High Ed Hangout

Dan has had a bit to drink tonight so we get to hear a few funny stories from him. Dave tells us about his trip to Austin for SXSW Edu.

Ken has a New Mac Smell candle

Dave went to SXSW Edu

Dan talks about how magnets are going to change the world’s energy problems.

Tonight we talk about how far back we support certain browsers, whether iOS will someday merge with MacOS, and list our favorite note-taking and weather apps.

Dan is drinking the best wine ever, Dave is moving, Daniel is going to Greece. Everything is going great… until GDPR hits. What is it? What are we doing about it? We end on a lighter note and talk about the shows we are watching.

EU General Data Protection (GDPR)

Dave is preparing to go to SXSW Edu in a few weeks

WCAG Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyzer (Chrome Extension)

What we’re watching: Altered Carbon, AlphaGo, The Internet’s Own Boy, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, American Vandal, Icarus

We talk about beers, dumplings, things-a-changin’ and bring back the Urban Dictionary Word of the Day.

Beer (like usual)

Dumplings (not like usual)

How often do things change?

Veterans – what does your school do for this population?

AT&T U-verse couldn’t get to UALR today

Urban Dictionary Word of the Day: Jagoogala

The HEH dudes talk about what they got for the holidays, any new conference attendances and then dig in on a new site search tool for GVSU, who needs to move away from the Google Appliance.

Google Home tricks and games

What did we get for Christmas?

Conferences this year?

Google Custom search updates for GVSU

Scott is glowing.

Dan got a new phone (cheap!), Dave got rid of Facebook, Daniel updated WordPress, Scott likes Reply All Podcast, Ken is scared of browser fingerprinting… and MORE!

Dave deleted his FB account. There’s a place where FB shows you what it knows about you. Your Information > Your Categories

Daniel just barely missed out on ordering his iPhone X

Dan bought a $100 (Moto E4) Android device and scratched the phone and wasn’t sure if he should buy a new phone or a new screen for $50. (he drank too much cider)

UALR updated WordPress a few months ago and started to evaluate plugins and scripts. A file permissions script didn’t finish and left them in an incorrect state. In that state, WP could not see the plugins folder and deactivated themselves. Many parts of the site went down.

GVSU pushed an update that broke the headers on the CMS.

GVSU accidentally put some policies on a prod server vs. dev and it was all OK.

UALR has change meetings and change boards to monitor large system/enterprise changes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL)

Reply All podcast talks about how FB connects the dots of soooo many points of data. People think that FB is listening to you but it’s more their use of data.

Browser Fingerprinting https://amiunique.org/

This week’s chat is about security. Dave went to a conference and wants to disconnect and move to the woods. We mess with Ken’s new Google Home. Dan is just sort of with us this week due to some technical issues.

Ken got a Google Home… so we played with that a bit.

Dave went to a security conference… and wants to live in the woods because it’s scary.

There’s not security essentials anymore – every step you take you have to be thinking about security. What do you do?

Many times it’s the human element where a hacker gets through. Education is important.

Internet of Things (IOT) is insecure

Should Daniel get an iPhone X? We all weigh in on his tech purchase. We also chat about the Digital Summit Conference, how the new GVSU Admissions app is going and password vaults – is the cloud safe for your passwords?

Thoughts on the iPhone X

Digital Summit Conference

Daniel looking at salable WordPress

GVSU Admissions App

Dave talks about security and hacks he learned about

Password vaults

Equifax is sending people to phishing sites

Where does almond milk come from? We have a (maybe too in-depth) conversation to try to figure it out. We also chat about a bunch of other randomness including google tracking, home assistants (Google Home and Echo), and Dan’s upcoming Magic the Gathering event.

We took an episode to talk about our tools a little while back. This time we take some time to talk about our favorite apps for our mobile devices (outside of the normal preinstalled ones). What are your favorite iOS or Android apps?

What are you favorite smartphone apps?