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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • There is nothing you can do about the unsuccessful logins to your email address. My original email address has been in so many hacks and it’s always being brute forced by hackers outside the US.

    You already have MFA, so the only other thing I can think of is to have an incredibly long random password on your account and make sure the “forgot my password” recovery flows don’t have any easy way to bypass. Things like another email address as a backup that’s less secure, being able to guess your personal details based on past hacks, easily guessable/researchable security questions (make these random or nonsensical if possible, or don’t put details from security questions in social media) could be used to gain access, even with MFA. And finally, secure your password manager in a similar manner.


  • Turo for sharing cars. It’s car rentals but weird since you’re borrowing other people’s cars.

    Kyte is in a similar vein for on demand cars via app, but it functions similar to a traditional car rental in every other way. Though they’re a baby company so they might not be a good Uber comparison yet.
    My personal experience has been pretty good and the prices are very competitive, but we’ll see how they survive when the VC money runs out.




  • I use the Outlook app for separating entities before I learned that work profiles were a thing and that my company has them turned on. Gives me different notifications I can control instead of all through Gmail, it’s still sandboxed because O365 does the same containerization, and it also does calendar syncing.
    My only complaints are it doesn’t handle password changes very well (have to completely re add my profile when it’s time), and it is Outlook focused so it misses some Gmail features. This also doesn’t solve your Google Meet problem, but at least it’s two out of the three.







  • Our solution that we set up years ago was to connect a Shelly to circuits on a normal, dumb door opener. The Shelly triggers open/closed itself and since the signal comes from the opener, there’s no crypto nonsense to figure out. It always works, no matter what MyQ/Chamberlain/LiftMaster do. Bonus, it also works if you have a very old opener.
    We also supplemented this with a tilt sensor so we know the state of the garage door. The door can still be cracked and not registered as opened, but that’s a compromise we’re okay with since we never leave it intentionally cracked.





  • Yes.

    You can eat them frozen, you can eat them room-temp, or you can pop them in a toaster to heat them up. Non meme versions are sweet with a gooey filling. Kids eat them for breakfast or as a snack. But they’re not really conventionally “good” as you might have experienced with other American breakfast/snack pastries.


  • A group of friends and I jumped into a family plan and it’s far more manageable. For 6, it’s $3/month/person or $36/year/person if the owner pays yearly.
    The value we’ve all gotten out of it is outstanding. Being able to push and pull certain websites in results is amazing in today’s era of AI generated website shit. And all of my technical searches have been 1000x better on Kagi than they have been on Google in recent years. Everyone in our group says the same thing, it’s that much better than what we’ve been enduring with Google.