A well labeled sealed envelope in a small fire safe with short, clear instructions on how to get into everything you want them to. Ideally, simple enough for them to follow, but expect they will ask someone for help. Open it and update it every few years.
A paper notebook is basically the same fundamental as a password manager but with a different tradeoff. You trade cryptographic security for a reliance on physical security. Its probably a great option for a lot of older people who only log into things from home. But its just a password manager. An analogue one.
Flashcards are dumb for this. If you are going to write it down, just secure it. Don’t have them out all the time to try to memorise it. Jese. The worst of both.
I can’t tell if you are self deluded or really are an interesting case. I do question using a screensaver to help memorise a password rather than a password manager.
Plenty of research on the topic. Humans cannot remember a unique, high bit random password for each service. Using your brain means one of the following. Low bit passwords that can be cracked, memorable passwords that can be guessed via social engineering, and/or password reuse where one breached service breaches many accounts.
The only known solutions are all based on some sort of actually random generation of passwords, combined with storage of some sort for all but a very small number of extremely important examples (typically just your password manager vaults password). I actually think a paper notebook and dice or card system is an under appreciated option for a lot of people, which falls under the above.
There is one weird alternative, and that is deterministically generated high bit passwords (via a cryptographic hash function). Unfortunately it doesn’t work well with stupid snowflake sites that have their own “good password” rules, and falls completely flat when you have to change passwords for just a single or few sites for whatever reason.
Convenient app UX, password sharing between users and in groups, and the ability for passwords to be updated on multiple devices simultaneously or while offline without collisions. It has a few other features that are probably rarely used, like secure send, that some people may use.
Currently, there’s no entrenchment, as the apps are open source and there are self-hostable servers. You can easily get your data out and even continue using the apps indefinitely (the whole database stays locally in the app, offline; you just loose sync unless you self host a server).
I say that because that is the minimum bar for any alternative. I use them and am not panicking yet, but if I was starting from scratch, I would be cautious about choosing them.
VC funding is the enemy. I’m beginning to think it matters as much as the libre/proprietary software distinction.
Honestly, Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about anyone but enterprise customers. They were probably told to get bent by one too many large companies running fleets of thousands of old embedded systems or call centres packed with old desktops or something.
Github is just going down the drain in every other way too. Start migrating what you can elsewhere.
Addy.IO is so damned cheap and the “premium” domains will be even less likely to get blocked because they are less common.
Really? Dude has cancer and a kid in college, and yet chooses to write this. I’m pretty sure he has tough decisions. He also is very much not an uncompromising idealist, pointing to very specific solutions and dismissing others.
You may be correct but that just makes them look dumb for trying to do this in the first place. Why? Make some mechanical keyboards, retro looking monitors or other peripherals, whatever might actually make sense for the Commodore brand and style. Not a phone.
Thats the trouble with private vehicles in a nutshell. Sit idle for 95% of the time, and we need to buy models that are capable for the 1% of the drives we might want to do in a year.
Yeah, 120v15a is a pain. At least see about rewiring an outlet for 220v 15a. An electrician can often do it cheaply because its the same wires. Then you can get most of a full charge between commutes.
I don’t mean literal valleys.
Its about the junkfood. News should be dry and chalky. Not only is it easier to process (rationally), you tend to just stop consuming when you feel done.
Natural selection is actually technically an optimisation algorithm. Its just a kind of crappy one that only ever finds local maximas because it can’t traverse valleys (the thing just dies). So we end up with optical receptors on the wrong side of our retina. Ooof.
Poster is a Corvid, not a Parrot. Sarcasm for sure! They are smartiepants.
Its stock market manipulation.
The second they don’t look like an exponential growth curve, they are over-valued and crash.
Very little large capacity ddr2 was ever produced, so if people start wanting to put 16GB+ in old machines, the supply dries up quick. There are still enough 1g sticks around no one wants.