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SPICE-E BACoN (UDTQ#112) - </security week>

Happy Friyay, folks! We made it this far. In light of recent events, everyone please make sure you’re following read-only Friday rules. Especially if your code affects billions of people! :joy:

The Recap:

Yesterday’s question asked which of the options was credited with being the first antivirus, and the results were fairly split! Nearly 45% of you chose the correct answer, though, which is Reaper. Reaper was designed to remove Creeper. You can read more about the two here. As @tim-smith pointed out here, Creeper and Reaper inspired a game as well!

Click to view yesterday's results

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The Ramble:

What temperature is comfortable for you?

This has come up a few times for me lately. Depending on the humidity, I typically prefer 68-74F indoors, and, without wind, I’m comfortable as low as 40F outside without needing a coat. Wind obviously makes 40 seem much colder pretty quickly, though. I think that’s like 20-23ish inside, and around 4 outside in degrees water. Sorry, rest of the world, but I prefer my temperatures in degrees human, as a human.

As a tangent to that, Fahrenheit is degrees human (below 0, the temperature doesn’t really matter much any more, it’s cold, and above 100 it’s hot,) Celsius/Centigrade is degrees water (for hopefully obvious reasons,) Kelvin is degrees science, and Rankine is “human science,” though I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone outside of my friend group use degrees Rankine, but it is a real thing!

The Real Question:

It’s the last day of “security week” today, and it will hopefully be an easy one for most of you, after some of rather esoteric/niche options we’ve had recently.

I don’t have a theme lined up for next week, I’ve been trying to think of a bigger variety of questions for something exciting that’s coming soon so if you have any question ideas, or anything you’d like to see, please send it my way! :slight_smile:

When re-evaluating your digital security, which of the following would be the best security practice of these options?
  • Setting all of your passwords to 13@C()/\/
  • Using Multi-Factor Authentication wherever supported
  • Keeping your passwords taped to the bottom of your keyboard
  • Putting all of your private info on your personal Blog, because nobody will find it there
  • I’m not sure, but I’m excited to learn more!
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The Rest:

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And just wondering, I want truthful answers here, how many of you read that password as Bacon the first time you saw it?

  • I saw it as Bacon
  • I saw it as gibberish
  • I knew it was supposed to be something, but not sure what
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My ideal temps are anything in the 60° range, but I’m good with anything below that down to about 10°. Anything above 75° is miserable for me, especially if there’s humidity involved.

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This is pretty much where I am, too, perhaps a couple of degrees human (LOVE that!) cooler than that range. I don’t even worry about long sleeves until it is in the mid-fifties.

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That’s really interesting about the origin of the various temperature scales. Now I can say for sure that I learned something on this Friday! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Well, given how popular any blogging I have ever done has been, this would actually be more secure that two of the other options…

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Great tangent. But you missed Réaumur.

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“What temperature is comfortable for you?”

I tend to “run cold”. Indoors during the summer I’m good with 77, 78, and I’ll wear shorts & a t-shirt. When I work at someone else’s location I’ll be in long pants (sweats if I can) and bring a hoodie “just in case”. For energy conservation during the winter I’ll go as low as 65 indoors during the day, and 68 at night because I hate having to wake up to a really cold house.

Outdoors wind and humidity make a difference. We’re running in the 90s here, with heat warnings and heat indices from 105 to 110, and I’m fine working outside with that. In the winter if I’m moving around I’ll go to the mid 30s with no coat, but when it’s into the 20s, esp with a wind, I’ll do like the picture.

In the water I’ll wear a 7 mm wetsuit at 70 degrees, unless I’m working hard in which case I’ll go thinner. Colder than upper 60s and/or less active diving I’ll go with the drysuit.

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I like things warm. Outside temperatures of 60 (as long as it is sunny) to 85 are good, 90 if it is shady or cloudy and a light breeze, and indoors 74 to about 78 are comfortable.
I almost chose ‘Putting all of your private info on your personal Blog, because nobody will find it there’ because I am sure that I am the only person on the internet that has and will ever see that space

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My advice to the two of you would be to get a job as a community manager at Spiceworks! When you do, people start paying attention to your rambles for some reason :joy:

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Best explanation I’ve read! It seems that explanation works with other imperial vs. metric measurements as well. I say we go back to using cubits!

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I had to look up “cubit” because I didn’t remember. It makes perfect sense now that I see the definition, but my first thought was “Is that some unit of computer memory that I don’t remember?” You know byte > bit > nibble > cubit? :joy:

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Then there was my grandfather, who measured distances in rods.

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Gibberish at first. Was like “where’s the bacon answer”. Looked back at the choices and saw bacon. Then read this question. So… kind of sort of, probably, maybe?

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When we bought our current house from family, the assessor still had the plat measured in rods and chains.

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Nah, just your imagination…

Was he Abe Simpson?

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Pretty much!

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Yep, I was looking for Bacon too. Wouldn’t have noticed what the password was without the bonus poll. I’m almost done resetting all my passwords! :grin:

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Ah, security! Everyone’s favorite topic, right? :sweat_smile:

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