I'm curious for everyone who upgraded from a previous generation, what did you do with your old pair? AFAIK Apple doesn't do AirPods trade-in.
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qyckudnefDi5 commented on Trezor Safe 7 release video youtube.com/watch?v=EWxAc... · Posted by u/steveharrison
The noteworthy thing about this wallet is that it uses the TROPIC01 secure element[1]. The first open verifiable secure element.
It will be interesting to see how it compares to the Keycard Shell[2] a fully open-source wallet with swappable smart cards using the same secure element as found in credit cards etc.
qyckudnefDi5 commented on iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency macrumors.com/2025/10/20/... · Posted by u/dabinat
I thought ios 18 was perfect..
It was simple, just fucking worked.
Leave it to some uninspired people to fuck things up.
Agreed! No one asked for liquid ass!
qyckudnefDi5 commented on Become unbannable from your email karboosx.net/post/PJOveGV... · Posted by u/bfoks
Anyone wanna share their email strategy? I'm thinking of going for the following but I'm still undecided:
1. 1 custom domain (<simple-word-or-two>.com): this will be used for friends, family and any online accounts that know me IRL.
Use Fastmail masked addresses with my custom domain where it makes sense like an online account for amazon.
2. 1 custom domain (<online-nickname>.xyz): this will be used for a blog, professional IRL interviews, correspondence, github.
Use Fastmail masked addresses with my custom domain where it makes sense.
3. Masked emails using fastmail.com: for online accounts that are ephemeral, random newsletter signups etc. Don't want to associate any of my custom domains or IRL identity. Don't care if these are portable.
My main goals are:
- Separate my online identity/alias used for my blog (2) from gov entities, banks etc (1).
- for more anonymity/privacy use the fastmail.com domain with masked addresses to blend in with others on this domain.
I'd love feedback and to read what you do if you want to share :)
qyckudnefDi5 commented on Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander masteringemacs.org/articl... · Posted by u/TheFreim
Runner up is the glove 80, but the only thing is I don't like how flimsy it feels in my hands compared to how solid the kinesis feels.
Glove80 has a better key well and thumb cluster for most people though. I have made a detailed comparison here:
https://danieldk.eu/MoErgo-Glove80-Review
Also agree with the sibling commenters. In order, get:
- Help from an expert/exercise/do very regular breaks.
- A properly adjustable chair.
- A height-adjustable desk (get an electronic one, it's the only one you will ever tune properly, other desks are too much effort).
- Only then an ergo keyboard.
An ergo keyboard is worthless if you do not get the basics right (diagnose the issues, letting the blood flow, having a good posture). I am in some ergo keyboard Discords and it happens far too often that people by an ergo keyboard, but do not even have a setup where they can have a good posture.
Have you tried any of the splitkb keyboards? If so, how do they compare to the kinesis adv 2?
I hope they include instructions on holding it correctly ;p
Top tier comment!
qyckudnefDi5 commented on macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support becca.ooo/blog/macos-dotf... · Posted by u/zdw
XDG directories for macOS dotfiles is my hill to tilt windmills.
To make it extra fun, my $HOME directory is immutable:
chflags uchg "${HOME}"
Preventing arbitrary writes in $HOME breaks things, but it's actually quite rare.
I should document this setup. Or perhaps it's better to keep the madness to myself...
I'm curious if you make your home directory immutable, where do you store your files like pdfs etc?
qyckudnefDi5 commented on Show HN: PunchCard Key Backup github.com/volution/punch... · Posted by u/ciprian_craciun
Provided that the information one wants to keep safe is sensitive and important long term, there are two main issues with printing (either text, QRCode, or anything):
* (paranoia) can you trust your printer not to leak the secret? (either in local memory, or to send it to its cloud mother-ship?) you can encrypt your information and print that, but then you are back to square one: where do you backup the password;
* and most importantly, long term resilience: given that with normal printers you can only print on soft materials (like paper, or perhaps plastic), they won't last floods, fire, and other unlikely events; (even if one laser etches some information on a steel sheet, I don't know how resistant to abrasions it is;)
However, by actually drilling holes into a metal sheet, the only way to permanently make the data irrecoverable, is to destroy the object completely.
For point 1 I recall the creator of Age, Filippo Valsorda suggesting something similar:
>The .age-recipients files also include the public key for an offline disaster recovery key. I generated the key with age-keygen, encrypted it with age -p, printed the ciphertext as a QR code, and wrote the random passphrase in pen. This is a bit convoluted, but I don’t trust printers. All this was done in a tmpfs, so nothing reached storage. Only had to do this once, and have been using that key as the anchor for all my disaster recovery data. https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/passage/
qyckudnefDi5 commented on A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf] usenix.org/system/files/c... · Posted by u/luu
It requires two physical security keys. You can promote the hell out of it, but having to buy and set up security keys is going to stop most people.
You don't need security keys to enable ADP. You need to setup a Recovery Contact or create a Recovery Key.
But using either of these tools to have your DNS redeploy-able to a new provider is a great idea for resiliency.
I've been thinking about doing this for my personal domains, but not sure if it's a good idea