Michael Ekstrand elehack@identi.ca
Sol III
Assistant professor of computer science at Texas State University. HCI and #recsys.
the ginger-pear chutney of my dreams
Makes me want to dive into a curry and pull the nan bread over top of me.
Recipe: 4 pears, 1 onion, 1 thumb ginger grated, 1 tbsp crushed mustard seeds, vinegar and honey to taste. Sweat until sticky.
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What kind of onion? #vegetablegeekerySmallest yellow one I had on hand.
Tried making this myself tonight. Worked out pretty well, even though I got confused by the stove knob. Thanks for sharing!Michael Ekstrand at 2015-08-07T00:47:39Z
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Random Facts at 2014-05-14T21:38:03Z
If you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old.
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Really, 365,525 days, ish. #leapyearsGreg Grossmeier at 2014-05-14T21:42:58Z
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I don't think it's easily possible to feed a bar of chocolate to young infants every day either, so presumably the number is even bigger.
Christine Lemmer-Webber at 2014-05-14T21:46:11Z
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Think I'll go for every other day for 36500 days then.
FWIW, you may find this script from my ~/bin useful and/or terrifying, after an appropriate modification.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Date::Parse;
use Time::Duration;
my $birth=str2time("April 11, 1976 06:30"); # approx
print "life day: ".int((time() - $birth)/60/60/24)."\n";eeach, Greg Grossmeier likes this.
Greg Grossmeier at 2013-08-13T15:45:51Z
After a week of remodeling going on at the work office, I come back and find that my laptop is missing (we’ll just assume stolen at this point, really).
Right not I can’t do much but fret about what was wrong with its setup (the most wrong probably being the lack of full disk encryption because it was a work issue Dell XPS with Ubuntu preinstalled that I didn’t have the time to reinstall with Debian). All I can do now is hope that the people who stole it aren’t identity thieves as well. If you start to see random posts here, well….
What I need now, for when I get my replacement laptop, is a well thought out plan for how to do encryption/security right. What I’m thinking is:- For my GPG subkey I use for signing, do xyz
- For my GPG subkey I use for personal encryption (password files etc), do zyx
- For my GPG subkey I use for automatic personal encryption (backups), do yxz
- For my ssh key I use for remote server access, do zxy
- For my ssh key I use for automatic remote server access (backups), do yzx
- etc
Dear helpful security crypto web: Where is that guide or set of guides?a(n) person, Mike Linksvayer, Michael Ekstrand, Susan Pinochet likes this.
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Show all 6 repliesMichael: yeah, that's a great suggestion (yubikey). I might use that as part of the system. Relatedly, does anyone I know use http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ ?
When I was evaluating password management tools a few years back (Password Gorilla, Password Safe, etc.), I settled on KeePassX, largely because the kdb file format is widely supported (e.g. KeePassDroid).
I had been trying to remember the name of Monkeysphere for a while now. Thanks!
Fuckin' sorry to hear that, dude.
Greg Grossmeier at 2013-02-05T22:28:00+00:00
So, if corporations are people and they repeatedly do the same thing but expect different results, are they insane and institutionalizable?Lois Chan-Pedley, Michael Ekstrand likes this.
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Probably, but since that is a completely ridiculous saying, it may not hold up in a court of law.Evan Prodromou at 2013-02-06T00:29:41+00:00
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Gerard Ryan at 2012-11-28T14:01:48+00:00
@zoowar I'm a Fedora user and I want GNOME 3.Michael Ekstrand likes this.
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Greg Grossmeier at 2012-09-21T21:01:22+00:00
Rowan said his first word today: Book. Hecks yeah he's my son.Michael Ekstrand, Lady J, Noah Liebman, Christine Lemmer-Webber and 1 others likes this.
