409: Sketch as F@ck

Sketch as F@ck

[00:00:00] Brett: Hey, welcome back to another episode of the Lately Sporadic Overtired podcast. Um, Jeff is out this week. I’m Brett Terpstra. I am here with Christina Warren. Christina, how

[00:00:14] Brett: are you?

[00:00:14] Christina: I’m pretty good. I’m tired because, and I’m, and I’m just getting started this weekend. It’s going to be so, so busy, but no, I’m tired because I’ve, I’ve had kind of like a crazy last week or so. And it’s, it’s, it’s just going to get busier. I’m, I’m, I’m good. How about you? Uh,

[00:00:31] Brett: Um, I also am tired. Um, I had, I ran out of My sleep meds one night and then I got them and slept really well the next night. And then last night, even with the sleep meds, uh, after 2 a. m. I was up like every half an hour. So I’m dragging and I also had a crazy work week. Um, crazy for me, probably not as crazy as yours, but

[00:00:57] Mental Health Corner

[00:00:57] Brett: I, uh, I did this [00:01:00] project before I left on vacation.

[00:01:01] Brett: I went, I went to Asheville. I don’t, we haven’t talked since then, but have we? Um, I, uh, I, I worked really hard to get two projects in the can before I left on vacation and then made the mistake of checking Slack while on vacation and. and found out that both of the projects I had completed required revisions for asinine reasons um that I started to argue in slack halfway through my vacation and then I was like dude you’re totally harshing my buzz here so I’m just gonna I’ll talk to you when I get home.

[00:01:42] Brett: Um, and then I saw Victor and Victor kind of talked me down and, and I got back and like, it was no big deal, but then yesterday I get this frantic Slack message from someone I had never heard of who wanted to know who [00:02:00] greenlit the. Demo video that I published because that entire project apparently was confidential and like I worked directly with the team and the team didn’t know their project was confidential.

[00:02:15] Brett: They were as shocked as I was so there is some kind of failure of communication

[00:02:19] Brett: here.

[00:02:19] Christina: And a failure I should add that is in no way yours.

[00:02:22] Brett: Huh, I just followed

[00:02:23] Brett: orders. They

[00:02:24] Christina: what I’m saying. That’s what I’m saying. You had, you, you had zero.

[00:02:29] Brett: So I got, I got together all the stakeholders. I said, you guys sort this out. It’s Friday afternoon. I’m out. Have fun.

[00:02:37] Christina: Yeah, no, sounds fair, sounds fair. Um, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll talk more in depth, um, uh, off mic, but, um, I’m actually going to be talking to a couple of Oracle people at, uh, Microsoft Build, but I don’t know if you know any of them or not, but

[00:02:53] Brett: We’ll, we’ll think, we’ll find

[00:02:55] Christina: we’ll

[00:02:55] Christina: find out. You probably don’t cause it’s a big company, but yeah.

[00:02:59] Brett: yeah, [00:03:00] no, I, I meet new people every day. Um, so, uh,

[00:03:05] Mental Health Corner

[00:03:05] Brett: I think we’ve kind of started the mental health

[00:03:07] Christina: yeah, I was gonna say that. That sounds, that sounds good. So, so how, but, but let’s, uh, let’s, let’s go more into that. You can take it away. Like how, how is Asheville? How’s life?

[00:03:16] Brett: yeah, Asheville was awesome. Um, it was my second time going there and I loved it so much the first time I had to go back again. Um, have you ever

[00:03:26] Brett: been?

[00:03:27] Christina: I never have. I, um, I, I’ve, uh, but I’ve heard good things and I’ve heard it’s like a, a good place.

[00:03:34] Brett: It’s a, it’s, there’s Raleigh and there’s Asheville, the only blue spots in what is otherwise a

[00:03:41] Brett: deep red

[00:03:42] Christina: Yeah. I’ve been to

[00:03:43] Brett: Um, and yeah, Asheville is like, it’s kind of hippie meets yuppie meets, Like, just your average, like, West Coast liberal kind of sensibility, and, [00:04:00] um, and like, you’ll get into an Uber, and they’ll ask you where you’re from, and if, if they, if you’re from, like, a blue state, they’ll be like, oh, you’ll feel right at home here, and half the people there have relocated, so, like, my accent didn’t stick out.

[00:04:14] Brett: Um, no one really questioned whether I was from Asheville or not. I had to tell them I was just visiting. Um, but yeah, we did shopping. We, we hiked, we swam in waterfalls. We, uh, we ate a lot of really good food. They have a ton of like vegan gluten free food for us. And there’s this restaurant called Plant that it’s a vegan restaurant.

[00:04:40] Brett: And honestly. It’s the best vegan food I’ve ever had. I would take any meat eater there and just be like, enjoy. And it was half price wine, bottle of wine night. So we got a bottle of red wine, drank half of it with dinner. And then they sent us home. [00:05:00] They corked the bottle and gave us. I mean, we paid for it, but we got a pint of vegan ice cream, went back to our tiny home, which was awesome.

[00:05:09] Brett: We Airbnb’d a tiny home, and we sat and had a pint of ice cream and half a bottle of wine before going to bed in probably the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in. So overall, the vacation was pretty

[00:05:23] Brett: magical. Um, And then I came home and went right back into work. Um, which I don’t know. I was pretty refreshed.

[00:05:32] Brett: It’s like the first vacation in a long time that actually felt refreshing instead of stressful. Um, even though we drove from Minnesota to North Carolina, um, it, and I did most of the driving, but I, I’m a trooper. I can drive for hours. I don’t want to, but I can. Anyhow, that’s kind of, that’s, that’s my update.

[00:05:56] Christina: That’s good. That’s good. Well, I’m glad you had a good time. I wanna hear more about this [00:06:00] tiny home shit.

[00:06:01] Brett: Oh yeah, it was in this guy’s backyard. They built a tiny home that it had running water, it had electricity, it had wi fi, um, it had like a great shower with great water pressure, super comfortable bed, but the whole thing was maybe like 80 square feet. It had a decent sized refrigerator and a microwave and a toaster oven and a big sink and like just soup, all brand new, like all like recently built, everything was in top notch shape and.

[00:06:41] Brett: I sent a link out. I posted pictures of it and people who visit Asheville were like, I need to know where this is so I can link it in the show notes too. If you’re headed to Asheville, I highly recommend. And it was 80 a night.

[00:06:55] Christina: Damn.

[00:06:56] Brett: know, you can’t, it’ll only hold two

[00:06:58] Brett: people, but 80 bucks a [00:07:00] night. Yeah, that’s like a, that’s like motel

[00:07:02] Brett: prices.

[00:07:03] Christina: going to say, I don’t, I don’t think I’ve ever in my life ever

[00:07:08] Brett: it was, it was way under priced for what it was. I would have, I would have expected it to be more like 250

[00:07:15] Brett: and,

[00:07:16] Christina: I would expect that too. Yeah.

[00:07:18] Brett: completely, completely private. We met the owner one time in passing in his backyard, but otherwise it’s like keypad entry, never see anybody, completely secluded in like the backyard is a forest and it’s, it’s like surrounded by trees and it was so cool.

[00:07:38] Brett: It was awesome.

[00:07:39] Christina: That’s

[00:07:40] Brett: It’s worth going to Asheville just to stay in this tiny home.

[00:07:43] Christina: Yeah. No, the tiny home movement is so interesting to me. Um, uh, you know what I mean? Like it, it, it doesn’t, um, negate like a lot, many of the, the real problems, which are like, okay, well, where do you get space for a tiny home? But, uh, you know, like, like where, where do you get land for those things? But,

[00:07:58] Brett: Yeah, [00:08:00] no, but yeah, I love the, uh, I love the idea of a maximal, maximally livable space in a minimal area. Um, and that is like, I, I love it as an engineering problem. I don’t want to live in one like

[00:08:16] Brett: permanently, but like for a couple of nights, it’s awesome.

[00:08:21] Christina: That’s, that’s

[00:08:22] Brett: So how are you?

[00:08:23] Christina: pretty good. I, like I said, I’ve been busy. So last week, so Microsoft Build, uh, is, is happening, um, it’ll be Tuesday, the 21st, uh, the 22nd, the 23rd, so Wednesday, the 22nd, uh, or, um, and Thursday, the 23rd. And so, um, I’m, I’m involved in that this year. I’m not like as heavily involved as some years, but I am one of the hosts and so I’m still doing.

[00:08:47] Christina: by not heavily involved. I think that only means I’m doing like, like 15 interviews instead of like 30. So, um, so stuff that’s been coming in hot and then, you know, there’ve been like parts of my day job and stuff too. And then I went out of [00:09:00] town beforehand to Atlanta for Mother’s Day and, um, I, uh, went to a concert in Portland this week, which in retrospect, not the best decision.

[00:09:12] Christina: Like, if I could do it all over again, as much as great of a time as I had at the concert and as great as it was to be in Portland for like a day and a half, I, I would not. have, I’ve gotten out of town, um, before all of this, just because I had a ton of meetings. I was like, I like, I like took a, I took a meeting like on an airplane, like as we were boarding, right?

[00:09:32] Christina: Like it was one of those things I was, they were like, Oh, you have to go. I’m like, no, no, no, no, no. I’m going to be completely that asshole who, you know, sits in the front of the plane and is on the phone, um, while everyone is, is boarding. But, um, it was a small commuter jet cause it was for like an hour long flight.

[00:09:47] Christina: So, but it was, it was a really busy week and then the weekend is going to be really busy. Like, we’re recording this on a Saturday. I have an appointment this afternoon to get my eyebrows waxed and then. My call time tomorrow is like 8 a. m. for [00:10:00] rehearsals and prerecords. And then similar on Monday.

[00:10:03] Christina: So it’s like eight to six Sunday and Monday. And then my call time Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is 6 a. m. And it will go until like 6 p. m. So, yeah, so it’s, it’s, it’s going to be like a long week. So, um,

[00:10:15] Brett: usually, I usually say it sarcastically, but that is why you get paid the big bucks.

[00:10:22] Christina: I don’t know

[00:10:22] Brett: usually if I say that to someone, it’s with this knowing smile, like, I know they don’t get paid the big bucks, but yeah, you deserve what you

[00:10:31] Christina: I mean, I, I get the moderately by tech standards bucks, right? Yeah. Um, no, this is definitely one of those weeks where I’m like, yeah, I’m, I’m doing a lot. Like yesterday I was trying to manage five million different things and I was like, I’m very sorry. I was like, things are coming in hot on this. And then I was, people were like, oh yeah, well, what are you doing with build?

[00:10:49] Christina: And then I was like telling them a little bit of my schedule, just like I did with you. I’m like, yeah. So I’ve got like two, you know, all day, like pre record and rehearsal days. And then like my call time’s at 6am for three days and it’s, you know, going to be there [00:11:00] All day and all night. Oh, and I’ll have community events at night too.

[00:11:02] Christina: Like, let’s not forget about that. Um, and they were like, and I haven’t even told that to people. I’ve just figured that the 6am call time was enough to kind of get it. But, um, no, I’ll have, I’ll have evening events as well. So yes, this is one of those weeks where I’m like,

[00:11:19] Brett: are, how are you gonna take care of yourself? Like, what do you do to make it possible to get through that many long

[00:11:26] Brett: days?

[00:11:27] Christina: I mean, you just do it. And then you collapse after.

[00:11:31] Brett: in the

[00:11:31] Brett: evenings?

[00:11:32] Christina: No, usually not. Usually not.

[00:11:34] Brett: I wouldn’t either. I wouldn’t either.

[00:11:37] Christina: If I were 10 years younger, if I were actually 29, sure. Um, but, but no, um, at my actual age, um, no, I don’t drink. Just because you can’t. Like, at least I can’t. Like, yeah.

[00:11:54] Brett: when you have to get up at 6 in the morning

[00:11:56] Brett: and be

[00:11:56] Christina: And beyond.

[00:11:57] Brett: like you just have to show up. Like, you gotta

[00:11:59] Brett: [00:12:00] be

[00:12:00] Christina: no, you gotta be on, you have to look good, right? Like, yeah, you’ve got to be, you know, energetic and doing all those things and yeah.

[00:12:07] Managing work and personal devices

[00:12:07] Christina: The only thing I’m, I’m, I’m weirdly anxious about at this point, this matters to no one, um, but I’ll just say it anyway cause fuck it. Um, I refuse to do what is required on my personal cell phone to be able to have access to Microsoft. Like chat stuff,

[00:12:28] Brett: Same, but with

[00:12:28] Brett: Oracle for

[00:12:29] Christina: right? Because GitHub doesn’t make us put any sort of MDM on our, on our phones.

[00:12:34] Christina: And so I have no problem getting Slack or email or Zoom or basically anything. Um, and, um, like I could, I can use a YubiKey if I need to for certain things, but now actually we can use with Okta, um, as, Basically a YubiKey. So, like, I, there’s nothing, I mean, there are like a handful of resources that require that I actually be on like a GitHub owned and operated machine, and in that case I wouldn’t be able to [00:13:00] access it on a phone anyway because we don’t have phone management stuff.

[00:13:03] Christina: Um, but Microsoft is different. And, When I worked at Microsoft, it was one thing for me to like put the Intune stuff on my phone because that way I could access email and teams and whatnot and and it was a trade off and for the most part for it was it was fine because What they have access to and what they can see at least on the iPhone is less than what they can on Android and like I Didn’t care, but then they started putting this antivirus Windows Defender stuff on

[00:13:28] Brett: yep.

[00:13:30] Christina: And that impacts your battery life in a not insignificant way.

[00:13:35] Christina: And the thing is, is that if it’s part of my job and part of my day thing, fine, I can, I can consider the trade off. Right. Um, but this isn’t part of my job and my day to day, like I don’t have to use their tools except for like one or two weeks out of the year for things like this, because this is like. [00:14:00] I know that they are going to be sending updates to Teams that I’m not going to be able to see.

[00:14:04] Christina: And Like, as much as I would like for them to just be like, just text me, I, I also am recognizing that that’s probably not going to be a thing. And so I’m gonna, I’m, I’m, there’s, I’m like half considering in tuning my phone for the week only because I broke my phone last Saturday when I was getting my haircut and, or maybe it was last Friday.

[00:14:30] Christina: And, um, I had to order like an express replacement and it arrived and I, it arrived on Wednesday, so I got it Thursday. So I have like 10 days to send it back to them. So, um, What I’m thinking is, is that I can take my broken phone, and what broke by the way was just like the back glass and the front glass a little bit, and it wasn’t that bad, but I didn’t have time to go to an Apple store and pay them 50 to deal with it, so I was just like, did the, pay them 100 and they’ll mail me a, [00:15:00] a, a refurb but new phone thing. This is the second time now that I’ve broken my iPhone 15 Pro Max, um, since, um, I got it in September. So great for me. Um, you would think, Christina, just buy a case. Well, I did buy a case, but I hated the case. And so here we are. Anyway, I’m thinking, I don’t know what your thoughts are on this. I’m like, maybe I just in tune my phone that I know I’m going to wipe anyway. And then just set up the new phone as a new phone and don’t bother with any of the, you know, like transfer over.

[00:15:31] Brett: I haven’t, so Oracle has MDM stuff and they will pay for my phone. If I, you know, run it as if it’s Oracle property, like they would, they would pay my cell bill and everything. Um, And if, if I saw a need for it, I would take them up on that and just have a separate number for work. Um, but like I can run Outlook on my phone, no problem getting my [00:16:00] emails.

[00:16:00] Brett: I can use Zoom with SSO on my phone, no problem getting meetings. And my, uh, like Apple calendar works with their. Office 365, uh, implementation of scheduling software, so I have no reason to let Oracle own my phone. Um, does Microsoft, will they pay, will they, can you just get a second phone for this two

[00:16:28] Brett: weeks out of the

[00:16:29] Christina: No, unfortunately that’s the thing, right? Like, so GitHub will pay as part of our, some of our benefits. Like I can have my, my. My phone bill, um, um, expensed, um, and, and even my cell phone is part of that, right? So like, if you do like the pay, like the monthly, you know, fee, like $50 a month or whatever, like the, you know, every two years or whatever, um, or if you are part of the Apple upgrade program, you know, like, every year you can get a new phone, right?

[00:16:52] Christina: Like I can expense that, Which is great, but that’s like a benefit, but I could also use that for money for other things too. So I guess [00:17:00] technically I could get a second phone and just have that paid for as my get up phone and then have my personal phone that I’m not, you know, expensing anything on and then use that for the two months out of the year or two weeks out of the year.

[00:17:10] Christina: I guess I could do that. I do have an iPhone 12, um, Pro Max, um, that’s still around. My thought has actually been over for a while has been to use that as like my, you know, Microsoft Teams phone if I need it, um, and, and also use it as a, uh, webcam replacement, um, instead of using the, the studio display’s, uh, garbage fucking camera, which I still have people on Mastodon and Threads, but mostly Threads, who will, like, argue with me about that, and I’m like, if you’re happy with a really shitty camera that’s, like, worse than, like, an iPad camera, in a 600 display, that’s great.

[00:17:48] Christina: I’m happy for you. However, most of us who spend 1, 600 on a display are also the sorts of assholes who will then spend more money on a better webcam because the [00:18:00] webcam that comes with it is hot garbage. And if, and if you want to be, live in delusional town and think that it’s not happy for you. Love that for you.

[00:18:08] Christina: However, most of us who are, like, dumb enough to spend this much money on this type of display because it’s the only display we can use because it is a waste of, it is overpriced and it is not worth the money, except it is. Like, there’s no alternative. So, I just spend more. Anyway, um, I’ve been thinking about using that, that, um, phone also as like a webcam.

[00:18:30] Hanging on to old tech… because it works

[00:18:30] Christina: you know, cause it’s now, you know, three years out of date and it’ll be almost four years out of date, but it’s still, it’s still perfectly, you know, serviceable, so I don’t

[00:18:38] Brett: Can I admit, I, I have never upgraded from my 12 Pro Max. Um, it is, I’ve, I’ve never broken it. It has never been slow. The battery life three years, four years later is still solid. Like I, like most of the iPhones I’ve had after a few years, like the battery life, you have to start charging it twice a day.[00:19:00]

[00:19:00] Brett: You have to like charge midday and that sucks. I, that’s why I usually upgrade. Um, This one, I, it, it runs for a day and a half about before it needs a charge, um, unless I’m playing a lot of Super Monsters Date My Condo, which I think I mentioned last time, but has just come out for Apple Arcade and I’m way back into it.

[00:19:22] Brett: But anyway, yeah, I still run a 12 Pro Max and I, I think every once in a while about going for a 15. I just, I love this phone. It’s I’ve never cracked it. There’s no chips on it. There’s, I just don’t have a reason to. My, my case is smashed to hell. Um, I’m going to hold this up so you can see, but like, the case is falling apart from all the times it’s protected my phone.

[00:19:50] Brett: It’s not in great shape. I should get a new case if I’m not going to get a new phone. And that’s what happens is I’m like, I should order a new case. Then I’m like, I should just go down to the Verizon store and [00:20:00] just finally get a new phone and then get a case for that. But. I have not.

[00:20:04] 1Password and Passkeys

[00:20:04] Brett: Um, couple questions, first of all, how much do you love passkeys?

[00:20:10] Christina: love Pasceys. They’re the greatest thing in the whole world.

[00:20:13] Brett: Like, when I, I used to be, cause I do a lot of, I do the GitHub, um, organization management for my, my organization. Um, for the entire DevRel, uh, part of Oracle. And. I used to have to, every time you, you can be logged in, but if you want to change the collaborators on a repo, it’ll ask you to do a 2FA login again.

[00:20:43] Brett: And it used to always be. Either I had to pull up the GitHub mobile app and punch in the two digit code, or I’d have to get a text message and punch in a 2FA code. And on my Mac, that’s a pain in the ass. Um, and now I have [00:21:00] passkeys and I can always just click the use passkey and then unlock one password, click a button, done.

[00:21:05] Brett: It’s so much faster. I use it for Google, GitHub, um, My, uh, health, my health insurance com lets me use passkeys. Yeah, I, I think it’s the

[00:21:16] Brett: future. It’s

[00:21:17] Christina: No, it’s so great. And the way that 1Password does it is especially really nice because, you know, like, um, nothing against like, like the other implementations, but like, it is sort of annoying on a desktop to have to hold up your phone and scan a QR code and then authenticate your face.

[00:21:35] Brett: 1Password can actually do a screen capture.

[00:21:38] Brett: Yeah,

[00:21:39] Christina: so, so what,

[00:21:39] Brett: no that’s

[00:21:40] Christina: so with what one Password is doing is that when you have a pass key that’s saved in one password, if you’re authenticated through one password, then the, then the pass key authenticates in your browser.

[00:21:49] Christina: So I’m not having to touch a UB key. I’m not having to authenticate with my, you know, face ID with a QR code and whatnot. So, for where it becomes really useful for me, and I think this would be useful [00:22:00] for you as well, like you can use a keyboard that has a fingerprint sensor with your, um, um, Mac Studio, but I don’t know if you.

[00:22:07] Christina: Do, because we’re going to talk about keyboards in a little bit, right? But you probably don’t, right? But like I have an Intel iMac and I, it has a T2 display or T2 chip. So it, it is like secure in that respect, but Apple refuses to let you use, um, biometric login with it. Like I can’t use one of their biometric keyboards on it, even though it’s secure enough, because.

[00:22:31] Brett: On

[00:22:31] Brett: 1Password.

[00:22:33] Christina: no, with, with, with, with macOS. So um, this is why 1Password is great. So like, one of the, like, which means like, cause, cause for instance, you could use pass keys on like Safari or, or some other things like using um, fingerprint sensor, um, without having to, to authenticate, like without having to do the, hold up your phone and, and scan the QR code and, and then [00:23:00] face authent, uh, face authenticate.

[00:23:00] Christina: Authenticate thing. Um, but what I like about 1Password is that, um, and, and so this is one of the reasons why I have like a YubiKey like hanging off the back of my iMac, uh, which, no, it’s not secure. No one’s in my house. Fuck off. You know what I mean? Like, it’s one of those things. Like, like, I, I, I’m anticipating all the well actually people, um, who are, Never going to listen to this, but, but I’m, I’m, I hear you anyway, and I’m, I’m anticipating your, your objections and I’m telling you, I understand and I don’t care.

[00:23:28] Christina: Um, but, um, what, uh, what’s great about 1Password is that because like, I, I can, you know, once, once I authenticate, you know, to get into that, like all my passkeys work without me having to touch a YubiKey or log in with another biometric means, which on this current machine I don’t have, like, um, Okta desktop won’t work on my iMac because it doesn’t have.

[00:23:52] Christina: Um, a biometric sensor. So, um, but yet pass keys for Okta work through one password. So [00:24:00]

[00:24:00] Brett: Have you, have you ever used, um, so you, you know how you can have authenticator apps like Google has one, Oracle has one, Microsoft has one, um, and they give you your six digit, your 2FA code. Um, and I hate. Like, I’ll be logging into, like, Oracle, and it’ll ask me to pull up my phone, open the Authenticator app, copy the, er, like, memorize the code, and then type it in, and that’s, that’s a pain in the butt.

[00:24:32] Brett: Um, if you can Set up one password as your

[00:24:36] Brett: authenticator app, which works most places. Yeah. It just auto fills your, your 2FA code every time. So I’ve been trying to port everything over to that. It has not worked. Oracle for some reason demands that you use

[00:24:50] Brett: their,

[00:24:50] Christina: Yeah. Microsoft does too for logging into Microsoft things. And they do it in a weird way where like, they send me a thing where they’re like, type in this code in [00:25:00] this app. so, it’s not the same TOT, like you can use the Microsoft Authenticator app as a TOTP provider.

[00:25:06] Christina: And for non corporate accounts, Microsoft Authenticator. You could actually, I’m pretty sure you could probably set up, um, um, Google Authenticator or Authy or 1Password or another, you know, T O T P provider to be the person who would provide you, like, that code, like, for, like, your consumer Xbox account or consumer Outlook account or whatever.

[00:25:23] Christina: However, with, I think it’s now called Intra, Which is such a fucking bad name, but it used to be Azure Active Directory, but now it’s, or Azure AD, now it’s Intra, but for that, you have to, with an E, yeah, it’s a fucking weird name, I’m like, I’m like, Intra is really close to Encarta, if you think about it, and, and, That’s weird because I bet the people who came up with the name don’t even remember Rincarda But I do because I was a child and I loved it.

[00:25:52] Christina: Anyway, Intra, you know that app like makes you log in with your face or some other way [00:26:00] and then type in Like the characters that it will show you on your screen

[00:26:05] Brett: the way, like, that’s the way GitHub, uh, the GitHub mobile app authentication, if you choose to use, yeah, you have to load up GitHub mobile and then type in the code, which is honestly easier to me than looking at my phone and copying by hand a

[00:26:22] Brett: six digit

[00:26:22] Christina: No, totally. I mean, and I agree with that. I actually prefer, like, tell me what to type into my phone rather than the other way around. I’m with you. But, like, the best thing is just, like, autofill it for me. Um, or, or in the case, or in the case of GitHub, use a passkey, right? Because you can use passkeys with GitHub.

[00:26:38] Christina: And then that’s great. And what’s great about 1Password, um, What I like, like, so passkeys right now aren’t fully, like, exportable, um, although apparently that’s going to be coming to the spec. But, you know, I will save the same passkey or, you know, maybe two different passkeys, but it will both be authenticated the same way, both, like, in my, you know, phone’s, um, password.

[00:26:59] Christina: [00:27:00] You know, manager folder as well as on one password. And then I can select like on my phone, like, where do you want what passkey? Where do you want to use it from? And I’m like, great. And, um, the only annoying thing about like Google’s passkey implementation is that it doesn’t sync. So you have to have like a different passkey.

[00:27:15] Christina: Like you have, like, if you have a passkey set up for Chrome, for instance, you need to do that, like on every device that you’ve got Chrome installed on. And it’s, it’s great. Um, and for most people who don’t have four, how many computers do I have? Four or five. Yeah, I’m literally counting. I’m literally counting in my head because I’m like, hmm, I mean, it’s four that I use heavily and then like, um, and that doesn’t count the iPhone and iPad. And then like, I have a fifth. So yeah, um, technically a sixth, but yeah, but I don’t do other stuff on that one.

[00:27:48] Christina: So yeah, most people don’t have that situation, but like for someone like me, I’m like, I appreciate how 1Password does it because I just need to install 1Password everywhere and then my passkeys are working like [00:28:00] on every platform.

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[00:30:07] Christina: I mean, okay, genuinely, um, they are also a sponsor, this week and we appreciate them very much. I pay for ExpressVPN and, uh, I, like, I don’t get this for free from them for them providing, uh, a sponsorship for us. Although that would be nice. Uh, I actually pay for it. So, When you think about like how you choose like your internet service provider and who to use, what’s, what’s funny is in the United States anyway, don’t have a choice in most cases.

[00:30:33] Christina: It’s just like, This is your ISP. And if you want to get it from someone else, then you have to, you know, pay for like a, a cellular, carrier and, and in on that, which may or may not be better, than, than what your options are, but your, your options are limited.

[00:30:48] Christina: And so, this allows, you know, basically these companies going to have the monopoly and then they can determine not just, what types of, service they offer you, but because net neutrality law is being recalled, [00:31:00] they can determine like how fast or how slow certain types of, of content you have access to is.

[00:31:04] Christina: And then in addition to that, this is also a thing, again, net neutrality laws, uh, uh, being repealed, um, allowed this to happen. Like they can sell your data, like they can log and sell all the, Different sites that you visit and access and, um, and that’s allowed. Thanks Ajit Pai for all of that.

[00:31:21] Christina: So, um It is, in some ways, a good idea to use a VPN, like ExpressVPN, to maybe hide your traffic from your ISP, if you want. Like, if you don’t want, like, what you’re doing being sold to other people. It’s a VPN, so it’s going to be encrypting network traffic and tunneling it through their secure server so that your ISP can’t see any of your activity.

[00:31:42] Christina: ( ) And that’s not a bad idea. It’s also a good idea to use something like that if you’re on a network that you don’t have a lot of information about. Um, because even though most web traffic these days is encrypted, um, you know, HTTPS, um, you don’t necessarily want the people, you know, at the Marriott to, again, be able to kind [00:32:00] of, like, control what sorts of content you can and can’t access.

[00:32:02] Christina: I’ve actually run into this before, where I’ve been using, like, a perfectly valid, Um, thing like a, like a, like a torrent client. And I’ve been at a hotel and they’ve been like, no, because this daemon is running on your machine, you’re not even actively like running a torrent right now. But because you have this like background daemon, like we’re not letting you access our network.

[00:32:21] Christina: Like that’s the real thing that’s happened to me. So you can use ExpressVPN. And then the main network can’t, can’t see that. That was what’s your, what you’re doing and you know, Bob’s your uncle. So big fan of express VPN. Um, you know, also use it if you want to watch Canadian Netflix, it’s good stuff.

[00:32:36] Christina: Uh, so I, I recommend it as a way to, you know, hide your online activity from the Marriott or your own ISP or to. Access Netflix in another country so stop handing your personal data to ISPs and other tech giants who mine your activity and sell off your information. Protect yourself with the VPN that I trust to keep me private online.

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[00:33:11] Brett: Yup. Alright. Uh, side note, like, all of these, uh, VPN ads used to be about, um, well, for a while they were all about, like, co location or whatever you want to, geolocation, um, which, which is valid, but it used, before that it was all about security, but you’re right, like, everything is SSL encrypted now. So it’s kind of, that’s a moot point.

[00:33:39] Brett: So these, these new talking points

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[00:33:42] Christina: yeah, exactly. Yeah, they’ve had to shift around that because it’s like, yeah, everything is SSL encrypted, so it’s just, it’s not like the same thing like, oh, the Wi Fi at the airport is going to snoop your data. No, it’s not. It’s just they might sell your data, right? Like, especially if you log in with an actual email address. which don’t ever do. Just do none at none. [00:34:00] com for the airport wifi. I promise you, because they don’t make, because there’s, because if you think about it, there’s no way for you to check, to click on an email link at the airport when they ask you for it. So they’re just asking you for an email. So just none at none.

[00:34:13] Christina: com. I have no idea what, who owns that domain or, or, or anything. And I hope to God there’s not a mailbox attached to it because, you know, I bet that there are millions and millions of people who every day are just like, This, this is my random email.

[00:34:27] Brett: I use example. com

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