Break the chains ⛓️

Friday June 2, 2023

Productivity

Evernote Gets Acquired and Increases Prices 200%

Well, Evernote, this might be the year we part ways.

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The new prices are effective starting May 1 for new subscribers and starting end of May for existing subscribers. We’re notifying all customers who are impacted 28 days before their renewal date.

You used to cost me $5.83 / month for about the last 5 years.

Now Evernote will cost $10.83 / month. That is a 186% increase in price.

My renewal is up in September. What-A-Hassle.

Found a blog post on Evernote's Pricing strategy from 2018, and they concluded that people are likely to pay as much as $10.72 per month. Seems Evernote’s new owners read this and saw a business opportunity. 👻

Thursday June 1, 2023

😂🙏

Thursday June 1, 2023

Seems impossible to Favorite things on the Tenor app. Been like that for at least a month. Works for anyone else?

Wednesday May 31, 2023

Plaid > Yodlee

Tuesday May 30, 2023

DevOps

Breaking RSA

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RSA encryption is based on the difficulty of factoring large composite numbers into their prime factors. To break RSA encryption, one must factorize the public key, a product of two large prime numbers. The number of qubits required to factorize a number N using Shor's algorithm (a quantum algorithm that can be used to factorize integers) is 2n + 3, where n is the number of bits in N.

For instance, RSA-2048, a common RSA key size used in practice, comprises two 1024-bit prime numbers. To break this, one would need approximately 2*2048 + 3 = 4099 qubits. However, this is a simplification, as the number of qubits required would depend on the specifics of the quantum computer and quantum error correction techniques used, which could significantly increase the number of qubits required.

Having enough qubits isn't the only challenge. The qubits must be interconnected in a way that allows the implementation of the quantum gates needed for Shor's algorithm, and the machine must be able to maintain quantum coherence long enough to complete the operation.

Tuesday May 30, 2023

Progress on Passkeys

Couldn’t get Passkeys to work with the 1password beta extension. Guess I will have to wait until next month to make another attempt. I am hopeful that support will be rolling out soon.

Some News - Verge Article

Another demo site here. - Passage Authentication Demo (1password.com)

A list is here. - https://passkeys.directory

Sunday May 28, 2023

We need more learning via memes. 📘

C4nnRdN

Saturday May 20, 2023

Thoughts and prayers go out to all those people who can’t do the job we hired them for.

Effin' Birds https://mastodon.social/@effinbirds/110403759907061838

Saturday May 20, 2023

Currently reading: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green 📚 “Our reality isn’t about what’s real, it’s about what we pay attention to”

Saturday May 20, 2023

Found a good use case for Bing chat or Google Bard; When you hit your GPT4 cap of 25 msg per 3 hours. L(° O °L)

Saturday May 20, 2023

Happy Fryday

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Friday May 19, 2023

The new microphone uses XLR. I plugged it into a Focusrite solo. I have to turn the gain all the way up for the audio to be picked up. I'm wondering if it is the XLR cable. Are there different types of XLR cables that would cause more gain to be needed?

Saturday May 13, 2023

Books

Got my Bookshelf fairly updated and consolidated. Think the want to read is still missing quite a bit.

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Saturday May 13, 2023

Will Google actually beat Microsoft in putting an AI LLM directly into their respective word-processing applications? Bard -> GDocs. ChatGPT -> Word.

Thursday May 11, 2023

Last year I finished reading: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini 📚. Great book!

Sunday May 7, 2023

Thoughts

I've decided to start writing more on Medium. It's time to take my passion for writing to the next level. I am aiming for five articles per month. My goal is to create a positive impact through my writing.

I'm excited to keep up with the blog here now that I have some new tools to help me become a super, Logan!

Saturday May 6, 2023

my first tattoo?