Friday, December 2, 2022

Does iPhone more secure and privacy than Android?


Consumers reported feeling most secure using Apple's iPhone 13 Pro Max and Samsung's Galaxy S22 Ultra.

75% of Apple users and 55% of Android users were able to fully recover their lost data.

Of Android users who are considering the switch to Apple, 49% are switching due to perceived superiority in security and privacy.

Thursday, December 1, 2022

LastPass' latest data breach exposed some customer information - The Verge

This is one of reasons I don't use LastPass. They have two many breaches.

KeePassX and its port KeePassXC are the best, free and open source 

Note to self – How to Clear the Terminal History on Linux or macOS

Copy from https://www.howtogeek.com/179022/how-to-clear-the-terminal-history-on-linux-or-mac-os-x/ as a note to self

Clear the Current Session's History
Your history can be broke down into two chunks. There's your current sessions' history, and there's your long-term history. Our first command, history -c, deals with the current session.

Clear All of Your Bash History
If you want to remove the entirety of your history, run the following command:
rm ~/.bash_history

Use open ~/.bash_history to view and edit

Friday, May 13, 2022

Volatile Market

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful” ― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

Elon Musk on Twitter: "Since I’ve been asked a lot: Buy stock in several companies that make products & services that *you* believe in. Only sell if you think their products & services are trending worse. Don’t panic when the market does. This will serve you well in the long-term." 
(https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1520650036865949696)

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Time is money

No. Money as a currency is lost value. But gold is not.

So, time is gold.

Time is a precious gift from GOD. Don't waste it.

“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life




Sunday, February 28, 2021

Time's up or time-out

Not sure my time will be up soon or it's a time-out, I start to wind down and prepare for next chapter.

“Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life.” (John 6:27)"

Sunday, January 31, 2021

How to validate Libre Office on Mac

For a peace of mind, spend a minute to validate the downloaded file from internet.

Get information from https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/7.0.4/mac/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.0.4_MacOS_x86-64.dmg.mirrorlist

File information
Filename: LibreOffice_7.0.4_MacOS_x86-64.dmg
Path: /libreoffice/stable/7.0.4/mac/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.0.4_MacOS_x86-64.dmg
Size: 252M (263941643 bytes)
Last modified: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:57:25 GMT (Unix time: 1607731045)
SHA-256 Hash: 0fcd83399609780013aee1acc805d1380434118d459829908aa409f7eb67c4e7
SHA-1 Hash: 443de571dad8e412e8b9e4be52ad5b249cc2627f
MD5 Hash: a36fd3c1d5e8935e4732cbf0f826a821
BitTorrent Information Hash: 636f6abbb3ed784831da6385686b1577538e8a39
PGP signature available

Run this command on MacBook: 
openssl dgst -sha256 LibreOffice_7.0.4_MacOS_x86-64.dmg
SHA256(LibreOffice_7.0.4_MacOS_x86-64.dmg)= 0fcd83399609780013aee1acc805d1380434118d459829908aa409f7eb67c4e7

Compare this SHA256 value against with value got from LibreOffice web site above.