Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 More consequences for past misdeeds: T-Mobile pays $31.5 million FCC settlement over 4 data breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Marriott settles with FTC, to pay $52 million over data breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Two notable developments […]
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CES 2024: YubiKey Online Hardware Security Keys
Allison interviews Karin Muskopf from YubiCo about their range of hardware authentication solutions for online security. Yubico offers many secure key formats more secure than SMS messaging or an authenticator app for second or multi-factor authentication. YubiKeys provide strong authentication with support for multiple protocols, including existing Smart Card/PIV, and FIDO2/WebAuthn, the new standard that […]
Continue readingNC #968 OCR PDFs with Linux, Smart String Lights from Hue and Twinkly, De-Teching with Tom, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, November 26, 2023, and this is show number 968. mp3 download Checklist 353 – A Letter on Passkeys from Allison Sheridan This week I got to be a […]
Continue readingPrivate, Secure, and Free Dropbox-like Experience with Syncthing by Bill Reveal
Greetings Allison, Steve, and my fellow Nosillacastaways. Bill here with too many problems to solve but for one; I am a grouchy obstinate old geek that is headstrong when it comes to computers. As the old saying goes, I hate all computers, I just hate my Macintosh the least. Despite being a long-time user of […]
Continue readingPodfeet is Wicked Fast Now!
New vs Old Web Server CPU Load I have something VERY exciting to tell you about, and instead of telling a 2500-word story first and saving the punch line, I’m going to tell you the news first. I’m still going to tell the 2000-word story but you just won’t have to wait for the dramatic […]
Continue reading(Trying to) Run Windows 10 on M1 Mac with a UTM Virtual Machine
I talked on the show a while back about how the one downside to an M1 Mac is that you can’t run Windows, or at least not without a lot of faffing about. I was actually surprised that in Knightwise’s recording about how much value he’s getting from his M1 MacBook Air, he never mentioned […]
Continue readingNC #731 – Happy 14 Years, MacVoices Road to Macstock, TextExpander Tutorial, Linux on Windows, Wyze Sense, Tesla Model 3
We celebrate you, the community of NosillaCastaways on this 14-year anniversary show. I’ll tell you how I approached the task of teaching TextExpander to an audience from new folks to the most experienced for my tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline. Bart comes on for a quick discussion of why it’s so cool that Microsoft announced they’re putting […]
Continue readingMaybe an Inexpensive NUC is All the Computer You Need – by George from Tulsa
Hi, this is George from Tulsa here to ask how much computer do you need? Or, phrased differently, how much will the computer you need cost? In terms of cost, it can be surprisingly little. All my work and personal computing needs are within the capabilities of my seriously obsolete 2007 MacBook Pro. Then, I […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – Password Trackers, IOHIDeous, Meltdown & Spectre
Security Bits – 5 Jan 2018 Security Medium 1 — Password Managers as Trackers Security researchers have found that less-reputable tracking firms have deployed JavaScript which uses invisible forms to trick password managers into entering information which can then be used as a kind of super-cookie that users cannot delete, and hence, track them around […]
Continue readingTiny Tip – Vimmy & Oh Sh-t Git! By Caleb Fong
The review below is from Caleb Fong, aka @GeekoSupremo on Twitter. Caleb is a long time NosillaCastaway who is also following along with Programming By Stealth. His review is pretty geeky (goes well with his Twitter handle) so I thought it might help to explain a couple of terms he uses. He’ll use the term […]
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