Shawarma delivery model
OK, its not a great photo, and its a couple weeks old cuz quarantine. But many of us were amused to learn of the delivery model for Shawarma. This van pulls up a couple of times per week, and unloads ~20 shawarma per place. Its chock full inside. Think of all the shawarma! There’s a…
St Patricks day in Quarantine… it’s quiet, and no Rovers
So the Irish Rovers (yes that band that played the Unicorn song back in the day w/ green alligators and long-necked-geese) is doing their last tour. And, excitedly I had purchased tickets for the St Patricks’ day show (in Chatham Ontario). Tonight was the night. Sadly, that is not to be. Instead my team has…
My first day without Python 2: slack was the first casualty
The great deprecation of Python 2.x has been underway for more than a decade. As of Jan 1, 2020, its dead. Today I updated a home machine to Ubuntu 20.04. No more python package. We do still have a bit of python 2.7 kicking around: dpkg -S /usr/bin/python2 python2-minimal: /usr/bin/python2 On update it helpfully removed…
The phone port scam saga continues
So this AM I called my mobile carrier, the one implicated in the breach I talked about yesterday. I decided to try and authenticate to an agent w/ just the data that was breached. So the call goes like this… step 1, you get an auto-attendant. Based solely on your caller ID (which is easily…
Phone number porting scam gets personal
I’ve written in the past about how SMS is not a good 2-Factor Authentication method. In fact, its only slightly better than none. Worse, some places just use your phone as a single-authentication (e.g. SMS you a password reset link, or just call you). So you can image how comforted I was to hear that…
Long Strange Trip
