An Obsidian user on Medium recently lost an entire vault to data corruption because of an encryption plugin.
I’m very sorry this happened to them, and that they didn’t have a backup.
Truly, if our notes in Obsidian can’t function without features that exist only in that app, we’ve shackled ourselves to the wall of a prison without a door.
Always have an exit plan! Always backup your work! And never lock all your data with a key you don’t own.
This week: Using paper for finance tracking has been invaluable for helping me understand the process, shaping my Markdown budget trackers into a text-based, hands-on envelope budgeting approach. Simple calculations mean I can take charge of my incomings and outgoings without a standard spreadsheet.
@omnivore I love you! Just tried to visit the incredibly detailed #PlainText#GTD blog post at katanist.com, only to find it's vanished. Pwoof! Gone.
Did a search on my saved articles on Omnivore, and there it is!! Yay! I don't follow its principles exactly, but this is one post I've referred to many times over the past few years. Might #sketchnote it one day.
This is your friendly reminder to Save That Site you love, NOW.
The sourcehut folks put together a great guide to using plaintext email:
"Many people, particularly in technical communities, strongly prefer or even require the use of plain text email from participants. However, your mail client may not have it set up by default. We'll help you get it configured, and introduce you to the norms and conventions of plain text email.”
Fix a regression: the position in the previous session is now restored correctly in cloned document.
Fix a regression: customized extension in Style Configurator is now saved correctly.
Add an ability (disableLineCopyCutDelete.xml) to disable line copy/cut/delete when no selection is made and also add back Shift-DEL & Ctrl-INS shortcuts.
Add an ability (noColumnToMultiSelect.xml) to disable column mode to multi-select mode.
Fix deleting in column mode also delete an unexpected EOL.
Fix hidden results of long lines for Search results with “Find in…” commands.
Enhance Search-results by showing search options for “Find in…” commands.
Fix an issue: replacements are no longer duplicated (the 2nd time in cloned document) for “Replace in Opened Docs”.
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I've been screaming this for years. Service providers that provide authentication should do these two things at a minimum:
Require at least 12 characters.
Use ZXCVBN to estimate password strength and require a score of 4.
Interestingly enough, if you do those two things, you don't need stupid password complexity requirements, and you don't need a blacklist, as 12+ characters with a ZXCVBN score of 4 won't show up in password database breaches.
@atoponce#BBVA#bank in #Italy has a 6char MAX alphanumeric only #password. Which is stored in #plaintext since they’ll ask for characters of your password when calling them via phone. And of course there’s no #2fa for login
I’ve seen an announcement for improved security somewhere but it’s still like I’ve described at the time of writing 🤡