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   fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:56:58 JST fu

   Two factor authentication is the bane of my existence. It is #ANNOYING! I misplace all the time. This may be related to my #ADHD but maybe not since that hasn’t improved since my doctor put me on Vyvanse while everything else in my life more-or-less has. From a security standpoint I get it, but I do get so concerned about how much of one’s identity is tied to your phone these days. Not only does that hurt people who chose not to have a cell phone, but how easy is it for me to lose everything if someone else steals my cell phone.

   In fact Facebook requiring me to activate #2FA to continue to utilize my account was the primary driving factor between me using Friendica as my primary social media now rather than Facebook, even though I first joined the ‘verse back in 2011, when it was called simply open source microblogging and was pretty much just identi.ca/feeds/7gqal0c2pesei9… (if you had an account there, it still works BTW and @evan has indicated he plans to integrate ActivityPub by this summer, after its previous protocols, StatusNet and Pump.io, have fell out of favor). @passwords @neurodiverse@hexbear.net @netsec@links.hackliberty.org @ADHD
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   fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 19:23:40 JST fu

   Two factor authentication is the bane of my existence. It is #ANNOYING! I misplace all the time. This may be related to my #ADHD but maybe not since that hasn’t improved since my doctor put me on Vyvanse while everything else in my life more-or-less has. From a security standpoint I get it, but I do get so concerned about how much of one’s identity is tied to your phone these days. Not only does that hurt people who chose not to have a cell phone, but how easy is it for me to lose everything if someone else steals my cell phone.

   In fact Facebook requiring me to activate #2FA to continue to utilize my account was the primary driving factor between me using Friendica as my primary social media now rather than Facebook, even though I first joined the ‘verse back in 2011, when it was called simply open source microblogging and was pretty much just identi.ca/feeds/7gqal0c2pesei9… (if you had an account there, it still works BTW and @evan has indicated he plans to integrate ActivityPub by this summer, after its previous protocols, StatusNet and Pump.io, have fell out of favor). @passwords @neurodiverse@hexbear.net @netsec@links.hackliberty.org @ADHD
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   paul (paul@post.lurk.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 15:49:04 JST paul

   I've sometimes been called a "tech maximalist" because I buy separate devices for things like timers, alarm clocks, lights, and calculators, which are all things I can do on my phone.

   In theory, I feel like my personality *would* be the type to turn my phone into a multifunctional tool. I *shouldn't* be this so-called "maximalist". It doesn't fit. Pocket computers have been a part of me for a loong time. I was the weird kid walking around with a palm pilot who did everything from notetaking to musical ear training. But, in reality, the phone software/hardware ecosystem is a mess. Also their UX has too much in common with a slot machine. I just want to be as dispassionate and distant as possible towards this rectangle.

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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 01:47:56 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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   Right where to start

   Okay, you've seen a computer chip right, big black thing with dozens of little silver legs coming off it, well each of those legs has a job to do. Your most basic job of any chip is, put electricity out of a combination of one or more legs, based on the combination of electricity going into one or more legs. That's true whether we're talking about the Motorola 6800 that Baby Pacman uses, or the whizbang processor in your phone.

   In most chips the question of "Is there electricity going into this leg" is a rather coarse one, in that there's no "Well yeah a bit," it's either "Yes there is" or "No there isn't," and back in the day, chips ran on five volts. New ones run on 3.3 or even lower, but back then it was 5v (some used 12v too, for example some memory chips used 5v to read and 12v to write, but we're concerned with 5v now).

   So the question we've gotta ask ourselves is, does four and a half volts equal a "Yes there is" or a "No there isn't"