furrowsofar

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That assumes you can tell and that the best people and processes are flawless which is not true by a wide margin.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

This assumes all human therapists are ethical and never make mistakes, and that all of their offices, notes and data syatems are secure too. All security is porous.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Peertube is the distributed Fediverse platform. The issue of course is ability to monetize and discoverability, both huge issues for creators. No creators, no content.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just compare the number of possibilities. Number of words to the 4th power to 94 to the 15th power. Your corpus would have to be 25 million words. In contrast, there are about 800K words in the english language and about 1000 commonly used words.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is a great example of how impossible it is not write down usernmes and passwords and how infeasible forcing changes is.

The other thing people do not talk about enough is user names. They should be somewhat random too and not reused. Forcing people to use their email address is particularly stupid but very common.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The missleading thing about passphrases is that anything a human can remember is low entropy. That it has 20 charachers says nothing about how random.

Edit: I also wonder how much randomness is really needed. Properly salted and hashed passwords shoud not need that much randomness. Lot of this is about users just choosing bad passwords, reusing, and IT not properly salting and hashingon their end.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lot of security is theater. IT doing a CYA thing.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

I wonder how much of this stems from two stupid IT policies. For decades users have been told to not write down passwords and to change them regularly. The result of this policy is to use a small number of password variations that one reuses. Then IT complaims about it.

The better plan has always been to use long random passwords that you never reuse and write them down by some method like a password manger and only change them rarely for example when they may be compromised,

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The two downsides of a custom domain are:

  • Only as private as the least private use of the domain. No crowd to mix with.

  • Delivery through SPAM filters of other providers more troublesome. Delivery to AOL/Yahoo, and one of the AT&T managed mail domains has been the biggest issues for me. GMail delivery seems fine.

Do get a common mainstream suffix not the cheapest. Some filters may tend to filter some TLDs.

Edit: By the way, I have my own domain and the email for it is hosted at a hosting provider. I recommend it but the above are the downsides.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

You can just setup an extender where you need it. That is what I have. No real need for mesh unless your place is really big.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The big advantage of RSS and Youtube is you do not have to login to follow you channels. Your only touching what you need and soyour footprint is a lot smaller. I just started using RSS for youtube a few months ago and like it much better.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Drainage is often done incorrectly in new construction too. Very common to have all the water drop beside the front door and create a pond. Very common to have beds around the house that create little swimming pools. If nothing else the ground will sink around the foundation and have to be filled quite soon.

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