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With a password manager you're putting all the eggs in the same basked. Why I'm I the only one who see this?

More analyticalally: the probability_of_an_account_getting_hacked times damage is constant. More unrelated accounts you have, hack more probable, less damage on a single hack. With one password manager account, everything you have is at stake.

There is no way around it. You can't manage this risk.

hipokampaon Important PostgreSQL 14 update to avoid silent corruption of indexes

an upgrade

hipokampaon Submarine cable map rendered onto a globe

No cables between South America and Africa? Flat Earth!

hipokampaon System CPU Usage and Glibc

> No one is going to throw away a memory region after allocation without writing something into it, after all, why else will they allocate in the first place?

Hah! Just try running a server with vm.overcommit_memory=2.

hipokampaon Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference

You would have to be very unlucky to take 34 minutes[1]. After mere 75 tries (seconds) the chances are >50%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

hipokampaon I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets

All C/C++ projects I have ever seen used either cmake or autoconf build system. It's pretty standard.