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Re:Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:19AM (#50182505)
You don't even need a YubiKey to have an authentication subkey.

Just a random site - https://opensource.com/article/19/4/gpg-subkeys-ssh

Re:Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999) on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:54AM (#50116820)
> It's still extremely difficult.

I don't see how. You just type "gpg -e -r [email protected] filename.txt". It doesn't get much simpler than that. It's not like you are using ffmpeg, imagemagick, or other programs with a hundred switches in it.

Also PGP/GnuPG is not only for email. I encrypt and decrypt hundreds and hundreds of payloads per day, programmatically between trusted and untrusted networks.

And it is mandatory for each employee to upload their public key to our keystore so that we can deliver private information to them securely over Slack, Teams, or other communication channels.

Re:Thunderbird for iOS on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:41PM (#50081355)
Basically for delivering and receiving encrypted payloads programmatically or manually.

And once in a while using it for email. :)

You'd be surprised how much GnuPG is used out in the wild.

Re:Thunderbird for iOS on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:45PM (#50077558)
It does. But I have used S/MIME maybe a handful of times in my career. Whereas, GnuPG dozens of times a day, and in my personal life.
Re:Thunderbird for iOS on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:48PM (#50075748)
> it doesn't do

For a company focused on privacy, I'd love GnuPG integrated into the mail app.

Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:33PM (#50037405)
But passwordstore.org can.

No reason to use anything more complicated.

Re:How Protein Took over the World on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:31PM (#50037388)
I can't find it specifically, but I do remember studies of the Hadza tribe and their lower incidents of cancer.

Just something I randomly found in a search.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms4654

Laughs in Moccamaster.
You'd love the Grocery App for iOS and Apple Watch. It learns based on which items you check off on your grocery list and puts them in order.

I'm like a caveman hunting my prey using it. I'm in an out with no meandering around.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grocery-smart-shopping-list/id...

Re:An SR-71 Blackbird Has Vanished (Updated) on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:25PM (#49846646)
This is always good copy pasta.
You have to encrypt it.

NASA requires any of its propulsive spacecraft within 2 million kilometers of Earth to protect their command uplink with encryption that is compliant with Level 1 of the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 (10). The FCC has also considered requiring encryption on the telemetry, tracking, and command communications as well as mission data for propulsive spacecraft, but decided not to incorporate a specific requirement at this time. A satellite with an amateur license cannot encrypt transmissions in any way and must consist of open information. The eligibility rules are listed in 47 CFR Part 97.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.211

> except in very narrow circumstances

Usually it is for the uplink control for satellites. That you'd like to keep encrypted, so that someone does not hack your bird.

Or; don't be everyone's cup of tea, be someone's shot of whiskey.
The Matrix wasn't a movie, it was a documentary.
Re:Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:20AM (#49682701)
> I started contributing to OSM recently after a bike trail was built near me

I started after one long day of cycling, I ran out of water before I could get home. It was bad. After that, I have been updating OSM with all the water sources I run across. Drinking water in parks, bottle refill stations at stores, water fountains that I run across.

It's not much, but it's honest work.

Re:Eating Fruit Skins on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:47PM (#49665133)
> ate entire apples-- core and all

If you eat it from the North Pole to the South Pole, there is no core.

The core is only there if you eat around the equator.

Give it a try.

Re:Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun) on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:03PM (#49646020)
This was my first time cussing on HN. I'll know next time to let the words flow freely.
Re:Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun) on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:59AM (#49644914)
I failed. I guess I don't know sh*t.
Re:An overview of how our family is prepared on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @11:34AM (#49611871)
We've been trained to do this activity twice a year. Why not add a couple of more checkboxes?

    - Check the air pressure of your spare tire in your vehicles
    - Take inventory of your home
    - Test your sump pump
    ..
    ..
I have a small checklist, but those are some examples.
Re:An overview of how our family is prepared on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:36AM (#49610929)
Every daylight savings time, I rotate my stored water. I empty out my containers, refilling them with, then add 7 drops of bleach per gallon.

* Edit * I've been asked before what the best survival book is. Honestly, it is One Second After by William R. Forstchen. It's probably the best description scenario that could occur.

It is not those regurgitated line drawings that everyone copies from Euell Gibbons, or rehashed rule of 3's survival books.

And my local grocery store sponsors Indycar racing and has a track they sponsor. They also throw away produce that looks bad, although it is perfectly edible.

I am not going to cry because the CEO cannot afford a yacht payment next month.

Just like my local grocery store.

They'll ask me to round up my purchase to help feed the hungry. Why can't they not invest in all the infrastructure and systems to support this, and just donate a few nickels and quarters themselves. Plus they have the food to give.

Re:Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:25PM (#49541995)
Maybe checkout morels.com forums next spring to gather some intel on the conditions.
Re:Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:49PM (#49539846)
Morels are starting to make good progress in being farmed.

But, I still enjoy the hunt every spring.

Re:Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:43PM (#49539753)
There are old mushroom hunters, and there are bold mushroom hunters.

There are no old bold mushroom hunters.

Re:OpenStreetMap State of the Map 2026 on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:54AM (#49479469)
It's community driven, so I highly doubt the public will change it.

Now, I'd love for each geographical region to take their very worst area, and rename it after a certain politician for the lulz.

Yes. Default location on your linux computer will use geoclue2, which will give you a location based on your IP address. My location is about 30 miles away since my IP is associated with Google Fiber.

https://github.com/deepin-community/geoclue-2.0/blob/master/...

Using a cheap USB GPS receiver you can get to meters level resolution, could use it mobile as a navigation device, and NTP timing too if you want.

Yep. When I was screwing around getting geoclue to play around with NMEA sentences, I ran across beacondb. I might replace geoclue's back end with it next time I feel like messing around.
You can also do it directly from CoMaps if you have an OSM account.
Even neater, I use CoMaps on my linux laptop, with a USB GPS receiver.

It beats using IP based Geocoding.

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