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Great remark, I will add that Solidworks is more intended for small CAD work, industrials usually use Catia for deeper CAD work, which is also owned by the Dassault Group. Both are developed for Windows.

I did it myself, tailscale on kobo works great and is not complicated to install

Do not underestimate the Japanese on this one, they managed to get the MyNumber unified healthcare card adopted in a mere 4 years, that's FAST.

It's a PKI system, your card holds two certificate, one for authenticating that you unlock with a 4 number PIN and one for digital signing that you unlock using a 10 char password. It also has Sony's FeLiCa standard for NFC reading. You can also tie your own generated certificate to it but it seems quite complex and expensive to do so.

I just tried it and if you suspect it leaked you can delete it immediately and get a new one in 10mn

Exactly, but I'm not familiar with the American SS# system honestly

Hello, I live in Japan, the thing they don't tell in the article is the Japan Post Digital Address can be tied to the MyNumber system.

It's an official ID card you're required to update by law every time you move, and they plan to link the address of both systems. Meaning every time you update you address on your ID it will automatically propagate everywhere.

In Japan the MyNumber system is live since a few years and a single card can already be used:

* As driving license

* As a unified heath insurance card

* As a unified way to retrieve prescribed medications, lab results, vaccinations..

* For doing the taxes and receive pension

* As a foreigner residence card (very soon)

* For digital signing of official papers (as a way to replace the Hanko stamp culture, it's working but not yet widely used)

The digital ministry is also expected to unveil an Apple Wallet integration in a few months to avoid having to carry the card.

The main reason banks adopt in-app TOTP is that most third-party TOTP apps historically didn’t offer cloud backups. And some third-party TOTP apps could leak the tokens because the banks don't own their code.

When users accidentally deleted these apps or switched devices, they often lost access to their TOTP tokens, leading to a flood of support requests. Banks tried to "fix" that by integrating TOTP directly into their own apps.

This allows bank a sort of token persistence (and user tracking, and being able to send push notifications, wanted or not).

France sending jets while the U.S. waves the white flag? Looks like the surrender baton just got passed westward.

We also have the amazing Plato reader, like koreader but with a snapper UI and made exclusively for kobo and written in Rust by the guy responsible for bspwm.

https://github.com/baskerville/plato

No ads per se, but a recommendation tile and a kobo plus subscription tile on the main screen that just eats display space for nothing. I mainly use kobopatch to change the epub reader margins, get the page remaining in a chapter and block firmware updates and a few other details. Totally optional, it's just pure nitpicking here. Here is all my kobo modding work in this repo, you can also find what firmware mods are available...

https://github.com/obynio/kobopatch-config/tree/master/src

Mobile read forum for most of it, but also heavily recommend kobopatch

1. https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch-patches/releases optional but nice to tweak some small ui details and get rid of ads

2. https://github.com/videah/kobo-tailscale to have a secure connection with your calibre-web instance, but you could also use self-signed certs

3. https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio... adding books to calibre-web will cause them to appear on the device the next time it syncs with calibre-web

Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..

As a junior SRE that got hired in this role as a new grad, I find these resources quite handy for anyone that would like to step into SRE. I would like to add three other ideas

- Reading the SRE book from Google to get a glimpse of the SRE philosophy. A lot of companies rebrand their Sysadmin or DevOps roles as SRE because it's trendy. Many businesses do not need SRE and need to make sure they understand the idea behind it before doing so.

- Learning Golang for such a role is becoming increasingly vital. So many SRE tools including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Terraform are written, and extended, in Go that it's almost a requirement next to learning Bash.

- A lot may disagree on this one, but get yourself some certifications. SRE is kind of a broad role and companies do not know how to assess the skills of candidates, and unfortunately they often rely on certifications to do so. You don't have to enroll in the most challenging ones as a junior, but just one or two basic certifications to get a rough idea of a provider or service capabilities. Choose wisely.

It can be difficult to show off any personal project in such a field, but you could try to create your own infrastructure as a side project, self-host some services and provision them with Ansible for example.

But most importantly as a new SRE, find yourself a good team and good mentors within that team. Getting into SRE without any previous experience is a hell of a ride, but a very rewarding one. Like previously said, SRE roles are jack of all trades and the field is so broad you never stop learning :)