@omartwotone thank you!

@mezz thank you!

@visone thank you!

@dthacker9 thank you

@ludoloon @nicdex thank you

@nicdex thank you!

Looking for recommendations for a basic #screenrecorder for #Ubuntu desktop. For now I just need the screen and the sound playing in the browser captured. I don’t need my face to show in a little circle, though that feature is appreciated.

#linux

@wendynather @deviantollam thank you, can’t wait!

@yazad3 @deviantollam It was called “Falling Off the Edge, and How to Help” — and I imagine it will be posted at some point, but I couldn’t tell you when, as the tired organizers need to rest now that the conference is over 🙂

@deviantollam @wendynather I’d really love to hear this talk and recommend to my colleagues. Saw a few slide screenshots and I loved the wisdom being shared. What’s the title of this presentation or better is there a link to this talk? Thanks for sharing 😊

On Friday which is typically a payday for weekly wages workers, there was some kind of outage that prevented #HomePay (from Care[dot]com) from paying out salaries to domestic workers like nannies, maids, babysitters, etc. They subsequently had a message on their website login screen, but for most of the day for many there was no clarity on when the funds would be dispersed to the workers. Customer care had long wait times due to this issue too. Since funds are typically collected on the Wednesday before, it was already gone from the families accounts who employed them. They eventually sent out communication indicating the delayed payroll would be paid out on Monday.

I’m surprised with such a major payroll platform having a payout outage and there was no news coverage I could find on the subject. I’m really interested in understanding what was the technical issues causing this problem. Also what banking service is HomePay using?

#payroll #finance #sre #outage

Southern Alligator Lizard, San Jose, April 2025, probably distributed by the tree pruning crew.

#inaturalist #wildlife #nature #reptiles #lizard #SanJose #California #sfba #ALT4you

@esparta Thank you, will certainly consider.

@dmnelson , @me, @esparta thanks for your suggestions about #keepassxc , the #qrcode generation feature really made my migration and backups easy.

@esparta this is enlightening. I need to educate myself a bit more on this.

@me I’ll give that a shot first. Thank you.

@me thank you, I appreciate it. Just not sure if that’s an option from my phone to save it anywhere except where the app chooses to save it (one drive / iCloud)

@dmnelson thank you, this is very helpful. It’s on my phone (and I’m using backups to make switching phones easier). Unfortunately yes the option is to save the backup codes in iCloud or one drive and I’m not sure I have a way to confirm if that’s indeed encrypted and/or if I can delete the cloud backup after my phone switch is completed.

Update: I see it is encrypted, but can’t find an option to delete the cloud backup or store it locally and use it to restore on the other phone.

Update 2: seems like when I stop backing up to iCloud/ on drive the backup is deleted from the cloud. So I can switch phones and then delete the cloud backup. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/back-up-account-credentials-in-microsoft-authenticator-bb939936-7a8d-4e88-bc43-49bc1a700a40

@queserasera thank you, I didn’t know that was an option. I was thinking of storing it in one drive / iCloud. That’s a setting available in the Authenticator app itself.

Is it a good idea to backup your Authenticator app like Microsoft Authenticator? Or is it a security concern?

Context: I need to switch phones and I would like to avoid manually switching my 2FA to the other phone.

(I’m not looking for advise on the best 2FA physical token or app, I’m only looking for advise on if backing up for subsequently restoring the Authenticator app has any security concerns while switching phones)

Thank you.

#security #2fa