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Yes! I want this for MainStage -- this would allow me to automate my weekly template setup for playing at my church. Each week before practicing I look up the songs in Planning Center and create a new MainStage concert file with one patch per song, and add notes to each patch screen with the song's key, etc. Automating this would save me the time of doing the busy work and get right to practicing.

Reap what you sow

i love ublock origin and have used it for years. i recently migrated to macos and was disappointed to find that ublock origin doesn’t work with safari.

what’s the best ad-blocking option for safari on macos?

comparing to self hosted pi-hole, this would allow you to take advantage of ad and other content blocking outside of your home wifi.

I saw that post too and immediately ordered the iFlash Solo adapter. Coincidentally I had just run across an iPod video in a drawer that wouldn't boot up... it was about a 20 minute project to replace the hard disk with the adapter and a big SD card, and the iPod is working great now!

May I also recommend this excellent video[1] from Hamilton made in 1949 that thoroughly explains how mechanical watches work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0_vOw6eCc

Roundcube has come a long way, and they just released a huge update with a responsive design that works great on desktop and mobile!

Should you host your own email server? Yes! It’s a really fun learning project. There are tons of resources out there to make it do-able, so go for it!

Patreon sends a 1099-K if you get more than $20K in a year.

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/207099566-Will...

Spam detection on my personal email server took a huge leap forward when I got Spamassassin correctly configured to use the DNS blocklists (URIBL, etc.). I had to set up a local DNS server because the blocklists weren't responding to requests coming via my hosting provider's DNS, and the scores had to be tweaked over a few weeks, but now it's working great. The content rules like "hi my dear", "request for money", and "all caps" are still in there, but the blocklists do the heavy lifting.

Personally I have to be careful of this....it’s easy for me to focus so much on the solution that the problem is never even clearly articulated to the developers (who may have a better solution that I came up with once they grasp the problem).

I ran across an interesting essay on Medium recently on this topic, advocating a new approach to roadmaps focused on the problems: the problem roadmap. Instead of saying what new features the team will be working on in the future, map out what problems they’ll be working on.

This reminds me of the hours I spend poring over the Allmusic Guide to Rock I had borrowed from the local library, tracing backwards from Van Halen, Nirvana, and Beastie Boys to discover their influences. I had taken piano lessons for several years and had learned Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Debussy — sometimes tracing back led me to what I had learned on piano.

I agree that working backwards can lead to wonderful discoveries. What can be difficult to grasp as you go back is what the music sounded like at the time—how an album sounded because it was the first time musicians had made that sound.

This is the OneNote screen clipping tool. If you don't have Office, Win+Shift+S doesn't do anything.

This is a super useful tool, but most often I paste into mspaint and mark up from there.

Not sure I can advise on the best practice, but I know how NOT to do it: my buddy just told me that a family member spent untold hours digitizing decades of family photos and documents... all at a resolution of 1024x768. headdesk

Isn't their a fair distinction between an undocumented weakness ("back door") to which LEOs have access, and a provider providing a key ("front door") upon a lawful order, maintaining the strength of the encryption scheme?

It seems some believe that Comey is playing with semantics in order to obfuscate, or doesn't understand the argument he's making -- I don't.

Nothing about these terms is "accurate". By that definition, Facebook is in the deep web.

...And in the dark web -- they now have a Tor-friendly Onion address!

MobaXterm is also a nice product: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

Run your own for a few bucks a month! Here's a guide to setting OpenVPN up on an Ubuntu machine:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

This helps when your password is lost along with thousands / millions of other passwords in a breach -- attackers would be trying to re-use passwords programmatically in bulk and wouldn't detect your algorithm.

But if you were individually targeted i.e. a human attacker is looking at your password, your algorithm would provide access to many of your accounts with little effort.

I used to use this solution, btw, but have now gone to a unique, complex password per site with a password manager.

I have this exact problem: a couple dozen 2.4 Ghz APs are visible to me. Actual throughput at a distance of 6 feet from a 2.4 Ghz router is 1 Mbps (tested with multiple APs). I switched to 5 Ghz and luckily no one else has! Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem for all devices -- for example, the Chromecast is 2.4 Ghz only. With the chromecast, I practically can't use the chromecast in a room other than the one that the AP is in. I was thrilled when the Amazon Fire TV Stick came out with 5 Ghz capability. This made it possible for me to stream Netflix, etc. to the tv in the other room.

Digital Ocean has a great tutorial on setting up OpenVPN [1]. I've used this and gotten decent latency and good throughput over both broadband and LTE service using a small ($5/month) VPS.

1. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...

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Due to the extremely narrow circumstances [1] under which the MAC address randomization is actually used, the feature may as well not exist.

[1] http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomgate/

My understanding is that any info retained by Home Depot or another retailer after you use Apple Pay could not be re-used elsewhere.

As someone who has to cancel his cards once or twice a year due to unauthorized purchases, this sounds great! (I could go back to cash, hmmm......)

Thanks for sharing your story. You might have guessed -- your local librarian was not unique in her feelings about privacy. I worked for my county library all through high school and college. When I started they had an ancient mainframe circulation system, and was there when they migrated to a newer java based system. With both systems, it was a paramount requirement that records of a patron (library term for customer) checking out a book be destroyed irretrievably after the book was returned. Even in the case of overdue item resulting in a fine, after the fine was paid, no record of the circulation or even what the fine was paid for was kept. Slips of paper printed with patrons' names and phone numbers when they put items on hold were dutifully shredded every day. At one point during school, I considered the library as a profession, and as part of my research I subscribed to a "technology in libraries" listserv, and followed it for about a year. This was soon after 9/11 and the advent of the Patriot Act, when the most pernicious implications were that the feds could look at library circulation records. (Little did we know!) Many libraries were proud that their technology specifically prevented this. There was also a constant and ongoing philosophical conversation about how to make more information freely available, and make access to it (including Internet access) anonymous, and further to resist efforts by law enforcement to use libraries to gather information on their patrons or regulate access. I cannot think of an institution that defends the freedoms of thought and expression more passionately than the public library.

Can you elaborate on how their attitude is different?

The Grugq wrote a post [1] discussing TrueCrypt alternatives back in October of last year. It also mentions tc-play and cryptsetup, but additionally mentions tomb [2], which looks very interesting to me.

But while I once wrote for my mom a document with step-by-step instructions on how to create and use a TrueCrypt volume to keep some work documents secured, I don't see any alternative in either post that is going to be as accessible to normal folks (like her) as TrueCrypt.

[1] http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/60464139008/alternative-truecry... [2] http://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/

For those having certificate issues, text of the letter is here: http://pastebin.com/hajkxLQs

I get this when I open that link in Firefox 29.0.1:

  Secure Connection Failed

  An error occurred during a connection to lavabit.com. 
  Peer's Certificate has been revoked. 
  (Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate)

And there is no way to override it or make an exception.

Cheers for the link! (But that is Diamond Dave telling the story!)

Using an SMTP relay sounds like a great idea as it would cut down on the number of moving pieces the home sysadmin needs to worry about when running a mail server.

Does Mailgun support TLS between my outbound SMTP and the Mailgun relay? And beyond?