You should always take caution when opening attachments from emails. Attachments themselves are not necessarily harmful, they’re a great convenient way to share pictures or documents using the Internet. Most email programs will indicate that an email has a message with a paperclip icon. By default, Gmail shows an icon with a filetype. So how can attachments be dangerous?...
Continue reading...The Nigerian Prince Scam
Sometimes a message will be obviously be a scam, but if this technique didn’t work scammers wouldn’t try it. If you see a message that feels off, it probably is. The most classic example is the “Nigerian Prince” scam, where a scammer will claim to need your help to transfer some large amount of funds and will give you...
Continue reading...Safe Email Usage and scams
This series of posts will talk about common email scams, how to spot them, and how to hopefully stop yourself from becoming a victim. At the end of the day, these scammers have one common goal – taking your money and they will pull every trick out of their sleeves if it means reaching that goal.
Continue reading...Testing Jetpack image caching
I’m going to upload some random image and see how it works. I’ve been looking for a decent way to host images in wordpress since my home internet (where this is hosted) has a poor upload speed and I enabled Jetpack caching which should take care of that for me if it works as advertised. So, here you go:...
Continue reading...Good news and bad
Good news: Jetpack works well to tell me if this blog goes down. Bad news, it went down. The machine hosting the VM this site runs in kernel panicked last night. There was no obvious problems in syslog or any other logs. If I was smart I would have looked at the panic message instead of just immediately rebooting...
Continue reading...https
Got around to enabling encryption for this domain, going to http://blog.jmthomas.tech will redirect to https now, too.
Continue reading...Adding Nextcloud to my life
The pictures I was previously hosting here are going to be broken for a minute, I’ve installed Nextcloud on the server that was hosting the images as Dropbox’s 3 client max for free users has become an annoyance. I’ll migrate my pictures into Nextcloud and may or may not fix the old posts. New posts should have working images...
Continue reading...First day of school
I graduate this semester, and am taking two classes I need to graduate and two I just wanted to take. I think the only class I’ll learn much in will be the Windows Server administration class but I’m going into the others with an open mind. Can’t learn something if you convince yourself you won’t. Side note: school blocks...
Continue reading...Bored, don’t want to abandon this blog though
I’m bored and really don’t have anything to write about. I’m off work today and plan on going for a walk but nothing major because it’s been so hot out lately. I might stop at a local hot chicken place and get some hot chicken.
Continue reading...Fall Creek Falls Hike
This is basically a placeholder post, and a lot of the images are going to be rotated incorrectly until I get around to fixing them. I just wanted to make sure I remembered to make this post at all.
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