Motivated by the change in Google Photos that stopped offering “free storage” I worked on a script that would resize images on my Android phone and released the first version in November 2022. The script requires Tasker to run. There were a couple of problems with it, however. I wasn’t entirely happy with the workflow. I put up with these downsides for quite a while, occasionally researching how to fix the disappearing image problem, but I couldn’t find any good answer until last month. I found out that Tasker must run the “Media Scan” command when it creates a new […]
Email
“Verify this email is yours” spam
Yesterday I got an unusual email spam. It hit my inbox on Fastmail, coming from my Google account. The spam link was embedded in the actual email address, using the plus notation that Gmail supports. On Fastmail, the link wasn’t clickable, but on Gmail it was. When I checked Gmail, the email had been moved into Spam, so I guess they were dealing with many copies of this. Surprisingly, the link is still clickable, even with the email in the Spam folder. I thought I hadn’t received spam like this before but looking at it again, I think I did. […]
Web
When you move IP, move all the IPs
I recently moved the server hosting this site and my photoblog to a new Linode. About time too as the old one was full of cruft built up over a decade of upgrades. It had finally reached the point where I had trouble finding new dpkg files for software that wasn’t as ancient as my installation. Updates would stop in the next year or two as well, which was a huge problem. When I did move, I pointed the DNS at my new server and all seemed fine. That is, until I saw an email from Google on Friday saying […]