Gregory's Server
Tired of finding my phone every time I need 2FA from the Google Authenticator "App". I see there are several Mac "apps" that purport to do the same service. Any preferences/words of wisdom?
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My (backup) iPhone says, "<XXX> 18 days left. This number is registered to your Apple ID, but is not associated with this phone. You can keep using the number for iMessage and FaceTime until it expires." The thing is, XXX is the number on this phone. Can anyone explain what I am to make of this inexplicable error message? I'm wondering if I should remove it and try setting up iMessage again but that might make things worse.
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@robpike What does it mean that alumni of Bell Labs can't understand their own phones? I have begun to think that "tech" is just another form of "elder abuse." There's been a thread about dependencies lately and the challenge of convincing developers to look at the full dependency chain. I once maintained a C++ binary that included a PostScript interpreter, a JPEG decoder, a JavaScript interpreter, and a number of other utterly irrelevant pieces causing a huge factor increase in the size of the binary. The culprit: A single logging statement that invoked a general-purpose printer that could print web stuff. Switching to sprintf fixed it. @robpike I once found an app had added the pyICU(i18n/l10n) package just to convert european-style floats (3,142) to US/UK style (3.142) in a single line in the codebase. My talk "Go: What we got right, what we got wrong" at GopherConAU is now available to all. VIdeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE5Tpp2BSGw Blog: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html The content is the same except for the Q&A being unique to the video. This link captures the confusion about how to pronounce "fsck": https://lwn.net/Articles/190223/ Here's the truth. Ted Kowalski, username frodo, may he rest in peace, was the original author, just down the hall from my office in Murray Hill, and his name for the program had a 'u' where there is now an 's'. Management made him change it for distribution, but they couldn't make him change his pronunciation.
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 I'm giving at talk at GopherconAU (Sydney) in a few weeks, about what we got right and what we got wrong. I have lots to consider but admit I might be solipsistic on this topic. So I'm open to outside ahead-of-time input, provided it can be given politely.
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@robpike maybe too many ways to declare a variable and the := shadowing problem. A lot of the other errors can be fixed  The backslash file name separator on Windows still rankles after almost 40 years. It just looks wrong, unbalanced, tippy. But even worse is that in common parlance now, \ is often called slash and / backslash. Microsoft will never be forgiven for promulgating this affront.
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 @robpike Every time I hear a DJ say "backslash" when reading a URL, a little more of my faith in humanity erodes away. @robpike I remember back 29 years ago when I had my first struggles with LaTeX. I struggled for a long time to typeset a backslash. Only to discover, once I succeeded, that I actually just needed a regular slash 🙃  "Oppenheimer" is very very good and passes surprisingly close to the documented history. I was captivated. My nerd credentials must quibble though: Those nixie tubes showing the countdown were not invented until 1955 (I know because a dear friend of mine, David Hagelbarger, invented them) and also the spoken countdown is plausibly credited to early broadcasts of rocket launches. Back in the early 2000s, programmers were encouraged to avoid threads. Today that sentence means something different. Current pet peeve: News web sites that require you to log in but then log you out after a day or two.
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@robpike I’ve stopped subscriptions due to that in the past. I’m sure I can’t be the only one. @robpike sf chronicle somehow requires me to log in, then when I click login, it remembers that I'm still logged in and doesn't ask for a password. Does anyone have any technology that works? I am becoming despondent over the state of things. So much technological progress and yet everything seems to be broken (or must be updated, which amounts to the same thing in user experience) all the time. Sorry. @robpike Maybe the perception that old tech was better is just survivorship bias. Exhibit A: https://mstdn.social/@declangaffney/110587650249164398 The satisfaction one gets from bringing a completely dead device back to life with a little application of heat, torx, and a few seconds of voltage across the battery inside. (Bose sleep buds 2)
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  Always bothered me that they have the term backwards. One cannot "unlock" an achievement, only achieve one. The phrase should perhaps be, "Unlocking achieved", as in, one has unlocked this prize, except that doesn't work well either. Oh the travails. We live in a world in which songs, audio books, and podcasts, all of which are just audio files with a little metadata, require different tools to play.
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I can see that I didn't give enough information, as lots of people are suggesting 1Password, which I use already. I want to be able to sync 1P with GA, but it's not possible despite lots of people asking the question.
Looking at all the options, it's clear to me, with too many 2FAs set up already, that the only practical answer is to continue to use the phone for existing accounts, and maybe start trying something else for new ones, but probably not.