I recently sat down with the folks at Plutopia, Wendy Grossman, Jon Lebkowsky, and Scoop Sweeney, to talk about my past, our precarious present, and the dire future we seem to be careening toward. Watch or listen here. Enjoy!
As far as I know, Comics Kingdom has finally fixed their daily emails well enough to make the comics designated as “Vintage” work properly in the comics aggregator. See the user guide for instructions reading Comics Kingdom in the aggregator. If you notice any comics that aren’t working, let me know.
I had to hack together a few things to use wireguard transparently on my Android phone and all of my Linux laptops and desktop.
Wise.com use by U.S. citizens has some of the benefits of an offshore bank account but not all of them.
Why you should use MFA, what about passkeys, what kind of MFA to use, how to make it easier to use, and how to protect yourself against being locked out of an account because of MFA.
Telling people “Your email addresses on the two sites need to match!” without telling them what to do if they don’t is a user-hostile act.
Hi all! Yesterday’s announcement about vintage comics at Comics Kingdom was premature. It appears that although they have added these new vintage comics to the website, they have not yet figured out how to include them in people’s daily favorites emails, so it is not yet possible to read them in the aggregator. I will… Read More »
At long last, the folks over at Comics Kingdom have updated their web site to fully support all of their vintage comics. This means that the comics aggregator now supports the following additional Comics Kingdom comics: Just as a reminder, to view Comics Kingdom comics through the aggregator you need to pay for a subscription,… Read More »
Bottom line: If you are a U.S. citizen, unless you are very rich it is unlikely that you can (legally) open a bank account in another country. This is apparently true regardless of all the articles online which claim that it is straightforward to do while not providing any concrete details about how to do… Read More »
An article I read recently claimed it’s dumb to buy refurbished hard drives for your NAS because “refurbished drives were returned because they weren’t working, so why would you want your precious data stored on them.” This is dumb. Let’s talk about why.