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Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
I would be extremely leery of storing my keyring on a phone.

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randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

It's not stored locally on the phone; it's cloud-based. Requires a fingerprint to access on my phone, or a really loving long password with some 2FA thrown in.

rdb
Jul 8, 2002
chicken mctesticles?

slothrop posted:

I'm so sorry dude :(

She's doing better today but drat. It came on pretty quick and she's a doctor, who was doing doctor stuff with other doctors and it almost got missed.

Pretty much all of her family is medical so I'm the only dummy sitting here with no idea what anyone is talking about.

The hospital is about 2 hours away from home, which is good because the local hospital sucks and this one is good. It's making for a bit of a commute at the moment though.

Anyways, just brain dumping in the chat thread sorry

I am glad shes doing better. Doing better is a really good sign. Its super scary to watch so feel free to vent.

And yes, it does come on really quick.

Tomarse
Mar 7, 2001

Grr



KozmoNaut posted:

And this is why all of my passwords are unique and randomly generated. Goddamn.

I've been trying to achieve this for ages but its just so hard! :(

I'm using lastpass, and have been working hard to get my password security score up, but because I have the password saved for so many different corporate systems which are all directory integrated I think it constantly scores me down for having them all the same (even though they will all get changed every 3 months).

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
Well, I got the Imgur thing as well, but luckily my password there is (like most of my passwords) totally unrelated to anything else, I kind of just make them whatwever pops into my head at the time. My old imgur password was something like "WaffleimagesIsBroken" or whatever.

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

rdb posted:

Its ok and thank you. I posted about it earlier this year, and legally, I can’t go into details yet. His birthday and thanksgiving were quite rough.

My wife and I decided to try again, and shes 13 weeks today, a healthy boy so far. So its not all doom and gloom.

i remember you mentioning it last year but congratulations on the good news!



wife wants a second kid and i dunno if i can handle it, i'm exhausted with one

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

I haven't got any imgur notifications, but my password is an old one that I don't really use on any other sites. That said, I really would like to use a good manager but I'm a little leary of a 3rd party program/app having access to literally my entire online account portfolio including banks, etc.

You guys that are using managers, which ones do you use and how do you like them? Assuming you have access to them on multiple devices, how are they guaranteed secure so the manager itself isn't hacked and then spill the beans on everything you have? Sorry if these are silly questions, I'm not terribly educated on these.

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle



:aaaaa:

BigPaddy
Jun 30, 2008

That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.


slidebite posted:

Assuming you have access to them on multiple devices, how are they guaranteed secure so the manager itself isn't hacked and then spill the beans on everything you have?

Nothing is guaranteed secure. Password managers have been compromised in the past and will be in the future. I setup two factor authentication and geo location alerts on everything I can so they will have not only my username, password, personal info etc... but also need my phone. Which is less likely.

You could lose your phone and then someone gets it and figures out who you are and buy your details then get access to stuff all in the time before you notice it is gone and cancel the service. Fairly unlikely but still a possibility.

With more and more stuff you want secure being linked to your phone you really need to secure it. Things like the fingerprint security and facial recognition are ok but not foolproof but better than the swipe unlock a lot of people use. If you do hold the screen up to the level guy and see the oil from your hand leaving a smear that someone could follow and unlock it. Passwords to get in are ok but I use my thumb print.

As you can see from this essay it is not an easy question to answer.

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.






IDGI. I'm terrible at seeing 'things' in images that other people see instantly.

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

The Locator posted:

IDGI. I'm terrible at seeing 'things' in images that other people see instantly.

I sincerely hope you can move past that, and heal

BigPaddy
Jun 30, 2008

That night we performed the rite and opened the gate.
Halfway through, I went to fix us both a coke float.
By the time I got back, he'd gone insane.
Plus, he'd left the gate open and there was evil everywhere.


I think it is the three stones in the middle as the shocker.

Dagen H
Mar 19, 2009

Hogertrafikomlaggningen

DICK DICER posted:

I sincerely hope you can move past that, and heal

IGI now. Holy :lol:

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
Everything is loss.jpg

The Royal Nonesuch
Nov 1, 2005

BigPaddy posted:

better than the swipe unlock a lot of people use. If you do hold the screen up to the level guy and see the oil from your hand leaving a smear that someone could follow and unlock

I have really, really good eyesight - if someone around me is using pattern/swipe unlock I can see what their code is very quickly, unless they're being World Series of Poker levels of careful about hiding their screen. It would be trivial to snatch & run any number of phones I already had the code for in a public space.

Typically I just use this superpower to prank friends, and read my bosses emails over his shoulder when I'm taking to him in his office.

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
If my phone leaves my home wifi network or my work wifi network during times that I should be at each respective one, it requires a PIN. Otherwise I have no phone password because I'm lazy, though I do have both google's remote locator and cerberus installed, so I can remote nuke the phone if I lose it for more than a little bit. The banking apps and websites themselves are secured with separate PINs or other methods, and I never save banking login data.

My phones are always cheap and a few generations old. For example, I'm using an S5 now, with a 64GB microSD card. If I were to lose the phone or location were to show it moving away from me, it's one button to nuke it from orbit and render it useless and delete my data. The convenience of not having to enter a password all the time outweighs my potential loss of $80 of electronics.

jamal
Apr 15, 2003

I'll set the building on fire
I recently picked up a moto g5 (S, plus), and it was a little over $200 and has a fingerprint reader. Way handy and opening the phone is easier than even with no password where you still have to push the power button and swipe. I also use the features that keep it unlocked at home or when connected to things like my garmin bike computer. I like it better than my previous moto x 3rd gen, which had half the screen die after a few months. Only downside is no nfc.

I was using 2FA for a couple of logins, but then realized that if you lose or break your phone that doesn't work anymore. Been meaning to go to a password manager; what should I be using?

Galler
Jan 28, 2008


I use keepass (macpass when forced to use a mac) and have the password database file in onedrive so it syncs between all my computers and I don't have to worry (as much) about backing it up. I have yet to encounter a situation where I needed access to all my passwords on my phone so I haven't gone down that road. I don't really like the idea of having the password file in ~my butt~ but it has a reasonable master password (30ish characters with good complexity) with a fairly large work factor so realistically it's more likely AES 256 will be broken before someone could recover the password.

Also multifactor auth on everything that supports it and change passwords yearly or so. Easily changing passwords is one of the hidden benefits of a password manager. You don't have to spend time thinking up and memorizing a new password - just click a button and you've got a new one. Just remember the order of operations of the password change so you don't generate a new password before the system asks for your old one. I like to either copy the old password out somewhere or duplicate the password record, change the password, and then delete the old one after verifying the new password works.

ephphatha
Dec 18, 2009




Keepass keeps a history of password (or other) changes for a record, if you open a record then navigate to the history tab you can find the old password there.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Keep rear end works great

Coredump
Dec 1, 2002

Has Stacey David ever driven the V8 Interceptor?

Galler
Jan 28, 2008


Ephphatha posted:

Keepass keeps a history of password (or other) changes for a record, if you open a record then navigate to the history tab you can find the old password there.

Oh, cool, I've somehow never noticed that. Thanks!

General_Failure
Apr 17, 2005

Grakkus posted:

Don't they average like 10-12l/100? How is that even possible without some kind of serious secondary symptoms?
On a good day, yes.

I don't loving know how it keeps managing it. I even pulled the sparkplugs. All a nice light beige.

I refilled before the return trip on Saturday, because I didn't want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere. So the trip which was mostly flat, straight road @ 100km/h with some hills and a little town driving at the end to get to the destination was 16.98L/100km. Better but still terrible.

When I got back I resumed research into the vacuum lines. An absolutely maddening thing is there are many and varied vacuum diagrams, lots of detailed manual information on all the different carburettor models, photos of carburettors, but absolutely no goddamn information whatsoever on where the vacuum lines connect to everything.
Today I trialled yet another configuration based off a partial exploded diagram from a parts catalog and a photo of a carburettor from a Brazilian website. This time around the charcoal canister purge valve control line is connected to what I believe to be the distributor advance signal line. The smaller crankcase vent line is now connected to what seems to be a special variable restriction line instead of the air cleaner, and the canister purge line is now connected to the air cleaner instead of manifold vacuum.

Nothing seems particularly different except when revving it in the driveway it sounded like it was backfiring a little on deceleration. Aaand the idle cutoff solenoid still doesn't affect the engine when I unplug it, yet the idle air bypass and fuel screws both work. Goddamn work of Baba Yaga or something. loving car.

While I'm ranting. Today is the last day I have to get the repairs to the Jeep approved without requiring another complete re-inspection and needing to cough up another $65 for the privelidge. The motherfucking ball joint press still hasn't arrived. It's only coming from a few hundred km away. Ahh gently caress!

On a completely different note, I just want to say the organizers of these events do an amazing job and the sponsors are awesome for funding / supplying them.
http://www.sccpau.com.au/
They go all out to give kids who normally have trouble being involved in special events a really fun time. Just wanted to mention it.

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Damnit Time Warner I mean Charter SPECTRUM. Massive packet loss, traceroute shows it's always 5 hops away. Next door neighbors are complaining about slow speeds too. "Tech support" swears up and down it's because my modem is "too old" (it's an older 16x4) and they won't do poo poo besides schedule a tech visit. I don't want one of their modems, I want to keep my modem (or at least own my own modem). And I know drat well it's not my modem, since my neighbors are also having the same issues.

Tech's gonna take one look at the signal levels (which are drat near perfect), shrug, and say "ain't nothin I can fix", charge me the $50 for the service call, and leave.

Spectrum's own speedtest shows as low as 0.01mbit before it times out. Seems to mostly be hanging around 3mbit (I have 100mbit). Speedtest.net shows similar poo poo.

If only Verizon still ran FiOS out here. :sigh: I tried getting a quote from Frontier anyway, but their system apparently thinks I'm giving a fake SSN and says I don't exist. :iiam:

e: sweet, directv now and netflix both fall under tmobile's "yeah stream all the video you want for free so long as you do it at SD resolutions" policy, so at least I can fall asleep abusing my LTE a bit.
e2: okay maybe directv now doesn't, even though it's listed as being exempt... blew through a gig of data pretty quick. :argh:

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Nov 27, 2017

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:

Nice photoshop

freelop
Apr 28, 2013

Where we're going, we won't need fries to see



Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Massive packet loss

That's a pretty serious problem

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Damnit Time Warner I mean Charter SPECTRUM. Massive packet loss, traceroute shows it's always 5 hops away. Next door neighbors are complaining about slow speeds too. "Tech support" swears up and down it's because my modem is "too old" (it's an older 16x4) and they won't do poo poo besides schedule a tech visit. I don't want one of their modems, I want to keep my modem (or at least own my own modem). And I know drat well it's not my modem, since my neighbors are also having the same issues.

Tech's gonna take one look at the signal levels (which are drat near perfect), shrug, and say "ain't nothin I can fix", charge me the $50 for the service call, and leave.

Spectrum's own speedtest shows as low as 0.01mbit before it times out. Seems to mostly be hanging around 3mbit (I have 100mbit). Speedtest.net shows similar poo poo.

If only Verizon still ran FiOS out here. :sigh: I tried getting a quote from Frontier anyway, but their system apparently thinks I'm giving a fake SSN and says I don't exist. :iiam:

e: sweet, directv now and netflix both fall under tmobile's "yeah stream all the video you want for free so long as you do it at SD resolutions" policy, so at least I can fall asleep abusing my LTE a bit.
e2: okay maybe directv now doesn't, even though it's listed as being exempt... blew through a gig of data pretty quick. :argh:

Takes some logs and file a complaint.

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

CommieGIR posted:

Takes some logs and file a complaint.

Drop a log while taking a log on a light jog and file a complaint

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

I don't want one of their modems, I want to keep my modem (or at least own my own modem). And I know drat well it's not my modem, since my neighbors are also having the same issues.

Let the tech plug their modem in & provision it to your address, but don't let him leave until you either confirm the speeds are back to normal or he acknowledges that it's not a problem with your modem.

Spectrum also claims they don't charge additional fees for the modems they provide - allegedly its built into the cost of your service - so worst case scenario you get an upgraded modem.

I'd be a bit pissed about the situation if A) my modem hadn't already paid for itself before Charter/Spectrum acquired TWC and B) I'm getting better service now for less than I was under TWC. Prior plan was 30 down 5 up for $80/month, now it's 100 down 10 up for $65.

Geoj fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Nov 27, 2017

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


Cop Porn Popper posted:

I've been getting increasingly pissed off that forza horizon 3 was set in australia and didn't have a 73 ford falcon xb coupe in it. Because what the gently caress is the point of having a bunch of australian fords and holdens in the game if you didn't have that one?

Well, the game posted up a barn find rumor (where they give you a search area and you track down the barn containing an old iconic car) saying some dude in all torn up leather parked a car in a shed and then wandered into the wasteland to await the end of the world, go find it. Cue me dropping everything and hauling rear end to the circle. And yes, you can stick a blower on it. And it has the right shape on the air scoop and every thing. That fixed my one complaint with the game, I love it now. :haw:

Excuse me, I need to ride shiny and chrome.

Yes. YESSSSSS.
I just bought an XBONE S bundle with FH3 as a "Family" Christmas gift. I may have to dig the game out early.
BTW, that bundle deal? B&H Photo had a 1TB Xbox One S w/ Forza Horizon 3 for $229. Everyone else had $50 off for Black Friday, which made the 500 GB model $189. The 1 TB was $269-$299 everywhere else. The price only showed up after it was in your cart. They had the same $229 price on all their other 500 GB+a game bundles. Thanks, SlickDeals.com. I will need to buy the Hot Wheels add-on, though...

I just checked - looks like B&H still has all the same deals for Cyber Monday.

The Locator posted:

Bought a game called "Rebel Galaxy" from Steam yesterday for $4.99. I then proceeded to play it for 5 hours straight, so even if I never played it again I got my moneys worth out of it. It's kind of a space cowboy trucker sort of thing, and the soundtrack is pretty solid (reminds me often of Borderlands).

Probably be playing it today until it's time to head out for Thanksgiving dinner.

Happy Thanksgiving goons.

...aaaaand bought. Thanks!

janitorx posted:

Auto, there were no manuals left in the DFW area by the time I decided to get one, also my new commute is 80% stop and go traffic versus like 20% so I was leaning towards my next car being an auto anyways.

It was a close race between the SS and the 2018 Golf R, but it being the last year the SS are being made, and the 20% off deal + a $700 Costco gift card won me over.

I'm really liking the Orange, the pictures on the dealer site were taken with a Sony Mavica or something and I'd never seen that color in person so I wasn't too sure about it when I went to check it out. I'm blacking out the bowties and have black center caps on order, then I'm done appearance wise for now. The parts people were really pushing the Holden badges they had left in stock but I don't want to Aussie it out like that.

Black out that stupid ugly chrome fake vent on the side (why did those ever become a thing?) and you're done. Not before.
Other than that, I love those cars. Just can't afford one.

Powershift posted:

Don't watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fU18Up8t4E

You'll realize what the motors are good for, too, that can't end well.

I wonder how hard it would be to convert a Leaf motor to operate rear-wheel drive? I have several first-gen RX-7s without working engines (imagine that!) I would love at least one to be electric some day, and third party motors and controllers are horribly expensive. That plus the batteries would cost several times what rebuilding the rotary would (provided no housings are needed, and I do the rebuilding myself.)

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Damnit Time Warner I mean Charter SPECTRUM. Massive packet loss, traceroute shows it's always 5 hops away. Next door neighbors are complaining about slow speeds too. "Tech support" swears up and down it's because my modem is "too old" (it's an older 16x4) and they won't do poo poo besides schedule a tech visit. I don't want one of their modems, I want to keep my modem (or at least own my own modem). And I know drat well it's not my modem, since my neighbors are also having the same issues.

Tech's gonna take one look at the signal levels (which are drat near perfect), shrug, and say "ain't nothin I can fix", charge me the $50 for the service call, and leave.

Spectrum's own speedtest shows as low as 0.01mbit before it times out. Seems to mostly be hanging around 3mbit (I have 100mbit). Speedtest.net shows similar poo poo.

If only Verizon still ran FiOS out here. :sigh: I tried getting a quote from Frontier anyway, but their system apparently thinks I'm giving a fake SSN and says I don't exist. :iiam:

Spectrum was installed for me on Friday, but as of then it only worked on one computer. Looks like my modem, despite being a modem/router, and having a 4-port switch built in, is not providing DHCP/routing functions. The options for Firewall and DHCP aren't even available in the GUI, and the IP the one working PC is getting is a 76.x.x.x external IP, rather than 192.168.x.x.
I've been working on other stuff around the house over the weekend, and have yet to speak to Spectrum, since my AT&T Uverse is still up. Guess I better get to that.
On the plus side, the one working machine tested at 117 up and 12 down on a 100/10 plan.
If worst comes to worst, I have a Netgear Wi-Fi router I could use.

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





Darchangel posted:


...aaaaand bought. Thanks!


Fair warning... I am pretty terrible at video games and I finished the main storyline in just over 25 hours of play time and nowhere near the biggest baddest ship in the game. I was in the Destroyer from the mercenaries guild (fully kitted with level 6 stuff) and assumed I had a bunch more to go in the story, and did what turned out to be the final mission without too much trouble.

I was expecting to need to be upgraded into a dreadnought, so just figured there was a lot more to go. If you get to a mission that takes you to Charon, be aware that there is only the final mission after that one.

The game doesn't end when you finish the final mission, you can continue playing and amassing wealth and bigger ships to your hearts content after that.

As someone who almost never completes games, I felt like the main storyline was just too short. For $5 though, it was very much worth it and I have no regrets and will probably be playing it some more, although with no real goals left (I have flown the largest ship in the game now) it probably doesn't have a lot of life left for me. I've actually downsized my ship since the top two dreadnoughts are just far too easy mode even for me!

Enjoy the game though, for $5 it's a pretty good entertainment value.

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Geoj posted:

Let the tech plug their modem in & provision it to your address, but don't let him leave until you either confirm the speeds are back to normal or he acknowledges that it's not a problem with your modem.

Spectrum also claims they don't charge additional fees for the modems they provide - allegedly its built into the cost of your service - so worst case scenario you get an upgraded modem.

I'd be a bit pissed about the situation if A) my modem hadn't already paid for itself before Charter/Spectrum acquired TWC and B) I'm getting better service now for less than I was under TWC. Prior plan was 30 down 5 up for $80/month, now it's 100 down 10 up for $65.

Problem cleared up overnight, surprise surprise.

Also, it's not really an "upgraded" modem to me; it's a combination modem/router, and they charge you to turn on wifi. I prefer to keep a separate modem and router. The modem/router they provided to my parents doesn't let you set it up in bridge mode, and needs to be power cycled a few times a week. Also has pretty weak wifi.

My service hasn't changed any since the merger, but the phone reps tell me not to make any changes to my account if I value my upstream, including taking them up on a "free" modem (apparently that would transition me from my legacy plan?). I have 100/10, they don't offer 10 up without going to 200 down now (here, anyway). Also, they don't offer my rate plan anymore ($50).

Darchangel posted:

Spectrum was installed for me on Friday, but as of then it only worked on one computer. Looks like my modem, despite being a modem/router, and having a 4-port switch built in, is not providing DHCP/routing functions. The options for Firewall and DHCP aren't even available in the GUI, and the IP the one working PC is getting is a 76.x.x.x external IP, rather than 192.168.x.x.
I've been working on other stuff around the house over the weekend, and have yet to speak to Spectrum, since my AT&T Uverse is still up. Guess I better get to that.
On the plus side, the one working machine tested at 117 up and 12 down on a 100/10 plan.
If worst comes to worst, I have a Netgear Wi-Fi router I could use.

My parents had that issue with their Spectrum modem as well. I think I had to call Spectrum for them, they lock down the GUI pretty hard - they had to push a new config to it IIRC.

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad
Before:


sigh....
After:

I got really sick of dealing with it and opted out of filling the fiberglass with bondo.

Paint provided by black and green Rustoleum outdoor equipment spray paint.

trouser chili
Mar 27, 2002

Unnngggggghhhhh
The jizz really ties the repair work together.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





trouser chili posted:

The jizz really ties the repair work together.

I was going to say it looks like you got a little excited about the tire there.

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad
I'm just gonna wait for the rain to wash that off. Don't need fiberglass dust semen all on my skin again.

MomJeans420
Mar 19, 2007



slothrop posted:

I'm so sorry dude :(

She's doing better today but drat. It came on pretty quick and she's a doctor, who was doing doctor stuff with other doctors and it almost got missed.

Pretty much all of her family is medical so I'm the only dummy sitting here with no idea what anyone is talking about.

The hospital is about 2 hours away from home, which is good because the local hospital sucks and this one is good. It's making for a bit of a commute at the moment though.

Anyways, just brain dumping in the chat thread sorry

Did it end up being meningitis? I had bacterial meningitis a long time ago, it was 24 hrs from waking up feeling sick to being in a coma (but only for a day). Luckily the ER doc gave me antibiotics before the spinal tap, as the delay would have killed me. The CDC gave her poo poo though, as it didn't let them determine the bacteria causing it for their tracking purposes, and they'd rather you die but they have more info. gently caress em.

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





MomJeans420 posted:

Did it end up being meningitis? I had bacterial meningitis a long time ago, it was 24 hrs from waking up feeling sick to being in a coma (but only for a day). Luckily the ER doc gave me antibiotics before the spinal tap, as the delay would have killed me. The CDC gave her poo poo though, as it didn't let them determine the bacteria causing it for their tracking purposes, and they'd rather you die but they have more info. gently caress em.

Stuff like that is kind of frightening to me, as I live alone and who knows when they would find my body when work wondered why I hadn't shown up or called in for a few days.

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ilkhan
Oct 7, 2004

I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

MomJeans420 posted:

Did it end up being meningitis? I had bacterial meningitis a long time ago, it was 24 hrs from waking up feeling sick to being in a coma (but only for a day). Luckily the ER doc gave me antibiotics before the spinal tap, as the delay would have killed me. The CDC gave her poo poo though, as it didn't let them determine the bacteria causing it for their tracking purposes, and they'd rather you die but they have more info. gently caress em.
Gov 101. Lives are secondary.

Sorry for the politics detail to follow.

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