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dicknuckle··on Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA
No 3rd party is involved. You're localizing the 2nd factor of authentication. Google could burn down tomorrow andb cease to exist, you could still use authenticator. It's a cryptographic verification scheme, not a service.

RSA was a big one that was similar. Not sure if it's still used today but there was a little hardware fob that wasn't connected to the internet or anything, the whole thing works on Time. The only thing that fob needed was a constant battery power, if it died you'd have to replace the battery and call the helpdesk to get it resynced with your account. The only thing your phone needs is a good time source like GPS or network time. I believe authenticator app works even if your phone doesn't have service. You could be on a landline in a remote region with no Internet, talking to your significant other on the other side of the world, have them log in to your account and give them the code displayed by the authenticator app and they could send that important email you forgot.

dicknuckle··on Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative
They do indeed. I moved all my home infra to docker about 5 years ago and couldn't be happier. It forces my ADD brain to keep things tidy on the home server and now I barely have to do anything unless the server runs out of disk space.

Side note: Just last weekend used autocompose.py to pull all of it into Docker compose files. The tool isn't perfect, but it works flawlessly for anything that isn't using weird mounts or host devices. For the problematic containers, I used inspect on the original, stopped it, spun up the compose version, and compared the inspect data. Take so much guesswork and googling out of Linux admin once you're versed in how it works

dicknuckle··on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
I'm starting to think the people who write these articles are terrible at harnessing search engines, so also terrible at getting good answers from an AI.

I've had pretty decent luck, it's really good at providing a bit of context to glue two things together with the missing pieces I couldn't figure out, most recent with JSON and JMESpath filters.

dicknuckle··on ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
That's were I've had my best luck with it.
dicknuckle··on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
If the redundancy is already in place to not fully rely on cloudflare's product (whatever it is, DNS, R2, etc) the it's not a kneejerk reaction.

It's an "I don't want to wake up to all our stuff running only on the backup provider because cloudflare shut us down for seemingly no reason with no warning".

It's avoiding unnecessary alerts and triage for the ops team by snipping an apparent liability from the stack. I've already done the same after seeing a few of these kinds of interactions with cloudflare in the R2 discord.

When I see a blog post detailing why this has been happening so often, and what they've done to fix it, I'll happily pull that infra code out of the mothballs.

dicknuckle··on Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records
It's $600 because they likely don't keep it in stock anywhere nearby, and they only had a few in existence. For those you're better off going to a junk yard and getting one from the same brand vehicle.
dicknuckle··on Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
I use the Keepass2Android and it integrates with the OS fingerprint reader, so it's likely the same for faceunlock but I don't use that.
dicknuckle··on Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)
Ideally you'd print it in PETG, and this can be done on a $100 Ender 2 clone with a $20 spool of filament, but if all you want is a few small parts and maybe a few batches for other people, you could find a local 3d printing service on FB market.

I'm selling a pair of brake cable guides for $10 including shipping to the lower 48. I'll make more money if I find a cheaper way to ship, but I'm not really doing it to make money.

dicknuckle··on Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)
I'm actually expanding to Fork Guard Guides in the near future and can appreciate the design differences, all of my stuff is blocky and minimalistic for the most part, and cannot be mistaken for OEM, moreso because the metal brackets are something I simply can't supply with my tiny operation.

I've actually started recommending alternative parts that operate the same, but came from different machines, or even competing manufacturers (like a Suzuki brake cable guide that bolts directly on to a Yamaha but looks nothing like the original).

In the end, this is a product of my frustrations with obsolete parts that become impossible to find. I'm also trying to stay cheaper than the OEM costs of 5 years ago to promote my alternatives ending up on machines that see dirt and rocks on the regular while NOS parts are more likely to end up on pristine restorations. Buying NOS parts for some rough examples never sat well.

dicknuckle··on Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)
We're not at farmers markets, because our niches are too focused. One guy I follow on YouTube pretty much only sells tool trays for cannabis products and I only sell replacement brake cable guides for 1980's powersport machines.

We've been at the very beginning of what you're describing for about 3-4 years now. I only started selling by request of the communities I'm part of because none of them knew anyone to print it.

dicknuckle··on Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none
KeePassXC with the DB stored in Resilio Sync for me. It's just convenient that way because I've got a home server that everything gets synced with so I don't have to rely on devices being awake at the same time.
dicknuckle··on Spotifyd
I haven't looked at the Volumio interface in years. It's running on a Pi inside an old boombox, and in a VM on the PC in my garage with a USB sound card passed through.

I exclusively use it for Spotify Connect like I would a Chromecast Audio (if I had one).

dicknuckle··on Spotifyd
Use Volumio. It works better as a Spotify music receiver than my Google Home mini ever did.
dicknuckle··on Spotifyd
Volumio does that.
dicknuckle··on Tell HN: Google Maps location data is used for GeoIP updates
Is there an article you can point me to for fixing my geolocation? I route all of my home internet through a VPS so that I can bond (slightly different to load balance) 3 ISPs. I'll randomly have my geolocation show up very wrong.

I don't have and kind of wired internet here so this fixes the reliability of wireless internet where the old backup adage "2 is 1, 1 is none" comes into play.

dicknuckle··on Wind turbines can kill birds, but not as many as fossil fuels and other impacts
Wait till people hear about the number of birds killed by skyscrapers sheathed in the wrong glass (most of them).
dicknuckle··on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
I don't trust him to get work done. It's common knowledge he's not actually doing anything useful at any of the companies he "runs". There's a whole culture of "handling Elon" so he can't make terrible decisions and run a company into the ground. Twitter doesn't have that, so we're seeing everything out in the open.
dicknuckle··on Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
I'd rather not be attributed if it's getting things wrong.
dicknuckle··on Blockbench – A low-poly 3D model editor
Can you recommend any videos for basic cleanup in 3D Builder? I'm already using it for basic engineering models to 3d print.
dicknuckle··on MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot
Looks more like a heavily cropped image of an actual statue than an AI image to me.
dicknuckle··on Finch: An open-source client for container development
I think my biggest issue with Podman on Mac was the time shift over a few days, no matter which solution I tried.

Lima just works.

dicknuckle··on Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?
I only use Lima on the Mac I use at work. But by any limitation by my employer, it's just the easiest thing I've found for running a few containers for my semi-daily workflow.
dicknuckle··on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
Reminds me of how my daughter can unlock my Asus phone. My code is 8 digits long, policy set by work, and a fingerprint reader in the screen. She definitely doesn't know my code but somehow can still get into my phone if I leave it on the couch.
dicknuckle··on A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]
I never had one in the first place so none of it makes a difference to me.
dicknuckle··on A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]
I just use Maki for Facebook.
dicknuckle··on Pine64 Ox64 $6 RISC-V Linux hybrid SBC
What about Solid State Relays? I think one of mine takes 5v-30v input and I switch mains with it.
dicknuckle··on Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking
Same. I'm pretty sure it's just the client.
dicknuckle··on JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
I probably have that many LoC between all the open files in VScode on an M1 and also love the performance. Only issue I've had so far is the Terraform Language Server running 18 threads at all times and grabbing too much CPU once or twice a month.
dicknuckle··on Show HN: Garnix, fast and easy CI for Nix
That's lovely! I do find myself thinking about this often, and didn't know if any providers that did that other than GCP's "carbon-free" locations. TIL about Hetzner's green-ness.
dicknuckle··on BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely
What makes you say there weren't radiation exposures? Plenty of locals had radiation burns and lasting effects.
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