Based on the place (a supermarket rewards card), I’m assuming legacy code. But you’re right, the most likely answer is it’s shitty legacy code.

I considered database stuff, but my password shouldn’t go anywhere near the database!

If they are storing it as plain text in this day and age, then there is no hope for the human race 🤦

I was on the internet early enough that I had a four character, all lower case password to my emails and it never complained once.

I have nearly 800. I think I need to do some cleaning.

I got a “we’ve had customers accounts breached, please update your password” email the other day.

They specifically called out you can’t use # in your password, and it’s been bugging me why that is. What part if their system let’s in other special characters but # is off limits?

Yeah except for the people around you trying to work as you jibber jabber 😆

This will depend on your work. All my work is on the computer. Showing someone something is as easy as sharing my screen (and this might even be better, as I can draw on it).

And I don’t agree online meetings are useless. All of my team work from home most of the time, and we work out how to make that work.

Having half the group in the office and half joining remotely I think is the worst of both worlds.

Might be worth having a look at this list of banking app compatibility: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

Their point is that (as per relatively), all movement is relative to something. So if the earth moved away then you must be measuring in relation to some other reference point. There is no absolute positioning system. So when you say the earth is moving, what is it moving in relation to? And why did you pick that reference point instead of having a time machine that uses earth itself as a reference point?

From random searching around it seems lanes haven’t necessarily changed (basically this route is still used) but technology helps a lot. There are definitely fewer icebergs at that location these days but despite many reddit commenters claiming none it seems there are a few icebergs that make it there: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/sites/default/files/images/iip/data/2017/20170426_NAIS65.gif

Sinking location: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sinking_of_the_Titanic&params=41_43_32_N_49_56_49_W_scale%3A5000000

Apparently radar makes sure ships know about any icebergs well in advance, and there are also ice patrol planes and satellite tracking to make them pretty much a non-issue. Unless you’re the MV Explorer cruise ship that sunk in the Antarctic after hitting an iceberg in 2007. But that was outside of shipping lanes and monitoring areas as far as I can tell.

For sad reasons, yes. Probably a lot lower chance than it was 100 years ago.

I heard of bitcoin for a while, but by the time I decided to get some they cost $20 each. No way I was shelling out that much.

I guess the point is that it shows the correlation between processed food and cancer is statistically significant. As in there is definitely a link, and this meta analysis shows good evidence this link exists. Even if the impact is small.

As for the day to day impact of this study, I’m not sure there is one. Processed food is already on WHOs list of things that definitely cause cancer.

Getting a colorectal cancer probability in a lifetime is about 0.04, eating hotdog adds 8% to it or ~0.003.

Depending on the average amount of processed meats eaten, it could also show not eating a hot dog every day will reduce your risk of cancer by about that much. It’s probably only important in the cumulative though. When we have studies like this for many foods, you could put together a diet that reduces your chance of cancer by 20 or 30%, say. But one food’s impact like this is probably only important to scientists.

So getting back to your original question:

Like… is it written to excite anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety drives clicks which drives revenue.

Yeah it’s a maybe, uLogger seems to let you choose which track you want to see. I presume the app lets you log to a specific track so you can have one for each person.

It might depend on what specific experience you’re looking for. For example, I log to Nextcloud and can view it there, but this is more of a “find my phone” plus tracking where I’ve been for myself (similar to Google Location History). While I’m sure I can set it up so others can see, it’s not really designed for it. It would also be a bit awkward as you’d have to log in to Nextcloud in a browser to see the locations (seems it’s possibly the same for uLogger).

I also run Home Assistant for home automation. I trigger automations off of my wife and my locations, but either of us can open the app and see at a glance where the other is (with pre-defined locations, such as “Home”, “School”, “@Dave’s Work”, etc, plus the ability to tap and see the exact location on a map).

That Home Assistant setup is much more useful for either of us seeing where the other is than I think the more dedicated tracking apps are, since they aren’t designed around sharing your location with others and that’s more of a side-function.

I feel like it still does sometimes, with some sites that feel like they are nearly a whole OS in themselves.

Just remember if you want to share location data with someone else, the app on your phone is only one half. You also need some sort of server ehere you install software for it to report to.

For uLogger that’s probably NextCloud with the PhoneTrack app installed, or OwnTracks.

There are companies that offer paid NextCloud hosting, but if you aren’t hosting it yourself you probably can’t say it meets your privacy requirement.

Ah nice! It’s only a month old but looks really good. It has a warning not to run it in production and not to trust it with your data but I’m definitely going to have a play.

https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

Are you literally just wanting to see the location of family members?

If you’re a self-hoster there are options, and that’s pretty much the only way you can know it’s private.

Two that come to mind are:

The PhoneTrack NextCloud app. If you run Nextcloud you can install this in nextcloud, then install a location logger on the phones. I’m more familiar with Android which has options but from a search I think OwnTracks can send to Nextcloud and supports iOS and Android (someone reported their iOS success here).

Home Assistant let’s you see locations of people on a map that is tracked with the Home Assistant mobile app on Android/iOS.

I have found uLogger or the old PhoneTrack app (that connect to GPS on a schedule) to be more accurate than apps that rely on Google telling them when the location has changed (Home Assistant and I think Owntracks). But also much more of a battery drain.

So it depends how often you want the location to be updated. I find running uLogger or PhoneTrack on the phone actually makes Home Assistant get location updates much quicker(I run both for different reasons).

So, the good thing is, your emails are showing up and not disappearing into the ether like Microsoft.

We had this at work. B2B emails, going from paid Exchange customer to paid Exchange customer. Emails just disappeared without even showing up in junk. Sending email logs showed the email was accepted.

Huh. Here in NZ tea, (instant) coffee, milk (and usually Milo as well) are virtually always provided by an employer (only by social convention, as far as I can tell, not a legal requirement). I kinda assumed Britain would be the same since we must have got the custom from somewhere.