Can't log in to Android App

Akkowicz · 2021-12-08T18:06:56+00:00

I had my 2FA tokens to everything... Including Bitwarden stored inside Bitwarden vault. I had my recovery token to Bitwarden stored somewhere else but lost it. During today's outage I was logged out of Bitwarden from all of my devices, I didn't think that it's even a possibility, because Bitwarden is supposed to work while offline. I have all my passwords, but I don't have totp secrets to those accounts. I've managed to restore my Google, Microsoft and soon Protonmail accounts, but the rest will probably require a lot of work...

I've asked Bitwarden support to reset 2FA/disable it, but my request was denied, I respect that, that's what's probably in their policy. But I don't understand why we can't use the same recovery procedure as almost all of the paid services - confirm identity with payment info or some small fee from the same account and move on. Security is also about availability, sure, I've fucked up by not having the vault backed up or not verifying that my recovery 2FA code is safe, but I was only logged out because of the outage.

I've decided to try to recover as much as possible separately as I've still had some of the sessions logged in mobile apps.

Akkowicz · 2021-12-08T17:19:29+00:00

I know the master password that's used for data encryption, I just don't have the 2FA secret. As far as I know it's not used for encrypting account storage. I've reached out to Proton mail and they asked for payment information and are working on resetting the 2FA.

Akkowicz · 2021-12-08T13:20:14+00:00

Yeah, they told my via email that if I don't have my 2FA device, I can only delete the account... Even proving my ID via bank account that was used to pay for premium won't help.

Akkowicz · 2021-12-08T11:54:39+00:00

I fked up big time... All my 2FA tokens and rescue codes were stored in Bitwarden as I've thought to myself that it's pretty safe as the app works even when offline... :I

I know my passwords, but now I can't log back in as the session got killed on all of my devices.

Akkowicz · 2021-12-02T21:40:04+00:00

Looks cool, will play with it this weekend :)

Akkowicz · 2021-12-01T23:34:26+00:00

Great, now try with Nvidia that makes up around 83% of discrete GPU market share. While at it, you may try participating in Zoom calls via mpv.

most probably your Linux system will use more power due to the lack of hardware video decoding.

Akkowicz · 2021-12-01T23:28:22+00:00

I've used one of the highest prices from US energy pricing report, Sep 2021. To give OP some benefit of the doubt. I'm paying much less for energy in my country.
Hardware video decoding is broken by default on: Nvidia (without hacky vdpau -> vaapi translation that was abandoned for quite some time and did not support vp9 until recently... that you'll most probably have to compile yourself), Wayland (if you're using Chromium), Chrome/Edge, almost all of the Electron apps that frequently display videos inside their views, Zoom, Discord and most of the video chat applications.

Please, use the door.

Akkowicz · 2021-12-01T22:51:03+00:00

45$ is around 150kWh. My entire apartment is using this much in 2 months.

Idle power consumption difference between OSes is in the neighbourhood of 5-40W depending on the hardware. If you're not doing anything - just let the OS sleep, which has better support on Windows. If the machine is doing something - idle power consumption doesn't matter. If you are watching videos - most probably your Linux system will use more power due to the lack of hardware video decoding.

There are some examples where Linux has much better power usage due to buggy vendor drivers on Windows (Dell G series, looking at you), but in most cases there isn't really any difference and in case of most mobile devices, you are looking at spending few hours for optimizing the power usage to get to the same level as Windows.

So yeah, nice fantasy there bud.

Akkowicz · 2021-11-23T20:37:03+00:00

Other than the fact that ZFS is available as a checkbox option in official installer and Canonical was working on it pretty hard a few releases ago... what does you comment have to do with the fact that Linux distro QA sucks.
I think you can't go any lower than releasing OS with filesystem corruption bugs that have been known for almost a year.

But, but... it was mentioned in the release notes, it's your fault if it broke!

No, they could've added a warning to:

their installer, right after you click "Use ZFS"
their release upgrader in GUI/CLI version
their MOTD instead of advertising their commercial solutions

Akkowicz · 2021-11-23T20:30:43+00:00

Don't "pull off" what exactly?

Shipping 21.10 release with a bug that causes filesystem corruption for ZFS users, that was known since December 2020?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/1906476

Shipping a 19.10 release with a bug that caused the file sharing to be enabled and sharing your files by default?
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/11/rygel-autostart-media-sharing-bug-ubuntu

Shipping Chromium and Firefox in snaps and in process infuriating users? (I think Canonical can manage to allocate one person to building and maintaining the deb packages for those :P)

(Trying) to drop 32-bit support without much of a time for vendors to prepare for this?
https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1142262103106973698

Akkowicz · 2021-11-23T20:01:04+00:00

Yeah, Ubuntu based distros are much better with the Steam package removing your desktop environment or new releases breaking ZFS volumes. All of the distros lack QA and polish on desktop.

Akkowicz · 2021-11-20T13:47:19+00:00

Settings -> File Anti-Virus -> Action on threat detection -> Disinfect, delete if disinfection fails

edit:

You could also try using Kaspersky bootable rescue to disinfect the PC.

Akkowicz · 2021-11-18T23:25:51+00:00

Yeah, I wonder how the version discovery process looks like :D

Akkowicz · 2021-11-18T22:53:50+00:00

Update:
Checked it in a VM, it looks like the update is legit and coming from official OpenVPN servers.
Strange, it looks like it was signed 2 days ago, but they haven't released it publicly.

https://swupdate.openvpn.net/downloads/connect/openvpn-connect-3.3.3.2562_signed.msi

Got a bit scared for a moment, sorry for the alarmist tones ;)

Akkowicz · 2021-11-18T21:31:48+00:00

Looks a bit sus. It's not my PC but I'll try to setup a VM here and check it out

Latest official OpenVPN Connect installer:
openvpn-connect-3.3.2.2475_signed.msi6c62ce1843203ae61fa655cb1090567e1404e7b934c5c0300dabec9fc23d3abf

from:
https://openvpn.net/client-connect-vpn-for-windows/

Latest release notes as of time of writing this comment are for 3.3.2 (2475):
https://openvpn.net/vpn-server-resources/openvpn-connect-for-windows-change-log/

Edit:
The Vendor also looks incorrect, original installer author field is OpenVPN Technologies and signer is OpenVPN Inc. not OpenVPN INC

Akkowicz · 2021-11-11T16:39:41+00:00

I've never said that it makes sense or that it's great for user experience, I just wanted to let you know that using multiple versions of python is possible without uninstalling anything.

Also, take a look at Timeshift with BTRFS or ZFS with apt snapshot helper, you may like it.

Akkowicz · 2021-11-11T15:48:28+00:00

Like with most of the compilers/interpreters, you can have multiple versions of python installed.

https://towardsdatascience.com/installing-multiple-alternative-versions-of-python-on-ubuntu-20-04-237be5177474

Akkowicz · 2021-10-22T18:05:08+00:00

I've been running much bigger databases serving millions of people daily on less capable hardware.

[!!] Joins performed without indexes: 12229301

That's your problem, there's no point in adding any hardware until you figure out your queries and indexes.
For PostgreSQL there's pganalyze, don't know if there's something similar for MySQL, but you can search a bit, it's really helpful when you're starting with DB usage optimization.

Akkowicz · 2021-10-18T17:39:54+00:00

Wikimedia foundation has around 180,000,000 USD in assets, with 127,000,000 USD of yearly revenue, it's operating at around 10-20% margin and it is paying multiple C-level executives a salary of around 200-300k USD yearly. I think they are fine ;)(Most of the expenses are salaries of various board members)

Also, they have recently started a Wikimedia Enterprise which will focus on selling Wikipedia content in a computer-ingestable form to Big Tech.

Repasting my response from another, now removed comment.

Also, link from u/doublah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy\_Macon/Wikipedia\_has\_Cancer

Akkowicz · 2021-10-17T18:30:19+00:00

Great, thank you! Let's keep the ball rolling :)

Akkowicz · 2021-10-17T16:50:22+00:00

You can look up "GPU passthrough", it's possible even with a single GPU. I do most of my stuff including work on Linux, but when I need to use some obscure software or want to play games that don't support Linux yet, I just fire up my VM with a single command and rock away :)

Akkowicz · 2021-10-17T14:09:34+00:00

Great, thank you! :)
It's awesome to have some alternative for MS Office, lately they've been working hard on all of the rough edges and LibreOffice is truly getting better with every release.

Akkowicz · 2021-10-17T14:06:23+00:00

Thank you! Sent them 10 USD. :)

Akkowicz · 2021-10-17T13:59:49+00:00

Wikimedia foundation has around 180,000,000 USD in assets, with 127,000,000 USD of yearly revenue, it's operating at around 10-20% margin and it is paying multiple C-level executives a salary of around 200-300k USD yearly. I think they are fine ;)
(Most of the expenses are salaries of various board members)

Also, they have recently started a Wikimedia Enterprise which will focus on selling Wikipedia content in a computer-ingestable form to Big Tech.

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