This seems to give him some pretty good trolling opportunities.

Who is that in the picture?

A physical token only authenticates itself as “something you have” if there’s no way to extract the key from it. In practice non-hardcore deployments usually have a backup procedure but in principle, if you want multiple tokens, they should have separate keys. What you’re asking in simplest form involves storing the key on a server where it can potentially spill in a server breach or the like. If the key protects something very valuable, that can be dangerous. If it’s for your old Reddit account, you might decide to do it anyway.

It’s considered bad form to do what you’re asking but most 2fa apps have a backup restore scheme now. Is that enough?

I know someone who did that who is a REALLY GOOD, like pro level singer. Crowd was delighted when she started singing and they heard how great her voice was. Then they were slightly puzzled when some of the words were different. Then they realized she was singing a parody and they were like WTF. I suppose I’ll try it anyway if the occasion comes up .

Here she is singing a Queen–Bohemian Rhapsody / Star Wars crossover parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvlTVgeivU

I mostly only know parody lyrics, so it will go badly no matter what.

Earl Grey, hot, straight from the replicator.

911 attack. I was sleeping on the couch at a friend’s place and he was apparently awake gaming online (yes that was already a thing in 2001). He came into the living room and apologized for waking me up but he wanted to turn on the TV because someone on the game server had said there had been an “incident”. This was a few minutes before the 2nd WTC plane hit. So it wasn’t yet clearly a terrorist attack. Ended up watching the coverage all day.

Right. There were also Ace Doubles, but you had to be good at reading upside down if you wanted to use both halves.

It’s a trade off between video quality and bandwidth but you can set the ffmpeg parameters to the bandwidth you want, more or less. If you have 2mbits up you can do ok. Motion detection can help if it’s for security and not much is happening most of the time.

We had something like e-readers and they didn’t need recharging as they were made out of dead trees. But each one held just one book, so you had to take a bunch of them to the bathroom with you.

It depends. What kind of beer?

Why are you worried about that parachute? It has a lifetime guarantee.

If you have enough upload bandwidth I guess you don’t need the vps.

It always seems simplest to do this stuff with raspberry pi cameras or cheap webcams, and wired networks if feasible. Then use ffmpeg and icecast to stream through a VPS. Anything made as a consumer product is likely a shambles of crap software and security holes.

Raspberry pi cameras aren’t that bad a deal.

If it’s from a memorable phrase, then the phrase has a lot of redundancy and it’s hard to estimate the actual entropy. Generating a random phrase and writing it on a slip of paper works for me. Keep the paper in your pocket and refer to it when you need to, instead of trying to memorize it. Once you’ve typed it into the computer a few times, you remember it automatically. At that point you can swallow the paper or use your favorite alternate secure disposal method ;).

Nobody remembers diceware?

Why does it matter if someone chooses to wear a mask or not? Maybe it’s a great excuse to avoid facial recognition software.

Sunglasses are better for that. The idiots trying to ban masks aren’t trying to fight crime, they just want to normalize spreading illness.

I wear a respirator whenever I’m in an indoor public space like a store, and I also don’t spend more time in those spaces than I have to. I go into the store and get what I need, but I generally don’t linger around browsing stuff. That means I probably buy less stuff, which is good for my wallet as well. But politicians hate that. They want us out there spending. That’s why they are trying to play down covid risks. So they hate mask and respirator usage since it reminds others that the virus is still out there.

You ought to wear a respirator (N95) rather than a mask (those baggy blue procedure masks). Respirators help keep you from getting sick.