Cursed motorcycle trip to Philadelphia
A dead battery, an initially misunderstood jump-start process, a shady towing company, and some poor decisions made this trip challenging and taught me a number of important lessons.
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Comics Aggregator: GoComics.com was broken, is now fixed
Overnight last night, GoComics.com was modified to deter bots, along with some other changes which broke the Comics Aggregator‘s ability to fetch comics from there.
How to stop Google from invading your privacy and others’ when you share links
“share.google” links are evil. Here’s how to get Google to stop spitting them at you.
About that time my motorcycle chain derailed while I was riding the bike
I’m fine, my bike is fine, and the bike and I got home in one piece thanks to the kindness of my guardian angel Frank.
Can’t log into Costco website, their technical support is useless
I spent nearly four hours of my time proving this isn’t my fault. I’m still doubtful that Costco will do anything to resolve the problem.
Another credit reporting agency breach, another terrible breach notification letter
TransUnion is bad at security and bad at handling security breaches and none of this is going to get better until we have a real federal data privacy law with meaningful penalties for companies which leak people’s data.
Thoughts on the proposed Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, S.2608
The proposed law is a good start but it has problems that should be fixed before it is enacted. Here are some of them.
Using Tasker on Android to toggle Blokada+ / private DNS / WiFi
Creating an Android quick setting tile that performs three different tasks automatically so I don’t have to do them all by hand on a regular basis.
Suspicious email from “pulse <root@overlinux.com>”: malicious or just dumb?
The person who sent this email is either extremely clueless or up to no good. It’s hard to say for certain which.
Some Comics Aggregator internals changed, let me know if you run into issues
I’ve had to rewrite a bit of the Comics Aggregator code to be able to add Alexandra Petri to it. Because this involved switching from one third-party library to another in code that doesn’t just impact Alexandra Petri, I may have broken something. I did some testing and everything seems to be working, but I… Read More »