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SailingCactus33on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States

It's a biological and societal reality. While we may end up solving the immediate demographic crisis through technology (e.g. Optimus for the elderly), the future of humanity depends on raising children. Not taxing the rich, personal convenience, or trivializing my stated position as one that is "easy" to have.

SailingCactus33on American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

They went off mission. Here is a NASA example that might help linking it together: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11457489/

SailingCactus33on I Lost All Faith in LastPass

I consider the flexibility of pass(1) to be one of the best features. In my case, I use a hierarchy to manage secrets across different orgs and classifications. The structure I use is:[ORGANIZATION]/[CLASSIFICATION]/[SITE|APP]/[USER]

e.g.: Personal/Confidential/google.com/pjungwir@gmail.com Client1/Secret/google.com/pjungwir@example.com

The folder structure allows for different keys to be used in .gpg-id files, so secret access can be limited on different devices based on which keys are available. For example, only a subset of keys are available on my android phone via the Password Store app from F-Droid, with all devices using a shared password-store synced using git(1).

Completion with bash works well (on Fedora) and following the convention of having the password on the first line allows for the android app to work and you don't need to worry about someone looking over your shoulder by using 'pass -c ...'.

SailingCactus33on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel

I have been self hosting email for just over 23 years and I am more emboldened than ever to keep doing so. Even with SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup, I am constantly asking people to check their spam folder, add me to their contacts, etc. I refuse to pay an email tax to one of the larger players to solidify their hold over the protocols.

SailingCactus33on Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving

For IM, there is the wonderful Delta Chat.

SailingCactus33on Ask HN: List of titles and specifications for tech jobs?

I suggest reviewing the Dropbox Engineering Career Framework. https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/

SailingCactus33on FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting

andOTP has just worked for me across multiple device migrations for years. Encrypted backups to a git repo for mobile files managed with MGit.

SailingCactus33on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux

I was unable to make the official dock work with my Lenovo (Fedora), but a usb-c dongle has been working without issues.