18 July 2024 - NSC Website & Scambusters

The NSC has a new website at https://newarkseniorcenter.com/

There are links for the current Newsletter, Lunch Menu, Calendar and Special Events.  The "Member Portal" is also new, https://newarkseniorcenter.my.site.com/s/login/

Note that any previous accounts you may have created or used at the NSC before 2024 are no longer active and you need to establish a new NSC account.

To see most of the events in the member portal, one has to click the "Register" button.  Due to a glitch in the matrix, multiple clicks of the register button will be required to actually register for any free or paid session.  :-)

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And excellent weekly email newsletter is available here:  https://scambusters.org/   Click the three-line "Hamburger" icon to see the menu.  The current article is a re-visit of various election scams, https://scambusters.org/electionscam3.html 

I was amazed at the number of fake news websites that have been identified and listed here in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites  It is easy to see how one can be taken in by fraudsters.  A quote from the newsletter:

"There are many good fact-checking sites. Where politics and elections are concerned, two of the best ones are FactCheck.org and Politifact.com."

11 July 2024 - News & Comment & Backup & Stuff!

I didn't know what to talk about so just did random stuff! - Bob Bloom

Topics and Links of the Day:

• Zoozve
• The RadioLab Podcast that named it: <link>
• The Space.com article about it:  <link>
• Its original name "2002VE86" from Wikipedia <link>
• The Silver Ships is a great (and cheap) Kindle book:  <link>
• You don't need a Kindle to read Kindle books:  <link>
• But if you want a Kindle, which one is for you?  <link>
• How to put free books on your Kindle:  <link>
• How to manage all the stuff on your Kindle:  <link>
• The Boeing Starliner is *not* "Stuck in Space" or "Stranded" or "Marooned!"  <link>
• Want something Cheap but still good?  PC Mag has 100 buys for you:  <link>
• Why Microsoft Recall is a bad idea <link>.  The Recall stuff starts on page 11 of this PDF, but there is lots more security information on the other pages.
• Kaspersky banned from selling anything in the US <link>
• Google not trusting Entrust any more! <link>  Certificates are important, here's why <link>
• All Rare Earth materials in China are now state owned.  <link>
• "I just told my kid that' I'm older than the internet and he thought i was joking."
• Backup Software  (Saved by Assets when 'Snow' would not boot.)
• Acronis <link>
• Macrium Reflect <link> Free edition <link>
• EaseUS ToDo <link> Free edition <link>
  
• Others:  IDrive, Carbonite, Windows File History <link>
• Free Software
• Ccleaner <link>  See the presentation on how to 'neuter' it!
• CloneSpy <link> If you want to manage lots of duplicative files

That's gotta be a record for me on one of these posts for the number of links!