You should be backing up your password manager
It’s a bad idea to entirely rely on the company hosting your password manager to back up your data.
Category Archives: Computers
How a bad password policy at Bank of America reduces security
When you force people to use hard-to-remember passwords, you’re actually forcing them to use bad passwords.
Trivial discovery of the day: “calorie” data in Garmin data exports is actually joules
Garmin data exports measure activity energy in joules but label it as calories. 1 calorie == 4.184 joules.
Hack of the day: keep the Emacs server running in the active login session
Prereqs for this hack being useful to you: (1) you use GNU Emacs; (2) you keep a single Emacs running in your session and use emacsclient to open files for editing in it; (3) you have Linux computers that use systemd on which you keep multiple concurrent login sessions open; and (4) you want emacsclient… Read More »
How to access your encrypted Linux system from the Ubuntu installer when your system won’t boot
I had to figure out the steps for myself by assembling pieces of it from many different web pages, so I’ve collected them all here for my benefit and yours.
“Break of Day” added to comics aggregator
A new strip from Comics Kingdom, drawn by Nate Fakes.
“Comiclicious” added to comics aggregator
A new strip from Comics Kingdom, drawn by Olivera Vukovic.
“God’s Hands” and “The Planet Syndicate” added to comics aggregator, “Mara Llave” removed
A new strip from Comics Kingdom.
“Willy Black” added to comics aggregator
A new strip from Comics Kingdom.
If you’re upset about the “Hachette” decision, blame the Internet Archive for overstepping
The Internet Archive couldn’t leave well enough alone, and now we’re all going to pay the price.