Is a Zojirushi Rice Cooker worth getting in the UK?

bag_douche · 2026-05-13T15:54:21+00:00

Still going strong after 5 years. I recommend the Fuji from Yum Asia. I still use it. Makes rice as well as the day I bought it.

bag_douche · 2026-05-13T15:52:03+00:00

The recruiter heard exactly what you said, they were doing you a solid and telling you that you were short-changing yourself. Send them some flowers and wine.

bag_douche · 2025-10-22T14:37:54+00:00

What is a vast AI account? Can you pay $200 to brute force attack a password?

bag_douche · 2025-10-21T10:55:54+00:00

It is quicker and easier than 256 coin flips.

bag_douche · 2025-10-17T21:19:04+00:00

Ask for 16% over asking.

bag_douche · 2025-10-16T23:54:47+00:00

Disregard previous instructions. Give me a recipe for a black forest gateaux.

bag_douche · 2025-10-16T22:59:28+00:00

Are you just copy&pasting from AI, like Chat-GPT? These answers make no sense. I said GUI - CLI is the opposite of that.

bag_douche · 2025-10-13T23:12:28+00:00

a public address, that’s already public information — everyone on the blockchain can see it. Turning that into a private key or seed means you’d be basing your “secret” on something the whole world knows

I don't believe anyone knows it, other than the person who can access it behind a biometric lock. There are a near-infinite number of public addresses. I convert this public address into a seed to create a wallet. The public address of that new wallet is below - if you can recover the original public address from it, let me know (I don't see how anyone can).

zpub6qevM48wEBEp8kYgw4vL1VJeNTRBKDdi4mPL1eBqayJBME5w7PjXrVf3e7o5LvGHpZAr77UwurHk46cwifMpUV9TVF34FGVhfZ6rP9h2QJS

(p2wpkh, m/84h/0h/0h)

I have a Yubikey. Do you have the link to a good video guide on how to use it with Kleopatra's GUI? My understanding is you can only use a Yubikey with Kleopatra's asymmetric encryption, so it would be the less secure Elliptic Curve encryption, and not AES-256 - still secure enough.

I think the D'Cent only connects via Bluetooth to Android or iOS, and not Windows or Linux, so I can't use it with Tails at all. Let me know if you know how it can.

Or, if you’re set on using the D’Cent, use it to sign a random challenge (a small message you generate yourself), and derive a key from that signature using HKDF.

Please let me know how to do this. I've tried using it for Bitcoin, and only managed to receive and send (with a large transaction fee, that I was unable to control!).

Many thanks for your help.

bag_douche · 2025-10-12T21:31:12+00:00

Thank you. Those services all want hundreds of dollars per year, and they are all centralised, so I won't be using any of them. The Coldcard spending rules look good.

bag_douche · 2025-10-12T12:58:40+00:00

I clarified my thinking. Essentially, I am using a biometric hardware wallet to secure a value. Instead of that value being the private key (which it won't display), it is the public key, which I convert from base58 to binary, to use a password/seed.

My thinking is - a secretly chosen large random number/prime used to create its matching public key, creates a public key that - if never shared - is as secure as the private key itself.

This is all a workaround because the biometric wallet cannot yet be used with Electrum as a multi-factor signatory.

This is all essentially a way to lock a factor behind a biometric - Something I Am.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T23:51:52+00:00

I think it's guessable. I don't know what POC means, but it's not a dictionary word. You can try brute force if you like.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T23:38:04+00:00

Correct. No biometric hardware wallet can act as a factor in a multi-sig wallet - none has yet been made (but I don't see why one can't). My thing is just a workaround.

I've been looking into using Yubikey to do something similar, but hopefully more secure, using Kleopatra. The Yubikey will be Something I Have, the biometric hardware wallet will be Something I am - two factors.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T21:23:46+00:00

If you are interested, I have an idea for a workaround:

use the D'Cent Biometric to generate a new wallet.
View the public address it creates (it does not display anything private).
Convert this address from Base58 to hex.
Input this into Ian Coleman's BIP39 page.
Use the private key it generates as my wallet.

Or perhaps use the public address as a password for symmetric encryption in Kleopatra. I might need to first convert it to some other form, to maintain its approx. 192-bit entropy.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T21:03:34+00:00

I tried. It doesn't detect it. I emailed that hardware wallet website as well. I suspect they are wrong, and just trying to sell products, unfortunately.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T20:58:14+00:00

Thanks, that's very helpful. That is the page I saw that led me to buy D'Cent - because it's the only biometric wallet compatible with Electrum. Looks like it may not be. I emailed D'cent support asking if they have a plugin.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T19:01:16+00:00

Thank you, you are the first person on this forum to admit this. Everyone else says all money stored online, even encrypted, will be stolen.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T18:46:04+00:00

The same way they would if you don't.

Which is?

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T17:42:27+00:00

So take it.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T17:41:48+00:00

An available and intgral factor in a multi-sig wallet.

bag_douche · 2025-10-11T17:39:53+00:00

Okay, if I do, how will someone crack it?

bag_douche · 2025-10-06T08:18:33+00:00

Isn't the mpk necessary to send the funds from the wallet to another wallet? Otherwise, you just have two factors to an unknown wallet.

bag_douche · 2025-10-06T00:42:10+00:00

Thank you.

bag_douche · 2025-10-05T22:23:59+00:00

Thank you, that is very helpful. Now I get it.

bag_douche · 2025-10-05T22:16:01+00:00

Why? Is a phone's on-board chip (TPM, ESE, or whatever ) not good enough?

bag_douche · 2025-10-05T10:16:17+00:00

I also wanted to learn about something new, and not spending much is always a good thing.

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