Geenirvana

Thank you.

I am not a heavy user and I genuinely did not know this was an option. My experience is so bad I feel embarrassed opening the application in public.

You may have saved my sanity

It's kind of wild how much I rely on a single point of failure.

Just did a clean install on my PC — fresh start, everything wiped. First thing I do? Install 1Password so I can access all my accounts and start setting things up again.

And of course... 1Password is down.

Now I’m stuck trying to type a ridiculously long, complex password from my phone onto my PC. Absolute nightmare.

There is a streamer named RockyNoHands[0] He plays Warzone entirely with his mouth. His controller has tubes that he blows and sucks to control the character.

It is really impressive watching him live on such a competitive game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockyNoHands

It's UX for me. Maybe because I am getting old and I can't keep up with latest "software trends"

I literally had to google how to restart my phone the other day.

I had been drinking almost every evening for the past year. It was only a few bottles of beer or a bottle of wine but it was enough to make me groggy in the morning.

I found it real hard going to a supermarket without going down the alcohol aisle - there are always deals going on.

Just recently, I realized I was gaining weight, so started watching what I eat. As alcohol always made me binge eat I 'simply' did not go down the alcohol aisle on the next shopping trip. I put simply in quotes because it took me real effort to avoid it. Without alcohol in the house, the choice to drink has been taken away from me.

I have basically gone cold turkey and drink tea/water instead.

Honestly, I thought I would have had a more difficult time but it hasn't fazed me in the slightest.

I miss UO.

I only played on unofficial servers but I had many hours of entertainment.

My greatest achivement is that I wrote a Macro program called UO-Mcro in VB6. It was a stepped based Macro program that didn't require coding to use. It had popular actions such has

LeftClick x Wait x seconds Set Variable If / Loop

Each action was designed using VBScript, so it was possible to extend to more advanced actions.

It has long since gone but the website is available on the wayback machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20040802021732/http://uo-mcro.tk...

I personally do not, but my company issued laptop does.

I would not disagree that it makes the computer worse, there was a significant performance decrease when the latest version was installed earlier this year but this is off topic.

What I found interesting was that I didn't know about EICAR until today.

Interesting.

My Anti-virus kicked off after downloading this, identified as EICAR-AV-Test

From a bit of googling, it seems EICAR-AV-Test is a file to test antivirus

https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/

I obviously did not find it amusing.

I had my young son with me at the time so I didn't investigate it further. What would have I seen if I clicked the More > button in the Start Menu - would there have been more leakage? Have I logged into my work account on my personal PC at some point? Why did it only show the OneNote file but not any others? What happened if I actually clicked it and tried to open it? Did I simply make a mistake when using multiple accounts in one OS?

There are numerous questions I am asking myself that I don't have an answer for yet.

As far as I can see, I have removed all traces of my personal account off my work laptop now but I am hoping (not sure this is the correct wording in this context) that I can see still the file in my Recommended Section when I get home.

I really would like to know exactly how it can happen.

I do not mind logging into a Microsoft account however the most bizarre situation happened to me very recently.

I will occasionally log into my personal Microsoft account when accessing a Microsoft website when I am on Lunch to work on some personal projects.

At work last week, I was upgraded to Office 365 and as a result I started downloading the latest versions and trying it out in various ways. One of these was upgrading my old OneNote into the latest version (2013 -> 365)

Saturday morning, I booted up my own different PC at home and notice in the "Recommended" section on the Windows 11 start menu "Work 365". This is the name of the OneNote I created at work when I upgraded the document. I do not even have Office on my own PC. Hovering over it would show that it was located in my Works One Drive folder.

I must have been logged into my personal account on OneNote and it somehow meta-data? links it between the work and personal accounts.

I am now in process of removing all traces of my personal account from Windows on my work laptop as the very last thing I want to happen is to see personal files appearing in the Recommended section of my works laptop!

Wish I was smart enough to do this

Frustrating for the tech user. Very frustrating for the none tech user.

Probably intentional, as when someone does not understand something, there is a good chance it will be ignored.

I'm all for having the ability to make fine-tuned changes to settings, but these need to be under some kind of advanced dialog in my opinion.

This UI change shows no indication (for example) what a .svg file is, or what a .shtml file is. How on earth can a none tech user know what these mean when by default file extensions are hidden on Windows.

I work with many people who simply do not know what file extensions are.

"This photo is made up of 62 individual images which were stitched together once they were sent back to Earth."

I do not know how the operations work at NASA but I would like to think that some lucky individual stitched these together manually using whatever software they use at NASA.

Naive question. How does one know this is malicious before installing it?

I think this would fool me if it wasn't for this thread. The only thing that seems off to me is the lack of information, and hovering over the contact developer shows a gmail address.

I wouldn't have looked at the comments in the reviews as I know what the Microsoft Authenticator does, as I use it constantly on my mobile device. So in this instance, I could have seen myself finding this link, clicking Add to Chrome without much thought.

I can surely see how an average user would fall for this and it's frightening.

Is there anywhere that I can read up to understand the graphs?

From someone who does full understand BGP, I have a question

Somewhere, a BGP route was misconfigured to send data somewhere else. What would happen if a BGP route was terminating at China, and the bad actor who made it happen, decided that they are not going to fix it and just leave it.

How would the rest of the BGP network deal with it?

Choice of name seems a bit unfortunate.

My immediate thought when looking at title was something to do with the Android Twitter client Plume.

I am a bit on the fence with Bitcoin.

A few years ago I brought a little bit of altcoin and 'believed' in it. I only put a small amount but I still was nervous spending money on some 'pretend' digital asset. Within a few days it was worth half what I started with. Thinking I was in a low point of the chart, I invested a little bit more.

It then dropped again, so much I lost around 80% of the value within a week.

I then declared the money lost and saved my private keys.

Fast forward to the beginning of this year, I randomly picked up my private key from a backup drive that I was going to wipe and decided to check it's value.. around £15

As it was such a little amount I decided just to cash it out, buy a pizza and continue with my life. However, as it wasn't so straight forward to just 'cash out' I left it.

A few months later I hear the news that bitcoin is rising so checked on my altcoin (because the altcoin charts followed closely to the bitcoin charts), and there you go, I tripled my initial investment. I still declared the coins 'dead' so wasn't worried about losing it, but converted them into bitcoin as that felt most secure to me. The conversion lost me some percent but I stuck it out and have had 0.1BTC in my wallet since.

It's nice watching my little amount go up. It's not a deal breaker if I lost it, but it's now more 'alive' than 'dead' to a point I have started thinking about converting it into fiat and enjoy a good Christmas. But there is that little bit inside me now, that refuses to listen to my 'the coins are dead, and I wouldn't really lose anything' mentality which is unfortunate because I feel as the price goes up that feeling will cement harder to a point I would never cash it out.