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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,255

    I think I have been lucky on the tick side. Just had one run-in with a chigger in Oklahoma.

    But this morning I ran into the dreaded password leak article. https://apnews.com/article/large-login-leak-cybernews-google-apple-meta-2a758a40c398b0a68fb2371a522f70ed

    So I thought I would spread the joy if you haven't heard. And would it be best to change DIM, Daz Studio's passwords, before changing the main store password?

    As much as I love automatic sign-ins, I think I am never going to let Google to save my data again.

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,781

    I love that whole "avoid using same or similar login credentials on different sites" -- yeah, I do my best, but no way am I letting something store my passwords for me, and EVERYTHING needs a login these days.

    And since they have no idea how this all got stolen/leaked in the first place, how long until we're right back here again?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,885

    memcneil70 said:

    I think I have been lucky on the tick side. Just had one run-in with a chigger in Oklahoma.

    But this morning I ran into the dreaded password leak article. https://apnews.com/article/large-login-leak-cybernews-google-apple-meta-2a758a40c398b0a68fb2371a522f70ed

    So I thought I would spread the joy if you haven't heard. And would it be best to change DIM, Daz Studio's passwords, before changing the main store password?

    They are the same - when you log in through those you are loggiing into your account as on the site, so that you can access your content.

    As much as I love automatic sign-ins, I think I am never going to let Google to save my data again.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,255

    Well I have just DAZ to do, but when I switched to my Windows 11 to update Nvidia, my Google accounts, including email hadn't got the updated password yet, so it messed up me with Nvidia. In the meantime, Nividi downloaded an update to the software (not the drivers). But once I got everyone sorted there, I am good to go to DAZ. I did see on DAZ's support page that updating there will update all other places. 

    But a word of advice, keep that old Google password around until you have finished going through every site and updating them all. I had to keep overriding the new one to enter the old password to be recognized by other sites, then change my password and move on.

    I had done this for a slew of other sites earlier this year, but some slipped past me under the radar. I think I will have got them all now.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075
    edited June 22

    Yard Sale Adventure:  I needed to toddle up to the local grocery store this morning.  It's gonna be hot today, but was still in the 70s earlier this morning so I put on my toddlin' shoes, grabbed my cloth grocery bags, and off I went.  It's just two blocks, but it's uphill.  But on the corner at the first block there was a yard sale, two of them in fact, one on each side of the road.  But I didn't see anything interesting as I passed the one on my side of the road.  Got to the grocery store, did my shopping for two bags of salad greens, four apples, three bananas, two pounds of grapes, two quarts of orange juice, a couple of slices of fruit pie, some fake crab meat, three Stoufer's frozen fish dinners, and a small snack bag of Doritos, to the tune of $52surprisesad  Yep, economy's doing juusst greatangry  But I digress, this is not a kvetch about prices, but about good luck at a yard sale. 

    Non-complaint:  On the way back I decided to get a closer look at the yard sale on the other side of the street.  Mostly cheap kitch and junk as expected, but there were two nice wooden nightstands, an oak one with two big drawers, and the other, maple with just one shallow drawer, and a shelf near the bottom.  Each for only $5.smiley  Yeah, they were a little banged up, but not badly.  For years I'd been thinking about replacing my current two nightstands (drawerless, cheap plastic from a dollar store) that I'd had for about 16 years from when I first moved here broke, and slept on the floor and kept my clothes in bags for a year.frown   Today, since I was only about a block from home, I put on my helpless old man face and asked if they could deliver the nightstands (and me) to my house, and carry them up the stairs to my bedroom.  They did, and I gave a tip and thanked them very much.  Wheee..., I have real furniture (other than my bed) in my bedroom now.yes  So, now I'm on the lookout for a nice-ish armoire and/or a decent 5-drawer clothes chest to replace the cheap, clear, dollar store plastic drawers I'm currently using.  But I'm running out of nearby yard sales.frown

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339

    The Tick-Tock Complaint Thread

    The Parasitic Complaint Thread

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838

    ...crikey, here we go again, yet another password breach on major sites that are tied to everything.

    What good is trying to develop extremely cryptic passwords when this sort of thing seems to happen on an almost regular basis?

    This is sheer hell when you are dyslexic.

    ...The My Passwords Were Given Away Again Complaint Thread.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    I'm trying not to focus on the overhead fan sounds so I won't go crazy.  

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,781

    @LeatherGryphon Congrats on the sale score! A lot of my best/favorite stuff has come from yard sales.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235
    edited June 22

    I can't get Microsoft copilot to create an ai image of an Anthony Stark.

     

    edit but I can do Michael Burnham?  

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838

    ...The neighbourhood I used to live in was great for yard sales as people had "yards", unlike where I live now.(everything here is apartment and condo buildings)   Picked up a lot of nice useful items when I lived there, often for less than at Goodwill or one of those "boutique" second hand ("vintage") stores.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,079

    Non-complaint:

    I found some of my favourite confectionery yesterday. I bought a bag of licorice. Delicious. Haven't had any for ages.

    Complaint:

    I appear to have developed an intolerance to licorice since I last had any. The symptoms are well documented if you develop the intolerance: Heart palpitations, and completely screwy sodium levels that leave me feeling dizzy, queazy and needing lots of salt. It's supposed to subside after 14 hours. But 14 hours is a very long time when you're feeling rotten. And now it appears I can't have the rest of the packet of the oh so lovely and longed for licorice. Gaah!

    Regards,

    Richard 

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,599

    I only like liquorice that's not liquorice, by which I mean Red Vines. I find actual black liquorice absolutely repellent.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838

    ...I like the basic black soft kind as it works well to soothe a scratchy throat.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333

    When I was young, in the 60's, there was a brand that I liked...and only that one for black...Switzer's.  Long gone, though. 

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,781

    Oh I'm so sorry, Richard! That sucks! Hope you're feeling better soon!

    ...weighing in on "all licorice is good licorice." Twizzlers, black jelly beans, straight up sticks with the bark still on... it's all fabulous!

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,079
    When growing up in W Germany in the 1970's it was possible to find salty licorice in the form of tiny moulded cats called 'Katjes Lakritz Katzen'. Loved them too. Salty licorice isn't a 'thing' in the UK, so I've only been able to get them when on holiday in Germanic areas. Strange what you miss. Regards, Richard
  • KinichKinich Posts: 924

    Maybe this is why in the Netherlands Salted Liquorice Fish are popular, the cause and the cure in one packet.

  • KinichKinich Posts: 924

    Looks like we cross posted about the salty liquorice, I first encountered these when a colleague brought some back from a trip away.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,079
    I have once found salty licorice on sale in the UK, at Bluewater Shopping centre in one of the 6month half-life boutique cubbyhole shops that appear there. It wasn't there when I returned several years later. Shame. I wonder if I can cope with salty licorice. Probably not worth trying as it largely has the same ingredients. Ho hum. Regards, Richard.
  • KinichKinich Posts: 924

    A quick search online and it appears to be readily available, though not that cheap when you add in shipping, and as you said maybe not worth experimenting if it's going to give you issues.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,079
    I'm probably seriously old fashioned when I say that I've never really thought sweets are worth the effort of getting them delivered, but that is what I feel. Younger daughter has had a couple of parcels of mixed Japanese sweets delivered from a Tokyo shop that specialises in exports to the Japanese Ex-pat communities. They are, almost without exception, weird. Caviar flavour 'Kit Kat'!? Prawn flavour Nougat? Seaweed flavour crisps (US: Chips). Very odd. Regards, Richard.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838

    ...the black licorice I get comes from Australia. and is made from natural licorice root extract and Anise seed oil  no artificial flavourings 

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339

    You can have my licorice. 

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,079
    edited June 23

    Yup. It's the natural licorice component that triggers those who have a sensitivity.

    On a different order of magnitude of effect: For those people who believe all natural products are automatically good for you because they are natural, can I say three words: 'Botulinum Toxin' and 'Risin'. Botulinum toxin is a natural waste product of the botulism bateria and is sufficiently deadly to be used as a chemical warfare agent alongside 'Risin', a completely natural extract from the Castor Oil plant. Both toxins at a dispersal rate of 10grams per square metre are lethal to almost all mammalian life for weeks. Totally natural, but definitely not good for you.

    Regards,

    Richard

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838

    ...that is interesting about natural licorice  I guess I'm fortunate I don't have that sensitivity. . I have enough other ones to deal with like raw or even emulsified egg yolks (basically what mayonnaise is) and salmon (and I live in the Pacific Northwest  which is like being lactose intolerant in Wisconsin or allergic to shellfish in New Orleans).

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,599

    Also arsenic.

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,781

    richardandtracy said:

    I'm probably seriously old fashioned when I say that I've never really thought sweets are worth the effort of getting them delivered, but that is what I feel. Younger daughter has had a couple of parcels of mixed Japanese sweets delivered from a Tokyo shop that specialises in exports to the Japanese Ex-pat communities. They are, almost without exception, weird. Caviar flavour 'Kit Kat'!? Prawn flavour Nougat? Seaweed flavour crisps (US: Chips). Very odd. Regards, Richard.

    Name of shop, please? My brother lived in Japan for quite a number of years, and I know he misses some of the unique stuff that was over there. I'd love to be able to point him to it.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,079
    edited June 23

    SilverGirl: I'll ask her this evening. Answer obtained, see PM

    Regards,

    Richard

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075

    One emphatic word about black licorice:  Blech!

    OT:  The Licorice Reviewers Complaint Thread

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