fighting the lack of good ideas
That’s what Marco Polo is. Visual text messaging. With the added perk of being able to save videos you make to your local device for sharing elsehow and elsewhere. And that, I think, is it’s true Killer Feature™ – the ability to take selfie videos, get more or less instant feedback, make a few tweaks,…
I maintain (to greater or lesser extents) 3 blogs currently: https://blog.warrenmyers.com https://paragraph.cf https://antipaucity.com I keep the first and last segmented so I can more easily find things I’ve written or reposted about Christianity, religion, and the Bible, and everything else. The middle one I keep to demo the WordPress plugin I wrote – Paragraph. But…
It was nice knowing you. No really. It was. I don’t say that because I found anything wrong in the fediverse. Nope. It’s entirely because a recent apt update not only broke my sweetree.ga instance, it irrecoverably broke it. Guess I’ll have to use that domain somewhere somehow somewhen else. Maybe I’ll try you again…
After months years of threatening, I’ve finally removed one item from my round tuit plate: https://sweetree.ga is the latest Mastodon instance in the fediverse. There are still a few bugs to iron-out of this instance, but it’s live, and I’m – once-again – tooting. Come follow me – @warrenmyers@sweetree.ga In the coming days, fully-automated registrations…
Passwords should never expire: https://www.sans.org/security-awareness-training/blog/time-password-expiration-die Passwords should not be changed often: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/frequent_passwo.html Password “complexity” is – mostly – a joke: https://www.xkcd.com/936 You have been breached: https://blog.augustschell.com/passwords-passphrases-complexity-length-crackability-memorability-data-breaches Passphrases are better than passwords – and https://password.ga will generate them for you (it will also generate random passwords that pass complexity requirements) Use a password manager of some…
One afternoon, a Polish gentleman was walking through Krakow and found a curious object covered in dust and grime. As he was cleaning it, out popped a genie. “I am the Genie of the Lamp. I will grant you 3 wishes. Choose wisely.” The gentleman asked, “3 wishes? Any 3 wishes?” “Yes, any 3 wishes…
It would seem I have configured OpenVPN, Squid proxy, and, to a lesser extent, Pi-hole well – none of the major sites that report IP, DNS, and other connection-related security issues find anything out of the ordinary when I’m either running “just” proxied, or VPN, or VPN+proxy. You should check yourself hereon: https://ipleak.net http://ip-check.info/?lang=en (ironic…