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andmalc··on "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
MS Edge, Arc, and Sidekick have features Chrome doesn't such as split screen, side panels, and vertical tabs. Likewise for Firefox forks such as Zen.
andmalc··on Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are
Chromebooks provide separate logins for personal and Workspace/GSuite accounts.

As for what happens if your Chromebook is stolen and you've not selected the option to lock it when the lid is closed, Workspace/GSuite accounts can be remote wiped, personal ones cannot. Perhaps with the upcoming Workspace Individual plan, remote wiping of personal accounts will be possible too.

andmalc··on Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure
Password managers such as 1Password and Bitwarden can save and fill in TOTP codes. Maybe not perfect security but a big win for convenience and loss prevention.
andmalc··on How to automate Google related tasks
Their Clasp tool lets you code Apps Script from your own editor:

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/clasp

andmalc··on Low-fat diet could kill you, major study shows
Another article covering the same story, minus the scary headline:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canadian-researchers-fat-carbo...

andmalc··on Our Copyfish extension was stolen and adware-infested
> Google should take the next step of requiring all extension developers to enable 2FA before being able to post an extension.

Best comment here

andmalc··on How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security
I have a cheap HyperFIDO from a company in British Columbia. https://www.hypersecu.com/products/hyperfido/

Works the same as my $18 Yubi key but the little cover over the USB prongs keeps falling off...

andmalc··on How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security
1366 x 768 can look quite sharp on an 11". You were probably just looking at a bad screen.

AFAICT the reason than even expensive 11" laptops generally don't run higher resolutions is that at that size you can't tell the difference.

andmalc··on How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security
In five years of running a Chromebook dev mode, I've never had that happen but just in case Crouton has a backup feature to save a gzip of your chroot onto a SD card etc.
andmalc··on How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security
Sub $200 Chromebooks with decent keyboards: Dell 11 (2014 & 2015 models), Asus C202SA, and maybe the Lenovo educational models. At higher prices, of course, you have many choices: both Pixels, Lenovo and HP 13" and the Acer 14 for Work (all last year), the new Asus C302SA.
andmalc··on UCLA CS88S: Safety in the Cloud – Introduction to Cybersecurity
That's a sharp looking PDF. May I ask what software or template you used?
andmalc··on Show HN: AlephNote – A Simplenote/Standardnote client
You might want to indicate somewhere that this is for Windows only. I downloaded the source on my Linux machine and took a while figuring out that it's a MS Visual Studio project.
andmalc··on Using Yubikeys Everywhere
You can't have a security key as well as the new Prompt method.
andmalc··on Nitrous Service Shutdown – November 14th
SourceLair, ShiftEdit
andmalc··on Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure
The article states that if 2FA is enabled, then answering a security question or access to the recovery email is also required.
andmalc··on Symantec's Bad Week
or to be truly locked-down, ChromeOS.
andmalc··on A Quick Introduction to LXD
I'm surprised no one's mentioned systemd-nspawn which is also for os-virtualization so more like LXC than Docker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4SwL2t5Yh4

Poettering discusses LXC/LXD later in this video.

andmalc··on GitHub and Jupyter IPython Notebooks
Excited about IPython notebooks generally or possibility of editing them on GitHub?

If you want one to edit, try here: https://cloud.sagemath.com

andmalc··on List of April Fools' Day Announcements
That's gotta be the real Cloud Platform Trial signup.

It wouldn't let me see it because I'm actually already on the trial.

andmalc··on $149 Chromebooks
Well the Pixel of course, but the Levovo Chromebook Yoga 11e is widely said to have the next best keyboard and I haven't heard any complaints about the touchpad. It runs around $450 US so pricier than most.
andmalc··on $149 Chromebooks
You can in most cases but you wouldn't need to. Most people install Linux using a project called Crouton which creates a chroot running parallel to ChromeOs. The Crouton chroot can see a USB device and of course has network access.
andmalc··on $149 Chromebooks
I also have a cheap, late 2012 Samsung Chromebook with an ARM processor and 2GB RAM, the kind the reviewers like to get down on as horribly underpowered. But over time updates have improved the performance and at this point it's really fine.

And yes, Netflix, YouTube etc., no problem.

andmalc··on ReText – Markdown Editor with Live Preview
No disrespect to the OP but the Stackedit editor at https://stackedit.io would be good. No software to install and loads of options for synchronizing and publishing their notes.
andmalc··on ReText – Markdown Editor with Live Preview
Pretty sharp. I like the preview toggle - seems to me that keeping the preview visable all the time like other editors is a waste of space.

Since it saves to Chrome local storage, wouldn't notes get synced along with other Chrome data?

andmalc··on Allen Dulles's Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]
Old school, just like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdp4kiuT-U