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by red369 2y ago
It occurs to me that a lot of the solutions here are technically involved, which isn't a surprise given where I asked. But so far I haven't seen any can't-be-bothered-thinking-about-it, obvious and simple solutions. Are the m
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by red369 2y ago
Some of these ideas are really becoming a rabbit-hole for me. I like the idea of forwarding SMS to email, but then you need an email provider who will never prompt for some sort of 2fA just because you're outside the country or on an u
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by red369 2y ago
Probably unnecessary detail because I assume it's solveable, but if you use key based auth for the SSH to the fixed desktop, how do you make sure you still have access to that key if you lose your main device/s? (Edited to clarify
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by red369 2y ago
I should probably have clarified - I don't actually use the phone as a backup for 2FA through SMS. That would probably require porting the number if something happened to the first phone, or setting up 2 seperate SMS 2FA methods on eve
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Ask HN: Do you carry an old phone when travelling as a 2FA backup?
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by red369 2y ago
Me too, but it might help to find become clear on which of the accounts you have 2FA turned on for could be reset by having them send an email, and which you would be locked out of. The email providers I use all require 2FA, but as long as
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by red369 2y ago
I wonder if some areas/countries had better quality phone lines. I'm not doubting you, but I didn't have this experience at all. Could have just been luck - I probably didn't call that many different people. Of course, t
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by red369 2y ago
I also miss reliable decent quality phone calls. I sometimes give up on Facetime/Whatsapp/Signal and switch to standard mobile call, or vice-versa, and I can hear that the calls through apps have much richer sound quality, when it
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by red369 2y ago
I agree that this area is more complicated than simple statements will be able to cover, but at first thought I like the idea of some sort of rule for opening up any device that is not being maintained. That when a company decides a device
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by red369 2y ago
I'm doing my best to avoid writing a sarcastic comment about Australia's reputation for putting off troubling about the technical details for digital legislation. However, I can't resist posting some of the highlights that ar
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Australia's social media ban for children under 16 just became law(abc.net.au)
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by red369 2y ago
Is it similar to this model? https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sony_dream_machine_ez_4.html I've never had one - I was just also curious, so I scrolled through more Dream Machine images than I should have.
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by red369 2y ago
Thanks - it is too! I saw that when searching, but dismissed it as not what i remembered. Your comment made me take a closer look.
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The Mosquito – Acoustic loitering deterrent(en.wikipedia.org)
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by red369 2y ago
It seems that often even Dracula is viewed as a "good bad book". Not high quality literature, but great to read. I realise I've used vague terms in that sentence, even setting aside the tricky question of what makes the thing
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by red369 2y ago
In addition to the Dracula's Guest short story, I actually liked quite a few of the other stories in the book Dracula's Guest. By the way, for anyone who is thinking of reading Dracula's Guest, it is likely it was intended as
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by red369 2y ago
This might be a joke I'm missing about the Windows 10 installation, but this page allows download of the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 I think vis
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by red369 2y ago
Interesting XKCD comic on the amount of coal dug up in UK since the industrial revolution: https://xkcd.com/2992/
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by red369 2y ago
I'm not sure I'm thinking about this correctly, but I'm not sure that it's relevant that elderly men die younger than elderly women. I think it would only be a bias is they were dying at a faster rate, relative to their
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by red369 2y ago
I think also part of the KY-11 were the two telescopes the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) donated to NASA in 2012. I forget the details I read, but as I remember they were roughly equivalent to Hubble, but obselete for the NRO.
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by red369 2y ago
Interesting about it being destructive to the paper - the Wikipedia article seemed to describe old manuscripts lasting a long time with the ink. Is it that the paper we have now is less compatible? I'm guessing you might also be into p
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Iron Gall Ink(en.wikipedia.org)
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by red369 2y ago
As I understand, it is the mobile phone branch of Nokia which they sold to Microsoft, then bought back. I'm not sure quite how it ended up under the HMD name, but they have the rights to brand phones as Nokia.
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HMD Barbie Phone(hmd.com)
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Mojeek – The alternative search engine that puts the people who use it first(mojeek.com)
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Google Wing Drone Delivery Launches in Melbourne(australianaviation.com.au)
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by red369 2y ago
I don't have much experience of Air Canada, but it's all been bad so far. Someone I know was not allowed on the flight because their ticket had been booked on their behalf and they didn't have that credit card with them. Air
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Brad Sucks – Creative Commons (2008)(creativecommons.org)
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by red369 2y ago
Do you mind explaining why you think so? I'm missing what is negative about it. To me it doesn't seem an unusual phrase - often a reference to Where the Wild Things Are. And I've just found from the Wikipedia page that "
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by red369 2y ago
This can be set up in iOS using Automation in Apple's Shortcuts app, e.g: When: I arrive home Do: Set WIFI On

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