So this morning, I got a notification about a software update for my Samsung Note8. At first I wanted to ignore it and thought it was an update from AT&T. Then I thought it was important and that maybe it was a security update. Later, I Googled something like “Note8 software update” and saw an interesting result from “9to5google .com” and then went on this little adventure…
2-19-21 How I decide to visit an unfamiliar site: check it out on WOT, search for the domain (sometimes with the term “review”), look up wikipedia (I don’t do that as much anymore), all signals go, visit the site, then I go to the bottom of the homepage or page I was interested in an look for a link to a TOS and a policy, even if I don’t click on them, and social media links, particularly Twitter to see if they’re popular enough to be verified. I just did most of that for “Crunchbase .com” because I wanted to know about “9to5google .com” and that was one of the search engines results Crunchbase came up while Googling 9to5google and like usual thought to myself “Why didn’t I just search for them on Twitter first?” I check Facebook too often. I found out 9to5google has 30K+ followers but I’m still not sure if I should trust the site. Well, all the Google result for that site said was Note8 is now going to receive quarterly software updates as opposed to monthly updates and that that was bad news for people holding on to the Note8 and the article was from last October (10-6-20).
— Notes from a Simplenote note of mine called “Purely Technical (” about Technology. At the end of the month, I’ll add “2021-02)” and then start a new note for March.
In case your wondering, I typed those web addresses like this, “site .com”, because I don’t want to link to sites when I’m not sure they are safe yet. You may have noticed that my last post, “2020 posts” includes a link to WorkFlowy.com instead of being a list of blog posts from 2020 the way “2019 posts” was a list of posts from 2019. If you’re unsure if WorkFlowy is a safe site, try the steps above. Feel free to research Simplenote too.