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Case study: anonymizing email addresses for online accounts

Why you might want to anonymize the email addresses for your online accounts, some techniques for how to do that, and the details of how I did it myself, including stats, stories, and scripts.

Category: Computer Security Computers email Free software Internet Spam User Experience Web Tags: Addy.io, AnonAddy, Bitwarden, Information Security, privacy, Spam

Boston online poll-worker training thread

Thread of posts about online Boston poll-worker training.

Category: Boston Government activism Politics Tags: Boston, elections, GoogleMeet, MAPoli, politics, poll-worker, pollWorker, pollWorkerTraining, USPol, voting, Zoom

Comics: Most recent “This Modern World” published early

Please note that the most recent edition of the This Modern World comic was published a few days early and therefore the comics aggregator didn’t pick it up. That bug has been fixed so next time it will be picked up, but for those of you who want to see the early one, here you… Read More »

Category: Comics Aggregator Tags: This Modern World

2024 Massachusetts ballot questions: my recommendations

YES, YES, YES, YES, YES.

Category: Consumer activism Government activism Law Politics Social Activism Tags: ballot questions, Lyft, Massachusetts, MCAS, Uber, voting

My routine for rebuilding my Linux laptops from scratch

Maybe you’re sufficiently Linux-nerdy that you’ll enjoy glancing at this. Or maybe not, whatever. 😉

Category: Computers Free software Tags: Debian, Linux, sysadmin

Developers who don’t know the email standards shouldn’t write code that generates emails

Looking at you, Square.

Category: Computers Consumer activism email Internet Tags: email, Square

Python fails Postel’s Law parsing email messages, with a workaround

The next-generation email parser in Python silently ignores data it doesn’t understand, sometimes to the detriment of the caller.

Category: Computers email Free software Internet Tags: Postel's Law, Python

UX failure of the day: Eastern Bank’s new personal banking portal

Whatever Eastern Bank’s priorities were in rolling out its new portal, good UX and security seemingly weren’t among them.

Category: Boston Computer Security Computers Consumer activism Web Tags: 2fa, Eastern Bank, Firefox, MFA, User Experience, UX

Interesting journey: converting my last home computer from Ubuntu to Debian

This was a satisfying exercise with the right amount of complexity to make it just enough of a challenge to be interesting without being frustrating.

Category: Computers Free software Tags: Ansible, apt, Debian, GPG, Jailkit, Linux, LUKS, LVM, MariaDB, MongoDB, NVIDIA, Ubuntu, UEFI, UFW

MyFitnessPal is not telling the whole truth about recent data “corruption” incident

I’m fairly certain I did not eat “Enjoy Cock Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce” last week. So why does the MyFitnessPal app say I did?

Category: Computer Security Computers Consumer activism Tags: Computer Security, cybersecurity, Garmin, MyFitnessPal
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