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  • Weekly Update 468

    Weekly Update 468 I only just realised, as I prepared this accompanying blog post, that I didn’t talk about one of the points in the overview: food. One of my fondest memories as a child living in Singapore and now as an adult visiting there is the food. It’s one of those rare places where…

  • Weekly Update 467

    Weekly Update 467 Using AI to analyse photos and send alerts if I’ve forgotten to take the bins out isn’t going to revolutionise my life, no more so than using it to describe who’s at the mailbox when a letter arrives and at the front door when they buzz. But that’s really not the point;…

  • Weekly Update 464

    Weekly Update 464 I think the most amusing comment I had during this live stream was one to the effect of expecting me to have all my tech things neat and ordered. As I look around me now, there are Shellys with cables hanging off them all over my desk, the keyboard I’m typing on…

  • Weekly Update 460

    Weekly Update 460 This week’s update is the last remote one for a while as we wind up more than a month of travel. I’m pushing this out just before we jump on the Qantas plane home… right after they’ve advised just how much of my data was impacted by their breach. That got me…

  • Weekly Update 449

    Weekly Update 449 Today, I arrived at my PC first thing in the morning to find the UPS dead (battery was cactus) and the PC obviously without power. So, I tracked down a powerboard and some IEC C14 to mains cable adaptors and powered back up. On boot, neither the Bluetooth mouse nor keyboard worked.…

  • A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List

    A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List You know when you’re really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That’s me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into my account…

  • You Can’t Trust Hackers, and Other Data Breach Verification Tales

    You Can’t Trust Hackers, and Other Data Breach Verification Tales It’s hard to find a good criminal these days. I mean a really trustworthy one you can be confident won’t lead you up the garden path with false promises of data breaches. Like this guy yesterday: For my international friends, JB Hi-Fi is a massive…