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Re:Apple Watch Series 12 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:48PM (#49633090)
This is true of most objects that are constantly worn on your skin - my engineering ring has created a near-permanent indent in my pinky finger. It fades over time when it's not worn. It's an odd thing to hold against a wearable.
Re:iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:22AM (#49429401)
I think the other answers are misinterpreting your question. A user is held "hostage" because unlike fastmail where the format is word.salad@yourdomain; if you ever wanted to ditch iCloud completely, you'd have to go through every single account you used it for and update the email. As someone who has shed his gmail account I can tell you it's not easy to update email address on every site you've ever used it on. The issue people are raising is that apple doesn't let you use your own domain, and generate random emails at that domain. Not my complaint, but I can see the perspective.
The issue is not whether it works; it’s whether someone can stay compliant long enough for it to work
Not at that unfathomably low price
News to me! Since my usage is just a hobby app I’m definitely implementing this action response - thank you
Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION on Saturday July 18, 2026 @11:39PM (#48964773)
I did the same! I was trembling all day!
Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION on Saturday July 18, 2026 @11:23PM (#48964694)
I’ve just received a budget alert for $25 million! I also created an urgent ticket but haven’t heard back.
Apple wallet is smoother to swipe through
Re:Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation on Thursday July 11, 2024 @10:25AM (#40937170)
> So really the ideal is not just having an app that generates a token but one that generates a specific type of token depending on what type of transaction you're performing and won't accept, for example, a login token when adding a new payee. I haven't seen any bank with that level of 2fa yet, has anyone else?

Some banks in India have a separate “transaction password” that’s required to operate on the account vs just login and view balances. It’s not a rotating token, but it’s somewhat close to what you’re suggesting.

Re:The Case Against Gmail (2020) on Friday May 31, 2024 @02:36PM (#40538778)
I use my own domain for all email, but as I age, something that has started to concern me is the longevity of email going to my domain. No-one in my family is very tech-savvy so it's entirely possible they don't know to renew my domain and will end up losing all my incoming email as a result. In this sort of scenario, a big provider like Gmail which will clearly outlast me seems more reliable to pass on this account. Has anyone formulated a plan for someone inheriting your email account?
That's precisely what happens with SIMs in India. When a SIM swap happens, text messages are blocked for 24 hours to allow a customer to alert the operator before one time codes resume sending to the new SIM
Re:Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @09:25AM (#39838734)
I think it is just a transition period until they can get rid of models with the switch in their lineup. Since the action button is now configurable, it could soon turn back into just focus modes as the configurable way to silence your phone
Re:Reverse engineering a car key fob signal on Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:08PM (#39708395)
You could make some sort of art - in the climbing community old ropes often become chalk bags or carpets etc.
Re:Microsoft crosses $3T in market cap on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @11:02AM (#39118925)
I'll bet the higher valuation is because of their investment in OpenAI
It does to a certain extent but it may be a negligible compromise depending on what you use as your second factor.

https://blog.1password.com/1password-2fa-passwords-codes-tog...

Have you tried a password manager? Many of them will autofill the code for you. It makes it quite seamless.
Re:A Decade of Have I Been Pwned on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:02PM (#38526084)
Password managers that have HIBP integration are open about it - one says "this password appears in a list of compromised passwords"
Re:Apple Plans to Equip MacBooks with In-House Cellular Modems on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:46AM (#38359845)
I'm very excited for this. Does anyone remember the Sony Vaio P series of laptops that had this capability? You had to insert those huge cellular adapters. It was such a dream of portability well ahead of its time.
Re:Moving Away from Substack on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:51AM (#38300375)
https://tinyletter.com has worked well for me
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:36PM (#36589946)
https://www.aareet.com/poetry/

I write amateur poetry and post it to my blog above :)

Re:Ancient Greek Terms Worth Reviving on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:39PM (#35868395)
I was named after the rock formation, but sometimes I am excellent too :)
That’s precisely what they are trying to do - they have an “executive” tier that has a bank associated Mastercard
While I agree about the awkwardness of the phone, I’ve found my Apple Watch to be extremely convenient as a way to pay. Simply double click the side button without needing to look and tap it on the reader. Doesn’t get easier than that. And like someone else said, it makes having many payment options available without fattening your wallet. Costco for example, only takes Mastercards in canada and I don’t use the master card anywhere else
Re:Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:51AM (#35640973)
I last tried it in January and I was on the latest of everything - OSes, apps. I said this to the poster above but the straw on the camel’s back for me was when I realized hitting the edit button took me to the wrong entry and that I have unintentionally overwritten a bunch of unrelated passwords on the iOS app. Re: sync, I ran into some issues syncing between the safari extension and the iOS apps that resulted in some sort of reconciliation issue. I was already downgraded by that point though and not in the mood to investigate.

Edit: looks like someone has posted about the issue in their support community although it has devolved a bit into a hot topic. https://1password.community/discussion/138165/edit-jumps-to-...

Re:Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:48AM (#35640933)
Hmm, maybe I’ll give it another go in a few months. I last tried it in January and immediately regretted the upgrade. Probably the most glaring issue for me was that the edit button opened a different item than what you were viewing, and resulted in multiple unintentional password overwrites.
Re:Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:52AM (#35639923)
Version 8 has been plagued with various bugs with editing, scrolling, sync and stability issues on the Mac and iOS apps. It has become extremely difficult to rely on, and really the only path back to stability has been to downgrade to 1Password v7.
Re:How to Yubikey: A Configuration Cheatsheet on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:45PM (#35098057)
I've found Solokey to be unreliable. Recently, for example, I learned that the Solokey 2 can't be added to iCloud as a security key
I’ve actually found that this is not the case and that while the learning is enjoyable, it’s very difficult to retain, especially if the result is a low maintenance server. A decade after I set it up, I will most certainly have forgotten how I set it up in the first place (speaking from experience).
Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:11AM (#34503752)
I absolutely think that exceptional service is possible - for example, when I visit a restaurant with my elderly grandparents who have some extremely particular dietary restrictions, and the wait staff patiently discuss our options, help them create a meal that satisfies their preferences and remains interesting, I find that exceptional. I've had wait staff give us genuine recommendations on the menu, with honesty, indicating the dishes they don't like (much more rare) as well as those they do resulting in a good meal - I enjoy that candor and am happy to tip for the recommendation. I've also had staff stay late and keep a restaurant open because we were on the last train into a station with nowhere else to go and eat and didn't speak the local language - I found that exceptional as well.
Re:Mac OS 9 on Monday December 05, 2022 @08:43PM (#33874779)
Aha! thank you :)

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