Google Updates Authenticator and loses all your data
22/10/21 23:03 Filed in: Systems Administation
Google Authenticator just updated on the Apple App Store today … and the update proceeded to loose all my stored authentication tokens.
There are many 'definitions' of what 2FA means
And the big irony. Google tells me its Cyber Sercurity month. No doubt this update is promoting better security.
If you are looking at destroying people's trust in 2FA, Google has just shown how to do it.
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There are many 'definitions' of what 2FA means
is one that springs to mind today.too expletive awful
And the big irony. Google tells me its Cyber Sercurity month. No doubt this update is promoting better security.
If you are looking at destroying people's trust in 2FA, Google has just shown how to do it.
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The Math of Pandemics is Hard
28/09/21 16:00 Filed in: Mathematics
All the arguments about the right thing to do in a pandemic made me take a step back and wonder why is this so hard for a community to agree on what is to be done. Intelligent people come to wildly different conclusions about the right thing to do. In many cases different sides of an argument cannot even agree on the facts they are arguing over.
This is not going to be an article on a moral philosophy and the ascendance of rights over responsibilities. Instead I ponder a more basic problem:
Perhaps this can explain some of the difficulties we have in seeing our way through as a community Read More...
This is not going to be an article on a moral philosophy and the ascendance of rights over responsibilities. Instead I ponder a more basic problem:
Is the maths of a pandemic just hard
The dominant mathematics of contagion is that of exponentials. While this is the mathematics that underlies much of finance and physics, it is not the mathematics of the every day.
Exponential processes are both:
- Poorly handled by our intuition
- Inherently difficult to calculate
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3018 Mill
23/09/21 15:03 Filed in: Milling
I recently purchased a 3018 Pro mill to learn a bit about CNC milling (ironically its my second mill, I have a tiny Roland mill that I was going to use for PCB milling but ended up having too many software issues with). The intention was to mill some trivial PCBs, a bit of signage and perhaps some laser engraving.
So I purchased a basic 3018 pro with a laser module.
Some key learnings emerged (spoiler alert there is still a long way to go) Read More...
So I purchased a basic 3018 pro with a laser module.
Some key learnings emerged (spoiler alert there is still a long way to go) Read More...
Adding an NFS datastore to VMWare ESXi
03/09/21 16:35 Filed in: vmware | Systems Administation
VMWare ESXi supports NFS storage. All the VMWare documents talk about managing it from vSphere. Which is a pity if you don't happen to be using vSphere. Fortunately adding your NFS datastore is relatively simple, apart from the lack of documentation. Read More...
Debugging Docker
13/08/21 08:14 Filed in: Systems Administation
Sometimes the easiest way to understand what is happening in Docker is just to have a container that runs Linux … a general Linux … Ubuntu will do nicely.
It is easy to steal an idea from the Kubernetes world (Debugging Kubernetes) and apply it to Docker and Portainer
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It is easy to steal an idea from the Kubernetes world (Debugging Kubernetes) and apply it to Docker and Portainer
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