I just heard about an interesting social engineering theft.

A friend's mom recently moved into an apartment complex.

At some point a theif contacted the apartment complex management impersonating the moms bank.

The thief convinced them that 6 months of rent money was taken from the wrong bank account and they needed it returned.

The complex, without contacting the mom, "returned" the money. Idk if this was to the moms account or if the theif provided an alternative account.

The apartment complex is now in the process of evicting their tenent. And collecting the "overdue rent".

Who's the victim in this? Are there two? Is the apartment complex victimizing their tenent? Does it matter who owned the account that the money was returned to?

The thief also played the same scam with the moms cell phone provider. They credited the account for the lost money and provided additional credits.

I offered to help a friend recover some family photos from a laptop they could no longer access. Once I was done they asked if I could restore it to factory defaults.

I'm still not sure why but I agreed to that last part.

It took 7+ hours to "restore". Let's see how long the update and reboot roller coaster takes.

🪟🎢

You want to pull the "It works on my machine" card.

Okay - but first ask yourself a simple question.

Are you also the person responsible for putting that code into production and managing the machines it runs on.

😜I thought so!

Some days the battery in my laptop last 6ish hours. Other days (today) it won't even last two.

I start with a fresh boot every morning and only use the terminal and Firefox with no more than a couple of tabs open to the same websites everyday.

Oh, and slack but not today.

I need a "dumb" watch with a vibrating alarm.

Any recommendations?

I normally charge my phone near my front door at night. So I was using a Garmin watch to wake me up in the morning. The vibrating alarm was perfect but the watch is old.

I've been wearing an old Casio watch and don't miss the smart features from the Garmin but I really miss the vibrating alarm. I had to move my phone back in the bedroom for an alarm and I keep finding myself on it when I should be sleeping or reading.

Welp, I called in sick on Friday and my employer sends a text asking if I can work on Sunday (today) to push a project to production.

I said yes and they thanked me.

It's Sunday I drug my sick, sleep deprived self outta bed, made a cup of coffee and now I'm the only one here.

I should have seen this coming.

I have a laptop with an Nvidia GPU. I plug that into a docking station that is connected to two monitors.

Every once in a while Ubuntu decides those displays don't exist and I haven't been able to sufficiently debug it to find the problem.

It doesn't seem to matter how many times I reboot. And everything works perfectly in Windows on the same machine.

So far the only semi-working solution is to select a different display driver and reboot. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Ideas?

I setup a super simple weblog tonight using #astro.

I've really been wanting somewhere to take some notes and write out my thoughts. Not tutorials.

If you've never used astro it's absolutely worth a few minutes of your time. I really wanted something that built a static site; preferably with markdown support.

It uses #Vitejs under the hood so that means I can use #vuejs and I've been wanting to learn #react. With astro I can use both.

It really checks a lot of boxes.