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by pmw 4y ago
I have multiple Solo Key 2 devices. (I bought a Kickstarter 4-pack.) I use one of them regularly, and I successfully added it to iCloud as a security key. It has been 100% reliable. In August 2022 they released a major firmware update. Mayb
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by pmw 4y ago
Can anyone recommend a quality CO2 monitor for personal/home use?
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by pmw 4y ago
But you pay the same egress rate.
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by pmw 4y ago
Yes, this is a problem. ARM SystemReady certification program is aiming to solve it. Unfortunately the only boards that meet this certification are significantly more expensive. For example, Honeycomb LX2 ( https://www.solid-run
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by pmw 4y ago
Not great; VisionFive appears to be significantly less performant. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/17159543?baseli...
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by pmw 4y ago
Thanks, this is great! I didn’t know about any of these.
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by pmw 4y ago
A normal computer has features I want to avoid, such as size, heat, fans, large power supplies, etc. A single-board ARM or RISC computer has all the compute power and peripheral connectors I need. The only missing piece is sufficient RAM.
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by pmw 4y ago
I am excited for VisionFive 2, "the world’s first high-performance RISC-V single board computer (SBC) with an integrated GPU." https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards But my problem with all these SB
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by pmw 4y ago
> in anarchist circles when you have a smallish and relatively close group you can manage a very positive and supportive atmosphere without rules and protocols. But as things grow you lose that, inevitably, as having more people means ne
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by pmw 4y ago
Both the argument and your counter argument are discussed by Lyn Alden here: https://www.lynalden.com/cryptocurrencies/ . She proposes three ways, including valuing cryptocurrency as we do precious metals.
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by pmw 4y ago
AWS supports IPv6 on non-default VPCs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/get-started... I have a hobby project on AWS using it today, with multiple EC2 instances having IPv6 addresses. It works
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by pmw 4y ago
> I imagine the FDA has zero tolerance for vendor software that is bundled with dark patterns Here's a recent case of a nurse going to prison for a medication error, where the UX of the medical cabinets is blamed in a big way: http
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by pmw 4y ago
Fastmail has been that all-in solution. They host Mail/Calendar/Contacts, and they used to host XMPP/Jabber. But unfortunately they made the decision to shut down XMPP ( https://fastmail.blog/historical/sh
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by pmw 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passwd#Shadow_file
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by pmw 5y ago
This is a good place to advertise https://phrase.shop - a webapp I wrote that makes secure yet memorable passphrases. It makes entropy requirements explicit, and you can even roll your own dice to supply the required entropy to
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Food, Violence, and the Maryland Correctional Food System(foodandabolition.org)
18 points by pmw 5y ago|0 comments
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by pmw 5y ago
I'm a happy customer of https://bazqux.com . It is a paid RSS reader that seems to be developed by one guy. The web UI is very good, and it's supported by Reeder , an iOS news aggregator app I use.
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by pmw 5y ago
> Best strategy is to look at something others aren't looking at -- any other source of signal. Better's CTO has several blog articles on this -- a great read! How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model[1] Interviewing is
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by pmw 5y ago
I am a fan of Apple Notes because they support syncing with Fastmail's Notes[1], so I could access my notes from iPhone and web, and my data is not locked into Apple's ecosystem. But I got irritated with Apple Notes. It lacks Mark
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by pmw 5y ago
I built https://phrase.shop for creating secure yet memorable passphrases.
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by pmw 6y ago
In the morning, I write down (and tell my team at standup) what I plan to accomplish today. I need to feel that the plan is doable, and my team needs to feel that the plan is making good progress toward our goals. As I go through the workd
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by pmw 6y ago
Good point, I see I may have misunderstood the parent. Thanks.
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by pmw 6y ago
I disagree. As Michael Bolton said, "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!" Kilo, mega, and other prefixes predate computer storage, and SI is beautiful because it is consistent. The computer industry decided to use
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by pmw 6y ago
I've never had the WHOOP, but I use Apple Watch combined with iPhone apps to track heart metrics. I recently discovered AutoSleep and HeartWatch, which both track HRV along with other metrics.
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by pmw 6y ago
Thank you, both good ideas. I'm not sure right now about how to support more dictionaries without making the UI too busy, but it's something I'd love to find a solution for.
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Show HN: Phrase shop: make secure and memorable passphrases(phrase.shop)
1 points by pmw 6y ago|3 comments
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Managing My Covid Risk(philipmw.github.io)
2 points by pmw 6y ago|0 comments
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by pmw 6y ago
> Doing 5 sets spread out over the entire day, I could lift more and saw results pretty much right away, and really for the first time. I'd exercise while waiting for things like the drier to ding or toast to pop up, a file to downl
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by pmw 6y ago
This reminded me of some wonderful writings from Roger Ebert, a brilliant man who also lost his ability to speak. I cannot find it now, but I believe he wrote about this exact phenomenon: even with the best technology, you cannot communicat
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by pmw 6y ago
The Big Kahuna (1999) ("the majority of the film takes place in a single hotel room, and nearly every single line of dialogue is spoken by one of the three actors.")

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