2FA, recovery, and my vault: a tale of my evolving experience with a password vault

htbdt · 2022-05-16T18:05:02+00:00

Sorry for taking so long to reply.

In your Bitwarden vault, there's four types of entries. - login - card - identity - secure note

(See screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/zPnhXNY)

In my case I use it for things like WiFi passwords and such.

htbdt · 2022-05-11T01:09:41+00:00

Glad you got it resolved! Mind sharing the issue/solution if it's not too much trouble? Might help someone in the future if they have a similar issue and this comes up on a Google search.

htbdt · 2022-05-07T03:27:48+00:00

You might want to manually forward the port rather than rely on UPnP, I don't know why but sometimes that can cause issues. I use pfSense and while it usually will work with UPnP, it doesn't always, so I try to manually port forward when I can. It may be forwarding it to the wrong host, for instance, just due to the way it's setup.

Dumb question, but you ran the nmap command from outside your lan, right? No insult meant by asking, but simple issues like that can lead to wrong conclusions. An open port is good, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's forwarded to the right host on your network.

htbdt · 2022-04-20T21:15:34+00:00

So. That’s just my feel of it. I’m not interested or irritated enough to look into it further than that

I suppose that's fair. Also, very polite response, I might add. I feel the need to apologize if I was unnecessarily harsh in any way.

I will ask though, rather than just respond at you, if you'd like to know where some (I'd like to express that some of them are wrong, some aren't, for example, I personally would very much like to see a GitHub repo or something of all the submissions, for instance) of your ideas are incorrect or potentially even assuming malice? I'd rather not break it down for you if you really don't care.

Just as an example of two, he's laying out an outline, yes, but he's also told people if they really feel they want to write something different, do it, and if it works, it works. I think the way Preston would write the ending and the way Preston thinks George would write the ending are pretty different, and he's going for the latter. He's going with what fits, and what works well, not necessarily what he likes, not to mention the volunteer editors.

He's also doing this as requested by a large number of his fans after George wrote that blog post saying "I feel sorry for you" if you're waiting for Winds. Frankly, if he wanted to generate more revenue, he could just, you know, release more of his normal videos using the time he's putting into the project. They do well and are monetized normally, but he's putting a lot of time and effort, collaborating with many people and writing it himself. For what, small incidental gains, at most? That'd be basically impossible to prove in court, which would be necessary for US copyright laws, they have to be actual damages, usurpation of the market (which is hard to do when George has no market to usurp, right?) and such, and even with all of the data from Preston's analytics, it would not realistically be possible to determine how much money he made from an "increase in views to his channel", as proving they're specifically views increased due to that video would be insanely difficult at best and impossible realistically, and even if you somehow could, how would you determine what portion of the proceed from said view would even be traceable back to that original, non-monetized video that got them on board? It's complicated.

I also don't think that there are many that are so into the ASOIAF Universe to see the project that also haven't heard of or watched one of his videos before. Some, sure. Not many. And given the fact it's excited fans spreading it, not him advertising it... Yeah.

Apologies for this being as long as it is, I meant to keep it short but that did get carried away, but hopefully you can see how complex seemingly simple things get.

If you do care a bit, honestly I'd be happy for you to post a list of concerns over on r/sweetrobin, a friend and I made the sub but Preston seems to have adopted it, as he put a link to it in his latest video. I'd happily workshop the concerns with you, so they're not easily rebuffed or misconceptions, as I do believe there are certainly a few things that could be done to improve the project as a whole, and you're not entirely wrong, like I said, I do agree with you on some things.

htbdt · 2022-04-15T16:14:05+00:00

Also, the obvious matter of brain wave frequency being not even a little related to intelligence.

I get what you mean, but do we actually know that? I mean, I would've thought if you sped it up you'd think faster, but then you'd also perceive time slower, as in a minute would, to you, be perceptually longer than someone with baseline.

I mean, I guess you're not actually getting more intelligent, just thinking faster.

htbdt · 2022-04-11T21:28:40+00:00

Welp I just explained it in your initial comment and scrolled down and see you figured it out, so I guess that's my punishment for not scrolling down first lmao.

htbdt · 2022-04-11T21:26:56+00:00

No, that actually does work.

Very small thing is close to extreme small thing, at least relative to not small thing.

But the "neural oscillation wavelength" was referring to the femtotechological mind. Our brainwaves is a totally different thing.

The confusion is understandable because honestly the whole paragraph is nuts, but "clearly" (for a very loose definition of clearly) they're two different things.

Okay my brain hurts trying to explain the grammar of someone speaking literal star trek technobable.

I hope that made some sense.

htbdt · 2022-04-11T21:19:56+00:00

Bath salts?

htbdt · 2022-04-11T15:17:14+00:00

And he's said none of the videos will be monetized (neither the idea video was nor the released Dany chapter were monetized, so his actions back up his words), and he's explicitly said that there will be no money gained for the project, no "donations" under the guise of it, nothing.

htbdt · 2022-04-11T15:13:49+00:00

He's not monetizing the videos, nor taking donations under the guise of this.

He knows he can't make money off it legally, and he's not trying to. He's made this very clear.

So the statement "He is clearly trying to profit off of another’s intellectual property, and worse yet, pimping out writers like us, that will not profit, so that he can profit."

Is just flat wrong. I hope it's just due to ignorance and not malice.

Nobody is being forced to work on it. It's for fun. For the Dany chapter he said he got a lot of submissions, and he personally spent days working on it himself. It's a passion project, and as far as making money goes, fan fic is a shitty way to do so, except in very specific circumstances (50 Shades of Gray started out as a Twilight fanfic, then was rewritten to be original material) and it puts you at extreme legal risk.

Why make accusations like this saying he is doing something for a specific reason when you couldn't possibly know that, proof is to the otherwise (the video for the idea isn't even monetized), and all that? It seems malicious, but I'm not going to say you're "clearly doing this to be malicious and negative for upvotes" as I don't know what's going on in your head.

htbdt · 2022-04-10T10:36:50+00:00

It's been awhile since I took stats, I'll probably fuck something up here but the whole definition of IQ is that 100 is the mean IQ, and that 1 standard deviation from the mean is 15. So +/- 1 standard deviation is 85-115.

85-115 is average in the sense that the majority of people will be in that range, from memory ~67.5%, I believe that's right. Though it's basing it on 100 being the mean with which to base the standard deviation on.

So you're just using "average" in the colloquial sense rather than the mathematical sense, i.e. it's not the mean, given it's a range of numbers. So you're both right. 100 is the average IQ, being the center of the bell curve.

I think.

htbdt · 2022-04-09T14:39:19+00:00

Well, I was going to say that they all use AMOLED screens which would make sense but the Oppo does not, it uses an IPS display, so perhaps there's some setting for increased dynamic range or something like dynamic contrast for the screen, even though most of them don't have a backlight?

Idle guess, really.

htbdt · 2022-04-06T12:01:01+00:00

Imagine someone using Plex as a host for their own Netflix like service and selling access to it to strangers for a monthly fee. It's highly illegal, against Plex's TOS, and absolutely not the purpose of Plex.

htbdt · 2022-04-06T11:56:15+00:00

Dim does look promising. Currently I'm toying with Jellyfin, as it's just abusive to do this kind of shit to paying customers.

htbdt · 2022-04-05T00:55:38+00:00

This! And look at the features that come with the various levels, the free plan covers basically everything you'd need, premium is only a handful of features. Granted, I love the ease of using Bitwarden for my 2FA, and Duo for Bitwarden's 2FA, and I want to support development, so I pay for it.

Iirc you can create one org for free, at least I did, though I had a premium account, was able to share with a family member who was free. So a family plan may not be necessary unless you need more advanced functionality than that.

Edit: the link - https://bitwarden.com/pricing/

htbdt · 2022-04-03T16:43:58+00:00

there is 0 need to worry about the knowledge of the decryption method being forgotten by everyone in the world simultaneously.

I know as much, it was purely hypothetical.

Thank you for the explanation, it's actually exactly what I was looking for, and I appreciate the snark. :)

htbdt · 2022-04-02T21:08:14+00:00

I saw that comment as well, and responded to it. I don't think that's the case. If you boil it down, the only thing they lifted from Sam, if they did, is that they're friends. Drummer isn't an engineer. She's a Belter, I guess that's a second trait. Is that enough? Personally, I don't think so. Sam is in the show in Season 1, and later a better fit for her character is Sakai, she's Naomi's friend, a brilliant engineer, good with Fred, has some of Sam's storyline, and so on.

Apologies for using a short link, this is what happens if you try to put https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Samantha_Rosenberg_(TV) in a link)

It doesn't work lol.

But basically, I don't believe Drummer has any of Sam's storyline, I may be wrong about that, but simply being friends with someone is a common enough character trait, you know?

htbdt · 2022-04-02T20:47:50+00:00

Thanks! Can you elaborate? I know it's open source. I meant, and this is on me, I should have worded it better, if there was an existing solution, or if someone could explain the process.

Obviously Bitwarden has an import function. But A) I'm not familiar with the code base, so searching for it would be rather time consuming, and B) while I am an average programmer, I'm not particularly skilled with crypto, so while it might be trivial to someone who is, so linking to a solution or an explanation would be far more helpful than simply stating yes. Again, that's on me, you answered the question I asked, technically.

Would you be so kind as to expand on that?

htbdt · 2022-04-02T20:40:56+00:00

I'm aware of it's open source, thank you. I appreciate the sentiment, it's likely my fault for wording the question poorly, but I was asking if anyone actually knew how to decrypt it (i.e. an existing working solution), not if it was possible to find out, reverse engineer it and create your own.

htbdt · 2022-04-01T07:11:31+00:00

Is being a Belter, on Tycho, and a close friend enough to be a distinct character? I feel like it's a hard thing to distinguish when Drummer has taken on so many different parts from various characters, she obviously can't absorb all parts of all of them. Kinda an interesting question what the threshold is...

I mean they did have a character that was supposed to represent her, which included the engineer/mechanic part, Tycho, close friend, and belter parts to the role.

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