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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 07:22:10 JST Paul Cantrell

   IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE
   - passwords should be random
   - data should be backed up
   - anonymity should be the default
   - dishwashers don’t need wifi
   - the drivetrain should be airgapped from the Internet

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 07:36:23 JST Rich Felker

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     @inthehands Passwords to most things honestly should be "cypherpunks".

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 07:37:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias
     Sounds pretty random to me!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 07:50:23 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Rich Felker
     • Esther #antifa

     @src_esther @dalias
     It’s an improvement over a single word! Really, though, most passwords should be machine-generated and stored in a password manager unless it’s essential that you be able to type it from memory.

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     Esther #antifa (src_esther@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 07:50:24 JST Esther #antifa

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     • Rich Felker

     @inthehands @dalias
     I have always taught all my interns to use passphrases. Once, an intern asked me what I meant, and I said, "Not a word, but a sentence, for example: 'I am crazy!'"... That became his first passphrase...

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     This Account Kills Fascists (violenteastcoastcity@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 08:19:57 JST This Account Kills Fascists

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     @inthehands My husband works for NASA. We have exactly zero "smart" home things.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 08:19:57 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • This Account Kills Fascists

     @violenteastcoastcity

     Hat tip to another crusty old (in spirit) engineer

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 10:54:58 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Here, I did the thing

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 11:04:20 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Seán C McCord :tux:

     @ulexus

     Same reason a dishwasher needs WiFi

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     Seán C McCord :tux: (ulexus@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 11:04:21 JST Seán C McCord :tux:

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     @inthehands Why does a house need a drivetrain?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 12:12:12 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • vfig

     @vfig
     The real horror story hasn’t happened yet: it’s every car in the world of a certain make suddenly suddenly failing to run — or losing its brakes, or spontaneously catching fire — because of a bad over-the-air update.

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     vfig (vfig@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 12:12:13 JST vfig

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     @inthehands if every warning sign is a story... whats the story behind "the drivetrain should be airgapped"?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 06:21:52 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • F4GRX Sébastien

     @f4grx https://toot.cat/@rey/115489703700634978

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     F4GRX Sébastien (f4grx@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 06:21:53 JST F4GRX Sébastien

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     • vfig

     @inthehands @vfig there was a land rover (or jeep?) bricking update a while ago IIRC?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 11:09:51 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Here you go, PDF and SVG, print to your heart’s content:

     https://innig.net/tmp/in-this-secure-house.pdf

     https://innig.net/tmp/in-this-secure-house.svg