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... And do what you can to ensure and confirm that the password manager's database file(s) can be backed up; or at least exported to some non-proprietary format, then encrypted and backed up manually.

A lot of people will just sync the database file across their devices using any file syncing service. I have Syncthing installed on my devices but others might use Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.

This is more applicable to usage as a proxy than proper VPN; but I have some small virtual machines in a Google data center near Omaha, and I am in Canada. I use one of those small VM's and Wireguard to effectively mask my location in Canada and give the impression that I am in fact in Council...

You should know better than to use the American spelling. The next time you authour a post for our neighbours, humour me, do us a favour and please do not harbour intentions of that kind of behaviour. * Moubil

One would almost be tempted to think there's something to the idea! :)

My tenuous understanding is that: - bash, post 4.0 (this puts us in 2008? 2009? ---EDIT: '09---), is fully POSIX compliant; with the obvious caveat **as long as you write POSIX-compliant stuff**. And if you do, wouldn't most shells fit in this bucket? - POSIX's specifications, so say people...

One of the great distros, lost to the oblivion of history: https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

My wife has been very patiently watching football with me for ~25 years. Her understanding of the game increases each year but her passion is largely at a casual level... But good heavens, when there is a live fumble and the players are trying to scoop it she will engage with the television...

OTA on the Detroit CBS affiliate. That way we can also see the U.S. commercials instead of Canadian ones, and that keeps my two teenage daughters in the room with my wife and I. They even asked a few questions about the game during the evening.

LibreOffice was forked some years ago from OpenOffice - This is why they look and behave almost indistinguishably. LibreOffice, though, is enjoying much heavier development and ought to be slightly superior in every way; most importantly in this case MS Office compatibility.

I am really, really surprised that anyone uses A/V on their phones. It seems like a tremendous drain on the battery, among other things. Has anyone's phone A/V ever proved useful by catching or exposing anything of substance?!

There is very likely a difference between some given email address appearing in a list of accounts from a specific breach and some given email address "appearing on the dark web". The "dark web" is akin to "the seedy side of town" and has similarly vague identifiable boundaries (Making is...

For passwords I've used BitWarden for years for the same reason: With desktop applications and browser plugins it is too simple and easy to pass up. But I am really considering going with an offline alternative whose main database file I could (encrypt and) store/sync through a cloud service or...

Email address is all. It's really too bad there isn't a comically simple way to ascertain the nature of some of these organizations. Does Apple have ALL of your information such that they can check to see if any of it is on the "dark web"? I wonder how many 3rd parties have access to their...

This has been my go-to for years and years to monitor if my email address(es) appear in any of these disclosures: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

SW Ontario, Canada here. I am pretty sure our school buses are immortal and bus drivers' veins filled with the same ice they are navigating over. There has not been one day yet cancelled due to anything. In fact, my two teenage daughters have been waiting for the bus each morning in -16C...

?!?!?!?!?!! The entire world runs on Linux. This very web site. Chromebooks, Android, very likely your router or smart toaster or whatever in the world you have hooked up to your WiFi. Your Amazon Firestick. All 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers. Your bank runs on a UNIX of some sort...

Here is the database of Critical Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) for Windows 7. As of this writing there are 2,369 of them. None require your clicking on anything and none are getting patched...

All of my efforts to educate users behind keyboards start with "make sure your OS is always updated and supported"; then go on to explain that system vulnerabilities have nothing to do with their operations or interactions with their computers: That is mostly the province of viruses and their...

Very, very, very easy answer: Bots attack you. And they are all loaded up with information about EVERY 0-day and unpatched vulnerability just scouring the internet, jigglin' those door knobs and window handles just waiting find someone with an attitude like this: There is a self-fulfilling...