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.
Hack of the day: automatically check your BWSC water usage daily
If you live in Boston and you don’t want to be surprised by a huge water bill caused by a leak, you might find this useful.
Today’s DIY project: sun shade for heating system temperature probe
My heating system has a little temperature probe wired from it to the outside of the house: I don’t understand exactly why this is needed, but my impression is that it has something to do with maximizing humidity inside the house without causing condensation to form on the windows. Unfortunately, the installers put the sensor… Read More: Today’s DIY project: sun shade for heating system temperature probe »
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.
Do you burn more calories running than walking?
If your exercise is time-constrained, you’ll (obviously) burn more calories the faster you go whether you run or walk. If your exercise is distance-constrained, you’ll burn slightly more calories running than walking.
Do you burn more calories if you walk faster?
If your walk is time-constrained, walking faster burns more calories. If your walk is distance-constrained, walking faster makes no difference.
My recent job search by the numbers
Applied to 115, rejected by 52, interviewed by 8, hired by 1. LinkedIn was my job-search HQ. Going to work for the U.S. Digital Service.
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: Hack of the day: keep the Emacs server running in… »
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.