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Month: May 2018

Do you use email encryption at all? macOS 10.13.4 update may help

Fuller details have now been published about the EFAIL vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME email encryption, at the […]

May 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 1a Theseus, to the killing of the Minotaur

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Born from the incestuous union of the King of Athens with his daughter, he survived an attempt on his life by Medea, and went on to kill the Minotaur of Crete. Paintings by Poussin, Moreau, and others.

May 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Do you use PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption? They’re vulnerable (updated)

A major vulnerability has been revealed, and will be detailed very shortly, affecting mail encryption using PGP/GPG and […]

May 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Should you use shutdown or reboot in the command line?

Is shutdown -r now better than reboot? What advantages does Finder’s Restart have over them? The answers are in these logs.

May 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Umbrellas: Stop the sun

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Borrowed from the Church, parasols became an accessory of the aristocracy, then for all who were fashionable. They went from black to white, then Japanese.

May 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: POPSS, vulnerability by documentation

While we were getting worried about Signal’s notifications leak, POPSS was quietly making almost every major operating system vulnerable – because of poor documentation.

May 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Umbrellas: Stop the rain

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Spring is here, in the UK the season of umbrellas. Here are paintings by Caillebotte, Krohg, Degas, Renoir, and others showing umbrellas used to shelter from the rain.

May 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Putting a browser window in your app

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Adding a WebKit browser window is straightforward so long as you ignore what Apple tells you.

May 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: The blue from over the sea, Ultramarine

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The most famous of all, with its origins in Afghanistan, the most precious and beautiful pigment. But it has caught out some of the best forgers too.

May 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

LockRattler 4.2 released: browses current version info and more

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New built-in browser window to check current versions, installation of individual packages, and no spinning beachballs.

May 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

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