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Did Web 2.0 make us all forget how open IRC networks were run?

Resources donated by an organization in the form of a server linked into a larger network, a committee that vetted new server applications to the network, volunteer administrators for the network and the individual servers, coordinated regional and global upgrades. And as network users increased, reforming under a hub and spoke models to improve scale and capacity.

And when a single IRC server went away after some time operating for its various reasons, the network kept going.

Could the average IRC user start/host their own instance *and* link it to the larger network? No. But they didn't need to.
This is potentially a solution for some but it’s not perfect. If they had a trusted friend or family member who could store backup codes and deliver them as needed, they could probably also just stay logged in on that person’s phone or even have emails sent you that person. Keep in mind that they have limited transportation and likely lose their contacts when they lose their phones, and many will have strained relationships with the housed people in their lives.

A library solution may not scale. Sure, a librarian might develop a personal relationship and do this as a favor for someone. But the author mentions talking to about 30 people with this problem in his neighborhood, which suggests that if word got out a librarian was doing this and they tried to institutionalize it, a library might have to store codes for dozens or hundreds of people it has no way to authenticate.
From my traveling I've come to the conclusion that the US has a lot of political freedom, but very little personal freedom.

The opposite is true for many other places I've spent time in.
You sure can, but depends on people you need to support, and some luck.

As to the rule, a few observations:

- you don't need to become an expert to be in a certain career.
- Pareto rule applies. You can learn 80% of the job in 20% of the time. After that, it is diminishing returns, in which case you can be average and have a career.
> And that's why companies enforce 2FA: they want your juicy phone-number or other data.

It is possible. And, as far as understand it, the teams at Google in charge of this have evaluated this option and found that it leads to more lost accounts.

The people responsible for user authentication at Google are in a completely different part of the company as advertising and, in my experience, are especially stubborn about their focus on security. "This is about phone numbers" doesn't make sense to me given my personal experience.

> If they at least would allow for a sufficient number of options. Like paper-tan (even self printed), yubikey or similar, second email address, an authenticator, ... but even big companies often only require a phone number.

We are talking about Google specifically here, which offers all of these options.
Mind expanding on this? Why are better protocols incomprehensible? I find it hard to believe big orgs like Cloudflare, Google, etc. wouldn't be very interested in abstractions that save them or make them money, but I've been surprised before.
Trusting my family.
> I think there is almost no debate that eating sea food twice per week is good for you especially from high quality sources.

Aren’t there mercury contaminants in even high quality sources?
The notion that the drug war is a pretext for racism is utterly ridiculous. The PM’s cabinet in my home country recently approved a draft law that would impose the death penalty for dealing drugs. There’s virtually no racial minorities in my country to “oppress” through a drug war. Swedes likewise have long been harsh towards drug use, despite being a highly homogenous society.

It goes without saying that Black people aren’t inherently more likely to be drug dealers or drug users—there is no intrinsic connection between drugs and race. Prohibitions might have a disparate impact on them, but for reasons (discriminatory policing, etc.) that would apply to any prohibition. There’s lots of other laws that have discriminatory enforcement, but nobody accuses the proponents of those laws of being motivated by racism.
These bridges seem to be the weakest links in crypto.
Right now, technology has reached a point where it's expected to be ubiquitous, however is not as accessible as other ubiquitous and necessary services. This has been brought up before, buy can someone in their 70s keep up with the changing UIs and websites and security requirements these days? This is all fine for something like Netflix or Spotify. But for government services, access to jobs, and fundamental communications this poses a problem.
There are literally stacks of papers that get signed when you close on a house. I imagine 90% of people just sign everything in front of them without a second thought.
I think this is a better answer than it first appears.

Initiatives at for profit corporations will always exist within some business constraints, shareholder obligations, and so forth.

It would be very reasonable for governments to provide tax-supported digital services. I could easily imagine that spending a few dollars per year to provide the homeless with basic digital services would pay off simply in easing administrative overhead.

But we don't do it, because, in America, our sense of what government can or should provide is atrophied, and we, mistakenly, look to private actors to provide basic public services.
Trusting my family. Believing white ppl.
Did you recently try to create a gmail account? If not, I suggest you try it right now. Maybe you will be surprised.

Hint: it is still possible to create a gmail account without phone number, but it has become quite tricky to do so.
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Nothing. In fact, I’ve worked hard to come to accept that of which occurs in my life that is undesired - be it from my actions or actions that are outside my control. Everything that has occurred has happened for me, not to me. I’ve learned a great deal along the way and build my character from all my experiences. And just like everyone in this thread, you wouldn’t be who you are without these “regrets”. Hindsight is one thing, having regrets is another. I don’t like to say I regret anything, I’m just living and learning, accepting and letting the pieces fall into place. Life is too short to live with regrets.
Good advice. Thanks. I don't read self-help books. I believe in learning by practice
> it is possible to operate a Google account completely without a phone number

This is only true for a limited time. I've tried to use a couple Google accounts this way and inevitably I log in from a new IP and Google's 2FA system kicks in - forcing me to either furnish a phone number or lose access to the account.

It's similar to how Twitter forces phone numbers out of people - just not as immediate.
> "That they can close anytime", just like twitter in this example. Partly, yes.

Twitter pays people money to keep their service running, so there's that incentive.

> As for real life scenarios...there are upwards of a million people using it right now. I've made friends, networked professionally and found several homes there. I am literally a real life scenario and so are the people behind most of the posts there.

Twitter is, say, 300m MAUs. That would mean the volunteer Mastodon infra would have to increase 300x (assuming scaling is linear, and the Mastodon community hits Mastodon as hard as Twitter users hit Twitter) to cope with similar traffic numbers.
Something similar is done with managed mutual funds.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2962224

Underperforming funds are shut down/merged, so the remainder are the "winners".
It bothers my ex much more than it does me. She has contacted me on at least five separate occasions asking me if I had reconsidered my decision to not search for the old desktop the wallet resided on.
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> They hadn’t started collecting social security due to some debts and was worried it would ALL be garnished.

Your contractor’s actions makes a some twisted sense to me as he’s still receiving ‘undisclosed’ cash. The homeless veteran doesn’t make any sense to me as he was not receiving the social security funds at all.
Last time I checked Google will issue backup codes, the individuals and this person can both hang on to them when the phones go missing.
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> Again, I find your intention to get into other people's business just.....strange.

It's not me. It's a community which agreed on a guideline, standard, by-law, etc.

> You mentioned "property value loss" in another comment - that's not a thing.

No, it actually is. Demand will suffer in locations which are unkept and trashy. I would not buy a property next to a home that had cars parked on the front lawn. I would not want to live next to someone who thinks that's appropriate and most people would agree with me.

There's a reason we stage homes when selling - we want them to be as attractive as possible. The surrounding area, if nice, will add to the value because people want to live in nice places and around nice people.
I can choose my actions, but I can't choose my desires.
No, Intel was "stuck" at 14 nm because they believed that they will succeed to scale down the transistor sizes a lot more, without using EUV, as Pat Gelsinger has just explained in a long interview in the Verge.

However they failed to implement with good results the methods that they had hoped to work, while the others, i.e. TSMC and Samsung had much more realistic roadmaps, which added EUV at the right moment.

Intel was not stalled by waiting for EUV, on the contrary they were not prepared for the transition that was necessary when EUV was eventually ready.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23385652/pat-gelsinger-in...
I started programming (intermittently because wife/kids and fulltime job) at ~37, got my first coding job at ~40. Do it.

Use time management practices for max effect. I'm currently listening to Cal Newports' "Deep Questions" podcast, and even the first few eps (go back and listen from the start) have been tremendously helpful.
why is the maintenance cost of a Mastodon instance so high? What is the technology stack?
Every house with a washing machine has a dryer in the US. Also many are gas powered instead of powered by electricity. Similiarly for any laundromat or laundry room in an apartment complex.

I've yet to have ever been to a location in the US where a dryer was not directly adjacent to the washing machine.
So that you don’t brake in front of a wall if there is another care behind you? Not sure this is a smart move.
Maybe our real personas are into the challenge? Or the fresh inspiration of feeling pain?

Imagine being a painless immortal -spending 80 years in one of our dying bodies might be fun to us.
I have the feeling is in midlife when people switch careers, so 43 doesn't sound strange to me.

You have to be ready to take an income cut though, at least at first. Other than that, I don't think you should be afraid.

That 10k hour rule is stupid. Talent is what makes the difference, either you have it or not. Regardless, it has nothing to do with switching jobs, most people moderately suck at what they do and make living and live happy lifes.
I have an entry-level mirrorless and a top-level camera phone. The results are not in the same league, nevermind the phone being better.

A bigger sensor and lens will always win.
We have two kids and we've never used a dryer. We just hang it up in the basement and it's dry the next day, or we hang it outside on the summer and if it's sunny.

Not a big deal at all.
I guess they're mostly using old dryers without a heat pump
Who was the victim? Were additional BNB minted? So everyone (every holder of BNB, that is) suffered some loss through inflation in proportion to their holding, theoretically?
You're not arguing with me, you're arguing with the author of the twitter thread.

"Any solution requiring long-term retention of a physical 2FA key or high-entropy secret will not work."
Just as a small nitpick, there is still a community on Flickr. There are certain elements that Photographers get out of Flickr that we don't get from Instagram, or other platforms. This isn't to say that the service is as big or powerful as it once was, but it has done an adequate, if not satisfactory job, at meeting the needs of its base.
> the main issue at hand is google's neglectful lack of customer support.

Customer support is the main entrypoint into 99% of sim swapping attacks and would be similarly for any targeted account takeovers. What sort of information do you possibly think would be enough to prove someone actually owns a Google account over the phone?
What makes you think Google cares about anyone?
We do all go to the same ~10 websites. There are some geographic differences, different sites dominate in different parts of the world. America has an outsized influence that may slowly be slipping.

What you couldn’t predict 20 years ago is that those 10 websites are going to have ~personalized feeds for everyone. That was a little surprising … although we’ve been talking about the problem of filter bubbles since at least the mid 2000’s. I remember telling my boss in high school that I’m going to quit so I can go build a Google that doesn’t suffer from the filter bubble problem. Ah youth …

Despite all this personalization, a collective conscience remains. Largely influenced by bot armies and professional memers. Look how effectively the news spreads when an american politician does anything. Especially around election season. The whole world knows and can’t get away.

And we all know that GOT had a bad ending even if we stopped watching the show after 1 season, for example.
I am sad that they are shutting down but we have more options in the Fediverse still.

Its the rebirth of the promise of a censorship free internet. A lot of people have decided that its time we shut peoples mouths and stop them from talking 'for the greater good' - this is a pushback against it.

One day we will all remember why we should support free speech - god help us on that day.
How do you remember a complex password? By practice? On what device? I’m sure those involved have bigger things to worry about/remember than a complex password to email.

I don’t think that is the solution. I also don’t know what is.

Public services that somehow provide safe access to email etc?
> SMS 2FA needs to disappear (or be relegated to a strictly optional, discouraged method) yesterday, and so does using a phone number as the primary user identifier.

A lot of the downsides are mitigated by using Google Voice as the SMS number, since attackers can't migrate your number away from Google.

But in general, I totally agree with you from a security perspective. I just think that it's a difficult thing to get people to use authenticator apps. Apple has resorted to baking the functionality into their OS.
I considered writing about Terra as ab examples of a similar language but I felt the fact that Terra did this at JIT time made it too different to compare. In that regard it is not all that different from Julia. That Zig does this AOT is significant I think.
With MCMC, depending on application, it seems risky to just toss out the NaN/inf results. I'd guess these numerical issues are more likely to occur in certain regions of the state space you're sampling from, so your resulting sample could end up a bit biased. In some cases the bias may be small or otherwise unimportant, so the speed-up and simpler code of filtering NaN/inf results is worth it, but in other cases (like when the MCMC samples feed into some chain of downstream computations) the bias may have sneaky insidious effects.
It can be used to search other things than logs, but it has to be large datasets of Append only data. Emails, Chat, Web Crawl data, logs...
Interesting. This is how ceilings are done here, but I haven't seen a private home with walls like that. Offices, yes.

This might be one of the reasons why Czech construction costs are so high. Expensive material everywhere.
Countless people have seen past the veil and lived to tell about it. Until now, the mainstream of the developed world has provided a strong inoculation against any such views spreading - namely, that it can be safely and instantaneous disregarded as mental illness. No further inquiry necessary.

That's the part that's about to begin changing. Slowly at first, as people like Kanye West come to realize they've been gas-lit. I expect this change to pick up steam though I can't guess the rate right now. HN will be the last dark dominion of Left-Hemisphere-Dominance to be dragged, demanding citations and invoking logical fallacies all the way, into the present.
How are you going to sign in to your OTP app on a new device?
> Which is okay, because it is a business.

It might be legal and maybe even legitimate, but OP said:

> This isn't a "fuck the people who don't have regular access to a phone, they don't matter" situation.

So yeah, those people don't matter (enough) in the sense that it's not worth to offer more methods of 2FA. Let's not pretend otherwise.
I find your worldview overly constrains the range of possibilities and eliminates reasonable ones, like expecting companies to not disproportionately harm those in our society who are least able to recover from or avoid the harm
No Ragrets
Is there a solution?

The claim in the link is that homeless people lose every single one of their possessions after a period of time. They also have minimal access to support structures that could be used as a recovery system. We've had decades of work on authentication and pretty much every solution either involves using a password manager to create unique passwords or having possession of a physical thing.
> PS In terms of mass media shared experiences, 120 MILLION people watched the series finale of the TV show MASH. Hard to imagine a similar event today.

The Super Bowl numbers will blow your mind then ;)
I haven't read the Gladwell book but I believe most or a lot of the examples used to prove the 10,1000 hour rule have been debunked. Very often the reason people will continue practicing for 10,000 hours is they've got some skill in it, or are getting a benefit from doing the skill before becoming an expert and hence continue to do it.

Having said that there are many things you can be good at, make a living at, and enjoy doing before becoming a true expert. Or that your existing skills will transfer too.

The important thing is to see (as much as you can) if you will enjoy doing and working hard at the "other job" before you make the leap
> It is possible to encourage 2FA but allow to opt out.

You might be surprised to learn that this is how it works for Google accounts: it is default-on but you can turn it off.

> If they at least would allow for a sufficient number of options. Like paper-tan (even self printed), yubikey or similar, second email address, an authenticator, ... but even big companies often only require a phone number.

You might be even more surprised to discover that all of these options are supported for Google accounts.
There is no national law on laundry drying in the U.S.; this issue is always one of local law or social customs. Freedom isn't our top priority either, that is more of an established mythos of the U.S., many many things take higher priority, especially in subsets of the population.
It is unfortunately common. We're not perfectly rational robots, and so for a decent subset of the population, they go off what has happened to them.

And being paid $1k and assuming they'd have $1k and then discovering they only had $500 because of garnishment tells them "don't accept checks, cash is the only safe method".

And then it's not a step much further to be "it's not worth setting up social security because it'll all be taken".

People forget that there is a population group where fines are MORE HARMFUL than jail time. At least with jail, you can serve your time and be done.
No seriously, I'm not being sarcastic.

You can't call keeping merely the contacts without emails themselves "migration of email provider". It makes no sense.

Also, you said "follower[s] don't have to do anything", but somehow you (the followee) on the other hand needs to actively move? What if my follower is on this instance too and they don't actively move? Shouldn't their account disappear (and you lost your follower)? I genuinely don't understand how it would work other than everyone has to manually move together.
I wasn't trying to be dramatic here: Without deleting an eSIM profile from a device, all implementations I know indeed disallow reinstalling the profile on another device. (The eSIM standard effectively enforces the singleton nature of an instantiated eSIM profile.) But of course most providers can re-issue eSIMs if required, just like they can mail a physical SIM replacement.

But in many cases, they either charge for it, require more or less involved bureaucratic acrobatics (including sending the QR code via physical mail as proof-of-address, because they've been burned badly by eSIM swapping), or both.

So the assumption that an eSIM activation (QR) code is more or less like a bearer token that you can keep in your password safe and use whenever required often does not hold true, especially when needed most (traveling internationally etc).

Fortunately, my provider is pretty good about it (I can instantly self-serve reissue an eSIM in their portal free of charge), but that seems to be the exception, and I also don't know how I feel about that, security-wise. (They don't offer 2FA, as far as I know.)
IMHO, through pretty bad law. This just strongly feels like a space where simple legal principles haven't (hopefully, yet) emerged despite obvious logical parallels.
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A small improvement is better than no improvement, which is what we would've gotten if Biden didn't win. Those are the facts.
bwhahahaha. hopefully, you're not holding your breath while you wait.

any one running for office will have a simple choice to make regarding this: which side of the argument has the better funded lobby?