David Nelson

K-12 sysadmin. Linux, Mac, and some other things including pfSense, Ubiquiti, Juniper, and XCP-ng. Photographer, Apple enthusiast, and vintage tech admirer in my spare time. Learning Swift/SwiftUI. BLM. LGBTQIA+ ally.

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Dare Obasanjocarnage4life@mas.to
2025-06-18

It’s not like he didn’t warn us.

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-16

Remember if you get caught making things up on your resume, it’s not a lie, it’s an erroneous statement.

Trump’s FAA pick has claimed 'commercial' pilot license he doesn’t have

Bryan Bedford, the nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration, for years erroneously stated in his Republic Airways bio that he is a pilot with a “commercial” rating.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration long described himself in his official biography as being certified to fly aircraft commercially — but records examined by POLITICO show that he does not hold any commercial license.
David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-16

@Charles Cool! If you want to use it and don’t mind spending a little bit of money, there are these adapter/receiver things that plug into the Dock connector and receive Bluetooth audio. Would be a way of getting a modern iPhone to play wirelessly to it.

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-16

@Charles What is that? It reminds me of the iPod Hi-Fi but… looks different. 🤔

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BasicAppleGuyBasicAppleGuy
2025-06-15

Liquid Glass 1.0

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-15

@Ronnie I don’t often have Mexican for breakfast—other than a basic breakfast burrito—but it sounds good. What do you like to get?

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Star Trek Minus Contextnocontexttrek
2025-06-15
Star Trek The Next Generation scene, but with Hallmark channel vibes. We're "on the D" and "in the conference room" and Riker is shown sitting at the table, hands clasped, looking up with a muted smile. To his left, also sitting and w/ arms pleasantly on the table, is a smiling and happy looking young man. He's maybe 13 or 14 years old, and wearing the same red uniform and comm badge as Riker. Caption is centered over the little guy, and reads, "He's my number-one dad."
David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-15

@CheapPontoon FWIW setting up passkeys rarely, if ever, requires you to ditch your traditional password and MFA login method. It’s just one of multiple ways that you can sign in.

Microsoft does let you remove your password after you’ve enabled passwordless login, but you have to take additional steps to do it.

I don’t think you can stop having a Google password. You just stop using it.

I’d suggest adding a passkey as a test drive and you can always remove it later if you really don’t like it.

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-14

@qlp Haha. I’m still waiting for my turn on Nintendo’s official list, and meanwhile we ordered and received one from Target on Wednesday.

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-13

@Tender Amazing that they got Rick Moranis, he’s effectively retired from acting.

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-13

It’s a tired, worn-out trope that peace in the middle east is this unachievable holy grail of a thing. But gosh, there’s a reason people keep using it.

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-13

@qlp It’s bouquet list

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-13
David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-13

@Peacefulz @timcappalli IMHO any credential manager worth using is end-to-end encrypted—1Password and iCloud being a couple examples that are, but of course there are others. That way you don’t need to worry about what happens on the other end. If you still really don’t trust that, you can also create passkeys on a hardware key such as a YubiKey. But if you do go local-only, make sure you have at least two or three of them as a failsafe against loss, damage, etc.

David Nelsondmnelson
2025-06-13

@timcappalli Nice! Just looked in the Albertsons app and got a prompt to set up a passkey. Then went into the Safeway app and it logged me in with the same one. 😎

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