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I currently have a few thousand entries in my Passwords.app, and additionally a few hundred entries in my KeyChain that are not web passwords.

This list is only growing with no viable option for some automatic or semi-auto removal of things that I don't need or otherwise don't exist anymore.

I once tried to check the oldest entries and found almost half of them pointing to websites or services that don't exist anymore. (Everything else aside, always sad to see how things die on the Internet, often for no good reason).

Many of the entries were not needed anymore, so I went and requested account deletion whenever possible, one by one.

However, going through and cleaning up even a single year in the past took me several days (!)

Someone can say "disk storage for a few thousand DB entries is cheap, don't worry and forget about it" and I guess it's what most people do.

Still, if you see it as a problem (say, what if your DB leaks one day?) any solutions you can suggest?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193611

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Article URL: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-smartphones-instruments-space.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193605

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Article URL: https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193591

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Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/joanna-smith-griffin-forbes-30-under-30-fraud-2024-11

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193590

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I get the posts where people discuss databases and servers and programming languages. I don't get the posts like below, from the first two pages:

-Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books -Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg -Nickel Plating Handbook -Decisions and Dragons -A Man of Parts and Learning Fara Dabhoiwala on the Portrait of Francis Williams

Are they synthetically pushed to the top to water down the tech content? Is there an astroturfing effort from the posters? Or is there general interest in that stuff and I'm the only one who's dumb?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193581

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Article URL: https://www.firstpost.com/tech/nvidias-new-server-design-hits-a-roadblock-ai-chips-overheating-beyond-control-13836063.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193576

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Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/rip_thomas_kurtz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193557

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Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456782-bluesky-is-ushering-in-a-pick-your-own-algorithm-era-of-social-media/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193549

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We invested 10000 hours into an NFT project (https://license-token.com - but not relevant or the question): Now, we (like many others) ask ourselves: Which is the best Social media to market new NFT projects?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193539

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Article URL: https://www.opensourceimaging.org/project/nmrduino/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193213

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Article URL: https://www.okoone.com/spark/product-design-research/webassemblys-wasmgc-paves-the-way-for-front-end-language-freedom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193183

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Article URL: https://www.latex-project.org/news/2024/07/08/tagging/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193181

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Article URL: https://dbohdan.com/wavpack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193170

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Article URL: https://electrek.co/2024/11/19/nio-eyes-rapid-overseas-expansion-new-onvo-ev-boosts-sales/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193135

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Article URL: https://medium.com/@vutrinh274/automq-achieving-auto-partition-reassignment-in-kafka-without-cruise-control-c1547dae3e39

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193134

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Are there any accounts on blue sky that you recommend?

I am looking for accounts that people with a "hacker" personality may like.

Any suggestions?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193111

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmkgReBiaE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193095

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Article URL: https://sive.rs/dxb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193075

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Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/20/att-turbo-iphone-carrier-label-ios-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193058

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Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-powered-el-capitan-is-now-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-with-1-7-exaflops-of-performance-fastest-intel-machine-falls-to-third-place-on-top500-list

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193052

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