Not for home computers. But storing data in DNA could become feasible for archiving, as it is very dense and degrades very slowly.

I use en- and em-dashes religiously in my LaTeX documents, and I’m not going to start using the wrong kind of dash on purpose. Might as well abandon grammar while we’re at it.

They advertise that passwords are only stored on the server in encrypted form, meaning they couldn’t read them even if they wanted to (or were forced to by a government agency) and you don’t have to trust them not to. This paper shows that several vulnerabilities exist in the protocol which could be exploited by malicious code running on the server (injected by hackers or a government agency), which would then allow an attacker to obtain cleartext-passwords. So you do, in fact, have to trust the servers integrity.

I have my AP connected with a trunk link and configured to offer different SSIDs for different VLANs. I connect IOT devices to the IOT WiFi, and home assistant can see them since the machine running it is connected to that VLAN as well. Apart from the initial setup, this feels like less of a hassle, as firewall rules are already set up for this VLAN (no connection to internet or other VLANs). If I had to manually make sure that every new IOT device I add is incapable of talking to the internet, I think I’d go mad.

Or who do so little cleaning at home that their appartment becomes almost unusable or outright dangerous to live in

*so Apple claims. Is it possible to verify the key is un-recoverably deleted? The more reasonable approach (when it comes to security) would be to never upload a key in the first place.

I usually go in the morning because it is incredibly packed in the afternoon / evening.

Corporations and fascists: name a better duo

Employers demand to see your facebook account? That sounds illegal.

I didn’t think people still opened new user accounts on facebook

ssh is a protocol that is used to log in to a computer remotely. Servers are usually administrated not by plugging a keyboard and monitor into the server, but from another machine via ssh. You can configure ssh to allow login with the same username+password you would use locally, but it is common practice to only allow authentication with an ssh key.

ssh keys allow for much higher entropy like you suggested. They are also asymmetric, and the private key can be password-protected or stored on a smartcard.

If you rely on some specific piece of software, set up a dual boot and only boot into windows to use that software. Put your Linux installation onto a separate (encrypted) partition.

We’re never going to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of user adoption and software availability with the mentality to only switch once everything works 100%.

I know computers are hard for normies, but I believe that’s only because they’ve been using dumbed-down walled-garden stuff for too long. And just like it is important to know how to cook and do basic repairs around the house, a basic grasp of computers should be the standard in today’s world.

Have you heard of ssh keys?

Which Wi-Fi standard does your router / access point support?

What’s wrong with VSCode? There’s an open source version (codium) which works just as well for me.

Gives you plenty of time to contemplate your backup strategy

What does this have to do with security? Do they expect evil maid attacks on the PS5 people carry around to do their online banking on?

Yes, the sad reality is that Windows is not quite there yet for desktop usage

The top is a left-oriented coordinate system (because the axes follow the left-hand rule, not the right hand rule). Doing anything related to e.g. physics in such a coordinate system is a pain.

Imagine hosting a software on your own hardware and still choosing the one that makes you dependent on the whims of a corporation lmao