cactusmatt

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Sophos has installed monitoring software on its customers' systems for years(heise.de)
7 points by cactusmatt 2y ago|0 comments
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by cactusmatt 4y ago
Not at all. Most sites support RSS. There are still people (myself included) that consume most of their web content via RSS.
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A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate(nytimes.com)
19 points by cactusmatt 4y ago|2 comments
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by cactusmatt 4y ago
I absolutely do this. The most interesting site I've pw reset and cancelled so far has been my name-sake's dating account on bigblackbeautifulsingles. He had quite a few matches.
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by cactusmatt 4y ago
On a similar note, I was also an early Cash App adopter and my username is my firstnamelastinitial (something like JohnS). Increasingly, over the last few years, I've been receiving unsolicited money, almost $800 to date. I used to rec
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by cactusmatt 4y ago
I also use my catch all to create unique "business" email addresses. The best encounter I had was giving my email address to retail person at a store and having them mistake me for an employee and give me the corporate discount. T
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by cactusmatt 4y ago
I've been using a catch-all domain with unique addresses (example: ycombinator@mydomain) for every service/site/etc. for more than 10 years. Surprisingly, none of these email addresses have gotten spam, outside of what the or
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by cactusmatt 4y ago
This is an interesting article. I'm going to ask my doctor about it. I had Covid in early November, 2021, and still experience some of the symptoms others have mentioned in this thread (80 percent smell back, some foods taste different
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Microsoft Disrupting Russian Cyberattacks(blogs.microsoft.com)
8 points by cactusmatt 4y ago|0 comments
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by cactusmatt 5y ago
Great tip! I just added them to my RSS reader. Long live RSS!
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by cactusmatt 5y ago
That's interesting. In my state in the US, government took an opposite approach due to the pandemic to where now cocktails can be ordered "to-go" and curbside. It started as an emergency order and was recently passed as law.
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by cactusmatt 5y ago
With 1Password 8, they shared news that they were moving from native (mac) apps to an Electron UI/frontend with a Rust backend. They did an AMA on Reddit, but didn't show up for a while and got hammered by their users. Their refra
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by cactusmatt 5y ago
I don't know. Greed? I've been following the 1Password Saga for a while (long time user), and how they responded to the electron pushback seemed like they lost their initial vision and what made them "in touch" with thei