mein tipp wir verbrennen einfach fossile bis wir das perpetum mobile erfiinden /s #braindumb

#braindumb #rant #technical #computers #developers

after having some difficulty to find jsisweird.com again, and having issues with trying to just look at the relevant teachings from the end of the cool quiz, i ended up reading more about the author and getting very disappointed to read further into the first promoted blog article on his page https://towardsdatascience.com/why-password-validation-is-garbage-56e0d766c12e

such a completely outdated idea of bad passwords permeated by xkcd, which i already debunked over 6 years ago http://cregox.net/talk/t/xkcd-was-dead-staple-horse-wrong-about-passwords/7743.html

today i also want to update my password view there, but it goes mostly unchanged on the technical aspects:

+ we need password managers today, for near maximum safety (nothing ever beats proper #backup), and;

+ 2 factor authentication, or something on those lines (yes, yet again, it could simply mean a good #backup).

{side note

i have changed a lot, however, on the computer aspect by itself. back then, i always assumed the future would always have better and better electronic computers in one format or another.

but now i can envision a much more interesting (let's call it better) world without electricity or computers.

in practice, however, i have no idea how we can get there yet. and, as such, i obviously still use computers a lot. and still rely on passwords for the most part.

}

whenever possible (i mean, nearly always), however, if you work as a dev to create any kind of software that needs authentication, know that we can already do much better than using passwords, even without web3.

remember, if you ask a password from an user, you will need to offer a way to "recovery lost password" anyway, so it will be better to...

+ send expiring email with a link! or;

+ use good old key, such as used for ssh;

+ simply use no password when no need. 2 rules of thumb for such cases: no sensitive data, no need. software as a service substitute, make it as a good app instead and monetize with a more efficient way.

and i probably forgot at least another interesting option, since i wrote all this now #fromthetopofmymind 😁

#idea #concept #braindumb

so i currently live in ahoxus and we have a big solar panel which got used just to sell electricity to the grid for over 7 year now.

and now we want to use it for a few projects in our land!

i can easily find many raspi similar projects on the web, but they usually don't consider the possibility of charging an electric car with the panel.

our ideal usage today will be 20x solar panels generating over 5kw per day on sunny winter enabled to charge the car only during sunny hours (plenty enough for our peugeot mitsubishi ion).

so instead of having a battery, we just have the car! next generation cars will come ready for this, but our current ones do not.

in any case today i just need a controller which will only get electricity from the panel, and not from the grid!

we will update later when we find a solution... 🥰