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.
The printer I got from Printronix was terrible, the company was unable to resolve any of the issues with it, I ended up returning it for a full refund (part of which I was only able to obtain via a credit card dispute), and I discourage anyone who stumbles across this blog posting from doing business with this company. I didn’t think a printer company could annoy me more than HP does nowadays, but Printronix succeeded.
Several years ago I worked for a company which outsourced management of their 401k to Human Interest. It was… not a positive experience. I don’t remember all the details—I’ve worked pretty hard to forget them since they were so unpleasant—but suffice it to say that it was my impression that they weren’t terribly good at… Read More »
Sometimes Synology Drive Client just stops synchronizing files down from the server without telling you that there’s anything wrong. This is bad.
Wired just released a new article1 by Vittoria Elliott about DOGE’s incursion into VA, in particular the disruption that muskrat Sahil Lavingia is causing within the Office of the CTO’s VA.gov team by blustering around like a bull in a china shop. It’s a good insight into how the muskrats are working at government agencies.… Read More »