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by hnbear 3y ago
In addition, Okta Admins can also recover accounts, so loss of the Yubi doesn't mean the account is locked out forever. You can easily provision a different 2FA method. When we deployed we banned Verify (didn't want any OTP), but
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by hnbear 3y ago
Did exactly this at my previous employer as part of a large plan to become effectively unphishable. With all auth requiring something physical, and no OTP anywhere. We deployed Yubikeys to every employee (5 Nanos), which went into a USB por
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by hnbear 3y ago
Loki was a key part of my move desktop Linux full time. Myth2, Alpha Centauri, and UT in particular. Loved Postal too, but was betaing that on Mac for Ryan Gordon (icculus) way back when. Not just that they made games I loved, but hopefully
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by hnbear 3y ago
I have a bunch of IoT stuff that hit my Pi-hole with the same DNS query a lot, like every second in some cases. Definitely plenty of badly designed consumer devices out there doing horrible things with phoning home.
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by hnbear 3y ago
I got this far, wondering if this was satire or not, then realized they just have no concept of the world at large: > America, some of the EU, England, and some others are considered “First World” countries Some others? Canada? England i
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by hnbear 3y ago
From the discussion on the Reddit link this was related to financial issues and limited to app store and iTunes accounts, not all iCloud.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Driving through KY on a roadtrip two years ago saw all the signs so decided to stop. We’d never heard of the caves. I’m retrospect I wish we’d known and booked the longer tours, which all sell out early in the day. I thought the kids would
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yes. I mean anomaly detection based on identifying what’s unusual behavior not just typical. We have computers to use their CPUs, RAM, and disk. Using it isn’t weird. Detecting actual unwanted or dangerous behavior is bad. For bonus points
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Using derivative functions in alerts to look at speed or acceleration is a game changer. You really care about time to fill (speed), and whether your system has gone nuts and is logging faster and faster than normal (acceleration). Disk usa
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by hnbear 3y ago
This is just as true without systemd. Auto-restarting services without monitoring will always hide problems, regardless of what’s doing the restarting. This is just another reason to track and alert on error rates. It also depends how sensi
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by hnbear 3y ago
He’s working on a Roman history book. He’s shared excerpts with Pareon subscribers. I’ll definitely buy it. As for the rest, maybe a neat pamphlet. He’s great at long form, in depth content. Some of the series like making iron or bread are
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by hnbear 3y ago
About 15 years ago there was a cute flash game where you had a little cube world that was a puzzle to grow into a bigger fancier environment by clicking on trigger points in the correct order. I have no idea what it was called, and can’t de
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by hnbear 3y ago
Reminds me a lot of some of the ACOUP academic explanations, although those are history not science focused. The feel about academia being a tiny exclusionary club is the same. https://acoup.blog/2023/04/28/co
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by hnbear 3y ago
My first Linux experience was very similar, except graphics card driven. My neighbor told me to try Linux, and my computer at the time was a Mac (old PPC 603e cpu), which I’d put a PC Voodoo3 in and flashed it with a Max bios. Couldn’t affo
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by hnbear 3y ago
I did the same in the UK, same time period. Running up frequent bills and trying to carefully manage being online enough without hitting an unspoken £ spend threshold. But, lots of ISPs made it very easy to get online with accounts paid thr
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by hnbear 3y ago
Great read: One Good Turn: A Natural History... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684867303?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_shar... A history of the screw. Really interesting around how it was developed. Some machining techniques are far
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by hnbear 3y ago
Funny. When our neighbours sold their house they stopped by all the houses around to deliberately leave kids toys out front everywhere. They wanted the area to look extra kid friendly. It was a very family heavy, child friendly area, no one
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by hnbear 3y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/why-s... But I doubt that’s happening here. Anyone mounting NFS drives via a direct path in cmd-K isn’t shocked it’s quick.
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by hnbear 3y ago
This is my actual experience in US Apple stores. It’s been available for a while, but staff don’t always guide you to it. Eg. https://www.howtogeek.com/338754/how-to-buy-stuff-at-the-app... But earlier references are f
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by hnbear 3y ago
In the theme of mistaken attacks on shiny bits of humans like soles or watches I remember hearing years ago about a wetsuit manufacturer who had to change their design. They had a bright fish logo that was against the otherwise black wetsui
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by hnbear 3y ago
Never been paid cash, but some places have provided comp time in varying amounts. I’ve always given a comp day per week on call so they can recover. One place had some magical mythical theoretical formula for adding some unspoken amount to
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by hnbear 3y ago
Most non computer purchases like AirTags can be self serve. You grab a box off the shelf, scan it with the app, Apple Pay and walk out. No person necessary. Works on everything without a unique serial.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Now I’m curious about the ratio of RSS to front-page readers. I only read HN (and all “news” content) through NNW or Feedly, so I get strict published order. This means there are plenty of article I wish weren’t flagged off HN, and plenty w
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by hnbear 3y ago
My father is 84 with cognitive degeneration. He’s used an iPhone for years but is stuck on an old one with the home button purely because we don’t think he’ll transition to swiping up. His short term memory is shot, learning new behaviors i
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yeah, it definitely introduces friction and setup cost. OpnSense has an ACME plug-in to auto-renew, and can trigger jobs. In this case I have it renew and push certs to servers so they’re always renewed.
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I thought about the cert thing here too. I own a domain and internally use local.domain.com for all internal sites. Wildcard and specific names. I can generate certs using ACME/LetsEncrypt. So, everything, including test sites could be
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by hnbear 3y ago
Three kids in three different hospitals (and two different states) in the US, and they all have this. I don’t think it’s a hospital program it’s just an up-sell they get a kick-back on for selling to you. It’s not a specific recommendation
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yes, that "Sent from my Blackberry" was the default, AFAIK. A very obvious signal that you're a smart important person with a Blackberry. That's when the "Please excuse the typos, sent from my mobile device" be
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> people barely used them for talking to their friends In the UK Blackberry and BBM remained very popular for a long time. That Blackberry was additively used for email (even in a business setting) implies a lot of use for friends. The c
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I’m deeply suspicious of anywhere trying to cross-sell me VPNs. The commentary around “traditional” efficiency with trackpads - after using the latest Apple trackpads everything else is awful. I have no good memories of trackpads of day of

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