Today we get to hear from NosillaCastaways about the hardware and software they’re still using after many years. In Part 2 of I’m Still Using It, we have some rather extensive stories mixed in with brief moments of delight from the castaways. Tim Jahr on TiVo We’ll start with Tim Jahr, aka @sTim in our […]
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Security Bits — 23 December 2022 🎄
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Apple have released their opt-in new Advanced Data Protection for iCloud , but only in the US for now — appleinsider.com/… At least initially, enabling ADP could complicate the setup of new devices […]
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Mermaid Diagrams Won’t Replace Diagrams.net for Me, But it Sure is Fun
Mermaid Diagram We’ll be Making Mermaid Diagrams Won’t Replace Diagrams.net as my diagramming tool of choice, but they’re still pretty cool. I’ve been having a lot of fun lately with a tool called Mermaid for making diagrams. I’ve hesitated about whether to tell you about Mermaid diagrams for two reasons. One reason for my hesitance […]
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CCATP #756 — Bart Busschots on the Meaning of Verification and Twitter/Mastodon Implementations
In this final Chit Chat Across the Pond of the year, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about what verification really means, how you know a website is what it says it is, and how verification is accomplished, and then explains how Twitter and Mastodon do their respective verification. mp3 download Read an unedited, auto-generated […]
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Memory of Honda Bob and The Night Before Christmas
Long-time NosillaCastaways will remember our good friend Honda Bob, especially this time of year. For those of you who don’t know the history, I’d like to relate how we came to know Honda Bob and what he meant to the show and our family. Allison and I first met Honda Bob in 1978 when he […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The Twitter Chaos Continues: 🇪🇺 EU Commissioner Thierry Breton has warned Twitter that it needs to bring its moderation practices up to speed before the Digital Services Act (DSA) goes into effect next year […]
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Come Join the Fun in Mastodon — I Promise, It’s Easy!
Do you remember when you first heard about Twitter? Do you remember thinking it sounded silly and you didn’t think it had any legs? Remember thinking the word “tweet” sounded idiotic? Do you remember finally joining Twitter, but then being baffled by it, wondering why everyone was so excited? And remember wondering, “Who do I […]
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TouchRetouch Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
My latest tutorial is up on ScreenCastsOnline, and it’s about a terrific tool called TouchRetouch for iOS/iPadOS and the Mac. TouchRetouch does a fantastic job removing unwanted objects in your images, even with your big fat fingers, and it’s only $4 USD on iOS. I’ve been using TouchRetouch for years and years but I had […]
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Cord Cutting Part 2 — Channels DVR
Last week I told you that Steve and I finally cut the cord, replacing Frontier’s TV service with YouTube TV, and how we will be saving $1217/year going forward. After I posted the article about our experience, I got two nearly identical messages explaining one more thing we needed to try. Both Dave Hamilton and […]
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Announcing Transcripts for All Podfeet Podcasts
Jill is Amazing Jill from the Northwoods is a beast at learning new things and implementing the things she learns. When she met me in real life, she bought one of my older MacBook Pros because she wanted to learn the Mac and potentially move over to macOS leaving Windows behind. Shortly after that, she […]
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