Although I live in the UK, I often get questions about what is different about Christmas the Danish way.
Well - that deserved a blog post.
First of all, Christmas in Danish is Jul - cognate to the old English word Yule - they're pronounced almost the same way.
Keeping the pre-christian name …
As you may have noticed, we appear to have a lorry driver shortage in the UK. This is causing lack of petrol deliveries to various petrol stations - a number of stations had to close as they ran out of fuel.
In a sane world, this would normally be a temporary …
Password are awful.
Unfortunately, it is the "least worst" solution to the problem of authentication in most cases.
Sure, there are lots of other authentication methods out there, each with their own problems which (on balance) usually ends up being worse:
If you follow the good advice of not re-using passwords you end up with a lot of passwords.
If you make them reasonably secure by making them longer then you still have a lot of passwords. But they are much more difficult to guess. (which is really the point of …
Every site (or every account) you use should have a different, distinct password. Every single one. Never re-use passwords.
That way: if one site gets hacked (and your password leaked on the darker parts of the web), only that account is leaked. The potential damage is reduced. The bad guys …
Many places have password policies. And they often prescribe that your password MUST include things like:
The problem is: That advice is wrong.
Or at least: the advice guides people towards difficult-to-remember passwords and it does not increase security.
The single …
A post about some maths homework caused some consternation and confusion on one of my local facebook groups:
Lots of people seemed to think this was far too advanced for a 9-year-old, or that solving such puzzles would have no applications in real life.
I beg to disagree.
Yes, I …
The spammers who try to flood my inbox must be getting desperate - they're offering to stop if I pay them!
From: "Admin" <admin@secureserver.eu>
Subject: I will stop spaming you
I'm sick of sending spam...
If you send me $10 USD worth of XMR / Monero I will remove …The other day I came across a new English word. This is not a new thing for me - it happens on a annoyingly regular basis. But it made me stop and take notice: BLURPLE !?? Why hadn't i ever heard that before?
OK - so it sounds some combination between blue and …
A Californian woman is allegedly suing her own parents because she is ugly!
At least that is what the article claims... It is hilarious and plays into our biases about people from the USA to be litigious and generally a bit weird.
Alas, it is fake news. Or to be …
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