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mindprism

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mindprism··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://www.augros.org
mindprism··on One Million Checkboxes
Gives me concert ticket purchase anxiety
mindprism··on Are Passkeys the beginning of the end of passwords? I hope not
It's not so much that it's "more" in the sense of more of the same, like, e.g. requiring 2 different passwords. That's a waste of time. But 2FA makes the attackers job much more difficult. If someone steals my password or compromises a key, then they still need to hijack my SIM for SMS or steal my phone to get a code from my authenticator app. That's 2 completely different kinds of shenanigans that need to be successful.
mindprism··on Bitten by the black box of iCloud
Elcomsoft's Phone Breaker will let you download your entire iCloud as a local archive. Not free or even cheap, but it does work:

https://www.elcomsoft.com/eppb.html

mindprism··on Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years
Extreeeeeemely careful regression testing.
mindprism··on What would a “good” WebMD look like?
Basically just a big banner page that reads "Yep, you probably have cancer."
mindprism··on Heatsink Skiving (2021) [video]
Stop. Moving. THE CAMERA!