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by hnbear 3y ago
> I guess the hash still points at the phone number behind the scenes though? AFAIK, from the article, yes. But, you can create/delete that hash->phone mapping at will. Hence the recommendation to just create when required, or fr
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by hnbear 3y ago
It says the username values are hashed, so they can't actually see them. It just stores the hash. So, you tell someone my username is "ABC", their Signal client hashes it and looks up the account and messages you. Signal can
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by hnbear 3y ago
This is also the difference between functional title and corporate title that you'll find at larger companies. Your corporate title is your level on HR's ladder, and it'll be based on whatever HR comes up with - senior, VP, d
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by hnbear 3y ago
Forked from: https://www.linuxfx.org/ And they “forked” that whole site, so extra suspicious.
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by hnbear 3y ago
For indie devs their single app is their product and their company. It's all they have. They're app-first, it's their entire business model. For big tech companies (all companies), they have a range of products, and they have
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yes, custom domain future proofs it. You can route that domain’s email to any servers via MX records. I have put in some blocks before where services don’t let you unsubscribe.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yeah, I tried that for a while, and I have some Apple generated forwarders too. In the end in places like a store that wants you to sign-up for X% off, or something it's easier to just to give them storename@domain.com and see what hap
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by hnbear 3y ago
This was my thinking here - yes, it has flaws in the approach, but it also gets me out of the main buckets that spammers will hit, and ad brokers will generally be selling. It's a little friction, that maybe goes a long way. Pretty har
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by hnbear 3y ago
I owned and ran my own email domain for a long time. Initially on my own hardware for fun, then a VPS, then GSuite, then Fastmail. That's over around 20 years. So, it wasn't planned - it evolved. Somewhere in the Fastmail era I wa
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by hnbear 3y ago
Very little. Could also be that Fastmail has good filtering.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Actually, I think it's only happened once or twice in years. I was expecting more spam than I get. Could also be that random domains aren't that valuable to sell.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Currently I use Fastmail to host my own domain, and then for every new service I save the account in 1Password using service@service.mydomain.com It's a bit extreme, but surprisingly little extra effort. That said, most of the accounts
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by hnbear 3y ago
Handily on macos the iOS version runs and is still supported. I ran both side by side to log into the iOS version after downloading it on my MacBook. Login was easy and everything came over. Just had to turn on multi-device, log in on the n
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by hnbear 3y ago
Proxmox https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-virtual-environment/overv...
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by hnbear 3y ago
I write everything with a fountain pen in school from 8-18, and a bit in college. I enjoyed them and ended up with a couple of nice ones when my parents realized that I both enjoyed them and had to write essay after essay so having a good p
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by hnbear 3y ago
“ teachers more deranged than Snape and children more malicious than Malfoy” Depressingly accurate and funny
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by hnbear 3y ago
In CT I use Venmo and Zelle to pay just about everyone. Cleaner, yard guy, electrician, plumber, handyman, etc Everyone takes Zelle or Venmo.
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by hnbear 3y ago
The real killer app for the Vision Pro. Automated Ad detection and blocking. I’d buy one today and never take it off.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Time is important, but being able to assess what good is is incredibly important. I've met plenty of people who thought they were good at something till they met someone who was actually great at it, and then had to personally reassess
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by hnbear 3y ago
I had a friend in high school who was a great athlete and his coach pointed out that no-one in our region at our age level did the pole vault, so he registered and got gold every time at the county then regional level for a while till other
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by hnbear 3y ago
You paid to be in the plane. I doubt anyone paid specifically to be in a plane with the hope that a door would blow off to take advantage of information asymmetry in the aircraft manufacturer's stock (or the airline's stock).
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by hnbear 3y ago
Matt Levine covered this well too: https://archive.is/Kd6Os The answer being no, because as a consumer you have no duty of confidentiality.
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by hnbear 3y ago
That link says 98M tonnes towards the end, unless I’m misreading
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by hnbear 3y ago
I had a previous boss who had a personal rule that he always wanted to only hire the best and would pay for it. If every hire didn't involve paying above band and having to get an exception the hire wasn't good enough. He fought a
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by hnbear 3y ago
I agree, the billionaires have better lawyers and accountants than the governments. They also have far more flexibility. The UK has been such a finance powerhouse for a long time because it ignores all the issues and foibles of the super we
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yes. They felt rough in calm seas and then never ran in anything slightly rough, which in the channel is all the time.
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by hnbear 3y ago
We went to France on these (Dover-Calais) about 30 years ago, I was roughly 10. They were incredibly exciting, loud, bouncy machines. Huge spaces to drive into, they floated around like toys when maneuvering, made my mother very sea sick. I
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by hnbear 3y ago
His point, I’m sure, is that the common criticism of the middle class wasting money on avocado toast is somehow stopping them saving that money and being super wealthy. But, in reality, that amount of money, while non-trivial (~$3500/y
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by hnbear 3y ago
I also bought myself a new domain for this. Previously I was using service@service.myname.com, and I realized that's leaking a bit too much info. So, I bought genericname.com and switched to using service@service.genericname.com Slight
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by hnbear 3y ago
Well that and I know other students who enjoyed either drinking or peeing into the spare chemical bottles to see what would happen. His room smelled heavily of the fumes, so a couple of decades of teaching must have some something to him.

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