It works with authenticator apps fine, it’s only doing it via SMS (a less secure option) that requires Twitter Blue.
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SMS is terminally compromised anyway - if you’re actually being targetted, it’s very easy for an attacker to get into the phone system to intercept it. Professional advice is not to use it any more - this naturally came out just before UK banks started requiring it.
I’m using andOTP – Googleware won’t run on my phone because I don’t have their underlying spyware platform Google Play / Google Mobile Services / etc. installed. Naturally I have my own TOTP generator as a backup.
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When I logged in today to remove my TOTP app, twitter let me know that I had to remove it because that was for subscribers only now. I was going to deactivate it anyway. It’s not like I am using twitter anymore.
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which most of us are not most of the time. it is rare to fall prey to a targeted identity theft for the average person. it does happen. but it is rare.
my bank uses a special app. no sms ever.
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For Emacs users, Securely Generating TOTP tokens with Emacs - Mastering Emacs is a thing.
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I’m an emacs heretic - I love it as an editor but I don’t want it to take over my life. 
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I am the other sort of emacs heretic. I think it’s a crap editor[1], but provides a great environment for certain tasks. Slime, emacs, and a few extensions on top of SBCL provides one of the most productive programming and debugging environments in existence.
[1] actually, if it improved drastically, it would reach crap status.
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I got to teach our friends’ 13 yo how to use chatGPT to solve Advent of Code puzzles in python–a language that he had never programmed in before today. All things considered he did well: he solved 1.5 days of 2021 with my help. The trick is to teach him to ask the right questions. He would have kept going but I had his parents asking me to send him home as it was too late already.
Also serves as a good reminder how much knowledge I take for granted and how fast I can type.
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I had to change my work password today. it only runs out once a year now so that is acceptable.
I made a new one, nice long, all that stuff. trying to think of how to memorize it better, I decided to type it into the input fields—twice as is required. felt like a good one…
Then I had to log into all the apps again with the new password. And failed. And failed again. Copied it from keepass and failed.
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There was a little blue light on my keyboard: i had entered the password with caps lock on.
This would never have happened if I just entered it in keepass and copied from there as I usually do to prevent this exact scenario or varieties thereof.
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Part of my standard new-desktop setup is to remap caps-lock to a compose key (e.g. capslock c , becomes ç). setxkbmap -option compose:caps if anyone needs it. Some people prefer an extra control key. But I basically never want actual caps-lock functionality…
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Does anyone know what might cause an Excel sheet to change every cell row height (or width) I set in cm to less than half the value I set?
If I drag cell height with a mouse, it stays at whatever value I select. If I enter a value like 0.31 cm and hit enter, the row immediately becomes tiny, and on checking it is now 0.15 cm.
Obviously, this is annoying on a huge table where I have to resize dozens of rows, because I can’t just select them all and type a value.
(I have to use Excel for work)
The windows solution for getting rid of capslock: GitHub - microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
Thanks @RogerBW … It had been annoying me forever
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I don’t even know how to set column width in cm…
When I right click on the column and set the width, I can only enter a number and the resulting width does not seem to correspond with cm at all. (full disclosure: I only very occasionally use excel and have no idea what I am doing, just trying to help)
You can set the units in the options: inches, cm, or mm. It also seems to show a “pixels” value.
My partner’s first thought was it might be something to do with printing? Because he assumed you needed that specific width for printing? Could the change be because you are working with a specific page format?
(he works with excel a lot more than I do)
I tried setting the units in Options > Advanced > Display… is that it?
I couldn’t see any change at all. I also tried to measure with a screen ruler but there seems to be no correlation with cm there.
Sorry I can’t be of more help
I’m in team control. On the modern Mac, there’s a control panel for that. (Which does not make setting the left and right option keys to diff settings possible, annoying me a computer or two ago. )
I don’t need any specific size for printing, but the desired end result is a table that can be copied as an image and pasted into Word (this is the only process work will accept). So all the text has to be neat and legible. Cell auto-sizing isn’t helping, and I merely want to be able to set multiple cells to a given size.
No, but display ratios of 2:1 make me think of the so-called “retina” displays in which small screens have ludicrously-high resolutions, and everything winds up being too small to see properly, so they introduced a system whereby stuff gets automatically scaled to twice the size it’s supposed to be, even though some of the system still thinks it’s the original size. Or something. (I haven’t had to deal with such things myself, so I’m very fuzzy on the details.)
Do you have one of those displays? If so, and if the feature I’m referring to can be switched off, you could test whether that’s mucking with your specified spreadsheet sizes.
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To add to the confusion, today I found out it’s only the first sheet in the “book” that is being measured in cm and exhibits this weird behaviour. The second and third sheets are set to some arbitrary units that stay at whatever I set them too.
So, for example, if I set the first sheet row to “0.32 cm”, for some reason that becomes 0.15 cm, while if I set the second sheet row to “20.2” it stays at 20.2. Those sizes are roughly equivalent.
20.2 × 300dpi would be about 0.17cm…
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