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by pwg 4y ago
> I was curious what the members of HN use when they need a personal database. Whichever seems appropriate for the given task I'm accomplishing. I have some that are in PostgreSQL. Others in SQLite. A few that are just files organ
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by pwg 4y ago
> However it will add almost invisible markings onto the paper itself That only happens on color printers. It is called Machine Identification Code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code ). Suppo
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by pwg 4y ago
Acceptable, provided they are encrypted. I'm not in a flood zone myself, so floods have a very remote risk of occurring. Fire is always a possibility, albeit also low on the risk scale. Depending upon your risk tolerance mitigating
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by pwg 4y ago
> where do you store and backup your personal data A RAID array of physical drives in a local PC. > How do you run your backups? rsnapshot ( https://rsnapshot.org/ ) driven from cron. > How do you manage encryption k
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by pwg 4y ago
> Why do smartphones and SoCs require a custom build per model unlike PCs? Because there is no standard to which the SoC's adhere in the smartphone market. PC's all adhere to the "IBM PC" standard (well, as extended a
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by pwg 4y ago
> and in Android the default music player and the latest updates of the alt music player I installed the author problem is true; they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in
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by pwg 4y ago
> Do You Pirate Software? Not for a good 25-30 years so so. With so much open-source software available, I have had no reason to pirate commercial stuff anymore.
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by pwg 4y ago
> Who are these people in the tech. departments making these decisions ? It is not the "tech. departments" making the decisions. It is a PHB [1] in the "security department" following a checklist of "recommended
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by pwg 4y ago
You need to educate yourself about FinCEN ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Crimes_Enforcement_N... ). You'll end up with the same issue with alternatives, as no business which handles payments is immune to
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by pwg 4y ago
If you are looking to file patents in the US, then the US Patent Office has resources here for you: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/using-legal-services/pr... Note also that there are both "patent a
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by pwg 4y ago
> For case (2) there should be some super-capacitors in the power supply. Agreed, but sadly, I am not aware of any PSU with super-capacitors installed so that it can ride out the 1-2 second flickers. So at the moment there is no built-i
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by pwg 4y ago
> why the hell would this tech be put inside consumer devices Because it is cheaper to make one single CPU chip variant, that is then sold to both the corporate and consumer channels, than it is to make two, one with ME for the corporate
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by pwg 4y ago
The value proposition for a UPS is not "run through a power outage" (most don't store enough energy for that purpose). The value proposition is both of these items below: 1) enough time to do a controlled shutdown instead of
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by pwg 4y ago
A UPS: https://www.apc.com/us/en/product-range/61883-backups/ Note that this will only carry it until the UPS batteries run flat, so a power outage of a duration longer than the runtime on the batteries
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by pwg 4y ago
Does Linphone ( https://linphone.org/ ) not meet that need of cross platform (website claims versions for all major OS'es) and open source ( https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/linphone-desktop
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by pwg 4y ago
If by "your system" you mean the one PC upon which you are typing your comments right now, the provided you have used a unique password for that system, and only that system, then yes, by the time they have the hash and salt, they
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by pwg 4y ago
You are still not understanding how these offline attacks work. Assuming that was a hashed password (it is not), the way that these boxes crack it is they hash all possible passwords and test the resulting hash to see if it matches your has
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by pwg 4y ago
One of the most devastating attacks against cryptography ("crypto") are timing side channel attacks. If the attacker can learn how much time a given crypto routine takes for differing inputs in a system being attacked, they can o
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by pwg 4y ago
> What would you do? IP block on their SMTP sender endpoint. But then I host my own email myself, so I can do such things with ease.
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by pwg 4y ago
For hardware wallets, provided there are no backdoors/side channels/JTAG holes, they are probably safe from this rig. But, the OP's original statement: "for your crypto wallet or personal notes/ diary" encompas
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by pwg 4y ago
> JTR and hashcat cover many hash brute-forcing patterns but I would bet money on neither of those ever cracking the above example if using more than a few words That would depend upon the hash being attacked, and the willingness of an a
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by pwg 4y ago
> If using 2 words "battery" and "horse" then pad with 2 characters. The password becomes %%battery%%horse%% This method is not at all safe, JackTheRipper and other password crackers already have patterns that include
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by pwg 4y ago
It is not safe anymore, because you have just published the algorithm to the world. If you want a safe password, then select the characters at random, and store the results in a secure location.
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by pwg 4y ago
Sorry for your relatives experience, that must be very distressing for them. However, this also shows why having a "backup" is always a good idea. So when/if you do recover what you can recover, you might also consider set
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by pwg 4y ago
> One thing I wish it had was the ability to add an entirely new building. If you want to add an entirely new building on the go, there is Vespucci: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.blau.android/ But, ho
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by pwg 4y ago
> Thanking them and advising them how to do it better next time would be much better. Thanking them and advising is the recommended way to handle this. Unfortunately, as happens in all large crowdsourced areas, some don't adhere t
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by pwg 4y ago
> OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it. Take a look at StreetComplete [1]. It is gamification of updates to OSM. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...
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by pwg 4y ago
> now it’s horribly outdated. It shows several stores in my street that have closed over 6 years ago OSM is mostly volunteers, and if no one has happened by on your street in the last 6 years, then no one has noticed to update the map. &
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by pwg 4y ago
Firefox plus Ublock Origin No ads's anywhere on the linked post.
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by pwg 4y ago
With Ublock Origin blocking all of the javascript by default, the article was readable and there was no auto-playing audio ad at all.

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