Chirael

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by Chirael 5y ago
I’m into locksport as well and would favor that kind of modification on a back door which is more likely to be targeted by thieves. Not sure I’d do it on a front door in case I put a family member actually locked themselves out and actually
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by Chirael 5y ago
Yeah, the runs-in-a-browser thing is huge, especially if you want to outsource your bookkeeping. The monthly cost for QB online is crazy, especially when they want you to pay per-company. Be sure to post a Show HN for whatever you come up w
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by Chirael 5y ago
Have you looked into GNUCash (GnuCash.org)? It’s a venerable open source project that I believe was started to offer an alternative to Quicken and may be an acceptable alternative to QuickBooks at this point. I haven’t used it personally bu
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by Chirael 5y ago
“Why did you come in so late today?” “I read a blog post that told me it would help me become more of a genius if I ‘throw away my alarm clock’, so I did!” “Well I have great news for you: You can show up at the unemployment line whenever i
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by Chirael 5y ago
It did the last time I looked into it. I went to set up a privacy.com virtual card for a semi-sketchy site, only to have privacy deny the charge as it was for a "high risk" site. Yeah, I KNOW, that's why I wanted to use a vir
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by Chirael 5y ago
I’ve been using the web since NCSA Mosaic, and regularly have hundreds of tabs open
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by Chirael 5y ago
It is also very easy to talk about all of this in hindsight. Prior to April 2020 I had 100% of my 401K in cash/equivalents. In April 2020 I put half of that cash into stocks. Now, of course, I kick myself and say I should have put most
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by Chirael 5y ago
This happens to me every day of the week on various sites, multiple times a day. I assumed it was because I had a large number of tabs open (anywhere from 50 to 200), but it's very frustrating. Only thing I can do is quit Safari and re
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by Chirael 6y ago
I signed up and followed a few people and then... what now? The few things that are suggested to me when I log in aren't interesting, so I just shut the app. I've opened it a few times and had the same experience, so unless someon
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by Chirael 6y ago
I’m curious what actual form/filing, if any, this will manifest as. The reason I say this is that for several years now, whenever you’ve applied for an EIN on the IRS website, they’ve basically asked for the beneficial owner(s) informa
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by Chirael 6y ago
Wasn’t there an option at one time to tell Google to hide results from a certain domain? I feel like I haven’t seen that in years though
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by Chirael 6y ago
In case anyone else has never heard of this (I had not either), there’s a FAQ page on Gemini at https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html
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Computer Scientists Achieve the “Crown Jewel” of Cryptography(wired.com)
4 points by Chirael 6y ago|1 comments
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The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)
12 points by Chirael 6y ago|0 comments
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by Chirael 6y ago
This is the crux of it; finding something that is both DMCA-proof and trustworthy/reputable enough to allow auto-updating will be a huge barrier :(
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by Chirael 6y ago
They would prefer it if you only used DRM input and output devices that only run approved code rather than general purpose devices that can run any code you can conceive of or download [1] [1] "The Coming War on General Purpose Computa
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by Chirael 6y ago
I’ve always wondered if “foo” and “bar” was specific to a certain (now older) generation of programmers and would eventually fade into obscurity. Or has that bit of programmer culture been passed on to newer generations too?
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by Chirael 6y ago
You can opt out, but it's a grueling, site-by-site process and they don't make it easy - often you have to do it several times. See https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html for some strategies. It's tortuous an
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by Chirael 6y ago
Yes, it's great and has only gotten better with more episodes
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by Chirael 6y ago
Yeah, at this point I view “install closed source software from a not-well-known source” as a very high risk choice. I was thinking of adding this to my set of tertiary browsers, until I couldn’t find the license/source. I wish them we
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by Chirael 6y ago
I don’t meditate very regularly, but I try to think of it as a brief vacation from thinking . My mind is “thinking” all the time, from the moment I wake up until the moment I fall asleep, one thought after another without stopping. I’ve fo
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by Chirael 6y ago
For anyone who’s interested in this, it’s called impressioning and is really cool. It basically uses the design of the lock (pins pushed down into the keyway by springs, preventing the cylinder from turning) in the attack by using the marks
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by Chirael 6y ago
Depending on the value of the claim, if you believe the lock was picked, there are people/companies that can check the lock for forensic evidence of that [1] since picking, raking or bumping leaves very different marks on the pins than
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by Chirael 6y ago
Yeah, I agree. I offered on Twitter to pay a "small amount yearly" but my tweet was just a single random data point on Twitter. Hopefully some folks reading this who work at Mozilla or know someone who does, will pass on that a no
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by Chirael 6y ago
I loved Firefox Send and really hope they can find a way to address the malware problem [1]. It was the only large file sharing service I fully trusted both because of the encrypted zero-knowledge aspect of the system and the organization b
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by Chirael 6y ago
Don’t forget malware too - a problem even big companies have to grapple with, unfortunately [1]. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-suspends-firefox-send-...
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by Chirael 6y ago
Yes, this - absolutely. Every extension you install is another potential risk/attack vector. Consider the sources carefully and run the least number of extensions possible. Each one potentially has control of your browser, so choose ac
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by Chirael 6y ago
Google makes money from websites showing ads, so making a reader mode readily available would be counter to that. There used to be a hacky way to approximate reader mode in Chrome [1] but not sure if that still works. Just another reason to
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by Chirael 6y ago
Sometimes they can even make a key by sight reading, peering down the keyway; this is especially common (for good locksmiths) with wafer locks (often seen on cabinets, and autos but those are usually too complex to sight read).
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by Chirael 6y ago
I use Google apps in Edge, and nothing else in Edge. I use Firefox for all other web browsing, and avoid doing anything Google related in Firefox. I won't install Chrome on my machine at all and don't need to - Edge is good enough

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