Posts by Dave 27

Think I'm on my own here by the looks of things, but I like my Alexa devices. Mainly playing a BBC radio station, or asking to play a recent BBC radio program by voice. We listen to far more music and watch much less TV since we had Alexa devices.

I don't do much home automation, but the smart plugs are good for turning on Xmas lights either automatically on a routine or by voice.

I'll miss it if it goes the way of Google Wave.

A 4 day week at scale, it will be great at first. But humans being humans will figure out how to be slack at times, people aren't robots. Eventually you will have a workforce working 80% of the usual time who have worked out how to slacken off a bit on the days they do work. So then it becomes a management problem to incentivise etc. Just like it should already be.

I still believe the future is WFH. This shuffling to and from an office to operate the same computer you use at home is laughable.

Religious exception

People should be free to have their own religious beliefs, that's not in doubt. Believe away. Celebrate it.

But when those beliefs make you a liability in the community or workplace?

Not so much.

To top it all, the process they describe to do password resets involves them sending you a new password in clear text email.

"1. Close your existing app session

2. Reopen the app and click 'forgotten password' to reset it

3. Use the new password that is emailed to you to log back into the app

"

Lastpass can work in offline mode, I guess this is why I hadn't noticed there was a problem until I saw this article.

Spotify?

What about all the accounts that have been created purely to get to Spotify?

Don't forget 44cafe and dc4420 that also held free talks in nearby Troubador. The Vendor presentations at Infosec can all be comprehensively covered online by going to the Vendor websites. I see Infosec's main use in attracting lots of people to a central place, these people can then visit the much more valuable 'cons' taking place nearby.

Amount of sympathy felt for "Raj from Vancouver" = 0