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TreasuryDirect is introducing a new login experience using ID.me

foresto — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:57:51 +0000

Article URL: https://treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/idme-sep4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579558

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New comment by foresto in "Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?"

foresto — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:59:37 +0000

Avoid the Hakko FX-888D soldering station. This device has one of the most bizarrely obtuse interfaces I have encountered in ages, seemingly designed to make basic adjustments as difficult as possible, and to encourage accidental decalibration of its temperature settings with no indication to the user that it has happened. I wish I had returned mine while I had the chance.

New comment by foresto in "Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?"

foresto — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:42:33 +0000

What do you mean by "a real recaptcha"? I just went to an archive.is page, and it's trying to load a script from www.google.com. Doesn't Google still own reCAPTCHA?

New comment by foresto in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

foresto — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:26:41 +0000

Until adoption expands beyond Facebook to services that we want.

Or to things that we need, like medical care, government interactions, and financial services.

People shouldn't have to choose between safety features like those in Graphene OS and participation in society.

New comment by foresto in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

foresto — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:23:10 +0000

Let's be fair: At least some of the features you quoted do work in KDE connect in my experience, so I had the same question as GP. Even after reading the article.

New comment by foresto in "Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device"

foresto — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:11:35 +0000

This is not the Motorola (USA) that many of us knew for ages. That company doesn't exist any more.

The company working with GrapheneOS appears to be Motorola Mobility, owned by Lenovo (China).

New comment by foresto in "TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In"

foresto — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:39:05 +0000

https://www.id.me/biometric

New comment by foresto in "TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In"

foresto — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:09:34 +0000

Does login.gov require photos, videos, fingerprints, smartphone apps, or similar nonsense as ID.me does?

Or does it offer less invasive ways to confirm identity, like mailing a code sent to one's long-established postal address, or an in-person visit to a local social services office?

New comment by foresto in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

foresto — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:25:20 +0000

Cloudflare has become a middleman and gatekeeper of the web, a single point of surveillance, and an enemy of the open internet. Giving them more business would make these problems worse. No thanks.

New comment by foresto in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

foresto — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:24:42 +0000

Some time back, I had a similar problem: the LineageOS Messaging app was frequently late with SMS notifications when the phone was in idle state. Adding the package to Android's deviceidle whitelist fixed it right up. (This was done with the dumpsys shell command, since the setting for com.android.messaging was not exposed in the GUI.)

https://source.android.com/docs/core/power/app_mgmt#testing-...

I wonder if this setting could help Briar, and if so, whether an equivalent could be built in to their app packaging so users wouldn't have to fiddle with it.

New comment by foresto in "An American Privacy Emergency"

foresto — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:07:12 +0000

> Direct P2P connections using Iroh gossip protocol over QUIC

How does it handle NAT traversal?

New comment by foresto in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"

foresto — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:20:13 +0000

Those are touchscreen actions, uncommon in desktop apps. Did you forget that this thread is about avoiding Electron bloat?

(Also, it has a theme engine. The buttons don't look like something out of Windows 3.1 unless you use a Windows 3.1 theme.)

New comment by foresto in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

foresto — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:47:45 +0000

What is the expected price range for registration and renewal under this TLD?

Will there be any assurance that renewal prices will remain fairly stable, rather than being significantly raised after customers grow attached to their domains (a practice that seems to be common with new gTLDs)?

New comment by foresto in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"

foresto — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:07:35 +0000

Qt Widgets are good.

New comment by foresto in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

foresto — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:09:24 +0000

In which jurisdiction?

New comment by foresto in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

foresto — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:40:11 +0000

If mpv on Linux and MPC-HC on Windows, what is recommended on macOS?

New comment by foresto in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

foresto — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:21:34 +0000

> It's probably just something no one has thought of doing.

One might reasonably think that about a number of git's rough edges, and one might be surprised at the reality.

Some years ago, the annoyance of git's inconsistent terminology drove me to look into consolidating "cache", "index", and "staging area" in git's help text and documentation. What I found was that others had (of course) thought of it before, but when they tried to do it, it was rejected by git's gatekeepers.

New comment by foresto in "Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026"

foresto — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:34:54 +0000

> I mean, you can get the encrypted bits on the disc, except the key, so those don't really help you anything.

They do, because a key can be obtained externally, such as with a software library made for decrypting the discs.

In any case, thanks; I think I finally understand what's going on here. Based on what you've written, custom firmware is not actually required, but it makes things more convenient (especially for folks without much technical experience).

New comment by foresto in "Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026"

foresto — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:27:00 +0000

I see. I expect DRM-encumbered discs to contain encrypted data, but I think this is the first I've heard of an optical drive withholding the encrypted bits from an application.

(And region codes aren't what I think of today as DRM. They've never been much more than silly speed bumps, so I wouldn't expect them to be at the heart of what's going on here.)

New comment by foresto in "Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026"

foresto — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:51:21 +0000

That much is obvious.

Just in case you didn't mean to be snarky, I was asking what the custom firmware brings to the device that allows using it to rip blu-ray discs that could not be ripped using the stock firmware.