[HN Gopher] Three things you should buy and use
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Three things you should buy and use
Author : triplechill
Score : 7 points
Date : 2022-04-12 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| eimrine wrote:
| Password manager might be just an algo inside of your head. But
| if you really need it, consider FOSS for not crying after
| mainterner do something wrong with the DB.
|
| eBook is nice investment, but it can not read pdf decently (more
| than half of things I want to read and re-read).
|
| What about white noice gen, usually I use a glass of wine for
| going to sleep rn, but I will try a distuned radio for that goal.
|
| PS. My three things: bicycle for your terrain (please not mtb
| unless you have no roads), x86 laptop + extra hard disks
| (anything from the Internets may and will disappear, please save
| as much as possible) and an audiosystem you will fall in love
| with (comfortable earphones or pair of giant stationar three-way
| speakers, way of thumb is the bigger the speaker the better).
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| > Password manager might be just an algo inside of your head.
|
| This is dead in the water as soon as you realize that a leaked
| and cracked password can reveal all of your other passwords. If
| you want to say that your algorithm can't be reverse-engineered
| I'd be more inclined to think that you are underestimating the
| people around you than that I am underestimating you.
|
| Probably best to just consider that your not-randomly-generated
| password is insecure.
| reducesuffering wrote:
| There is no perfect security, so it's always an assessment of
| are the increasing security measures worth the cost? Even a
| simple algo of (base password + hash(website_name)) prevents
| the most common issue of any site leaking your password to a
| black market password list that just attempts brute force on
| any of the passwords on said list. It would be much much
| rarer for you to be specifically targeted by seeing
| base_password_hash(Amazon) on a list and trying to reverse
| engineer your bank password from that.
|
| IMO it seems more secure than entrusting everything to a
| centralized source (password manager) that can be
| compromised.
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| Yes, that's a fair point. I often forget that my threshold
| for "secure enough" is higher than most.
| meristohm wrote:
| In case you haven't tried it and want to: I read PDFs on my
| Kobo with KOReader (hosted on GitHub). The Mobile Read forums
| have instructions. The barrier to reading science papers (or
| anything in columns) is high for me because the text is both
| small and washed out, but reading The Declaration of
| Independence (from Feedbooks) is okay (anything not in columns,
| so far) as is an a collection of poems for children. So far I
| mostly read epubs because the text can be easily changed.
| m463 wrote:
| tl;dr - Password Manager (software) -
| eReader (device) - White Noise Machine (device)
| hiq wrote:
| I like to use an ereader for books I know I'll read cover to
| cover (novels in my case), but for other books (e.g. technical,
| where I skim through and jump between chapters) it's really
| lacking. How do people use ereaders for nonlinear reading?
| nijave wrote:
| I knew some people that used highlighting/bookmarking
| functionality for reading textbooks non-linearly.
| smoldesu wrote:
| > You need to keep two things in mind to have the most success
| with password managers. First, you need to pay for it. Your
| password manager is going to be the foundation of your digital
| security -- don't leave that up to a free plan.
|
| Or you could use Keepass and not leave your security up to anyone
| but yourself.
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