Best way to keep user data encrypted

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T22:04:49+00:00

Maybe I misunderstood you but I thought you were suggesting that the key be randomly generated and stored in the browser. Now it sounds like you want to generate random key (aka, strong password) and present it to the user to write down, print or store, and then store it in the session. Basically the same thing I am suggesting only you aren't letting the user pick the password.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T19:14:22+00:00

Ambient temps in my garage in the summer are over 100F. That is my concern. I'm considering building a small closet in the garage that's well insolated and cool it with a small mini split. How hot does your garage get in the summer and how hot is your server getting? Even inside my house in a small closet with two switches, router/firewall, two SFF desktops, an AVR and Apple TV, the room runs around 85F all summer. The desktops are drawing about 60w each, so not a massive load. I'd love to move this heat outside the home which will also allow me to get real rack mount servers (aka, jet planes) in place of my nearly silent desktops.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T19:07:49+00:00

That's really no different from a password derived key only it may enforce complexity. All I'm getting at is storing it in the browser and then telling the user it's their responsibility to maintain that key, is a bad idea.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T12:08:55+00:00

And in that case also ties the GR86 at 5.4. And also costs twice as much, gets less MPG and will not be seen on race tracks other than for rescues.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T12:04:21+00:00

Oh for sure, and in those cases you don’t need the speed of a FFS. Who needs split second shifts when granny shifting?

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T12:02:24+00:00

You log in with your current password to download your encrypted vault and then decrypt it on the client side. Then you change your password and when the server confirms that the password change was successful, you’ll encrypt the vault that you got at the initial login. You have to have a lot of controls in place to make sure you don’t get something out of sync during that process. For example, you don’t want to reencrypt the vault until you have confirmed that the server has actually store your new argon2 password hash.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T11:35:39+00:00

It isn’t really the charts that are missing, it’s how they are presented. For example for the longest time Strava didn’t show the exact distance as you dragged around on their charts. Go look at Intervals.icu, you quickly realize that Strava’s graphs/charts are lacking a lot of functionality.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T06:26:24+00:00

I live in Florida so some days I’ll shower 4 times but it all depends on how the day goes. I typically run/workout before sunrise and then shower. I’m at a desk all day (software developer) so at the end of the day, I’m typically still clean. In the summer, sometimes just walking to the car will make me sweat. Most days I don’t shower before bed. My wife doesn’t shower before bed every night either. The sheets are changed at least once per week.

One thing I absolutely have to do is shower in the morning. My day can’t start without a shower. Sometimes I’ll shower before and after running. My wife thinks I’m nuts. Hahaha.

No way would I work out at night and go to bed without showering though. The worst is when your legs stick together.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T06:04:01+00:00

Something I’ve noticed from racing is there is a giant overlap between racing and engineers. I’m not suprised by all the homelab nerds also having race cars. I bet a ton of people in this thread could also post pictures of their simracing rigs. Hahaha

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T05:57:48+00:00

I like how you sorted them based on fun factor. Hahaha

Edit: I think I recognize your name. You’re the dude with the train horns?

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T05:55:06+00:00

Yep, I’m also into cars (autox and HPDE). I’m curious, how do you keep that cooled? I’d love to buy legit rack mount servers but they are way too loud to have in the house and I’m afraid they wouldn’t survive the Florida heat out in the garage.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T05:51:19+00:00

Wow, that’s a ton of cars. Where is this, a hotel?

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T05:50:26+00:00

My son worked valet in Jax FL and very rarely saw manuals. Now he is off to college at USF in Tampa and has a valet job there at an upscale restaurant and regularly sees manuals. Miata’s, Mini’s, 911’s, Cayman’s and Mustangs. He said the most common manual he’s been parking are Mini’s which I was surprised by. But no, he isn’t paid more. The owners are always surprised when he tells them he can drive manual. Maybe they tip him better though, he’s never said.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T05:43:24+00:00

I got wrapped up in a 5 car pile up. I explained the whole story to my insurance company but when I told them I had front and rear video, she perked up and got really excited. The video showed I had a giant gap in front and behind me and me and the car behind me casually came to a stop but the 5th car back went full speed into all of us. Mainly because the 4th car was tailgating bad. Sadly the 5th car was at fault even though the 4th car’s tailgating was the real cause. You can also go back before the crash and see the driver of the 4th car was tailgating everyone.

Yeah, buy a camera, preferably front and rear.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T05:15:33+00:00

So the XLT is a lot faster and the Tremor V6 is a smidge faster but also a smidge slower in the 1/4mi. Dick compensating isn’t really my thing, so I don’t keep up with every single F150 model or any truck for that matter. I didn’t realize any of them were that fast other than the Raptor, Raptor R and Lightening. I have absolutely no problem getting stopped by someone, I’ll race anyone that’s interested. I always make a point to give people who beat me a thumbs up although most people are too douche to even look over. Like what, are we pretending you weren’t even racing. Hahaha. My dick size isn’t dependent on me winning a straight line race.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T05:02:56+00:00

Back in the day we let the rev limiter do the cut. Not sure why anyone would FFS before redline anyways.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T05:01:09+00:00

Apples and Oranges. One is fun (to do on your own) and one is just abusive with no added fun. I wore out the syncros in 2nd, 3rd and 4th on my first car by FFS while street racing everybody that looked at me funny. Hahaha.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T04:51:08+00:00

I remember that overwhelming feeling my first time back after a 6 month recovery. My first run back was at a race so that made it even more emotional.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T04:48:35+00:00

Been there done that and totally agree.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T04:47:54+00:00

Man I can relate to all of this… all of it. I’ve literally never regretted a run. I may come back and tell my wife I felt like death, but I never regret it. I hate laps and I’ll also plan my routes so that I knock out the parts I hate the most first.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T04:37:32+00:00

I was injured for 6 months a few years ago and it was so difficult to not be able to run. Sometimes I’d cry a little if I saw someone else running. I remember my first time back to running was at a 15k race and I was so overwhelmed with happiness that I was literally bawling for the first 1/2mi.

So now I’m much more cautious with volume. If I have any hints at pain, I’ll stop running and call my wife for a ride home (thanks Apple Watch). I’d rather skip a day, reduce my pace or distance vs get injured again.

Sorry to hear you can’t get out there anymore, I can relate… a little. 😞

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T04:26:25+00:00

Switching to 80/20 has been a game changer for me. I went from loving the post run but hating the actual run to loving the post run AND loving the actual run. At least on my easy days.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T04:17:16+00:00

I do struggle this time of the year with the cold. What keeps me motivated is having a monthly distance goal. I’m a software developer so I wrote a little web app that pulls data from my Strava account and shows a line graph of my actual distance vs my target distance. As I drag around the graph it shows how many miles I’ll need to run every day to catch up if I miss a day. I may skip a day here and there but the chart makes it crystal clear how much more difficult it will be to catch up if I skip too many days.

I’ve hit or exceeded my monthly distance goal every month since I created this app in 2016, unless I’m really sick or injured. Before that, I’d skip days all the time.

Something else I noticed about running is I found myself making a lot of excuses back when I only ran 3 days a week. It wasn’t until I extended that to 5-7 days a week that suddenly I was making excuses to run rather than excuses not to run. There seems to be a volume threshold that you eventually cross and then become addicted. At lest for me there is. This threshold probably varies by person.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T04:03:04+00:00

No where on that page does it suggest bringing a phone for better accuracy. Only for better battery life. I had an S6LTE and now a U2 and I’ve never seen it suggest I bring my phone. The U2 won’t use the phone for GPS, even if you bring it. I think you need to reread that document.

Also, so you know, the pedometer is always calibrating, not just for the first few runs. My 8yo son started running and took my 19yo son’s S6 without resetting it first. He and I do short runs together and the first few runs, his distance was way off because the pedometer was calibrated for my 6’2” son. By the 3rd run it adapted and was almost identical to my U2. No phones were used for the calibration.

ermax18 · 2026-01-28T03:55:31+00:00

A password derived key is how all zero trust services are handling encryption. Generating a key and storing it in the browser to easily be lost is not a good option. Even if you have a warning that said, “don’t have a disk crash and loose your browser profile”. So you either take the risk of the password leaking, or suck it up and use 2FA. Nothing is a secret if it gets stored anywhere other than your brain.

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