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brettanomyceson SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

TOTP are okay for some things but often regulation means each code/challenge needs to be tied to a specific action. TOTP codes typically last for 30s and mulitple actions can happen within 30s, so it's not possible to use TOTP in many cases.

PUSH approval could be used instead but then you need to download an app for every service you use, which isn't very convenient.

PASSKEYS offer a solution which will work on both web and mobile and don't require you to download an app for every service. But it's a new concept that people need to learn so how fast they will be adopted is yet to be seen.

brettanomyceson Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs

We don't allow stale merges so each branch must be fully up to date with master before it can be metged.

This is a bit of a pain in busy repos

brettanomyceson Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs

https://medium.com/wise-engineering/state-of-our-ci-cd-pipel...

Disclaimer: I work for Wise

brettanomyceson Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust

I've recently bit the bullet started porting my CPP Arduino code to C to run on ESP32's and take advantage of some of the more advanced features, watchdogs and freeRTOS tasks.

I would much prefer to write the code in Rust but I'm sure even if it were possible and I got it all working eventually some other chip will be the new hotness and using C ensures I need to do the least amount of work to get it working on that chip

brettanomyceson Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project?

I've been looking at which flow meters to get but as deutronium says swissflow meters are quite expensive, however at the same time I don't really trust cheap meters to be in contact with my beer. Making them myself might be a good project!

brettanomyceson Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project?

Measuring the co2 flow rate is an idea I hadn't considered! I only want to know when beer is being poured and not actually how much has been poured so measuring co2 may be a bit simpler for cleaning and actually wiring up too (although the wiring issue is specific to my setup)

brettanomyceson Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project?

I'm adding flow meters to my keggerator so I can detect when someone pours themselves a beer from one of the taps.

The plan is to have a camera take a photo, do some facial recognition to see if its either one of my flatmates or myself, then optionally post the pic to #beertheif on twitter or start playing some music based on the chosen beer.

brettanomyceson Neovim new funding campaign hits first goal in 48 hours

I'm not sure which of (n)vim and coffee improve my productivity more on a day to day basis but giving up one coffee a week to have tarruda work on (n)vim seems like reasonable tradeoff.