As we approach a holiday weekend and Memorial Day Monday, I’d like to put this out there again…
PSA – ANNUAL REMINDER: Memorial Day is not for those who are serving or those who are still living and served. Memorial Day is for those who paid the ultimate price and are no longer with us. Memorial Day is for the Fallen. #rememberthefallen
Don’t tell a vet, “Happy Memorial Day”. There’s nothing ‘happy’ about loosing a fellow comrade in battle.
Don’t tell a vet, “Thank you for your service” on Memorial Day. We are still alive. You can thank us on Veterans Day.
You have either stumbled here or you are on my home wi-fi and this is the landing page. Go ahead and check out my site while you are at it. I think it’s a great place to start browsing on the internet.
From the brain behind GRC (Gibson Research Corporation), Steve Gibson (twitter: @sggrc) has a tool just for you. It’s called InControl. It sets a couple of RegEdit keys that keep your computer on the current feature version.
With ONE CLICK to either “Take Control” or “Release Control”, YOU can decide whether your computer gets the next feature update, no Microsoft.
This is a free tool and does not need to install. You run the simple exe and BAM!
I have this on my own home personal Asus laptop running Windows 11 22h2 and I actually did a Google search for when the release of Win 11 23h1 because I didn’t know because I was still IN CONTROL of my Windows 11 major feature updates. The answer was 2/5/23.
Also, if you didn’t know, Microsoft just announced it will not be releasing any more feature update/semi-annual roll ups for Windows 10. Win 10 22h2 was the last. You will still get monthly updates until Oct 2025 for Windows 10.
#TLDR – Don’t be afraid of Windows 11. It’s the same as Windows 10 with a few rounded corners and a centering start menu. Update now or at least before 10/14/25
I created the above post a while ago. I just added appropriate 301 redirects for all my social media. You can go to jasonlamb.me/ [insert social media] to get to my profile on that social media.
Example: jasonlamb.me/facebook goes to facebook.com/jasrasr try it with /twitter /instagram & /youtube
Pretty much any #jasrasr or @jasrasr account you see should be mine. If you see another that you don’t think is me then let me know.
Social media integration has been on my mind lately. Yes, before you get ahead of me, I know you can setup your twitter to post to facebook and your instagram to post to twitter and facebook. But there is already one problem. If I have my instagram post to twitter and facebook and my twitter post to facebook I end up with two postings on my facebook. I am getting tired of deleting post. I want to add content easily, not have to worry about duplicates. No one wants to see duplicate status post!
IFTTT is a great way to setup recipes to interact with several aspects of several channels. A channel can be facebook or twitter or instagram or even this blog. For examply I can create a recipe that says if I post something to this blog then post it to facebook.
I just wanted to update with the first post of the year. It is rare that one can do something first. It is also possible that I am typing this at 5:19pm on 1/3/23 and have the ability to pre-date my postings…I guess you will never know?
I am also a fan of scrabble and this picture looks like scrabble tiles.
So I am constantly learning. 40% of the internet is using the WordPress platform. I am no different. I started building my own websites with pure HTML/CSS/JS and loved it. It was a lot of work. WordPress started in 5/27/03 and my first website spun up in December 2004. I didn’t know about WordPress (WP) until year later. I kept my own website but then started dabbling with it and other CMS platforms.
Because it is so widely used, it is grabs the attention of the hackers of the world. Just like Windows and Chrome. If you have the market majority then you are the platform that people go after.
Over the years my sites have been routinely compromised or attempted at such. I have had to recover much data from backups.
Recently I learned about a username sniffing technique that is used on WordPress to discover usernames so that a brute force attack can be used to gain access to the site backend. I created a lovely redirect to his page from those pesky username sniffs just for fun.
CAPTION: I wonder if Jedi mind tricks work on hackers?
If you type in https://jasrasr.com/?author=1 then you get redirected to https://jasrasr.com/stop-sniffing-me
You could enter any number after the ‘=’ sign. https://jasrasr.com/?author=123 would also redirect to the same: https://jasrasr.com/stop-sniffing-me
That page then is clickable to this page to explain why I did what I did and now I am laughing at the whole thing. I could’ve installed a plugin to block the username sniffs but I like this approach better.
I just tested and created a new test user which makes technically author=2 valid. If this exist then you can see the archives and blog post/pages that were authored by that username. More importantly you can see the username in the URL and on the page.
In this example from icwnow.net you can see the username ‘kbjjsywyvf’ and the ‘test’ post that was created. A hacker can take this info and attempt commonly used passwords to gain access to the site.
This page will be updated. I am not done, but it is bed time…
