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sourcex··on Don't use third party auth to sign in
I recently got locked out of my Amazon account. While trying to get it unlocked, I faced one of the worst experiences with Amazon customer team. I even reached to Jeff's email, but no reply. Finally, I have to file an official complaint in the consumer court to get my account unlock. All of these event took around 14-15 days. During these days, I was suddenly unable to use my Echo, Prime video, Kindle books, readwise, and prime now services. I never really tried any other competitor service before, and was solely reliant on Amazon's offering. That time I realized the amount of power such single sign-in yielded. I can only imagine what happens when you use it for every service via a third party and use it daily, only to suddenly see it lock you out. I hope there's a better way to login in the future, maybe something like trusona or magic

PS: I did not do anything wrong but still suffered lot of psychological pain due to this mistake by Amazon's internal security.

sourcex··on Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
I profit from arbitrage by buying things for people on Amazon via purse.io. I buy discounted gift cards, and order for others they pay me in bitcoin. Net margin is around avg. 10%. I have fulfilled around $8k, netting me $800 easily. However, there are some risks such as amazon taking away your gift card or locking the account. It isn't for everyone, but can be a good side income occasionally
sourcex··on Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine
Why did you name it Runnaroo? Search engine are supposed to be easy to spell and type. During the last 3 days of my usage, I misspelt Runnaroo every 3rd time I opened it.
sourcex··on Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub
Obsidian - https://obsidian.md 2. Stroll - Open source - https://giffmex.org/experiments/strol...]https://giffmex.org... 3. RemNote - https://www.remnote.io/homepage 4. Amplenote - https://www.amplenote.com/
sourcex··on How Hackers Broke into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts
You say you read 100+ stories. How do you keep track of all of them? It is easy to forget when you read so much and more difficult to exactly pinpoint where you read it?
sourcex··on Tails 1.0 is out
Did Edward Snowden really use it ?
sourcex··on Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
This is Awesome and very useful! BTW did he do it ?
sourcex··on Wolfram Language
So Wolfram for raspberry Pi is available for free with NOOBS ? eye rolls and Wolfram is chargeable ?
sourcex··on 64 Terabyte RAM computer from SGI
How much would this cost ?
sourcex··on 64 Terabyte RAM computer from SGI
Dare to find it!
sourcex··on The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted
How did you manage to remove the black blur ?
sourcex··on The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted
how did you managed to remove the blur in the photo ?