Zolt

I think I might be the only developer left on this forum, and maybe on the planet, who still uses Microsoft OS daily (for over 30 years). I rarely have issues with it, find it incredibly stable, and have made a lot of money using it.

Not sure why, I just felt the need to post this.

Oh, and just to make myself look even worse, Copilot in VS Code has been an amazing asset in my development.

Agreed. I had enough issues with my router yesterday I purchased a different brand router and decommissioned my ASUS. I was not aware of this wide-spread issue until today. Much like HP printers, I will think twice about recommending or purchasing an ASUS.

My wife and I have visited Chicago from Ohio about five times over the last ten or fifteen years. We’ve brought in the new year on the Navy Pier a few of those years. We really enjoyed our visits.

We’ve heard enough about the crime in Chicago over the last few years that we’ve agreed to stay away for a while.

I'm not sure why I feel the need to mention this, but without doing a deep dive on the statistics, we hit the tipping point to not return.

I forgot to include this in my original post. I use the Microsoft authenticator application to authenticate my account. My mistake was also including my mobile number as an alternative way to authenticate my account. I don’t know if I was aware of this or if Microsoft prompted me for my phone number at one time and I did not think through all the ramifications.

Agreed. Done. "Thanks for taking the time to contact us. We're currently receiving a high number of requests so we may take longer to respond, but our team is working hard to get to every inquiry quickly."

I have not regained access to my bitcoin account, in part because I have not contacted customer support to do so. I’ve been too busy regaining access and continuing to support my client base.

My account is locked, and I am pretty sure my funds are still there. It will be a significant loss, but not devastating as this was my non-primary investment account.

I still don’t know the full extent of my losses.

So far, my losses are primarily loss of billable time. I am not a litigious person, but I am also going to educate myself as to what ‘pain-and-suffering’ means. Both my personal and business bank accounts are ok. I now understand why banks do not use email addresses as the login id. The thief would not (easily) be able to align my email address with my bank login id.

Once through this, I plan disassociate any portion of my login id with my name.

If I didn’t have SMS-2FA enabled, they would not have been able to take control of my email address without guessing the password.

I had to remove this detail from my original post as it was too long:

Boost mobile is negligent and not following industry standards. Their whole security model is based on a 4-digit pin. At first I thought somebody had a script working its way up through all the combinations at the login screen, but I no longer feel that is the case. The fact that at least nine of us had this same issue within days makes me think there is a wide-spread issue here.

Several years back (and things may have changed) Panasonic had a patent on the inverter and was the only microwave that offered it. I purchased a Panasonic for that reason and love it.

This from their website: The Panasonic Microwave Ovens powered with patented Inverter Technology™ deliver evenly cooked meals, from edges to center, every time.

I am really curious why I got a down-vote or two. I was not being facetious.

Outside the classified materials Ed leaked and we all know about, he shares details about hotels he stayed at during training and his trips into what seemed to me as classified information about government building locations.

I was really curious if this is ‘common knowledge’ or if other readers felt he disclosed additional classified information.

As others have recently said, it seems like this site has changed quite a bit in the recent years from the site I once knew.

I am about half way through the book.

Do you feel he revealed additional details in the book that the CIA/NSA does not appreciate?

IE, location and purpose of buildings?