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Writing a "Cyber Security" book for my local seniors community and I am documenting Facebook privacy settings.
Can I just say how much I really, really, dislike Facebook?
It's just designed to screw the user.
PS -- if you want to share the free online draft (I think it's already useful) goto
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Writing a "Cyber Security" book for my local seniors community and I am documenting Facebook privacy settings.
Can I just say how much I really, really, dislike Facebook?
It's just designed to screw the user.
PS -- if you want to share the free online draft (I think it's already useful) goto
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Writing a "Cyber Security" book for my local seniors community and I am documenting Facebook privacy settings.
Can I just say how much I really, really, dislike Facebook?
It's just designed to screw the user.
PS -- if you want to share the free online draft (I think it's already useful) goto
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Writing a "Cyber Security" book for my local seniors community and I am documenting Facebook privacy settings.
Can I just say how much I really, really, dislike Facebook?
It's just designed to screw the user.
PS -- if you want to share the free online draft (I think it's already useful) goto
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Writing a "Cyber Security" book for my local seniors community and I am documenting Facebook privacy settings.
Can I just say how much I really, really, dislike Facebook?
It's just designed to screw the user.
PS -- if you want to share the free online draft (I think it's already useful) goto
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CW: Discussion of tech writing tools
A little something for the #Documentarians and #TechnicalWriters
How to add the #Vale text linter to your project, a quick start.
https://alecthegeek.gitlab.io/blog/2024/04/add-vale-to-your-project/
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if anyone has been to my various Docs As Code talks, I've moved the repo to https://gitlab.com/alecthegeek/docs-as-code (because I changed employer).
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G'Day from Sunny Australia,
I'm in the process of writing some simple articles on Internet Security for a local community newsletter.
They don't publish online, so I am also pushing the CC-licensed content to my blog in case other people want to use it.
1st post is below, with more to follow over the next few weeks
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Replaced my macBook with a #Linux laptop (Windows never got a chance to boot). Using #Kubuntu & I like #KDE (probably 10y since my last try).
I'm happy, but it's not seamless. Not sure how civilians are expected to manage the Linux corner cases.
E.g: my inbuilt webcam and fingerprint sensor do not work. WPA are good, but still not as good as native apps. KDE did some funky shit that needed an obscure web search and config file change to fix,... -- too hard?
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"What a difference a '-j' makes" is the song I am singing this morning
Just remembered my laptop has lots of cores and if I pass `-j` to `make` then everything runs faster :-).
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"What a difference a '-j' makes" is the song I am singing this morning
Just remembered my laptop has lots of cores and if I pass `-j` to `make` then everything runs faster :-).
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"What a difference a '-j' makes" is the song I am singing this morning
Just remembered my laptop has lots of cores and if I pass `-j` to `make` then everything runs faster :-).
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"What a difference a '-j' makes" is the song I am singing this morning
Just remembered my laptop has lots of cores and if I pass `-j` to `make` then everything runs faster :-).
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"What a difference a '-j' makes" is the song I am singing this morning
Just remembered my laptop has lots of cores and if I pass `-j` to `make` then everything runs faster :-).
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Looking forward to hearing @KathyReid talk about Common Voice API at the VIC State Library in 10m. #DigitalInclusion
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Just come across this nice vid that introduces the Diátaxis approach to #TechDocs. I'd always thought it looked cool was but unsure what it meant.
#TechnicalWriting #Docum
entationhttps://youtu.be/t4vKPhjcMZg?si=qKVVM2zluXQyOYS5
See also https://diataxis.fr/
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Just had to complete my 1st age verification test under the new AU laws. Biometric based.
Now let's wait for even more of my PII to leak.
Not happy. I would have preferred to use myGov app and Trust Exchange (except it's not working yet) instead of handing more PII to another foreign commercial org.
(Yes, I know I can't trust Gov either, but lesser of two evils?)
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Writing a book using #asciidoctor ?
This is how you switch off running headers on chapter title pages (only took me three weeks to work out!). NB Calling super 1st is important.
class PDFConverterCustomPartTitle < (Asciidoctor::Converter.for 'pdf')
register_for 'pdf'def start_new_chapter chapter
super
page.imported
end
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I am trying to close my #QantasAirways account after recent data breach. They don't make it easy.
Plus the account security is very poor.The use SMS 2FA in some places and Auth App TOTP in others (if you enable it).
I struggled to set a new 4 digit PIN as the UX is so piss poor
And I can only use 4 digit PIN. No facility for a secure password/passphrase or a passkey.
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Gone back to #BitWarden after using #GooglePasswordManager (GPW).
My family uses GPW. I'm over 60 and wanted them to have access to me accounts in the future.
But GPW is missing important features:
* Won't create my preferred 24 char character passwords
* Only supports passwords for website -- I store other types of secure data as well
* Can't add custom fields (not a huge problem, but it's handy)
Can't believe Google missed these.
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Pleased to say that I've had a tutorial proposal accepted on how to integrate the Vale Text Linter into your Docs-As-Code technical writing project.
"Upgrade your Docs-As-Code Foo with the Vale Text Linter"
Hope to see you in Adelaide in January for a beer or two... 🍺
https://2025.everythingopen.au/
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CW: Discussion of APIs and Odata
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Well this is disappointing.
“However, these successes have coincided with a general decline in computing and digital skills education at the secondary school level, particularly affecting girls, certain ethnic groups and students from underserved socioeconomic backgrounds,”
As a nerd I approve teaching "hard core" CS subjects.
But society *must* provide digital skills and knowledge for the *whole* population.
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Been fiddling around with the web interfaces to #ChatGP, #gemini etc al? Want to try something more "hardcore"?
This is nice intro to running a local LLM via Ollama
https://youtu.be/h_GTxRFYETY?si=OQ9tHwAlEsdp0Ypx
I've been using it via a local container to save installing the software. However it's so slow on my Macbook Air M1 as to be unusable.
It worked much better when I ran it on my Google Cloud Shell (which is free), again via Docker
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#WomenInComputing #ComputerHistory
Interesting thread (originally on X) about women inventing computer programming on ENIAC
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CW: Discussion of Open API Spec
Need to preview an Open API Spec file locally?
Try this script
https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3702706
N.B.: You do need a local container engine on your workstation.
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CW: Discussion of Open API Spec
Need to preview an Open API Spec file locally?
Try this script
https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3702706
N.B.: You do need a local container engine on your workstation.
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CW: Discussion of Open API Spec
Need to preview an Open API Spec file locally?
Try this script
https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3702706
N.B.: You do need a local container engine on your workstation.
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CW: Discussion of Open API Spec
Need to preview an Open API Spec file locally?
Try this script
https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3702706
N.B.: You do need a local container engine on your workstation.
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CW: Discussion of Open API Spec
Need to preview an Open API Spec file locally?
Try this script
https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3702706
N.B.: You do need a local container engine on your workstation.