[-] jemikwa 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There is nothing you can do about the unsuccessful logins to your email address. My original email address has been in so many hacks and it's always being brute forced by hackers outside the US.

You already have MFA, so the only other thing I can think of is to have an incredibly long random password on your account and make sure the "forgot my password" recovery flows don't have any easy way to bypass. Things like another email address as a backup that's less secure, being able to guess your personal details based on past hacks, easily guessable/researchable security questions (make these random or nonsensical if possible, or don't put details from security questions in social media) could be used to gain access, even with MFA. And finally, secure your password manager in a similar manner.

[-] jemikwa 11 points 4 months ago

This might be fake, but LTSC is not. It's been around in Windows 10 for years, designed for bloat free stability for IoT and operational devices. A consumer shouldn't technically use it but there are ways.
I don't know how much 11's version has been debloated, but it might be a good experience.

[-] jemikwa 10 points 5 months ago

Nobara is a very good starting point for Linux. I personally know Linux stuff from an IT perspective, but personal use/driver troubleshooting is not something I care to fiddle with regularly. I started with Kubuntu since it's familiar, but eventually swapped to Nobara when I had some issues with the few games I play.
Nobara has been seamless and easy. Having all wine and proton dependencies preinstalled is much nicer and a lot of games Just Work ™️ out of the box.

[-] jemikwa 8 points 5 months ago

OP said Seattle, but I've also seen them at Denver

[-] jemikwa 10 points 7 months ago

The order of the comment headers is the other way - above the comment it goes with. If you scroll to the top, you can see it better there. The Microsoft person is Zied Aouina

[-] jemikwa 9 points 10 months ago

It's unlikely but if she wants Japanese riichi mahjong and not solitaire style, Kemono Mahjong is a really solid app. No ads or micro transactions (the only in app purchase is to optionally support the dev for $1/month), full feature, minimal to no tracking (email address for online game purposes). It's not open source or free but it's only $3 one time purchase.

I don't have any suggestions for solitaire/tile matching mahjong, unfortunately. Microsoft's app is not malware but will be datamine galore. It also has ads unless you pay per month. Anything else, id be leery of the security of the app and your data.

[-] jemikwa 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Judging by the article and the code snippets found, it's more about updating your phone rather than the car infotainment hub. Nougat is getting the axe, have to be on Oreo or later.
It would have been better if the headline said "phones" and not "devices", but that's not as panic inducing :P

[-] jemikwa 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Definitely listen to this. IP Warming is a very real problem and you have to send thousands of messages at a very gradual rate for most email gateways to 1) mark you as a proper email sender, and 2) classify you as a reputable one that isn't sending spam. Using a public/private cloud IP isn't enough, it should be a service already used for mail sending.

If you self host sending email and ignore using a service for outbound, make sure it isn't at home. ISPs often block SMTP traffic to keep people from spamming others from their home. A lot of IP blocklists also auto block home IPs so you may not ever get your messages delivered.

Make sure to set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC. At the very least SPF, DKIM if the platform supports it, and ideally all three or SPF+DMARC. It's not that hard to configure if you do it as you go instead of years down the line after you have a dozen services sending mail as your domain.

[-] jemikwa 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our solution that we set up years ago was to connect a Shelly to circuits on a normal, dumb door opener. The Shelly triggers open/closed itself and since the signal comes from the opener, there's no crypto nonsense to figure out. It always works, no matter what MyQ/Chamberlain/LiftMaster do. Bonus, it also works if you have a very old opener.
We also supplemented this with a tilt sensor so we know the state of the garage door. The door can still be cracked and not registered as opened, but that's a compromise we're okay with since we never leave it intentionally cracked.

[-] jemikwa 9 points 1 year ago

When you get an eye exam done, this is one of the pics in the machines measuring eye stuff that you have to focus on. Except the house isn't burning like in this version.

[-] jemikwa 10 points 1 year ago

Cooking them shell-in at 140F for at least 5 mins is enough to sanitize them. Don't go above 140 or else they will start to cook, and hold for 5 mins or longer so the temp has time to take effect.
https://www.wikihow.com/Pasteurize-Eggs

[-] jemikwa 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See: Cisco. At least when I last used it, the web server configuration utility added a lot of garbage to your running config that made it unreadable if you swapped back to the cli.

Systems that built the GUI first aren't too bad. Palo Alto UI is pretty decent.

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