You suspected it all along, and now it’s official: the “experts” have been forcing us to use passwords the wrong way. Among those practices that actually decrease security: adding weird characters to your text-based password, forcing people to change their password after a certain number of days or logins. The revelation comes from a recent document from NIST. Now there’s only hope that Government websites will start adopting the new guidelines (they’re the worst perpetrators).
In this article, I am repeating much of what I already said in this other article, but with less technical jargon and a few more months available for testing.
I just turned 57, and my new project is to learn how to play guitar. After many failed attempts, here’s what seems to be working. And it only requires two pieces of wire. 
Ever got a funny feeling when your password manager popped up offering to save a login that you thought was really, really confidential? Well, you should get it, because this is a sign that the app is able to see everything you’re doing. The developer of this app could get hacked (or the developer of any add-on or extension you’re using, for that matter), and then all your precious logins would be sent to some hacker’s computer without your noticing anything amiss. That is, until you look at your bank account and find that all your life’s savings have been sent to an account in Cayman Islands.
An octave ukulele is a 4-string instrument tuned like a regular ukulele (gCEA, with the g being one octave higher than one would expect), but a whole octave lower. It is still played exactly like a ukulele but it sounds more like a guitar, with pretty deep bass. For those of you who actually want to accompany your singing and don’t want the instrument competing with your voice, yet are too lazy to learn a new instrument and set of chords. In this post, I tell you a simple way to make one starting from a baritone ukulele. 
PassLok has had a Chrome app version since 2.0, but now Google has announced that packaged Chrome apps will be discontinued in early 2018. Rather than wait for the blade to fall, we have worked hard to keep the nice features of hosting PassLok though Chrome, and we are adding Firefox in the process. 
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I am the kind of guy who has a musical interest but not a whole lot of musical talent, or at least not a whole lot of musical training. I have 
Perhaps your story is similar to mine. Having missed that crucial period in my teens when all my friends were learning to play guitar (because I was studying, or so I tell myself), I’ve tried many times to catch up and accompany my (arguably) good voice with a stringed instrument, and always failed, for different reasons. In this article I try to explain why, and how I got some traction eventually so that I finally (almost) succeeded. 
Lately I’ve been quite taken by string instruments, and collected four ukuleles, of different kinds, in a very short time (they’re so inexpensive!). I was going to acquire a fifth one, a banjo ukulele or banjolele, when I realized that I would save a lot of money if I made it myself from Chinese parts ordered over the Internet. A lot of waiting for parts, but about two months later the instrument is ready and it sounds awesome. This article will tell you how I made it while hardly possessing any luthier skill, in case you want to do the same. 
Sorry about the title. This post is motivated by Steven’s comments to the “