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Re:Google Fi hack victim had Coinbase, 2FA app hijacked by hackers on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:02PM (#34621505)
I've been hoping (without good reason apparently) that Google Fi accounts would be harder to social engineer and SIM swap. Since we all know it's impossible to get a human at Google to talk to you, I figured an attacker would have to take over my Google account in order to compromise my phone number instead of the other way around.

Is there any info on how the attacker managed to do the SIM swap against the Google Fi victim?

Try Neeva. Similar idea of a subscription search engine but I find their results just as good as Google, esp for technical queries.
Re:Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:49PM (#33666743)
This. 100x this.

At my company I've been on a crusade to get meetings to start at :05 or :35. We already used Google's "speedy meetings" but that works by _ending_ meetings early. The problem is that never works. People aren't diligent enough to actually stop early. But no one will start a meeting before its scheduled time. And if people do join early, they can socialize and build social connections for a few minutes.

Having those extra 5 minutes between meetings is not only important mentally, but physically too! You can get water, stretch, hit the lou, or for those of us back in the office, walk between rooms.

The main downside is that it takes a few extra clicks whenever you create a meeting. But it's worth it.

The late start is slowly catching on. I recommend trying it!

I wish Google would fix their speedy meetings to support this: https://jedfonner.com/2022/10/18/better-speedy-meetings

Re:Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @08:59AM (#33546484)
I switched to Zoho when Gmail threatened to kill our legacy Gsuite account I was using for my family. So far I'm pretty happy although not everything is perfect.

I wrote up my experience here: https://jedfonner.com/2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho

TL;DR:

- pricing is pretty good. I use the Mail Lite plan for my kids which provided 5GB and upgraded myself to the 10GB plan, all for just a few bucks a month.

- importing mailboxes went very smoothly

- solid mobile and desktop apps, even for Linux (although it uses Electron which I know triggers some people)

- calendaring is frustrating but I don't think that's really Zoho's fault.

- a few small bugs but amazingly a human will reply to you if you file a bug report and eventually it will get fixed!

I feel better knowing that they pay attention to their customers. I'm happy to pay for good service.