Just my two cents, but being a coach for children/teenagers can be a paying job. Up to you to decide if it's better or worse than the job you describe.
Typically it is legal for a company you work for to send you to training, but then bill you (typically prorated) for the training cost if you leave the company within a specified time after. And that seems somewhat reasonable in many cases. But then again, a company can come up with "mandatory" annual training with an inflated cost, with a 2-year escape clause, to effectively prevent employees from leaving.
It is in some states, like Texas. It wouldn't be in CA.
A "quitting fee" is generally illegal throughout the U.S...which is why Revature has the boot camp. Instead of being a quitting fee for leaving the job, the "quitting fee" is characterized legally as reimbursing Revature for the tuition costs of the bootcamp.
If only we had a secure place to store all of the horcrux strings that are unique per-website!
Joking aside, I don't see the point of this. It guards against exactly one attack (your password manager somehow revealing all your passwords) which is unlikely, but not against a whole lot of other (slightly more generic malware, phishing, ...) whilst making logging in harder (there's now a manual process).
If you're willing to go such lengths, enable 2FA on more accounts (which the articles mentions, points for that) or get a physical token for your password manager.
That might be likely if the password manager database is stored in the cloud. iCloud hacks seem to be at least somewhat common and iOS users often hsve no other means of syncing their password manager database.
It's really cool that there are open source bridges between the proprietary ecosystems. But I have to ask, why would you want to deal with all of this just to speak to your phone instead of pressing a button to open the garage door or turning on the light?
And this questionable convenience uses finite resources on earth, both carbon emission and ore. It's hard to scale back on what we use, and I wouldn't go back to a 17" monitor for coding. But maybe we could at least try to avoid creating new stuff that's accelerating our demise?
The amount of resources involved is next to nothing compared to pretty much any other hobby you might imagine, whether that's painting, tinkering with motorcycles, setting up a home recording studio or even just hiking.
