Dr_ReD

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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
It happens. Especially to people on such lists as activists, journalists, etc. I'm not joking, look it up: https://www.google.com/search?q=phone+unlocked+at+customs
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Furthermore a phone is the single one thing whose loss will cut you out of tens of services —at best—. Cards are one-per-service. So if lose one, you lose access to one service. Cards, you don't take 'em out of your wallet unles
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
We've been perfectly able to do all of the above, for at least a couple of decades, using any computer and even smartphones of our choosing, until they started forcing those stupid phone-apps down our throat, as if we where in a galaxy
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Indeeed. Sometimes doing the right thing pays very well. :)
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Not wasted. Stocked by automakers, for their own use. Car manufacturers have the nasty habit of keeping no stock —at all— even of inexpensive stuff like microchips, smd components, nuts, bolts... and ordering everything "just in time&q
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
> There's also something to be said for how modern financial capitalism has > squeezed redundancy out of everything. Supply chains are just-in-time, Hence the automotive/chips and other recent shortages...
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
That's not so easy nowadays. Firstly with covid-19 many banks don't accept walk-ins and have a long waiting list for appointments. Secondly, what if the bank or other service i'm using has no physical offices at all? Or what
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
> Thanks for addressing me as "Dude" and using the f-word! Sensitive, ha? > 1. OP is asking smartphone; SMS 2FA does not require a "smartphone", but "mobile phone". Nitpicking and strawman argument. They&
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Yeah, and it's this kind of sheepish behaviour, all the "for me it works", and the blame-the-user attitude, that lets things like this go down hill all the time.
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Especially when the user is a senior or a minor, blaming the user is not really the solution.
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Yep! I have all of the things above (yubikeys, many PCs, a couple voip numbers with SMS, ability to emulate Android on PC, a host of old smarphones...) still, if I lose the one smartphone on which -that- custom app is installed, I'm ho
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
This too... :(
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Yes, but then again, I'm looking at seven older smartphones —right now— on my desk, and only one is even capable of running /all/ those apps. I had to buy it just because of that. 'cause even my Huawei P-Smart 2021 (curr
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
It's not that they don't know how to. It's that there's an economic incentive to not care. So they don't.
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Some apps will. But most "secure" apps would refuse to run on the virtual device.
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Oh, I don't know about the rest of Europe, but here in Italy you either have to deal with it, or restrict yourself oh, so very much. (to the very few services that still work without a phone). Here most everything, even state portals s
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Amen to that. Plus, half of the 2fa apps from the various services (most of which just want their very own app) work only on recent phones and most won't even install without google-services. And if you lose your phone, you're toa
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
In Italy it's a disaster. You need the phone /and/ their specific app, for mostly everything. From burgers, to banks and everything in between...
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
My two cents: I'm not really interested in adding this. We can discuss the feature further if you're willing to fund it, or to implement and maintain it yourself for the foreseeable future. Otherwise I'm considering the issue
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Yes, though lead plaintiffs can be compensated for the inconvenience...
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
It can be asemic writing, or it can just be cursive russian: https://www.boredpanda.com/russian-cursive/
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
You found a dead body and started looking into its pockets... It's never a good idea. I'd step away immediately and notify the site owner. Anonymously, if possible.
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
If you mean to clear the backlog inside the browser, you can manage your passwords in chrome://settings/passwords. Or you can clear them, all at once, via chrome://settings/clearBrowserData
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by Dr_ReD 4y ago
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