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Transition to LastPass for Safari: Replacing the legacy Mac desktop app
We’re replacing the LastPass Password Manager (Mac desktop app) with LastPass for Safari, a modern, secure, and optimized solution for managing your passwords on Mac.
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FYI, I do NOT use Safari.
Argh!
I’ll be transitioning to BITWARDEN, which supports all platforms.
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Don’t buy “gift cards” throught zillionsgift offers on gift card racks in Walgreens.
They are counting on you to become frustrated trying to transform them into a useable gift card for so site you like.
My experience:
Feel free to check back for my update. Argh!
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https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-freevee-app-shut-down-august-3573688/
Amazon’s Freevee app gets an expiry date, but here’s how to keep watching for free
Prime Video is the new home for all of Freevee’s ad-supported content.
By Pranob Mehrotra
July 3, 2025
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After announcing plans to wind down its free video streaming service late last year, Amazon has now confirmed that the Freevee app will finally be shut down in August. But there’s some good news for those who enjoy Freevee’s vast library of TV shows, movies, and live TV.
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Remember if it’s “free”, then you are the product!
Now like the Google Graveyard, we have an “Amazon sunset”!
Amazon’s Dash buttons are no more. Remember the “Tide button”, and other product buttons to make reordering easy? I don’t remember Amazon “sunseting” other things. And certainly not as frequently as Google does.
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Great, now when I check my U$D FRBies aka Federal Reserve Notes — The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians. — I can find the value of Pi serial number an have a million dollar winner!
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From “Nautilus”
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In your book, Time Smart, you write, “Nothing less than our health and our happiness depends on reversing the nearly innate notion that time is money. It’s not. Money is time.” What do you mean by that?
Behavioral scientist Ashley Whillans: We’re indoctrinated with this idea that money and productivity are the path to greater happiness and success. My data speaks to the fact that this is not necessarily the best way by which to measure the satisfaction, productivity, and meaningfulness of your life. If anything, focusing on money is a path to unhappiness as opposed to satisfaction. My colleagues and I find consistent evidence that people who feel time-affluent, and in control of their schedules, report greater happiness, less stress, better health. They’re less likely to get divorced. They’re more likely to choose jobs that are satisfying. Time is not money, but happiness.
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“Time is money. It’s not. Money is time.” — Behavioral scientist Ashley Whillans
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Also I like:
“Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able — be good.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
and
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell
FWIW (For What It’s worth)
TANSTAAFL (“There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” From Robert Heinlein’s classic)
faiwwypfi (Free Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It! ?zero?)
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An Original Thought
May I suggest that you have your own domain?
The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!)
It gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions: wordpressdotcom with gmail, email only with 1and1, and domain+email+webspace also at 1and1.
My point is not that you should use 1and1. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy.
And, it’s not aol, hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”. And, the “bad guys” can’t fool you!
If you have your own domain, you can “bulletproof” your email from phishing and frauds!
Let’s assume that you have “your own domain” named “yourowndomain.com”, and you bank at “your bank” at “yourbank.com”.
You give “yourbank.com” your email address as “yourbankcom@yourowndomain.com”. (Be prepared for some strange looks when you do this because the folk never heard of such and email address.)
Then you can set up an email filter — let’s use Gmail as an example — that says:
So all your email comes into GMAIL and gets assigned a label “INBOX”.
Pretty tricky and quickly eliminates PHISHING ATTACKS and identifies when the “BANK GAVE OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS”.
Applause please?
Why the email providers can’t protect you by using the appropriate internet protocols is beyond me!
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Email authentication methods and protocols
A sender policy framework (SPF) is a record published in your DNS that lists all the IP addresses that are allowed to send emails on behalf of your domain. When an incoming email is received, the recipient server will check the SPF record to verify if the sending IP address is authorized to send emails for that particular domain. If it’s not listed in the SPF record, there’s a higher chance that the email will be marked as spam or blocked altogether. While SPFs can help to prevent spam and phishing attempts, they also may reject legitimate emails in situations where the sender’s domain SPF records aren’t properly configured.
DKIM stands as a pivotal technology in the battle against email spoofing by attaching a digital signature to each outgoing email, linked directly to the sender’s domain name. This signature enables the recipient’s email server to verify whether an email purportedly sent from a specific domain is authorized by that domain’s owner. Given that emails often undergo multiple hops—redistributed by mailing lists or forwarding rules—DKIM ensures that signed messages can be reliably relayed by any server, maintaining their integrity and authenticity throughout their journey.
The DMARC protocol was built on top of SPF and DKIM, and relies on senders and receivers sharing information to ensure a smooth validation process. DMARC refers to SPF and DKIM records to validate a sender’s identity, along with testing whether the domain they use is found in the “from” address. If an email does not pass the validation test, DMARC provides rules on how to treat the message based on certain conditions. This protocol can help domain owners block phishing attacks by filtering such messages into spam, or rejecting them altogether.
If you’ve ever seen an email from a brand that included their logo right in the sender column, that brand was using BIMI. Improving email security with BIMI involves using an authentication system that enables trusted senders to display an icon of their choice directly in senders’ inboxes. BIMI can boost recipients’ trust in your messages, while heightening visibility of your brand.
MTA-STS is a security standard that enables you to send and receive messages securely over an encrypted SMTP connection. The MTA-STS protocol enhances email security by enabling an SMTP client to confirm the server’s identity during the TLS handshake. It does this by requiring the server to present its certificate fingerprint, which the client then matches with a trust store of certificates from verified servers. This process ensures the client does not connect to fraudulent servers, maintaining secure communication.
TLS reporting is a mechanism that enables email senders to report issues with TLS connectivity.
T is more effective when used alongside MTA-STS. The strict enforcement mode of MTA-STS will prevent email delivery if TLS issues are detected, ensuring a higher level of security and reliability in email communications.
ARC acts as a “chain of custody” for email messages. It enables every entity involved in processing the message to clearly see which entities have previously interacted with it. At every stage of handling, it provides a detailed authentication assessment. The primary advantage of ARC, now adopted by the majority of mail servers, is its solution to a significant issue: previously, when a DMARC-protected email was forwarded, it would fail DKIM authentication and, consequently, DMARC. ARC preserves all original authentication information, allowing the final recipient’s mail server to verify that the email was DKIM authenticated before being forwarded.
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FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students in deal to avoid execution
By REBECCA BOONE, GENE JOHNSON and MARK SCOLFORO
Updated 12:35 AM EDT, July 1, 2025
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim’s family said Monday.
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I always wonder if he really did it, OR did he just plea out because of the death penalty?
As a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I’m against the death penalty for moral and irreversible grounds. Moral because the Gooferment shouldn’t be able to do anything I can’t do since Gooferment is a fiction and represents a collection of individuals. Irreverable since mistakes happen and there is no way to un-die someone.
We have the saying that “better a hundred guilty go free that one innocent be imprisioned”. Plea bargains, regardless of the guilt or innocence, seems to make a mockery of our sense of “justice”. Any more than poor “defendants” get Legal Aid and rich “defendants” get the best money can buy. Also, even a rich “defendant” can be impoverished when faced with a Gooferment bureaucrat with unlimited funds to convict them.
Finally, how fair is our “justice system” when some civil and criminal cases “cost” a staggering amount of attention, time, and money? A Pyrrhic victory is a win that comes at such a significant cost to the victor that it is almost tantamount to defeat. One has to wonder.
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> On Jul 8, 2025, at 9:18 PM, reinkefj found and shared:
https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1942442921103614098?s=12
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Glenn Beck
Digital disruptor. Truth-teller. Philanthropist ($250M+ raised). Founder of The Blaze. Building The Torch. Empowering the people, not the system.
The Epstein “Evidence List” isn’t just damning—it’s clarifying. No matter what you believe about Epstein’s past or fate, five conclusions can be logically drawn from the material seized.
This thread is for anyone who still cares about truth.
1. This Was Not a Small or Isolated Operation
Dozens of devices. Thousands of photos. Labeled photo albums. Surveillance tapes. Blueprints. Foreign passports.
This wasn’t one man with a dark secret. This was infrastructure. Logistics. Coordination.
A system.
2. There’s a Massive Digital Footprint
Hundreds of hard drives, USBs, CDs, backup servers—some labeled with things like “nude girl pics book 4.”
Travel logs. Employee directories. Video tapes.
The real question:
Why hasn’t this been fully disclosed to the public?
3. Intelligence Involvement Isn’t a Stretch
An Austrian passport with Epstein’s face. Honeytrap-style setups. International mobility.
Too much precision, too much reach, too many decades undetected.
This isn’t wild theory.
It’s a logical hypothesis.
4. The System’s Silence Is Itself Evidence
If anyone else had even 1/10 of this material—underage photos, coded filenames, flight logs—they’d be under a prison.
But here?
Crickets.
No prosecutions. No answers.
That’s the real scandal.
5. Our Institutions Are On Trial
This is bigger than Epstein.
It’s about media complicity.
Justice deferred.
Power protected.
Truth buried.
Until this case is fully revealed, every elite institution carries a stench they can’t wash off.
To dismiss this as “conspiracy” is to admit you no longer believe in accountability.
Truth about Epstein is not morbid curiosity.
It’s a civic test.
And every day we fail to demand answers, we normalize elite immunity.
If we don’t confront what’s in those files…
We’ve declared that truth in America is now negotiable.
That justice is a luxury of the unimportant.
That power is a shield for the perverse.
The Epstein case isn’t over.
It’s the Rosetta Stone of public trust.
And if we don’t get to the bottom of it,
we’ll never restore what’s already been lost.
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AND
Michael Weaver ✡︎ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @MichaelGWeaver
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@TheJusticeDept claims there’s no “list”, this is simply not true. The faces of the perpetrators on those videos as well as the 20,000 images from Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan that’s on multiple hard drives is a list. The flight logs to pedo Island is a list. The bank accounts of the individuals that paid for “services” to the bank account that Epstein had (which was later seized and became the Epstein Compensation Fund) is a list. I don’t believe for an instant that the @FBI couldn’t cross reference these three sources together and come up with a definitive list of individuals to, at the very least, indict and bring in for questioning. So if @FBIDDBongino and @FBIDirectorKash are going to double down, then make sure the sick, evil pedophiles who were associated with Epstein never see the light of day again.
https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1942373596589965618
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My Luddite friend responded: “Anyone think Epstein was stupid enough to keep a client list?
I replied: “Yes!”
I’m often accused of having a “tin foil hat” and will believe any assertion of a conspiracy by the elite.
“Just because you’re not paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” — Andy Grove
I should have been keeping a better list. Because it’s a moral certainty in my mind that “We, The Sheeple” are being defrauded, killed, and kept in the dark by a cabal of “powerful elite”. The Dead Old White Guys were rightly afraid that the American Revolution would devolve in a French inspired “Reign of Terror”. And rightly so, imho.
Here we have the spark that could set it off in the USA.
Like many other Conspiracy Theories, I deem this one checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer” — Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity) —
Type: Political
Class 2. Likely
Bottom line: What is “We, The Sheeple” going to do about it? Probably nothing.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
We may have reached that point!
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Disney Cruise passenger describes terrifying moment a father and daughter went overboard
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I don’t know if I would jump over. It’s probably one of those “reaction” to stimuli — in USAF survival skrule, we were taught that in a crisis, 80% of people will “freeze”, 15% will “panic”, and 5% (or less) will immediately take effective personal action due to prior planning or training. We had to tread water for 60 minutes although we were allowed to use our pants as a life jacket as we were trained. Not sure I could do that now. Kudos to the crew and cruise line for being prepared for an accident or a drunken fool.
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Just do it now.
Seems simple.
Nike says “Do it” but that seems too simple.
Wife says “do it NOW!” But that seems impossible.
So I’ve come up with a new “heuristic” — heuristic (rule of thumb) — for myself.
Have a thought?
Estimate time to complete!
If less than a minute, be NIKE and “just do it”.
If less than FIVE minutes AND time permits, listen to wife and “do it NOW!”
For all other ideas, tasks, dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom), just “capture it”!
When “capturing”: first option is use GOOGLE TASKS, second option is write it in my Little Black Book in my back pocket, third is scribleit somewhere to be transcribed later, fourth is dictate to Siri or any such tool.
Let’s see how that works?
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Consultant at Technology Legacies LLC
Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
JJ Positraction JJ Endnotes Downsize DC
Philosophy of Liberty
I have NOT received any gagged governmental information requests
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