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Archive for May 5th, 2025

September 2024 – Agust Tell HN: Twilio quietly removes Authy iOS app from Mac App Store, stops updates | Hacker News

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/05

Installing the Authy iOS app on a Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3/…) used to be the way to keep using Authy in the Mac Desktop, as early this year Authy announced their desktop applications would shut down by August (links further below).

I missed the September 2024 post [Wayback/Archive] Tell HN: Twilio quietly removes Authy iOS app from Mac App Store, stops updates | Hacker News, which basically means that if you had it installed on a Mac, it will keep being installed but never updated.

This was done silently by Authy owner Twilio making new installs are possible, never updating old installs any more thereby effectively decreasing your security.

Anyway: if you want to try side-loading, this is the iOS app link: [Wayback/Archive] Twilio Authy on the App Store.

Sideloadly (links further below)  might work, but in reality it likely is better to have your MFA running on a separate device.

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Posted in 2FA/MFA, Authentication, Power User, Security, TOTP (Timebase One Time Pads) | Leave a Comment »

Some posts on example domains and example IP-ranges (IPv4 and IPv6)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/05

Here are some of my blog posts on documenting using example domains and example IP-addresses or IP-ranges:

(I really wish that example.org and others would service SMTP with blackhole routing so one can also use it for bogus email addresses in documentation)

The blog posts above were incomplete (IPv6 was missing; IPv4 was not explained), so below are more links that do a better job based on a Tweet from [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans (@b0rk).

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DNS, documentation, Event, Infrastructure, Internet, IPv4, IPv6, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »