Random Technical Talk
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It decided for you, based on what it thinks you'll find most interesting at the time. It will switch back to weather especially if it's raining.
While writing this post, mine has rotated between the weather, stocks, and a Rip current warning
While writing this post, mine has rotated between the weather, stocks, and a Rip current warning
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You can manage your interests by clicking on it, going to the gear in the upper right, and choosing manage interests. But I think that's more about what news articles you see when you expand it. IDK if you can customize what appears on the taskbar. It mostly seems to be stocks, weather, and sports, but it switches between stock and weather mostly
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The Commodore C64 turns 40 today.
https://hackaday.com/2022/04/20/comm...ever-turns-40/
BTW the page was created by Bil Herd. He brought us the C128.
https://hackaday.com/2022/04/20/comm...ever-turns-40/
BTW the page was created by Bil Herd. He brought us the C128.
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Intel Optane.
what does that have to do with technical talk?
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Is there a way to get a mac to turn off bluetooth and usb ports when in sleep mode? I can disable bluetooth manually but would like to skip that step.
My mac randomly does something on its usb ports when in sleep mode. I know this because my backlit keyboard will randomly turn on/off in the middle of the night. it's really annoying.
My mac randomly does something on its usb ports when in sleep mode. I know this because my backlit keyboard will randomly turn on/off in the middle of the night. it's really annoying.
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To be more specific, I have a monitor connected to the MBP via USB-C. The monitor gets video this way. The monitor has a built in USB hub. The mouse and keyboard are connected to the monitor and it can pass the keyboard/mouse to the MBP via the USB-C cable.
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what keyboard is it? Mine wakes up in the middle of the night because it's proximity sensor is constantly detecting false positives. I've started turning it off at night. Other than that Power Nap would be the first thing I'd check. It could be something with your monitor
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So..... getting back in to windows after 7 years on MacOS. Still keeping my Mac (walled garden)
what essential software is needed nowadays?
I used to have malware bytes and cccleaner. Are those still relevant? What else?
don’t remember what anti virus software I had.
mostly going to be using my build for gaming. Maybe video editing with Davinci Resolve since I’ll actually have a discrete GPU to use.
what essential software is needed nowadays?
I used to have malware bytes and cccleaner. Are those still relevant? What else?
don’t remember what anti virus software I had.
mostly going to be using my build for gaming. Maybe video editing with Davinci Resolve since I’ll actually have a discrete GPU to use.
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I still use a portable version of CCleaner that has all my predefined settings enabled. I just copy the CCleaner folder to the remote PC I'm working on and run it. I don't install it and use it for regular maintenance on a PC.
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What's the best way to backup a Windows PC today? I'm thinking about using something like R-Drive to make images to an external hard drive. I was going to use Acronis but I see they switched to a yearly subscription. 
Are HDD the best way to go for this or are SSD now preferred? I have a 2TB SSD in my PC so I'm thinking I need a 4TB external drive.
I would perform occasional manual backups, I don't intend to leave the external drive connected all the time.
Main intention of the backups would be for disaster recovery. I store my data on OneDrive.
Are HDD the best way to go for this or are SSD now preferred? I have a 2TB SSD in my PC so I'm thinking I need a 4TB external drive.
I would perform occasional manual backups, I don't intend to leave the external drive connected all the time.
Main intention of the backups would be for disaster recovery. I store my data on OneDrive.
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Microsoft's concept of Windows backup has changed. Image-based backups aren't as necessary in a world where everyone uses Windows with a Microsoft account and Onedrive stores all your documents, and Windows Update installs most drivers automatically. If something goes wrong then you format and reinstall, sign back into your MS account and Windows Update handles the rest, all other files outside of Onedrive can be backed up with File History. Image-based backup still exists in the Control Panel (which isn't going away) so I'd just use that if you want to make an image.
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I used to read Anandtech all the time 20 years ago, them and Tom's Hardware was where I learned a lot about computers. Anand left a long time ago, after the first 10 years I think, I think he's working at Apple now, and he's younger than me.
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Pro-tip: DO NOT USE A SEARCH ENGINE TO FIND THE LOGIN PAGE FOR YOUR BANK!
Search Engine poisoning is real. Just had a client almost/possibly lose 1.3 million dollars because an employee did a search for the bank login page click the first result it was a fake website designed to look real, typed in all her login info and the 2FA code into the fake website. Then the fake website displayed some kind of countdown screen where they said they were doing some security check and for the employee to wait until it's finished. That's not what normally happens. While that's happening the hackers quickly login to the real bank website while the 2fa code is still valid then tried to wire out about $430k. It got stopped because of security checks requiring 2 people to approve the wire before it goes out, but the hackers saw that there was $4m in the account so they weren't giving up that easy.
two days later (today) this client receives a targeted email bomb where they started receiving thousands of random junk emails from all over the internet in many different languages overwhelming them and goes on for hours. About an hour after the email bomb starts the hackers somehow log back in to the bank (not sure exactly how they did it yet) using the same account that we thought had been deactivated, then they start disabling the logins of other employees, resetting their passwords, register a new 2FA device and wiring out money up to $1.3m. Luckily this client expects emails from the bank at 9am everyday and if they don't get it they hitting me up within an hour, so while checking to make sure those important emails had been delivered in the midst of the email bomb I found all the legit automated emails about password reset, account deactivation, and new 2FA device sent from the bank. So they called the bank and tried to stop everything, now everyone is locked out of the account. The email bomb has mostly subsided after about 4 hours but they got about sent almost 17000 emails within the last 4 hours, mostly just to a few accounts. Wild morning.
Search Engine poisoning is real. Just had a client almost/possibly lose 1.3 million dollars because an employee did a search for the bank login page click the first result it was a fake website designed to look real, typed in all her login info and the 2FA code into the fake website. Then the fake website displayed some kind of countdown screen where they said they were doing some security check and for the employee to wait until it's finished. That's not what normally happens. While that's happening the hackers quickly login to the real bank website while the 2fa code is still valid then tried to wire out about $430k. It got stopped because of security checks requiring 2 people to approve the wire before it goes out, but the hackers saw that there was $4m in the account so they weren't giving up that easy.
two days later (today) this client receives a targeted email bomb where they started receiving thousands of random junk emails from all over the internet in many different languages overwhelming them and goes on for hours. About an hour after the email bomb starts the hackers somehow log back in to the bank (not sure exactly how they did it yet) using the same account that we thought had been deactivated, then they start disabling the logins of other employees, resetting their passwords, register a new 2FA device and wiring out money up to $1.3m. Luckily this client expects emails from the bank at 9am everyday and if they don't get it they hitting me up within an hour, so while checking to make sure those important emails had been delivered in the midst of the email bomb I found all the legit automated emails about password reset, account deactivation, and new 2FA device sent from the bank. So they called the bank and tried to stop everything, now everyone is locked out of the account. The email bomb has mostly subsided after about 4 hours but they got about sent almost 17000 emails within the last 4 hours, mostly just to a few accounts. Wild morning.
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I like that the financial institutions that I deal with are starting to push MFA to their mobile app. If I login through a browser I get a prompt from the mobile app asking if I'm trying to log in. Much better than asking for a code.