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Episode: 2575
Title: HPR2575: Quick Tips June 2018
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2575/hpr2575.mp3
Transcribed: 2025-10-19 05:57:02

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This in HPR episode 2,575 entitled Quick Tips June 2018, it is hosted by Opera Nero R and in about 14 minutes long and carrying an explicit flag.
The summary is, I go over a few quick tips for June.
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Another quick tip here. We have a probably 8-year-old electric can opener here and I have gone through once, probably two years ago, and sharpened the blade on there.
This time around it seemed like the blade was still sharp, but it wasn't operating functionally.
What I found out is that the little grabber that sits on top of the can sits on top of was rounded off.
The problem there is that if it's rounded off, it's not going to hold the can up in which to grab it.
It's grabbing it, but it's not holding it up because it's rounded off on the actual can opener part.
The blade wasn't the problem, it was the part that holds the can up and grabs it and rotates it around.
What I did was, I used a sand, a dremel tool with sandpaper and sand that it flat down so that it's nice and sharp on the edges there and it grips the can a little bit better.
Your can opener is not working, check first the sharpness and then also check to see if the little grabbers are grabbing and then also check to make sure that the grabbers that are grabbing are also holding up the actual can itself because if it's not holding up the can then it doesn't matter how good the grabbers are and how good the blade is.
If it can't hold up the can because it's rounded off, you're going to have a bad time.
But anyways, hope that helps somebody out and hopefully this will last us another three or four years and then we won't have to be consumers.
This is another quick tip for you. I got a Power Wheels from my father that was pink so we painted it red with some special plastic paint.
And then also the batteries are like $80 or $90 or something ridiculous. What you can do is take a motorcycle battery, shove it in there. Of course you have to make sure the kids not lick in the batteries or dump in battery, ask all of them.
So that's a cheap way to get out of that for $30 or $50 bucks. Then also what we did find is that even if you do cover the car, if you can't put it in a garage or protected area, if you cover the vehicle, at least here in Georgia, every year I tend to get ants in there to live in the homes.
So what I'm trying now and will probably be better success is essentially drilling holes wherever there's water. So the ants use the car as a good cover.
And if there's nowhere to for them to cover, if we leave it open with the maybe the lid open or maybe we drill holes in the top of the car for the ants to the can't control whatever.
So anyway, so I'm going to drill holes where there's standing water in the car and let it just sit out.
Again, I guess if you have a good paint job on it, you won't want to sitting out and you still have to cover it.
But what I found is when you cover it, it becomes a great home for ants, at least here in Georgia. So that's a quick tip, put a battery acid.
You know, let acid battery in your liquid acid, liquid acid battery in your power wheel and save yourself 50 bucks.
And also use maybe instead of a tarp chart, drilling holes where the water gets built up and see how it goes from there.
Cool, cool.
Hello, welcome to another quick tip with your host operator.
I've had a few jobs over the past, you know, eight years or so.
More and more of these jobs are being online and HR is through online and you sign up and you have to get a new job and you have to sign up for 15 different online web services through HR bull crap.
I'll tell you that I have at least three logins for the same domain name for different HR websites for different companies.
And people are starting to implement forced to factor authentication on some of these websites.
And when I'm trying to get my spouse to help me or I'm trying to help my spouse, it's literally impossible to coordinate that help when you're getting sent to factor authentication and you're in the middle of the meeting.
So what I propose and what I'm sending up right now is a Google voice, Google voice free Google voice number and that Google voice number will be for all our share to factor authentication services, including mint and whatever else garbage people throw at us because this is getting ridiculous, the out of hand.
Again, multiple websites for multiple HR companies for multiple companies for the same domain and it's just all over the place.
We can't keep track of it even with two separate last past accounts.
We can't keep track of which goes with which company and which which one is deprecated and which one aligns with what and what part of what is an HR thing and which ones of another type of insurance thing and we got a count over here for savings and a count over here for some kind of thing.
And it's just all over the place and especially it's frustrating enough just like that.
And then when you add two factor on top of that, you know, your spouse or you are trying to do something and you get up your wife gets a push message while you're in the middle of trying to set something out and they're not there to respond back or give you that text message.
This quick tip is a very frustrating tip to set up two factor authentication on a shared account through Google Voice and use that for all of your two factor authentication needs where you need to share that second factor.
This is not obviously a security, this is a security risk, right? If you don't have that device or you lose control of that Google Voice number, you you given up that to factor but for the amount of pain and exhaustion that it is calls me I'm going to use this method and we're going to use that for all our stupid to factor crap that we don't really care about.
Oh, again, this is operator with another quick tip. We have here is a pretty fancy honey well quiet care, which is nothing but quiet, a water, a water based humidifier.
So the way it works is it's got this big filter on there that's like $30 or $40 a piece, but the filter on there you fill up these jugs with water they hold about four quarts and maybe maybe half a gallon or a gallon each.
And it's a humidifier and it does pretty good job. The problem is the the filters are like $40 a piece. So after not being able to order one like the third time they get all moldy and nasty because it's made out of paper and a layer of like felt almost.
We bought some of this gutter guard stuff plastic gutter guard with like a little plastic mesh on it and my wife tie wrapped it all together to make approximately the same size as the existing filter.
And what it seems like I'm going to end up doing is kind of tucking it inside of itself while I do this this might be considered a soundscape.
So I have an old towel just using an old towel. I'm going to fold it in and kind of roll it at the same time and see if I can kind of roll it inside of itself.
So I'm taking one half I'm laying it down flat on long ways inside of the cylinder and I'm kind of rolling it up and folding it inside of itself.
So essentially I have a big towel in the shape of the gutter guard setup.
And it looks like I might just take this put it upside down kind of throw it in here. The whole point of it is to actually create a looks like it's a little snug.
It might not fit might have to make it smaller. I don't even take the plastic is actually going to fit in here just barely.
We didn't leave any room for the actual towel telling on top is the problem looks like.
But anyways the whole idea is you can do this at a hotel even also.
You can take an old towel drape it over the air conditioning vent and that will give you your your humidifier.
So if you're in a really dry area or in a really dry part of the hotel you can throw a towel inside of the trash can with a full thing of water.
And the trash can will the towel act as a wick laying over the edge of the deal.
So anyways that's quick tip if you're on traveling and you need a humidifier and if you've got a humidifier and you need to replace the filter and you don't want to spend $40 on a filter.
You just kind of make your own with some tie wraps and some plastic gutter guard.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Hacker Ripple Gradyo. I apologize for the audio but I am sitting in gridlock traffic on the lovely Atlanta highways.
So I figured I'd use this time to give you some feedback on an anonymous email kind of setup semi anonymous semi protected email.
So I originally had a SMS based email through I want to say the index email service writer and I used a free SMS service that would send you the activation codes.
So a lot of the free email services now want you to send a you know authorization code to validate that you're the person you say you are or to validate the actual identity of you and or the account.
What I did what end up with is getting myself walked out of it after 90 days or whatever they wanted to send another SMS message to that account.
And since it was a free account I didn't have access to it and all that good stuff. So I had to start from scratch.
I had a couple people in our local community here in Roswell counterpoint hackers and they said that proton mail and also secure a bit.
Let me just a second bit message dot CH and proton mail are some some places to start.
So first things first hopped on the tour network so to kind of maintain some area of somewhat anonymous is up for debate.
But anyways I did the best I could hopped on hopped on a kind of public AP hopped on tour and then and then started the proton mail approach.
And what I discovered is what you have to do is come up from a country that for whatever reason different countries have different setups and requirements for activation of the mail services.
So when I came out of for example maybe it was I don't know a certain country.
Once I my exit node in tour which you can change inside of the browser bundle setup of tour.
You can have your exit node be a different country and I don't particular remember what country it was.
But it did not require an alternative email and or an SMS to activate their service.
So once I was able to create the proton mail account I activated it had it all set up and then I set up the bit message dot at CH account and use the proton mail for the bit message and the bit message for the proton mail.
So this way if I lock myself out of one or one wants to to activate with the other I can have that feature.
So if for whatever reason something comes across and my login gets invalid or something gets locked out I can use the alternative email account to lock out the other one.
I would suggest using this method.
Having an email account back up to begin another anonymous email account back up.
I'm sure there's other ways to do this but I found a really difficult time getting SMS free SMS messages.
And again I locked myself out of the index account because I didn't have access to that e that phone number again.
And I don't know what service I used or what number I used when I when I said the original service I thought it'd be fine once I activated it and be good to go.
So and I use that for a public disclosure of of vulnerabilities that I find within.
If I'm working with a particular piece of software that I want to kind of rename name and honest but send that out to assert and a couple other folks in the community.
I can kind of maintain that at least first line of somewhat amenity from from using those accounts and I don't necessarily want the credit for any of that stuff.
I want people to fix blatantly hilarious vulnerabilities that you find and just day to day using software.
Anyways, I hope this helped you guys out. It's a quick one.
Feel free to let me know any comments you guys have and feel free to record another show if you know if there's any other methods to get some internet facing based email accounts anonymously.
You know, you've got things like the the I2P protocol and things like that that are kind of also up for debate.
But I'm interested to hear you guys's episodes and podcasts on alternative ways to anonymize yourself through the internet but also have a people way for people to contact you and some of it securely.
Anyways, have a great weekend and hope you guys can contribute. Thanks.
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