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nikola1010 commented on Git is too hard   changelog.com/posts/git-i... · Posted by u/ingve
dijit · 5 years ago
Weird question; have you looked at perforce?

My previous and current company use perforce but many people (often those who recently join) are decrying that perforce is less elegant than git, but, realistically and based on your own criteria it would be "better" for the connected case.

I'm personally a big fan of 'offline/local-first' being a thing, but I'm a sysadmin not a developer.

nikola1010 · 5 years ago
At my current job, I had to create a command-line tool just to be able to checkout things from perforce. It is ridiculous how difficult the UX is for this. And companies are still paying for it!
nikola1010 commented on Lesspass – open-source stateless password manager   lesspass.com/... · Posted by u/thrwaway69
ThePhysicist · 6 years ago
There’s the concept of unclonable physical functions (PUFs) (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function) that can provide something like this. Some companies like Physec offer key derivation mechanisms based on PUFs that depend on the physical characteristics of the environment of the device that generates the key (e.g. the electromagnetic impedance), so an attacker needs the actual device to produce a key that matches the profile, and tampering with the device by e.g. opening it destroys its ability to generate a key due to changes in impedance.

It’s a really neat concept but I don’t think anyone found a way to apply it to a human, though it should be possible (e.g. using your heartbeat).

nikola1010 · 6 years ago
A company called nymi does exactly this. They have a wrist-watch device that actively profiles wearer's heartbeat for unique identification.

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