Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Continuing cyber-fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Chinese-Owned TikTok Limits Services in Russia to protect Employees, Users Against Fake News Law — www.macobserver.com/… Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .R — krebsonsecurity.com/… Korean company LG […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: Bonocle Braille Mouse
Allison interviews Abedlrazek Aly, Co-founder and CEO of Bonocle, about their interactive mouse designed for people with visual impairment. The Bonocle mouse has one braille cell, three select buttons, and haptic feedback to help the user learn braille while having fun. Bonocle connects to a smart device and provides access to a library of apps […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: Eschenbach Foldable Video Magnifier Unit
Allison interviews Kenneth Bradley, President and CEO of Eshenbach, about their desktop video magnifier unit. The Vario Digital 22 is a foldable desktop video magnifier with high image quality and compact design. It features a 22” full HD monitor with optical zoom from 1.3x – 45x magnification and an FHD camera that provides a true-color […]
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NosillaCastAway Shanty
A couple weeks ago I heard a song about Security, Hackers and Passwords by Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security (Security, Hackers and Passwords performed by Rachel Tobac on YouTube). It was a catchy, well-sung tune so I looked around and found it was based on a famous sea shanty called Wellerman. Although the authorship […]
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Has Apple Lost Steve Jobs’s Vision of the Simple 2×2 Matrix? – More Diagrams
I’ve been obsessed with diagramming the new Mac models recently and in discussion with Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show we started thinking about how things were at Apple before Steve Jobs’s triumphant return to Apple on September 16, 1997. Steve looked at the product lineup and immediately saw that there were far […]
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Gator Frameworks Broadcast Boom Desk Mount Mic Stand
I recently purchased a new desk for my study, which I reviewed in a separate submission. If you heard or read that, you may recall I said my old desk was 1.2 m long and the new one is 1.8 m long. Sitting in the centre of the desk, each end is now 300 mm […]
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Podfeet is Wicked Fast Now!
New vs Old Web Server CPU Load I have something VERY exciting to tell you about, and instead of telling a 2500-word story first and saving the punch line, I’m going to tell you the news first. I’m still going to tell the 2000-word story but you just won’t have to wait for the dramatic […]
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The Apple M1 Family as of March 2022 – a Diagram
Last October I created a diagram to try to explain all of the different options available in laptops for the M1 Pro and M1 Max Apple Silicon processors: M1 Pro and M1 Max Decision Tree (click to embiggen) This diagram is still valid, but this week Apple added yet another version of Apple Silicon, the […]
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Follow Up on Keyword Search Extension and Static Sites
Two weeks ago I told you about the nifty plugin for Safari called Keyword Search. This is the one that allows you to set up little shortcuts to search sites you visit often. I explained that it works really swell with most sites, but not with static sites like Programming By Stealth. PBS is a […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 06 March 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A little sting in the tail of that disgraceful threat by the Missouri Governor to prosecute a journalist for noticing personal data leaked in HTML source code of a government site – it was […]
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