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After a 2 month long wait, I finally received information from another software provider's tech team regarding access to a common client's data via their cloud-based API. I have to say, I am impressed with how secure the process was/is:
0: receive invite email with a link to onetimesecret.com. There are several warnings that this is a one-shot deal. (don't screw it up!)
1: click that link and get a strange looking 100+ character string inside a panel that absolutely refuses to let me copy the message text. (careful: we will only show it once.)
2: frustrated at not being able to select/copy the message and fearful that viewing the source might screw the whole thing up, I simply grabbed a screenshot and have it opened in my favorite image editor.
3: the only other option is to reply with another secret. I don't know what else to do here, so go for it. This winds up being a waste of time creating a made up secret message wondering if it might finally reveal some kind of human readable or at least selectable text...I mean, they don't actually expect me to key in a 128 character alphanumeric string by hand do they? 
So yeah, I have a screen capture of a jumbled up mess of letters (upper and lower) and numbers which I must now transcribe into Notepad which will serve as my API key!  Now that's security! Oh yeah, I should save this image of my key somewhere just in case my transcription skills are off by a bit, which is highly likely! 
I suppose there might be an OCR solution, but it would take longer to figure that out vs. just zooming it out and highlighting chunks of 7-8 at a time and just getting it done! Rant over! 
Edit: OK, a quick search found ocr2edit.com which did a decent job for free. This just saved me a fair amount of time/effort. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
modified 26-Apr-22 15:13pm.
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Quote: I suppose there might be an OCR solution
Yep, Snagit does a really good job for this: https://www.techsmith.com/[^] and no, I get no money from them 
Maybe they have a trial version...
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It is free for a reason… I hope you did not feed it the entire string!
Always send it in chunks and hold back a few chars.
Kind of like a few email domains that accept ANYTHING you send them.
Xxx@noemail.com might be one.
Free password generators, always add a few more characters.
If it is free, you are the target/product/?
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Do you have the desktop version of OneNote? The "copy text from image" option sometimes works. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yet to be posted this week.
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I thought Chris had mentioned recently that there are no new survey submissions and that is why you don't see them. I could be mistaken.
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Off-topic, just ever so slightly, but thank you slacker for putting me straight earlier. I was out of order and I apologise. As for me, I am a few hours older and a few hours wiser, so it's never all bad.
Paul Sanders.
"Life is a minestrone" - which I take to mean that it's full of different bits and you should try to savour them all. I think that's pretty neat, I like that analogy.
And if you don't mind, here's a quick plug for my little one-man business. Follow the link if you're interested in ripping your vinyl collection: www.alpinesoft.co.uk. Thanks.
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Ok. Missed that post from Chris.
If there are no topics for survey, one idea is to take a re-survey of the topic exactly one year ago, and see how the survey results trend has changed after one year. That will also be an interesting study.
modified 27-Apr-22 3:55am.
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I am looking for a Thunderbolt port switch - does such a thing even exist?
I have two high-end Dell laptops. One is for my client (must use for their work), the other is my own, and I cannot get any network connection between them (client's laptop fully locked down) so no RDP.
I have a Dell dock, using the Thunderbolt port to connect to one of the laptops, and goes out to my KB, mouse, and two high end monitors.
I would love to be able to switch between these without having to physically swap the Thunderbolt port between them. I've noticed on the one laptop that it's port is getting loose, and the connection can get a bit flakey. So a switch would be nice, even a physical A to B switch, though of course a KB hotkey would be nice. It would be cool too if both laptops could also be kept charged when plugged in.
Anyone heard of such a device? Use one? I've looked before but haven't found one yet....
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A google search for "Thunderbolt switch" comes up with hits. They seem to be KVM switches if that's what you're looking for.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Yes, I have seen those. Lots of actual switches, but what I want is just a switch on the Thunderbolt port itself. I don't need the connections for the monitors/KB/mouse as the are all already on the Dell Dock.
Thanks...
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Andreas Mertens wrote: client's laptop fully locked down
I'm guessing you've discovered what Thunderspy's discovered and that's why you're talking about not using something other than the postal service to get your all-metal macro return bar which you can program up to 15 characters to generate short signatures ... {take a breath/exhale} ... and more to work!
I was going to lead that sentence with the word "So", as if I was being interviewed before some photographic device, and having been asked a question by the interviewer, decided in my mind that what this douche deuce just asked me wasn't really a question at all. So that I could go on with my tirade. But that's being too too. Yes?
modified 26-Apr-22 16:27pm.
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I have no idea what you are talking about...
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I swear this must be the work of some malware or something.
As I type this, I am typing in Comic Sans.
My Outlook Email app (Desktop) is all Comic Sans.
Microsoft Teams - All Comic Sans.
Every Browser app I have is in Comic Sans.
Does anyone know why this happens??
MD
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Fever905 wrote: Does anyone know why this happens??
Malware from the 90's with a sense of humour?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Malware from the 90's with a sense of humour sadism?
FTFY.
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Have regedit look for that font.
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I vaguely remember there was a virus that did this.
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I always love to solve new problems.
Today I realized I could use the hardware DMA capabilities of the I2S hardware on an ESP32 to drive 8 pins of data simultaneously w/ background transfers.
The upshot is I can drive an LCD connected via an 8-bit parallel bus - at least in theory - and do DMA transfers with it.
But nobody has implemented it yet to drive an LCD display, meaning I get first crack at it.
There's an e-paper display that uses it, but it doesn't drive a controller chip - it drives the display panel directly with 14 pins or so, and that's a total one off. It's what gave me the idea though.
The point is, in IoT land there are *new problems* - in a larger field where it seems like everything has been done before, and done to death.
I love it.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Dumb question maybe, but are you doing all this for professional purposes, or is it only a side hobby of yours ?
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Kind of in-between.
GFX is a library I use for my professional projects, but I developed it on my own time and released it to the community.
The display drivers that bind to it are primarily for the community, because I don't need most of them for my own projects. This falls under that (for now) though I may use it professionally down the line.
So it's to support my larger endeavor, which supports my professional and hobbyist pursuits.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: But nobody has implemented it yet to drive an LCD display
...other than Espressif, the makers of the ESP32 chip. There's a documented API[^] and a code example[^]. They call the 8-bit parallel bus driven by I2S hardware "i80 interface".
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Fair enough. I must have missed that project.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I can dig it.
You won't have many friends, but I can dig it.
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