Confirmation of anecdotes or gut feelings is still science. At some point you need data rather than experience to help people and organizations change their perception (see: most big tech companies lighting billions of dollars on fire on generative AI).

I give it less than a week before someone has code for this exact feature in QMK. It won't be as detectable as looking for "Is using Razer Keyboard".

I mean I have a greyhound who can countersurf, you just put baby gates around the kitchen and food. Keeping stuff out of snoot height/range removes most issues.

Part of it is training them that it isn't an appropriate thing to do. It usually helps that if they behave (and we're eating something the pup can safely have) they get a bit of food as a treat.

Training is a must and especially with a dog that big you need to make sure they know what is expected and appropriate. Doing that sets them up for success and makes it much easier to care for them overall.

What about someone who truly does not enjoy watching TV or movies?

I understand I'm in a very small minority. However watching TV shows or movies doesn't interest me at all.

Watching TV or Movies to me is like having stare at a blank wall for 3 hours and forced notice how the faint cracks on the paint spider along it for the entire time. Afterwards I'm supposed to feel like it changed my life or it was somehow an enjoyable experience.

It's absolutely not my cup of tea.

I don't hate anyone for enjoying them either. I'll listen to friends or family talk about things they watch. I enjoy seeing how much they enjoyed watching it. It just doesn't interest me in the slightest.

Unfortunately I wouldn't buy these given that it's from Packt Publishing. I've bought quite a few of their books over the years and more often than not they're either full of glaring writing errors that would have been caught if the book was looked at by an editor at all, the code examples have errors that require deep knowledge of said book topic to correct making it hard to progress, or the book doesn't seem to follow a linear learning path making understanding what the author is trying to convey much harder.

Don't get me wrong there are some good books from Packt, but they're much rarer than say a book from O'Reilly or Manning. They seem to just churn out content and not have a rigorous editing process meaning that it's mostly up to the author's writing ability to create something useful.

I used to grab their free ebook of the day when they used to have that and more often than not I would delete or never finish the books because they were just so low quality.

Love me some house cows!

It's definitely been popped. Rip.

Yes there is! Great you have a strong, randomly generated password. There's no collateral damage (you're having your password manager generate the passwords right?) So your other accounts are safe, you only have to rotate one password.

Well what happens for instance if someone really wanted access to your account? Say it's a bank, a social media account, or maybe it's just a game account for an MMO that's super high value, you have a long and strong password, but let's say the service's security wasn't quite up to snuff or you got phished and gave your password by accident (these things happen, it's not your fault).

This is where 2FA comes in, if someone manages to break your password the attacker needs your phone, your security key, your fingerprint, etc... To prove to the service they're you. By having 2FA on the account you're increasing your defense in depth for your account. If you didn't have it your account is as good as gone as soon as an attacker cracks or gets your password.

It acts as a second lock that needs to be picked in order to take over your account.

I personally add 2FA to all of my accounts I can, the highest security ones get added to my hardware token. The ones I don't need as high security go into my password manager (which has 2FA enabled but only available via my hardware key).

Additionally as often as possible I try to use a unique email address for each service (simplelogin, addy.io, or similar, + based email addresses are easily bypassed) they all forward to my email but now you have to guess my email for the service (my own private domains, so not shared with anyone else) and what mailbox it ends up in. As a bonus you can disable emails that are sending spam or see who got breached based on the email.

Again defense in depth, a long secure password is great but that's only relying on a single lock. By having 2FA you're doubling your security so to speak by requiring that extra key in order to access your accounts.

I will note that some departments are moving towards encrypted real time communications and then time delayed text transcripts. This is under the guise of "officer safety" but really they hate the fact that civilians were actively monitoring them and calling out possible issues in real time on the bird site and other social media.

I learned how to design and build mechanical keyboards. My buddy and I are still at it and are working on our second keyboard that we hope to release publicly.

I'm still using our first prototype as my daily driver for the past 2 years.

Learned a lot about PCB manufacturing and embedded systems design.

Packt publishing is some of the worse material I've ever had the misfortune to have to use. The books don't make sense, they just seem to churn out material that isn't even edited properly or examples aren't even vetted to work properly without having to know what errors to fix. Getting a good book from them is a rarity not the norm unlike someone like O'Reilly. Save your money and don't buy anything from them.

Out. In, you'll smash your thumb into oblivion.