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cmhe , 2 months ago to Technology in Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app

There is not much difference between having two apps (password manager and authenticator app) or one app, that does both on the same device.

So, if you want more security, then you have to deal with a hardware token and never with a authenticator app. But then if you loose your token, then you have trouble.

cmhe , 2 months ago to Technology in Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app

I used to use Aegis, but after setting up my own vaultwarden, I use the normal bitwarden app/plugin on all my systems for passwords and TOTP.

The advantages are that I don't need my phone to login, the keys are synced and backuped in the encrypted vaultwarden database, which I can then handle with normal server backup tools. It still works offline, because bitwarden app caches the password.

This is IMO much more convenient and secure (in a way that loosing access to a device doesn't shut you out, and you don't need to trust third parties) then most other solutions.

cmhe , 3 months ago to Comic Strips in Questions

It is racist/sexist/discriminatory to make assumptions on individuals based on statistics.

The statistics can still be true and can be used to counter discrimination against specific groups.

cmhe , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Who was your first?

SuSE Linux 6.0 I believe. Its been a while and I was very young then...

cmhe , 4 months ago to Technology in Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change

"Non-profit organizations" that sounds like the minority of developers. Most projects are from single developers that just throw their project on github et al. and release it from there.

cmhe , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Ente - Open sourcing our server

Only really nice when not CLA is required and every contributor retains their copyright. Ente doesn't seem to require a CLA.

Otherwise it allows the owner to just take the changes from their contributors and change the license at a later date.

cmhe , 4 months ago to Technology in Actor at Willy Wonka Disaster Says Even the Script Was AI-Generated

The AI part is what makes this fuck up special and international news.

We are used to human fuck ups, but a in person event where the organizers where so lazy that they used AI to create the content and that it sucked is something novel.

AI generated pictures, blogs and books are old news, generated in person events is new.

cmhe , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in 10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.

Well, there are also the mobile variants of Firefox, which are more of their own thing.

IMO Mozilla limited itself a bit too much on Firefox. Which results it their web engine not attracting many developers for it outside Mozilla.

Embedding gecko in your own app was much easier in the past. This is now mostly taken over by CEF and WPE for Blink and WebKit respectively.

Also stuff like B2G (Boot 2 Gecko) or FirefoxOS are dead as well.

A goal of open source should be to be hacker friendly as well, were currently Blink/WebKit is leading. There are so many more projects around those engines than Gecko, which is sad.

cmhe , 4 months ago to Technology in Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk

IMO the whole byte stuff is pretty confusing, people should have just sticked with bits, because that avoids implementation details.

One bit is the smallest amount of information. Bytes historically had different amounts of bits, depending on the architecture. With ASCII and the success of the 8 bit processor word of the Intel 8080/8085 processor, it is now defacto 8 Bit long.

But personally, byte seems a bit (no pun intended) like the imperial measurement system.

cmhe , 4 months ago to 196 in Quack rule

Map of names of Donald Duck nephews in Europe

cmhe , 6 months ago to Selfhosted in Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages

Or other standard archiving formats like WARC.

There also is https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox which looks a bit similar.