Notices by Eric Mann (ericmann@tekton.network)

I have a bunch of #VLDL stickers, but what I really want is a comic emoji of #Baelin tied to :mornin: set up in Slack ... anyone know of an image set I could use?

Our house suffered a massive power outage last week that lasted two days. Followed by no Internet from Thurs thru Mon. Then another power (and network) outage last night through this afternoon.

Experiences like this are what renew my resolve for self-sufficient utilities (solar, satellite, etc).

I'm not super opposed to using #Brave Browser. But I am more than a bit annoyed that its ad popups don't obey the system-wide DND setting. Having popups trigger in the middle of a presentation (thankfully on a different monitor) is just annoying and distracting.

Do you like #Kona coffee as much as I do? Greenwell Farms is doing free shipping* through 12/8 for the holidays :-)

https://www.greenwellfarms.com/

(*Orders over $100)

Woke up to an email about a "cyber Monday" sale for something I actually wanted to buy. Checked the website before church.

It was already sold out. A Monday deal. Sold out before 9am on Sunday...

@chris that salary is insulting.

@chris that's 100% fair. My family isn't the most tech savvy. So they've mostly just followed my tech decisions with hand-me-down hardware. Which means, for the most part, everything is preconfigured.

I do insist they reset passwords and whatnot so I don't have direct access and they have privacy, tho.

@chris I'm not a fan of the lock-in in the Apple ecosystem, so I've not really paid much attention to their password solution. How does it compare to 1Password? After they finally shipped a Linux app I haven't had any issues whatsoever with my family using it.

As for Windows side projects, yeah, I get it. Maybe I'll dabble in cross-OS stuff again someday. For now, tho, not so much.

@chris I keep a Windows machine around for certain uses - specifically Excel - that I just can't match on Linux yet. But it's entirely redundant and the only one who currently uses it is my wife (for work in Excel).

Other than platform-specific apps like that, what data do you need to get out of or off the machine?

@chris A lot of folks are going that way. I get it. But I really like the editing experience and have no problem self-hosting the tool.

@chris moving my Jekyll stuff back to WP and consolidating domains since .io might disappear...

Importing several years of legacy content into my blog was relatively smooth. Only 67 duplicate posts were created (out of ~900 imported).

Media is still broken, and there's likely a lot of old (irrelevant) cruft in that archive that needs to go. But those are projects for other days.

@chris Their form rejects my report anyway. Going to point to state police and the state office of cybersecurity instead,

Finding out how to report a potential security breach to a gov't-affiliated organization is ... hard. It should not be this hard.

The only means of contacting within the Good to Go! system is a standard form where you have to disclose your address, license plate, and customer ID/statement #. That's just ridiculous!

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About a year ago, my wife took a road trip to Seattle. I signed up for WA state's "GoodToGo" app to pay for toll usage. I get a monthly statement now about our $0 balance as we don't frequent WA.

I just logged in. And Google alerted me that the password I used had recently been found in a data breach.

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It's a unique, 32-character random password stored in #1Password. I don't use it anywhere else...

Anyone want to tell the state of WA their toll payment system has been breached?

Didn't believe this was a thing until I actually saw it myself.

I bank at a small, local credit union. I recently cleared my autocomplete settings so plugged their name into #Google to get back to their homepage.

The Sponsored result IS NOT my bank's website. But is skinned the same. 100% a #phishing site served as a Google ad above the legitimate business website.

This is a major problem, my friends.

Last week, I took a day off to care for sick family. My daughter noticed I wasn't locked away in an office and took the opportunity to ask what it was I actually do while I was working.

"I write code on the computer."

What's code?

"I write down instructions so a computer know what to do."

Like when you press a button on your phone and the garage opens like magic?

"Yeah, like that."

Wow. You're magical. Like Elsa in Frozen. You make magic.

I think I'm going to go rewrite my resume now ;-)