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WretchedEarl commented on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained   palant.info/2022/12/26/wh... · Posted by u/saikatsg
rietta · 3 years ago
Have to plan ahead and have the keypass password in an envelope in the safe deposit box.
WretchedEarl · 3 years ago
Something to be aware of regarding safe deposit boxes: possession of the key does not automatically grant access to the box.

The bank I use maintains a list of people I allow to access my box along with their physical signature. When I needed to access my box, I had to sign in with a pen, on paper and show my ID. They compared that signature with the one I gave when I first obtained the box. I was granted access if they matched. If someone else came in with the key but their name wasn't on the bank's list or the signature didn't match, they wouldn't allow access to the box.

So make sure people you want to be able to access the box are on that list (which means they will have to go to the bank to provide a signature ahead of time.)

WretchedEarl commented on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel   cfenollosa.com/blog/after... · Posted by u/carlesfe
jasode · 3 years ago
The sweet spot for having control over your email while simultaneously minimizing unforseen headaches is to simply own your domain name and point the MX record to whatever hosting provider you want instead of self-hosting a server at home.

Same philosophy for exposing a your personal blog of html files or content like mp4 videos. The sweet spot is to focus on buying a domain name you control. Then let Amazon S3, or Cloudflare, Hezner etc, host your html or mp4 files.

I quit self-hosting email at home over 15 years ago. It's just not something I want to babysit anymore because I have other things to focus on. As long as I control the MX record on my own domain, that's really all that's necessary.

WretchedEarl · 3 years ago
> simply own your domain name and point the MX record to whatever hosting provider you want

That's not necessarily a sure cure, depending on the hosting provider. RoadRunner (Spectrum / Charter) in the US and Shaw in Canada won't deliver emails from my domain hosted at Runbox.com (or sent directly from the runbox.com domain.) Spectrum's bounce message references an error code that translates to "Spectrum limits the number of concurrent connections from a sender, as well as the total number of connections allowed. Limits vary based on the reputation of the IP address. Reduce your number of connections and try again later."

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WretchedEarl commented on Kinesis Advantage 2   kinesis-ergo.com/shop/adv... · Posted by u/afshinmeh
icefox · 9 years ago
Just to be clear they don't get physically stuck. The most common issue reported is that the keyboard behaves as though the shift key is being pressed even though it is not (aka stuck). The way to fix it is to first recognize that the keyboard is in this mode and then hit the shift key to turn on/off the shift modifier. I have reports of this issues going back to many different kinesis keyboards from at at least 2001 onward.
WretchedEarl · 9 years ago
I have 2 Advantage keyboards and both exhibit this issue. Back when I first got them (about 9 years ago) I called Kinesis about it, but they claimed they had never heard of the problem. While it seems to happen most often with modifier keys, I've had it happen with regular keys, too (including the delete key, which is always exciting :-).

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