password from that. IMO it seems more secure than entrusting everything to a centralized source (password manager) that can be compromised.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 5y ago
  Yes, that's a fair point. I often forget that my threshold for "secure enough" is higher than most.
  - _tom_ 5y ago
    https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/

meristohm 5y ago

In case you haven't tried it and want to: I read PDFs on my Kobo with KOReader (hosted on GitHub). The Mobile Read forums have instructions. The barrier to reading science papers (or anything in columns) is high for me because the text is both small and washed out, but reading The Declaration of Independence (from Feedbooks) is okay (anything not in columns, so far) as is an a collection of poems for children. So far I mostly read epubs because the text can be easily changed.

triplechill 5y ago
I'll have to check that out. I've been struggling with PDFs actually.

triplechill 5y ago

Nice! Agree with all of those. I got a gravel bike that is perfect for the trails around my house and I love it. I never knew that there was a bike that crossed between a MTB and a road bike. Also yeah plus one to noise cancelling headphones. I'll have to try that wine trick ;)