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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

The Bible does not justify what Israel is doing in Gaza

Anyone who understands Jewish law understands that what God commanded the Jews to do in the Bible does not justify what Israel is doing in Gaza. The only people who really believe otherwise are Evangelical Christian supremacists, and it’s antisemitic.

Category: Government activism Israel Politics Tags: Gaza

Comics Aggregator: Bob Mankoff Presents is back, Brian Duffy is gone

Comics Kingdom has restored “Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny” and “Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny (Animal Edition)” from before their website redesign, so I’ve added them back in the aggregator. They’ve also removed “Brian Duffy”, so I’ve removed that from the aggregator. I imagine there are going to be quite a… Read More »

Category: Comics Aggregator Tags: Comics Kingdom

Comics Aggregator: Comics Kingdom site redesign implemented

The few of you who read Comics Kingdom through the Comics Aggregator (instructions) may be aware that Comics Kingdom recently redesigned their web site. I have just released a set of changes to the Comics Aggregator to accommodate their redesign. Please note that there are new comics, comics that are no longer available, and comics… Read More »

Category: Comics Aggregator Tags: Comics Kingdom

“Extended Stay America – Boca Raton – Commerce” review

I recently stayed three nights at the “Extended Stay America” hotel in Boca Raton, Florida. It was gross.

Category: Consumer activism Tags: review

Comics aggregator: ad-free mode available for Patreon supporters

The Google AdSense ads I show on the comics aggregator don’t come close to covering my costs maintaining the aggregator; every once in a while I get a direct-deposit from Google that’s enough for my family to get takeout. Nevertheless, one of my paid supporters reached out today and commented that he’d rather not see… Read More »

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