Month: November 2021

TinkerTool for tinkering around with your Mac UI

I only use a couple of things that TinkerTool enables, but it is a wide ranging tool! It’s important to note that it is only changing the built in behaviors of MacOS – it does not add functionality that isn’t already there. Having said that, there is a lot of MacOS functionality built in that […]

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IBM PC Jr. Language Reference

Well, it’s more generic than that, but I needed it to recall how to do some display stuff on the PC Jr. I set the Jr. up because I was talking with some future coworkers, and they had a history, or familiarity, with the PC Jr, so I figured it’d be a funny introduction to […]

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Great writeup: Specificity: Your Brain’s Superpower

Not mine, but very good. While some of this can come off negatively (think about how you say things!), the overall thought process is great. Frequently I use some of these techniques and they are very effective! https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XosKB3mkvmXMZ3fBQ/specificity-your-brain-s-superpower

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Results of a Password Cracking Contest

Just hanging onto this for future reference. Not for the passwords obviously, but the process that the ‘best password cracker’ student used – pretty effective. https://mchow01.github.io/education/security/2021/11/06/password-cracking.html

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