Interesting Links for 08-05-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Visualizing The Most Common PIN Codes (I hope yours isn't a nice light colour here)

(tags:security visualisation numbers )

2. The WHO has finally agreed that Covid is airborne. Maybe we can finally get changes made to improve air quality inside

(tags:air pandemic who )

3. If Labour wins and nothing changes, we risk losing Gen Z to the political fringes

(tags:politics uk doom labour )

4. BreakTime: Decline calendar meetings by playing Breakout

(tags:games calendars funny )

5. The world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year

(tags:globalwarming ocean doom )

6. Every COVID Infection Increases Your Risk of Long COVID

(tags:pandemic doom )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

5 - doom
6 - doom (unless they get a move on with this pan Corona virus vaccine...)

:-(

[fanf]

2 - Fuxache. 4 years!

[andrewducker]

Ridiculous, isn't it?

[aldabra]

1. ... so...hard... not to click on one's PIN. Not that the axes are labelled well enough for that to be easy.

[channelpenguin]

Yeah.

I really want to know why the non obvious (to me) really common ones are, though...

[calimac]

It doesn't seem to do anything if you click on it. (I clicked on a random spot.) I was afraid this would be a form in which you enter your PIN to see if it's secure. Talk about phishing techniques!

[symbioid]

1. Oh dang. my pin isn't that great. LOL.
But my general passwords tends to be about 20+ characters, so... that's not too bad at least.


That said, the double digits diagonal line are interesting and the slight brighter bit on 6969 is a "nice" touch.

[ckd]

8557 is the least common choice; time to change all my PINs to that to be safer. :-D

(I consciously pick things that don't fall in the MMDD/DDMM zone when I'm limited to 4 digits, but many things take longer PINs these days where I can be more creative.)

[yalovetz]

Re: 1. I know it is possible to ask for PINs to be reassigned to something you personally find more memorable, but it's an extra step/hassle to do that, so I always just stick with the randomly assigned PIN I've been sent. Why don't most people do this?

[andrewducker]

I've changed the PIN on my two debit cards to be the same. As otherwise I couldn't remember them both.

But that's about it.