00:06:09 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Everyone will be muted during the presentation. Feel free to use the Chat window to comment and ask questions. After the presentation, people will be able to unmute themselves. Please feel free to do so if you want to ask a question or make a comment Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:09:01 Bill: Hope you people aren't flying Air Canada. They might be on strike. 00:09:20 Timothy: yikes... 00:11:06 Ed Morawski: Sun activity is high presently so seeing the Northern Lights is very possible. 00:12:58 Bill: Did a Norway cruise once. Booked to see Northern Lights. It got cancelled because of clouds. Rebooted next night. Canceled again. Got our money back. 00:15:20 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: HDShredder Advanced options https://www.miray.de/products/applications/hdshredder.html#tab-panel-730 00:16:48 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: CIRA Internet Trends in Canada https://www.cira.ca/en/resources/documents/state-of-internet/ canadas-internet-factbook-2024 00:16:53 Lynda Buske: We are going AC but earliest possible job action is Sept 17 and we get back Sept 16th. 00:18:05 Gail Eagen: Sorry - what is a deepfake? 00:19:18 Tom Trottier: Streaming is online........... 00:19:37 Gail Eagen: Is this of their users or based on a survey or what? 00:21:56 Gail Eagen: Thanks 00:21:59 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Dave's Garage - why do computers get slower with age? - top 5 fixes you can do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwh6cVJHKSo 00:22:05 Allison: I think deepfakes are specifically faking a person/identity in a photo or video. 00:22:25 Tom Trottier: Deepfake is video or voice impersonating a person usually to smear them or for amusement 00:22:59 Lynda Buske: Or to have a reliable source like a news anchor appear to be promoting some bad product. 00:23:10 Tom Trottier: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns for controlling startups 00:23:23 Tom Trottier: tho task manager is simpler 00:23:33 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: TD Bank authentication app SIM swap scam - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam 2FA (or MFA) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication 00:27:02 Carol Pearson: I thought they also recommended contacting your provider to lock your phone number so they would have to contact you prior to changing your number. 00:27:39 Tom Trottier: Google and Microsoft have authentication phone apps that service paypal, google, & many other sites 00:28:13 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: @Carole - I will have much more on this next week. We had a question come in to SuggestionBox@opcug.ca about the SIM swap problem and it caused me to go down a quite deep rabbit hole! 00:28:42 Trudy: You can ask your cell plan provider to password protect the porting of your cell number ... this way nobody can port your number without this pin or password ... I have this set up with Chatr and my husband has it set up with Fido 00:29:50 Darlene: I must live under a rock. How does one let the bank know to contact you prior to changing your phone number? 00:30:19 Tom Trottier: If someone does hijack your SIM, you will no longer get calls or SMS, and they will nto work if you try yourself 00:32:02 Tom Trottier: Or an extra/old android cellphone 00:32:27 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): @Darlene - It's the phone company that must contact you before changing anything. 00:34:29 José Costa: Fongo is a good free internet phone and you get your own phone number https://www.fongo.com/ 00:34:38 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: QR code scam in Ottawa https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/city-news/newsroom/city-alerts-residents-new-qr-code-scam-parking-machines-ottawa 00:35:29 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: QR Code Scam by Snail Mail https://www.pcworld.com/article/2419859/police-warn-of-deceptively-genuine-phishing-by-post-how-the-scam-works.html https://opcug.ca/fraud-watch/ 00:36:32 Tom Trottier: I endorse Fongo - esp good when away from Canada to phone back 00:36:33 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Google to break (some of) your Chrome extensions https://web-highlights.com/blog/why-are-chrome-extensions-no-longer-supported/ https://techissuestoday.com/chrome-extensions-no-longer-supported-warning-explained/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDeWmOL19sI – fairly technical 00:40:30 Tom Trottier: I use Chrome only for google properties 00:43:39 Tom Trottier: V2 extensions may also be deleted from the Store 00:43:43 Tom Trottier: & safari 00:44:40 Tom Trottier: https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-safari-browser-on-windows-10/ 00:46:00 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Jigsaw Planet https://www.jigsawplanet.com/ 00:51:23 Tom Trottier: I love that one puzzle has FOUR pieces..... 00:51:58 Rosemary: Reacted to "I love that one puzz..." with ❤️ 00:52:02 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Reacted to "I love that one puzz..." with ❤️ 00:52:09 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Coding With Lewis https://www.youtube.com/@CodingWithLewis 00:52:19 Bill: Thanks Carol. Looks like a lot of fun. 00:52:25 Lynda Buske: Looks fun Carol. Might also make me hungry! 00:52:44 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Looks fun Carol. Mig..." with ❤️ 00:52:52 E O'Driscoll: Totally great Carol. One of my brothers loves jigsaw puzzles. I'll share this with him. 00:53:10 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Totally great Carol...." with ❤️ 00:53:15 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Thanks Carol. Looks ..." with ❤️ 00:54:02 Tom Trottier: I have Premium Youtube - it periodically asks me to Sign In 00:54:16 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Whois https://www.whois.com/whois/ 00:55:27 Tom Trottier: Safari for Windows is 14 years old - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/68836/where-can-i-download-safari-for-windows 00:56:56 Tom Trottier: Is that the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth? 00:57:42 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: What could POSSIBLY go wrong‽‽‽‽‽‽‽ 00:57:53 Natalie: Yikes! 00:58:28 Carol Pearson: Giving me goosebumps 00:58:36 Tom Trottier: "welcome to your robot dentist. Nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong.... 00:58:59 Timothy: I hope that it has a built-in power backup. 00:59:18 Eldon Gaw: As long as it's not designed and built by Boeing ! 00:59:40 Gail Eagen: I play bridge 00:59:44 Stew Bruce: Are any of you Pixel users using the newest AI, Gemini? 01:00:18 Bob Herres: Reacted to "As long as it's not ..." with ❤️ 01:00:28 Carol Pearson: did it say anything aobut anesthesia? 01:00:55 Eldon Gaw: HAs anyone switched to and had any experience with Fizz as a phone supplier? basic plan is $23 a month. 01:01:07 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Upcoming lecture on close-up photography by Lynda Buske on Zoom Monday, August 26th, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85989857981?pwd=waE1zs29Z1IUelpRIKSr6zBBqNg02W.1 01:01:08 E O'Driscoll: What a packed info night!! And frightening too -> Brigitte's SIM remarks and the Bob's robot dentist presentation ! OMG. 01:01:11 Rosemary: Sounds interesting, I play euchre - which I understand to be a simple version of bridge 01:02:11 Darlene: The OPL hasn't provided a list of all the upcoming (and much anticipated) OPCUG presentations. How long should we wait to see them on their site? 01:02:29 E O'Driscoll: I'd be interested in the bridge presentation. I don't play games but a lot of people do and I'd like to see what it's all about. 01:02:32 Bob Herres: Thank you Lynda Photography August 26! I'm In !! ✅ 01:03:07 Carol Pearson: is there a place to get your photo link? The links there open the zoom? 01:03:19 Karen: thank you 01:03:30 Stew Bruce: Eldon- I advised my partner to switch to Fizz a year ago and she's been happy since. 01:03:52 Bill: Thanks everyone. Goodnight. 01:08:22 Darlene: Is locking your sim a recommended thing to do? 01:08:27 Gail Eagen: Thank you! 01:09:56 E O'Driscoll: See you next week. Thanks everyone! 01:10:12 Darlene: I was thinking of the sim swap thing. 01:10:27 Carol Pearson: they are downloadable now 01:12:17 Darlene: Thank you. 01:12:55 Bob Herres: Thank you Well Done! Great Evening! 01:13:38 Natalie: Thanks! 01:14:06 Kirsten Fleming: A1 Thanks. 01:14:11 Carol Pearson: Thanks 01:14:16 Allison: Thank you! 01:14:20 Rosemary: Thanks