Just published: updated password manager interactive head-to-head comparison
Check out https://blog.kamens.us/head-to-head-comparison-of-password-managers-with-interactive-grid/.
Category Archives: Internet
Carolyn Hax currently broken in comics aggregator; please complain to WaPo
The comics aggregator is currently unable to display Carolyn Hax columns because the Washington Post RSS feed that the aggregator uses to find out about Carolyn’s columns has been broken for several days. I have complained repeatedly to the Post’s customer service department but they have not acknowledged my complaint or addressed the problem. I… Read More »
How I remember my YubiKey, take four
I’ve just finished yet another iteration of the tooling I use to prevent myself from walking away from my desk without my YubiKey, which I previously described here. I’ve decided at this point it time to release the code somewhere a bit more robustly than in a blog posting, so I’ve published it on Github.… Read More »
“Mallard Fillmore” removed from comics aggregator
When I look at the content of the “Mallard Fillmore” comic strip, two words inevitably come to mind: “ok boomer.” Bruce Tinsley, the author of Mallard Fillmore, has a nationwide platform which he mostly uses to publish endless variants of stupid “get off my lawn!” jokes, as befitting someone of his age. If it were… Read More »
“Ask Amy” has been removed from the comics aggregator
The advice column “Ask Amy”, written by Amy Dickinson, has been removed from my comics aggregator and will not be coming back. Advice columnists draw from three wellsprings: advice, compassion, and judgment. All three have their place, and different responses call for different measures of each one. Good columnists accompany all three with a healthy… Read More »
Kroll Web Watcher makes people less secure
Generating pointless alerts that users can’t do anything about decreases security for everyone.
Gogo airplane WiFi works, but everything else about Gogo is a tire fire
A simple attempt to purchase in-flight WiFi from Gogo yielded 11 distinct failures from there web site and ecommerce platform.
Mitigating WiFi upload speed issues on Lenovo IdeaPad S340 running Linux
One solution to the problem of slow WiFI upload speeds on Linux with an Intel dual band wireless controller.
Experian / T-Mobile class action lawyers send victims important emails guaranteed to be rejected by most recipients
In late 2015, 15 million T-Mobile customers learned that they had been victims of a two-year security breach at Experian. Since then, the 150-million victim Equifax breach has made the Experian breach look kind of puny, but at the time it became public it was a Big [expletive] Deal. Of course, a class-action lawsuit was… Read More »
How I remember my YubiKey, take three
[This is obsolete. My improved code is now in Github.] [The technique in this article supersedes my earlier “How I remember my YubiKey, take two” how-to; I explain at the bottom of this article what was wrong with my earlier technique and why this new technique is better.] I’ve recently started using a YubiKey NEO… Read More »