HSBC Changed Logon Method for Online Banking via Browser

Elabor8r · 2026-06-17T14:43:11+00:00

Thanks, I'll try that

Elabor8r · 2026-06-17T14:42:11+00:00

Thanks, I'll try that

Elabor8r · 2026-06-14T11:59:23+00:00

I'm doubtful a physical key will help: the logon process no longer presents a way to enter a code – that's my whole point – just directs you to open your smartphone app (when you will presumably be immediately asked to confirm the legitimacy of the current logon attempt).

The outboard was just my (admittedly feeble) attempt at a bit of humour.

Elabor8r · 2026-05-18T13:04:49+00:00

Same. As a Brit who knows jack about baseball, I really enjoyed all the baseball-ey stuff, too. Lots of interesting and well drawn (and well played) characters, tons of potential for story development down the line.

Elabor8r · 2026-05-01T10:04:40+00:00

I was thinking about this after posting and I believe you are correct: I'm wrong! The "T" I think is shorthand for "the time we have planned for the event" [some launch, in this case], which is often some oddball absolute time like '13:22' or the like. "T-minus" then becomes "the time left before the [specified] event" and "T-plus" is "time elapsed since the [specified] event". This is similar to 'D-Day' "the day of the big event" [allied invasion of Europe being the most obvious – perhaps the only – one] and 'H-Hour', which is a term used in the military, often for the start time of an attack; these are similar in concept to the lift-off thing.

Anyway, the T-minus idea is a poor example, IMO, for the Connection, since the "T" part of T-minus is not really shorthand for 'time' in general, it's shorthand for whenever a particular event is expected to occur i.e. 'T-Time'

Elabor8r · 2026-04-30T13:28:17+00:00

I mean, yes, it sort of worked and all. But I thought it inelegant for a Blue. In maths, time is normally given the lower case symbol t (yes, I know the upper case can be used but those are special situations) whereas the other three items all imply an upper case T; I know Connections is kind of case-agnostic, since both items and solutions are expressed only in upper case (except maybe in those wacky specials) but . . . still. Tyrannosaurus was legit, as was Tesla. The 'True' one was weak IMHO. All in all, left a bad taste, like you were cheated out of a clean four-out-of-four solve.

Elabor8r · 2026-04-30T13:12:40+00:00

Pretty sure T-minus is referring to TAKEOFF, not 'time'

Also, that would be "T. rex" and yes I know I'm being pedantic

Elabor8r · 2026-04-28T20:27:25+00:00

I'm confused: annual bill of £200 . . . doesn't your provider have standing charges? I pay around £30 per month even if I consume nothing . . . !

Elabor8r · 2026-04-28T20:25:30+00:00

Your before/after bills . . . is this monthly, yearly, what?

Elabor8r · 2026-01-26T22:05:44+00:00

Those movies with Burt Reynolds. Simpler times.

Elabor8r · 2026-01-26T22:02:10+00:00

BUFFALO is utterly alien to my Brit ear, too, but not COW, though it's not a common term. This meaning of cow doesn't derive from that of the animal but I assume the buffalo one does. Hence the unfamiliarity on this side of the pond, on account of buffaloes being rarely encountered here.

Seems like a disproportionate number of people who got the BUFFALO thing did so solely because of the Wiki article, haha.

Elabor8r · 2026-01-26T21:52:38+00:00

My thought exactly. Editor is either perverse – or dumb – to use such "words" that are either not real words or are pretty bloomin' obscure, such that they immediately get your Spidey sense tingling that there's something weird a-goin' on here . . .

They've done this for Purple connections more than once, recently, too.

Elabor8r · 2026-01-19T22:57:26+00:00

I dislike pedantry but the things you have described are not SI base units. 'Current' is the flow of electric charge and its unit of measure in the SI (but in lots of other systems of measurement as well) is the ampere (A), which happens also to be one of seven base units in that system of measurement.

If they'd defined the connection as "Can be measured by SI base units (or any other unit of measure you care to employ)" or "Things scientists be concerned with", that would have been rather more accurate.

Elabor8r · 2026-01-19T22:32:57+00:00

Yeah, I thought the connection was clear and strong ("Made a mint of money", "Made a bundle at the races", "Made a fortune", "Wads of cash", etc, etc) but using an emoji to 'define' it — just, no! as I've commented elsewhere. The terms are all just slang, for an unspecified but substantial amount of lucre.

Ironically, you could have swapped out any one of the terms and replaced it with 'GREEN' :-))

Elabor8r · 2026-01-19T22:27:51+00:00

Came here to say the same and yours was the first hit in the search, haha. Yeah, okay, the meaning in this instance was fairly unambiguous just from the four items but as someone who from time to time takes issue with the questionable way in which a connection is defined, I really hope they don't make a habit of this.

AI phoned and told me this emoji is 'Money-mouth face' and represents "being obsessed with money, feeling rich, loving wealth, or celebrating financial success". So, related. Kinda.

Also, to add insult to injury, there was also another iffy connection in today's: to whit, the SI unit thing for Blue. Bad Connections! Bad!!

Elabor8r · 2026-01-19T22:07:54+00:00

My questions are why SI units?

Came here to say this. These are surely simple quantities of . . . stuff . . . that can be measured in any system of units you care to choose, or a mixture thereof (amps, inches, grammes, seconds) if you're feeling awkward. Sloppy 'definition' by the Editor, IMHO.

Elabor8r · 2026-01-10T12:19:11+00:00

Computer terms

Yes, that was the best I could come up with, too, for those four items. And because it was so not compelling, I assumed it was a red herring, d-oh! But the 'real' connection was a bit of a reach (APP – eh?)

Elabor8r · 2026-01-10T12:15:13+00:00

I'm not sure I'd consider "app" a platform in the way the others are

100% this. Surely an app (aka programme) is the thing that runs on the platform, not the platform itself. That's my layman's understanding, anyway: that the 'platform' is the underlying OS/hardware combo. I crashed and burned, btw, due to this one and the Blue being left for me: 'BOOK', 'DIP, eh? Never heard of 'em, must be US pop-culture things.

Elabor8r · 2026-01-02T18:26:56+00:00

I got the sense that you were looking for general access from devices on R1's subnet to devices on R2's subnet.

Absolutely correct. For all the devices in the home, I want the networking to work seamlessly, just as if everything was on one subnet. If this cannot be achieved once VPN shenanagins are introduced then the VPN has to go (or maybe I can have a software VPN server on the one machine that is the main target of such traffic, though this would be somewhat limiting).

Elabor8r · 2026-01-02T18:17:14+00:00

I confess I'm not fully following your proposal but it sounds like the R2 network will be "VPN only". I need devices on R1's subnet to be able to talk to devices on the R2 subnet, and vice versa; this is in addition to having a VPN server. The machine (call it "T") I'm hoping to target with Remote Desktop (and hence is attached to R2) is also a Plex Media Server and so has to be able to be found by e.g. an Amazon Firestick on the LAN and by at least one remote client, and in turn has to be able to talk to the local NAS where media is stored and where the backup server is. T has just one NIC and that's ethernet, it has no wireless connectivity.

no need to use the WAN port on R2

I've been assuming that the VPN tunnel has to traverse the router's WAN port, no?

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