Monthly Archives: April 2015

Keepass2Android & ownCloud are playing with each other again

tl;dr: All is well with the world once again. :-)

A while back, I switched from LastPass to KeePass for password management; while I had no suspicion that my passwords were compromised with LastPass (they’re stored in such a way that they’re not supposed to be able to read them), I still felt better having my password info residing on equipment under my control.  (That KeePass is also open-source is a nice bonus.)

My password database is in a WebDAV share served up by an ownCloud instance on a server at home.  This makes it accessible from pretty much anywhere: home, work, on-the-go.  KeePass provides a desktop client that runs anywhere you can get either the .NET Framework or Mono running, so both Windows & Linux are covered.  For Android, there’s Keepass2Android.

For the past few months, though, there’s been a snag.  There was an ownCloud upgrade that kept Keepass2Android from being able to access the password file over WebDAV.  (It also broke WebDAV access for a bunch of other Android apps; I think the only one that still worked was ES File Explorer.)  Trying to load the password file directly from WebDAV would throw an error.  My workaround was to grab it with ES File Explorer, note the location, and have Keepass2Android load the local copy.  This, however, breaks synchronization between devices.

I don’t know if ownCloud changed or if Keepass2Android changed, but as of the versions I’m currently running (ownCloud 8.0.2 and Keepass2Android 0.9.7), loading the password database over WebDAV works again.  This means a password created or changed on my phone or tablet gets synced back to the server so that it appears across all my devices (including desktops and notebooks).

Democrats: returning to their decades-old playbook

Thomas Sowell on the warmists’ attempts to silence dissent, and how it relates to their racist past:

Don’t Let Science Be Settled with Political Intimidation

How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things?

Meanwhile, attempts to shut down people whose free speech interferes with other people’s political agendas go on, with remarkably little notice, much less outrage. The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting the tax-exempt status of conservative groups is just one of these attempts to fight political battles by shutting up the opposition, rather than answering them.

Another insidious attempt to silence voices that dissent from current politically correct crusades is targeting scientists who do not agree with the “global warming” scenario. Congressman Raul Grijalva has been writing universities, demanding financial records showing who is financing the research of dissenting scientists, and demanding their internal communications as well. Mr. Grijalva says that financial disclosure needs to be part of the public’s “right to know” who is financing those who express different views.

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Some of us are old enough to remember when this kind of game was played by Southern segregationist politicians trying to hamstring civil-rights organizations like the NAACP by pressuring them to reveal who was contributing money to them. Such revelations would of course then subject NAACP supporters to all sorts of retaliations, and dry up contributions.

Pix from LVHHH (vlv!) Onniversary 2015

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A new low for revenue farming

Besides, wasn’t the cop in question way out of his jurisdiction?  What’s a Boulder City cop doing writing tickets at Blue Diamond and the 15?  Seems that’d be Metro’s or NHP’s turf.  Beyond that, though, aren’t there real criminals out there they could be catching, or is real police work getting too difficult for the po-po?

Driver claims she got $200 ticket for putting on lip balm behind the wheel

The Nevada Highway Patrol has a campaign to crackdown on distracted drivers, but how far is too far when it comes to cracking the whip? 8 News NOW decided to examine that question after a Las Vegas woman said she received a ticket from a Boulder City police officer for putting on lip balm at a red light.

Stephanie Fragoso said she was cited Wednesday during the statewide crackdown. She said she was at a red light at I-15 and Blue Diamond when it happened.

Fragoso said when she asked the officer why he pulled her over, he told her it was for putting on makeup.

“I told him it was Chapstick,” Fragoso said.

Initially, Fragoso thought the entire thing was a joke, especially since it was April Fools Day, but when she received the citation, she quickly realized that wasn’t the case.

“He said ‘it could have been anything; you could have been drinking water, shaving your legs’,” said Fragoso.