Posts by Alpine Hermit

Quality control, Soviet style: Here's another fine message you've gotten me into

Re: Russians, alcohol, making toasts

"the good Russian Cognac"

There's no such drink. It used to be Soviet Cognac, but it actually comes mostly from Georgia and some from Ukraine. These countries also have their own versions of "champagne".

Average convicted British computer criminal is young, male, not highly skilled, researcher finds

Equal Opportunities?

No, I'm much more concerned about the lack of equal opportunities available in the hacking industry:

"Males made up a whopping 97 per cent of perps"

It's about time that schools opened up these career opportunities to female and trans hackers.

China added 300 million 5G subscribers and a million 5G base stations in 2020

Conspiracy

No wonder they got COVID so badly!

The silicon supply chain crunch is worrying. Now comes a critical concern: A coffee shortage

REM

“It’s the end of the world as we know it...”

Chairman, CEO of Nominet ousted as member rebellion drives .uk registry back to non-commercial roots

Excellent news!

What goes around finally comes around.

1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app?

Re: "Only problem was keeping all my devices in synch"

Sticky Password gives a choice of syncing via the cloud or just over a local network. When I used it, the local sync didn't work sometimes, but networking is something that has always defeated my brain and I'm sure that proper techies wouldn't be as easily defeated as I was.

I also went bak to Last Pass. Various password managers I've used over the years struggled with autofill or even recognising the password fields, and especially on sub-domains vs domains, but LP has been by far the best at this in my experience although it's not 100%. I shudder at the cost of LP, although it's paid by my business. Think I'll give Bitwarden a look before my renewal is up.