I’m into locksport as well and would favor that kind of modification on a back door which is more likely to be targeted by thieves. Not sure I’d do it on a front door in case I put a family member actually locked themselves out and actually needed a locksmith to be able to get in.
Yeah, the runs-in-a-browser thing is huge, especially if you want to outsource your bookkeeping. The monthly cost for QB online is crazy, especially when they want you to pay per-company. Be sure to post a Show HN for whatever you come up with please!
Have you looked into GNUCash (GnuCash.org)? It’s a venerable open source project that I believe was started to offer an alternative to Quicken and may be an acceptable alternative to QuickBooks at this point. I haven’t used it personally but if I could go back in time I would make a strong effort to make that work before using Quicken/QuickBooks.
“Why did you come in so late today?” “I read a blog post that told me it would help me become more of a genius if I ‘throw away my alarm clock’, so I did!” “Well I have great news for you: You can show up at the unemployment line whenever it suits you, genius.”
It is also very easy to talk about all of this in hindsight.
Prior to April 2020 I had 100% of my 401K in cash/equivalents.
In April 2020 I put half of that cash into stocks.
Now, of course, I kick myself and say I should have put most/all of it into stocks back then.
But that kind of "of course!" and "that was such a recognizable pattern!" talk is a lot easier in hindsight.
It's easy to forget what it was like at the time, and that it could have easily gone down even further. At the time, the cat was both dead and alive (market recovers vs. market falls further).
This happens to me every day of the week on various sites, multiple times a day. I assumed it was because I had a large number of tabs open (anywhere from 50 to 200), but it's very frustrating. Only thing I can do is quit Safari and re-open, then it goes away for a few hours, then it'll happen again. After a few rounds of that my only choice is to restart the iPad. That buys me a few more hours, but it eventually happens again. Supremely frustrating. Started happening maybe a year ago, never once happened before that. My guess is poor quality control or testing on an update, bug or memory leak was introduced and just never fixed. Very frustrating. Apple stuff is supposed to "just work" but in this case, the browser crashes multiple times a day which is an awful user experience.
I signed up and followed a few people and then... what now? The few things that are suggested to me when I log in aren't interesting, so I just shut the app. I've opened it a few times and had the same experience, so unless someone tells me about something specific I need to sign on to Clubhouse for, I don't see the need to keep opening it.
I’m curious what actual form/filing, if any, this will manifest as. The reason I say this is that for several years now, whenever you’ve applied for an EIN on the IRS website, they’ve basically asked for the beneficial owner(s) information anyway.
They would prefer it if you only used DRM input and output devices that only run approved code rather than general purpose devices that can run any code you can conceive of or download [1]
I’ve always wondered if “foo” and “bar” was specific to a certain (now older) generation of programmers and would eventually fade into obscurity. Or has that bit of programmer culture been passed on to newer generations too?
You can opt out, but it's a grueling, site-by-site process and they don't make it easy - often you have to do it several times. See https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html for some strategies. It's tortuous and should not be this way - we should really have national privacy legislation, but all the companies who are based on (or just get extra profit from) surveillance capitalism will fight such a thing tooth and nail.
Yeah, at this point I view “install closed source software from a not-well-known source” as a very high risk choice. I was thinking of adding this to my set of tertiary browsers, until I couldn’t find the license/source. I wish them well but closed source is a no-go for me.
I don’t meditate very regularly, but I try to think of it as a brief vacation from thinking. My mind is “thinking” all the time, from the moment I wake up until the moment I fall asleep, one thought after another without stopping. I’ve found that viewing meditation as a chance to take a break from that helps.
For anyone who’s interested in this, it’s called impressioning and is really cool. It basically uses the design of the lock (pins pushed down into the keyway by springs, preventing the cylinder from turning) in the attack by using the marks those pins make on a key, to gradually fashion a working key.
Depending on the value of the claim, if you believe the lock was picked, there are people/companies that can check the lock for forensic evidence of that [1] since picking, raking or bumping leaves very different marks on the pins than normal key usage.
Yeah, I agree. I offered on Twitter to pay a "small amount yearly" but my tweet was just a single random data point on Twitter. Hopefully some folks reading this who work at Mozilla or know someone who does, will pass on that a non-trivial people spoke up to say they got real value out of Send.
I loved Firefox Send and really hope they can find a way to address the malware problem [1]. It was the only large file sharing service I fully trusted both because of the encrypted zero-knowledge aspect of the system and the organization behind it; I used it several times a month personally and told others about it. To me it was a "win" under the Mozilla/FF brand.
Yes, this - absolutely. Every extension you install is another potential risk/attack vector. Consider the sources carefully and run the least number of extensions possible. Each one potentially has control of your browser, so choose accordingly.
Google makes money from websites showing ads, so making a reader mode readily available would be counter to that. There used to be a hacky way to approximate reader mode in Chrome [1] but not sure if that still works. Just another reason to favor Firefox over Chrome IMO.
Google will always give only enough privacy options to give the veneer of supporting privacy, but never enough to truly allow it (e.g., anti-fingerprinting measures). You can't blame them really, it's just not their business model, but if you disagree with that model and its effects on you, you can choose a different browser.
Sometimes they can even make a key by sight reading, peering down the keyway; this is especially common (for good locksmiths) with wafer locks (often seen on cabinets, and autos but those are usually too complex to sight read).
I use Google apps in Edge, and nothing else in Edge. I use Firefox for all other web browsing, and avoid doing anything Google related in Firefox. I won't install Chrome on my machine at all and don't need to - Edge is good enough, now that it's Chromium-based.
I agree with GP (retsibsi). The envelope thing says, "I trust you enough to give you a key... but I don't really trust you, so I'm also giving it to you in this weird signed envelope thing." You either trust them or you don't, and you're asking them to do you a favor.
Plus, if they have a sealed envelope with the key, they can get enough information about the key (the key bitting) to make a copy. They don't need to open the envelope, they just need to press the envelope down enough to see the shape of the key.
Good point. But a counterpoint is, it's impossible to commit a burglary if you're in your own home or vehicle. You have a legal right to be there (by full ownership or a lease granting possession), so burglary isn't possible there.