I'd love a referral to your certificate authority and rep - we go through a big kerfluffle each renewal period, only eventually receiving the certificate after a long exchange of government docs and CPA letters. For us, only the last step is the phonecall like you say.
This exchange seemingly proves the argument that user trust gained from the EV treatment is misplaced, and that the endeavor was a farce all along. It's not as though the user's browser was distinguishing the good CAs from the bad!
I disagree. I specifically said in my original comment they were very useful for those that knew what EV certs were and EV certs weren't.
You may not know that Digicert is a quality CA who wasn't going to risk their position as a CA to sign an EV cert for a typo squatting phishing site pretending to be PayPal but there are those who do. The green UI in chrome & firefox made finding all of this information out incredibly simple and obvious.
Unifi Video was replaced by Unifi Protect some time in 2020. I wasn't sure how to self-host Protect, so I never migrated to it. I've recently reached a situation where some phones can no longer install the Unifi Video app. These phones are now relegated to using the rough-on-mobile UI. The Unifi Video web UI has also never worked well in Firefox for me.
Replaced my Synology surveillance station since 2023, and has been running great. I also have a Google Coral for the image processing, but this is optional.
> > Standard mail forwarding lasts 12 months. You can pay to extend mail forwarding for 6, 12, or 18 more months (18 months is the maximum).
That's kind of awkward when you consider people will find that address for source code where that license file just wont be updated for decades to come, if at all.
With 20/20 hindsight, if the FSF had used a P.O. Box number in the license, the license addresses would always be correct even if the FSF office changed addressed or (as now) was no longer maintained.
Of course, the cost of a P.O. box over 40 years would have added up to thousands of dollars and that is less money for FSF advocacy. And time spent going to the post office to check the box would also have taken away from advocacy time.
Another physical mail DNS-like idea is mail forwarding -- but it typically has time limits at the post office although not for private mail forwarders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_forwarding
"Private mail forwarding services are also offered by private forwarding companies, who often offer features like the ability to see your mail online via a virtual mailbox. Virtual mailboxes usually have options to get your mail scanned, discard junk mail and forward mail to your current address."
Although strictly speaking, these forwarding services are not quite like DNS (even if they do get at the idea of indirection). A true mail DNS would be more like a service you mail a post card to with a person's or organization's name and which mails a post card back to you which tells you what address to currently write to in order to reach that person or organization. (At least, if you write to that received address during some time-to-live window of validity of the address.) And I guess Encrypted DNS would be like you and the service using more expensive security envelopes instead of post cards? :-)
> Of course, the cost of a P.O. box over 40 years would have added up to thousands of dollars and that is less money for FSF advocacy. And time spent going to the post office to check the box would also have taken away from advocacy time.
To be fair, renting office space in downtown Boston also adds up to tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars, every year. By comparison, $500 dollars a year [0] for a medium PO Box (in the lobby of the building for their new office, no less!) is a steal.
CGP Grey, a youtube channel, has a video on some of the problems of the postal codes and addresses from earlier this year that I learned about alternates to my familiar US based system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K5oDtVAYzk
One thing I've been meaning to try, but never got round to, is to stick a URL on an envelope, pointing at a page with an address, and see if the mail (royal mail, in my case) actually deliver it. I suspect they would but that it would take a few extra days. It's no worse than some of the addresses that they do deliver.
Hope is not a strategy. As much as I hate crypto, something on the blockchain might be more durable. You want something that isn't reliant on any one person or company to continue to exist (though maybe the long now foundation will) and even if Bitcoin goes to zero, I think there will be some die hard true believers to keep running miners even past the built in 2140 expiration date.
since this is hacker news... i once had some trouble changing mail address from one supplier (they would send the materials to the new address, but insisted on sending billing/tax info to the old one) so i did the mail forward process some three times + their extensions (i recall it was 6 + 3mo or so)... it got me close to 3 yrs of reliable mail forward from the great folks at usps until i could get thru the supplier personnel thick skull.
the only issue "redoing" the request is that people at the old address can block it, so be sure to talk to them first.
> the only issue "redoing" the request is that people at the old address can block it, so be sure to talk to them first.
That's so strange, especially when you consider that for legal purposes, if you receive mail at someone's home, you are now a "resident" and it is harder for police to kick you out. Why would anyone willingly want your mail to come to your address.
Simply receiving mail does not make you a resident. You must establish residency and that is being allowed access to the home, the understanding that you are leaving belongings behind with the ability to access them later, how long you have stayed, and maintaining things like utility bills. A lease is a contract that clearly establishes the guidelines between two willing parties. Absent that, the definition of residency is typically delineated in your state landlord-tenant laws.
For some prior art, Okta avoids the email link scanning issue by requiring "same browser, same device" (sessions) [1]. An OTP code is included in the email as a fallback for users receiving mail on a different device than they're trying to log in to.
Like you, I have an old offline eReader (4th gen Kindle, replaced battery). My eReader lasts multiple books of use on one full charge.
I also have a ReMarkable 2. The battery lasts about 14-16hrs of on-time for me.
I keep it in airplane mode and have sleep mode disabled to prevent it from locking after 40 minutes. I turn it on around 10AM and turn it off at 5PM, writing on it sporadically between those hours. The tablet reaches a low battery state by Wednesday.
I would add videos I liked to the "Liked Videos" or other playlist areas on my YouTube account. I'd return to find the video months or years later, only to see that it may have been removed (usually due to copyright or other channel closure). This video removal issue also extended to other platforms. I found this annoying.
To avoid this, I made an extremely simple video platform. I save all my videos there instead. It's still my hobby project that I use the most.
The importer repo also contains a Firefox extension so any target can be right-clicked -> Import to Creamy Videos -> Select a set of tags -> sent to the importer UI, youtube-dl, and then eventually video storage: https://github.com/AlbinoDrought/creamy-videos-importer/tree...
Sporadic since 20:18 UTC for me. At least one of my pure droplets is still up, but anything relying on API or DNS (including private-db-* resolution) is down.
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