Does anyone know what happened with the bridge between Eläintarhanlahti(?) and Töölönlahti?
Slight moment of panic when I noticed my main banking apps don’t work with the iOS 7 beta. One of them claims it fails to validate the authenticity of the device, the other just said my PIN is wrong. Luckily my banks still support old-style paper-based OTP login so I can still pay my bills.
Woah I just mixed up the /dev path of my SD card and my Time Machine backup drive when dd’ing a Raspberry Pi OS image. Luckily macOS would let me write to a raw /dev/diskN device, probably because it had filesystems mounted.
Me: I better take at least a 128 GB memory card to the new Raspberry Pi, so that I don’t run out of space
Actual usage of my current Raspberry Pi:
Ordered some groceries by robot delivery and now the whole family is anxiously watching it take a very slow and complicated route to our home, probably to avoid intersections and other difficulties.
I was going to go for a long walk and listen to some long-neglected podcasts but my AirPods said nope
This is the single biggest (small) thing I miss from having a Touch Bar. I still instinctively reach for the Touch Bar “man” button on my laptop when I want to open a man page, even when I’m using an external keyboard.
Does anyone know how to modify the man paths so that Terminal recognises it (ie it works when you right-click on a word an select “open man page”)? Someone asked this on Ask Different back in 2019 but there was no response. Editing /etc/manpaths wasn’t enough, obviously.
My Backblaze backup has entered some kind of “safety freeze”. Apparently, if you use their client-side encryption, this is an unrecoverable state where they ask that you manually (using their web-based file browsing UI) check the difference between the Backblaze backup and your local system. I have 3 million files and 3 TB of data backed up. That would be … interesting.
After that I’m supposed to manually uninstall, reinstall, and transfer the backup state. There is no explanation for what caused the freeze except a “major inconsistency between the backup records on your computer and the records on the servers”. I haven’t done any OS reinstall, restore from backup or anything really - this came out of the blue.
I’ve used Backblaze for 10+ years with no major issue, so this one snag in a decade of use I can maybe forgive.
I unironically love it when you open a man page and it just straight up assumes you don’t know what a file system is.
När man är utvilad nog att vara vaken och man stiger upp
Vrider upp musiken av bara farten
Förvånad sträcker man på sig och beter sig
Som om man aldrig sett solen förut när man ser sig om
Efter ett gyllene tecken av säkraste sort
Folk som fånler som om kyla räknades bort
Kort sagt spenderar man vintern inklämd mellan tätade skott
Så kommer man ut sen och ler som om man flätats för hårt
Here’s a rare plug for my work: try the (free) F-Secure beta, called FS Protection! It includes anti-malware, a simple cross-platform syncing password manager (native UI on macOS, iOS, Android and Windows!), identity protection and parental controls. Sign up here: beta.f-secure.com
Turns out I had been triggering various security monitoring alerts, which in hindsight is quite understandable as I did some 144 (or if it was 288) logins per day to check my account balance.
About 20(!) years ago, my bank had a simple password login option with read-only access e.g. account balance. I wrote a script which polled every 5 or 10 minutes and sent an SMS whenever balance changed. After a few weeks they called and told me quite firmly to stop if I wanted to keep my accounts.