Hello! I don’t know if anyone besides me will end up reading this blog, so at least for now it’s mainly geared towards helping me remember things I’ve done, something I liked, etc. It will probably be tech heavy at first, because my initial point […]
Old-Time Radio Meets Modern Music
[Note: this appeared in the January/February edition of Old Radio Times, issue #124] Over a year ago, I started noticing some unusual traffic and comments on our YouTube channel for the first audition episode of Dangerously Yours titled “Masquerade”, recorded on June 20, 1944. We were […]
Setting up a private GitLab instance
I was inspired by this blog post (I subscribe to his YouTube channel) to set up a GitLab Community Edition instance of my own. However, there were a few things I wanted to do differently: I have a Proxmox VE cluster as part of my […]
GoDaddy – It’s not me, it’s you
Just over a year ago, GoDaddy moved all my sites from cPanel (I think; I don’t remember at this point) to Plesk. In the process, they broke all of them and were less than helpful in getting them working again. With COVID-19 and everything else […]
Security questions make your account less secure
With so many people at home, there seem to be a large number of Facebook quizzes and challenges that ask you to share personal information with friends. Some of them are fun, but what usually follows is a meme saying to stop sharing your personal […]
Chase does it (mostly) right
I got an email from Chase this morning that my password there was compromised, but I don’t see any current news about it. They did have a data breach in 2014, but I’ve changed my password at least once since then. Going directly to the […]
Bad Password Rules
There simply is no legitimate reason to limit the special characters one can use in a password, as the site in the image for this post is doing. The reason this was done in the past was because of the risk of SQL injection. However, […]
Security Keys
One of the newer options for multi-factor authentication is using a security key, like the YubiKeys in the picture for this post. While not widely supported yet, many of the big tech companies – Google, Facebook and Dropbox, to list a few examples – do […]
Your Disney+ Account Was Not Hacked
There has been a lot of inaccurate information about Disney+ accounts getting hacked. Some of it was early reporting (before Disney had responded and before much was known about what was happening) and some of it is just lazy reporting. It is pretty clear now, […]
No one is giving away free stuff on Facebook*
There are several of these making the rounds yet again. In just the last week I have seen ones for Bud Light, Coors and Costco. There have probably been others. The problem is, the vast majority of these are phishing (or more specifically, clickjacking) scams. […]
Release the Hounds!
Another passion of mine is our two greyhounds, Maeve and Bobbi. Both girls are retired racers, and they are eight and seven years old, respectively. Maeve was a pretty good racer; she ran 103 races and won 21 of them. Bobbi wasn’t as good. She […]