NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules: The US National Institute of Standards and Technology advises that it’s counterproductive to make users set passwords with specific composition rules or change them regularly.
Computing
2024-09-28: Honestly it’s probably a losing battle, but if you want to try then organisations like CNN and …
2024-09-27
2024-09-24: Somewhat bewildered at what’s going on between the ultra famous web content management system …
2024-09-18: 10015 is a useful website containing a ton of quick little web tools that handle a set of fairly …
2024-09-18
Using LLMs to Simplify your Writing: Using LLMs as a personal writing editor seems like one of their more benign uses if you’re happy to fact-check the results - and this idea is one my colleagues probably wish I’d take up.
2024-09-16
Analytics for the personal web: What would the ideal web analytics system for a personal website look like?
2024-09-11: Save videos, photos and audio from your favourite sites with Cobalt
2024-09-08: UniGetUI is a handy GUI for Winget and other Windows package managers
2024-09-06: A friend gets in touch to let me know that it’s not necessarily scary AI cyber-brains that are …
2024-09-03: More events in what is starting to feel something like a global backlash against some of the big …
2024-09-01: Telegram is only end-to-end encrypted if you solely use 'secret chats'
2024-08-27: Windows has a keyboard shortcut for opening LinkedIn for some reason
2024-08-15: Disabling my webcam from being a 'sound, video and game controller' fixed my Windows 11 laptop having no sound
2024-08-06: In news that chills me to the core, Hazel, a software engineer, has been keeping around 7,500 tabs …
2024-08-03: TIL: The US' current cybersecurity legislation, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, is an evolution of …
2024-07-25: Rainbow CSV is an extension for VSCode that makes working with CSV fields in that editor a lot more …
2024-07-23: JAM Software’s TreeSize app is a handy Windows utility to quickly visualise which of your …
2024-07-20: A Microsoft Powershell command for the brave / foolish-of-heart! This - I hope: looks through all …
2024-07-19: If you ever have a desire to edit MP3 tags without putting your phone down, then Evertag seems worth …
2024-07-19: The compareDF R package seems to be a super convenient way to quickly compare two dataframes to see …
2024-07-19: No-one seems to sell cheap Linux laptops
2024-07-02: Last month Ticketmaster got hacked by a group known as ShinyHunters, the same group that previously …
2024-06-30: Microsoft accidentally leaks some of the source code behind their PlayReady DRM software. The …
2024-06-26: free-for.dev is a great list of free-tier cloud service tools for developers
2024-05-31: I just learned that Microsoft released some older versions of MS-DOS as open source. Whilst it shows …