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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Edit: forgot OP asked about IOS, not desktop…


    That is a fair point.

    Firefox profiles is not well integrated or known.

    On windows, in the run dialog (win+R) type firefox.exe -p to open the profile wizard. You can also make custom shortcuts but I don’t recall the exact command.

    If you sign in with the same Firefox account on both profiles to sync bookmarks and stuff, the only thing different would be what ever you’re signed into.



  • You should probably get a louder smoke decetor if you can barely hear it upstairs.

    I’m going to go with the DIY approach;

    For the water sensor, I’d look into the possibility of linking the basement alarm to a speaker upstairs. I’ve no idea what kind of alarm you’re looking at or what the electronics are like. Theoreticaly, you can jump off the audio signal just before it reaches the speaker. Send the audio signal through an amp (located close* to the alarm, preferably where it won’t get wet) and connect it to a speaker upstairs.

    I would never try to mess with a smoke detector I rely on, but a water sensor…buy two and have fun.

    *the amp is to overcome voltage drop in the new cable, I doubt that the sensor electronics will be capable of driving a seperate speaker with at least 30 ft of cable between it.


  • I’m going to copy paste a reply I left somewhere else. This was for iOS AI, I’m unsure what the implemention for macOS is. If they are scanning everything then I do not support it.


    From what I saw,

    MS Recall is a 24/7 AI monitor system that captures everything you look at and saves it for later. They didn’t even do the bare minimum for protecting the data, it was just dumped in an unencytped folder where anyone get wholesale access to the data. All trust has been lost.

    Apple is using AI as a tool to improve specific tasks/features that a user invokes. Things like assistant queries and the new calculator. They have said some promising things in regards to privacy, specificly with the use of ChatGPT - any inquiry sent to ChatGPT will ask the user permission first and obscure their IP. This shows they care enough to try, they have not lost our trust - but we remain skeptical.


    If apple tries the same thing by scanning everything wholesale, then that’s getting over shadowed by the promises made by the implentaion on the much more popular iOS.





  • Me: when you’re ready let’s do the thing we’d agreed we wanted to do around now.

    Them: okay. (drops everything)

    Me: okay…I knew you’re in the middle of something, I can wait 5 minutes.

    Them: ugg, no, its fine let’s just go now.

    (Later with someone else)

    Them: Ugg, I always feel rushed to do things with [me].

    Other: you know he’ll will wait for you right, its not a big deal.

    Them: I know, but I feel bad. I dont like wasting his time…(he doesn’t have a lot of it left).



  • I like Simple Note.

    I’m not sure about real time collab, but I know you can share notes.

    https://simplenote.com/

    They do have a github page. Having to make an account and store notes server side is a big minus, but it is the only one I’ve found to

    1. Not be Google
    2. support all major OS (Lin, Win, Mac, And, ios, and browser)
    3. Not serve ads
    4. Not require self hosting
    5. Not ask for money (beside a donate button)
    6. Not be Google

    Edit.

    Digging into it a bit more. Seems they started in 2008 and were aquired by Automattic, in 2013. Same people behind WordPress. Oddly enough, Simple Note is not listed in their list of products.

    Simple Note client side is GPL-2.0 The server is proprietary

    They say on their own site, don’t store sensitive data. But that’s good advice for any online service.




  • It looks a lot cleaner now.

    The body text seems too light still, but that might be my phone screen. It should be solid black.

    Only One change from here I would strongly recommend making is the blue “city” text black.

    Treat blue and bold text as your ‘highlighter’, there to help someone quickly navigate to the important sections of the page. City is not important. Your use of varriying font sizes and bullet lists is great for page navigation.

    If I was going to use color, I’d highlight the jobs before the city name/git link.

    The rest is personal taste.

    Personally, I think the blue headers is enough. It might get to too blue if you color job titles as well. You don’t need a separate monochrome version, the dark blue will show as black if it happens to be printed in B&W. You should also test print your resume in B&W. I find easier to spot errors on paper.


    Edits as I spot more little things.

    (Also there’s an extra space in the second skill name - Event Bus)

    (You also have space to make programming languages one line. At first glace I though you had a blank section for “languages”. Could probably just say “programming”, but I’m not in that field so maybe that’s frowned upon?)

    (In education, you have an example line underneath the university name, what is that line for? I would put the degree in that space, not off to the side. That’s technicaly more important that the university it self, but it’s probably “improper form” to list that above the uni name. (or whatever some one snoby would say).

    (One last thing, you don’t really need your full street address. Its unlikely anyone will mail you a response, and its just as likely you’ll have to enter it into the application form anyways. City will suffice.)

    (One last last thing, if you’re going to give yourself titles at the top, you better show them in your expirence section. (I know this is just an example template and I am being incredibly picky) but I don’t see architect anyware in the actual resume. That communicates to me you’re just calling yourself related titles hoping one sticks)


  • This looks good.

    A few unsolicited nit-picky suggestions;

    • I’m not a big fan of mixing colors in a single word. ‘Taky’ might the be the right to describe why. I do like the color blue you used - if you’re going to do it, make it the whole word. The name should also be consitent. Bold and either black or blue, not black and blue.
    • The light blue and light gray body text is difficult to read. Colors should be solid black, or navy blue. Bright and ‘fun’ colors are heard to read for some. Assume they’re colorblind or will print it on a B&W printer with poor contrast.
    • I like to lead with the job title instead of the company. Where you worked is largely irrevelvant compared to what you’ve done at those places. It also makes it easy to combine company, city and years in one line.
    • start with previous jobs (unless education was most recent or more relevant to new job). Typically the order is job > skills > education.
    • Avoid italics they can be unnecessarily diffuclt to read

    Engine Mechanic

    Bob’s Auto | City, ST | 2017-2021


    Education does not need so many details (if relevant to job, include specific courses and projects). Grad date can be omitted to help obfuscate you’re age (a grad from 2024 is probably inexpirenced, while a 1967 grad is going to be retiring soon).

    Two lines is all you need;

    Bob’s University, City, ST

    B.S. Computer Science, minor electrical enginnering


  • You know those movies were the main character blinks and their stuff gets stolen? That’s pretty much true in some of the cities.

    Also if someone is asking you for gas money, help at the atm, trying to sell you something random - leave.

    lemmy.one/c/scams seems to have a lot of the common ones listed. It might be worth lurking on r/scams to see if there’s anything more current to watch out for.


  • (I use KeepassXC)

    I use the notes section alot. I can store all kinds of related info. For example on sites that still use a username to login, I can put the email I used to sign up in the notes section.

    I’ll also do security questions answers here. Using a pasphrase generator for those is good. No one is going to check if your first dog’s name really was “consoling-roving-activator-earflap” and no one can find it on your over sharing grandma’s Facebook.

    I’ll also attach any license keys/relevant files for software, now those stay encrypted and backed up with the database instead of in a random folder of text files.


  • I think they are suggesting the abality to reset 2fa for a service if they have access to your email.

    Let’s say your database contains your email service, and bank account without 2fa. Let’s also assume they got acess to your email through a sham site that had you type credentials in and 2fa.

    Hacker gets database.

    They can login into your email and use the recovery code the bank send to your email for “lost my 2fa”. (And delete the mail notifications as they come in, hopefully before you catch on)

    A bank (should) have additional steps such as phone number, or a real recovery key you were supposed to write down, but a random online store or entertainment site will probably will just reset the 2fa and the hacker can go from there.

    Realsisticlly we should be using at least 3 password database files with different master passwords for better security.

    1. Account logins and passwords
    2. TOTP
    3. Any 2fa recovery keys.

    However in practice, that is a pain in the ass and if someome has taken the time to breach your 1 specific database instead of going after easier targets, they probably have all your databases.