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by jwr 11mo ago
Not true. If you use YubiKeys to store your GPG key, it's not a problem. You can have multiple YubiKeys with the same private key, or you can encrypt to multiple recipients.
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by jwr 11mo ago
This is a good moment to remind everyone of this excellent guide: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide it describes how to use your YubiKeys (please always use at least two, so that you have a backup) for GnuPG keys
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by jwr 11mo ago
Signal doesn't share your contact list. WhatsApp does, and this will not get "fixed", because it is done on purpose. It's the reason why Facebook paid $19 billion or so to buy WhatsApp, and from what I understand it&#x27
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by jwr 11mo ago
If you use Braintree as your payment processor (something I would not recommend), you get SecureMetrics as your PCI auditor. Even worse, someone is overzealous, because you will get SecureMetrics on your back even if you are below the PCI t
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by jwr 11mo ago
Signal is in an impossible position. On one hand, it needs to appeal to the crowds currently using WhatsApp and happily syncing their entire contact list to Facebook/Meta, so that they can be profiled and a social graph can be built. T
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by jwr 11mo ago
LTS releases are great. I only use LTS releases on my servers. Problem is, if you need PCI compliance (credit card industry requirements, largely making no sense), some credit card processors will tell you to work with companies like Secure
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by jwr 11mo ago
Anything that can provide income inevitably leads to a flood of garbage from people trying to game the system. The current ad-driven web resulted in SEO garbage and near-uselessness of search engines.
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by jwr 11mo ago
> content creators are compensated for their work I have a gut feeling that we've been tricked (by ad companies) into thinking that this is somehow realistic and that casual "content creators" can get meaningful money from
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by jwr 11mo ago
For those switching from an $EXPENSIVE tool to KiCad, may I humbly recommend donating to the project, or sponsoring the development/improvement of a feature you need? Even if it's much less than your current $EXPENSIVE license, it
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by jwr 11mo ago
You mean you outsourced to Cloudflare the decision on who is allowed to view your website. That could be well-intentioned, but it's a risky thing to do, and I would not to outsource that decision. Especially as I wouldn't know who
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by jwr 11mo ago
Amusingly enough, it is down right now because of Cloudflare :-)
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by jwr 11mo ago
Or use a service like https://updown.io/ (I host my status page there).
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by jwr 11mo ago
Most importantly, it seems Cook doesn't love computers and doesn't use many (most?) of Apple products. It shows. Especially with Mac OS.
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by jwr 11mo ago
This is needed even if you are IN the Apple ecosystem. I don't want to upgrade my phone to the latest half-baked iOS version, so Apple purposefully degrades the functionality of my new AirPods 3. Siri won't switch noise cancellati
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by jwr 1y ago
> the gulf between ham radio and modern RF comms is truly vast Especially if you consider modern cellular radios. Your phone has a completely separate powerful computer just for handling the radio (we still call this a modem for some rea
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by jwr 1y ago
This is why I prefer models from Anthropic, especially for language-related tasks: they are more natural and to the point. GPT always used too much corporate-speak and market-speak, and this recent update looks terrible: I do not want my AI
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by jwr 1y ago
Can I use it one-handed in my workshop? :-) There is no single perfect tool.
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by jwr 1y ago
A physical calculator is a tool, so is your python interpreter, but they are different tools for different purposes. Mathematica does everything your python interpreter does and more — but that doesn't mean python becomes useless becau
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by jwr 1y ago
I scanned a lot of 35mm film, of various kinds, using a high-end flatbed scanner (EPSON V700 Photo). The biggest problem is not the optical quality, but mechanics: flatbeds can only scan strips. And if your film is very old and has been sto
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by jwr 1y ago
Transducers are IMHO one of the most under-appreciated features of Clojure. If you want a really good intro, watch Rich Hickey's talk about transducers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTbuzafcII (Rich is an excellent
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by jwr 1y ago
I invested quite a bit of effort into designing URLs for the PartsBox ID Anything™ system so that they fit well into optimized QR codes. Uppercasing was one of the tricks, and it makes quite a difference indeed. This is important when you w
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by jwr 1y ago
> I used per-account email with alias services and password managers. For people who want to do this, be sure to get it right. I run a SaaS with a free tier, and I see people register with "fancy+nospam+servicename@gmail.com" a
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by jwr 1y ago
It is rather clear that I am the only one in this discussion who recently had to write code that synchronizes data that I do not control with an SQL database. Everything is easy in toy applications, where you have your USERS table with Firs
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by jwr 1y ago
While I agree with most of this rant, I have a problem with the common "just use postgres" trope, often repeated here. I recently had to work with SQL again after many years, and was appalled at the incidental complexity and ridic
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by jwr 1y ago
Marketing tactics only work if they reach your customers, and HN readers are generally not my customers.
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by jwr 1y ago
That seems to be quite true, as people who run a successful and enjoyable business are busy running their successful and enjoyable business :-)
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by jwr 1y ago
All of this is true both for dedicated servers and cloud-hosted VMs. This list looks like FUD, to be honest, trying to scare people. Yes, you should be scared of these things, but none of them are magically solved by hosting your stuff in A
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by jwr 1y ago
This is all correct. I've been running my own servers for many years now, keeping things simple and saving a lot of money and time (setting anything up in AWS or Azure is horribly complicated and the UIs are terrible). One thing to rem
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by jwr 1y ago
If you are a US citizen, US taxes you on your worldwide income, so you have to file regardless of where you live. And filing in the US is the actual burden, not the taxes themselves — inscrutable tax law and byzantine forms mean that you ca
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by jwr 1y ago
> Until I read the story about how Steve Jobs was mad about the fact that Mac was slow to start and asked teams to fix it. Surprise, they fixed it. What was different then was that Steve Jobs actually loved computers and used them. That

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