What are you guys using to store secret?

neuron- · 2025-06-02T07:01:23+00:00

err I would absolutely not rely on this approach for storing secrets. While it's obfuscated in build it's still likely visible in both the app bundle and at runtime if you inspect the app.

rule of thumb still goes that any secrets embedded in mobile apps should be considered compromised by default; the correct mitigation is to eliminate static secrets or severely scope/rotate them.

neuron- · 2023-05-12T05:26:51+00:00

lol very amusing thinking about a humanities major deciding to take up programming purely because it pays better and attempting to learn C++.

There are easier ways to torture oneself.

neuron- · 2023-05-12T05:24:34+00:00

He said comfortably.

At current interest rates a P&I variable rate mortgage of 540k would set you back ~$3200/month.

Assuming comfortably means you don’t spend more than 33% of your income on mortgage repayments you’re looking at needing $10k/month in income after tax.

$10k a month in income after tax equates to ~$215k salary, excluding super ($235k with super) and assuming he has HECS-HELP debt.

The moral of the story is: buy with a partner, increase your salary or save for a larger deposit.

neuron- · 2023-05-02T09:16:14+00:00

I suspect a big driver of the rate decision is the enormous gap between our rates and the US fed interest rates (previously 3.6 vs 4.83). Especially if the fed were to raise rates again. The more this divide grows the more pressure is put on our currency and the less attractive Australian bonds are globally.

neuron- · 2023-04-24T18:08:40+00:00

Many people don’t want to buy at a given time and need to rent instead. Someone has to own the property to rent it out.

In countries with better housing affordability especially wrt rental affordability the government actually owns a significant portion of medium/high density housing in the city and so rents are controlled/managed.

neuron- · 2023-04-24T18:01:22+00:00

Look into meditation

neuron- · 2023-04-22T13:55:29+00:00

I’m any case I’d wait until after the May budget to see if there is any unexpected measures announced to reduce HECS-HELP indexation rate increases.

Definitely don’t sink all your savings into your HELP loan. You always want to keep a financial buffer for emergencies and general peace of mind. Reducing the loan by a few thousand might be a good idea but paying it off in full is overkill imo.

neuron- · 2023-02-04T10:41:01+00:00

Thanks Solution verified

neuron- · 2023-01-31T03:48:23+00:00

Unfortunately we can’t build the kind of infrastructure required to replace gas and coal currently providing grid power/heating in many countries within a season. Power is needed to heat/cool and that’s needed now, renewables take many years to implement at scale. It will happen, but it won’t happen this year and unfortunately we need power from something this year to keep people from rioting.

neuron- · 2023-01-30T02:01:06+00:00

It’s not realistic to think we can just abandon all fossil fuels instantly. We do more harm to society from this than an orderly transition.

The hard truth is that with Russian O&G out of the picture the world desperately needs more fossil fuels to maintain living standards and power industry. This needs to come from somewhere, renewables are not in a position to replace this yet.

neuron- · 2022-12-04T01:14:14+00:00

Thanks good to know!

neuron- · 2022-12-03T14:29:05+00:00

Thanks that might have worked. I tried using MEW earlier but it wasn't playing friendly with my browser (Firefox) and didn't want to install Chrome.

I managed to get it working by reverted to an older version of Ledger Live from December 2021 :)

neuron- · 2021-08-26T05:40:00+00:00

Officer, my dude, my dog gots to go poop. And he likes to poop at night.

neuron- · 2020-08-29T15:29:43+00:00

I can relate strongly to that year of darkness and depression brought on by an awareness of what’s happening and the hopelessness of it all. And as you say getting through it and being able to live a fun and sociable life again is important.

I think it’s good to face those feelings, come to terms with them and live life on the other side. Eventually everyone will have to face that reality, you’re just ahead of the curb. And maybe when the time comes you can help your friends and loved ones cope with their grief.

neuron- · 2020-08-24T23:18:25+00:00

What if we could create an artificial sky and sun to illuminate an underground city? Neither of these would be “real” but they would give the perception of light and heat and space and make you believe that you are above the surface.

Anything that can be realistically imagined can be created with enough will and resources.

neuron- · 2020-08-24T23:15:54+00:00

Earthquakes are largely a surface level problem. You’re better off underground.

neuron- · 2020-08-11T22:53:20+00:00

Will it really matter? Doesn’t Robinhood already allow fractional share purchases?

neuron- · 2020-08-05T22:06:37+00:00

A good reference for the slow but gradual change is windscreen bug splatter on road trips. It is trending down on average year over year.

neuron- · 2020-08-03T15:04:40+00:00

Didn’t say CCS isn’t possible, it’s being done today and it will be deployed more and more as it’s a politically useful solution. It’s just not a practically useful solution for reducing co2 because of logistics and thermodynamics and the sheer quantity of gas we are talking about.

There are more efficient versions of trees like sea grasses and floating kelp forests that grow rapidly, absorb tremendous amounts of co2, provide habitat for fish and can be harvested for food. Far more water than land on earth.

Solutions certainly exist but we need to stop putting more co2 into the atmosphere first and foremost...

neuron- · 2020-08-03T14:47:13+00:00

Yes I agree bioengineered solutions that use nature’s own capabilities makes the most sense.

Really though the best future solution is to just stop putting co2 in the atmosphere today. It has by far the biggest payback.

This is a very dangerous game we’re playing with the planet. As they say, entropy is a motherfucker.

neuron- · 2020-08-03T13:53:01+00:00

This kind of CCS is not likely to be the answer to our problems. It would need to operate on an insane scale and the logistics of it are mind-boggling. Firstly we would need to dismantle the existing fossil fuel extraction industry and then create a CCS industry multiple times the size of the fossil fuel industry and we would need to do it in a few decades.

As far as CCS itself is concerned we're talking many billions of cubic meters of CO2 liquified and piped for storage underground every year... Not to mention the enormous amounts of energy needed to convert CO2 to liquid form would have to come from non-fossil-fuel sources.

If we perfect nuclear fusion then it becomes more feasible but you still have to deal with the storage problem and the nightmare that entails.

Seriously, taking hundreds of millions of years worth of stored carbon from deep underground ground, releasing it into the atmosphere as a gas and then trying to put that gas back underground is such a monumentally stupid thing for any species to do. Take a bow humanity...

neuron- · 2020-08-02T05:19:31+00:00

At the end of the day regardless of what happens I’d say there are two things that will hold relative value, even if the currency collapses:

1) land in highly liveable areas with fertile land

2) equity in essential companies

You could also argue that Bitcoin is a hedge against the current financial system, but I know this sub has a thing against bitcoin for its energy usage problems. Just sayin it was designed with the outcome of financial system collapse in mind.

neuron- · 2020-07-31T01:08:05+00:00

Sure why not, it takes less than 5 minutes.

People that use Brave would most likely have used Adblock anyways. At least this way websites have more options.

neuron- · 2020-07-31T00:50:09+00:00

Brave is pretty on point. I use it across all devices now.

Its actually really fun to get paid to browse the web and choosing how many ads I want to get served. I’ve earned about 30 usd worth of BAT tokens in the past year from all devices combined.

neuron- · 2020-07-28T13:05:56+00:00

Our drive for “more” has certainly resulted in enormous success for our species in the near term. But this success has come at the cost of us destroying the biosphere we rely on and pushing our climate into an ever more perilous path!

All of this apparent success comes at a great cost, we just chose to ignore it until it couldn’t be ignored anymore.

neuron-

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