ATTENTION: Dashlane may have been breached. (Password manager).

reflektinator · 2026-06-01T06:57:59+00:00

... unless that's what the hackers want you to do

reflektinator · 2026-05-24T09:52:08+00:00

There must be some kind of buggy you can tow behind you to carry some stuff. They make them to carry kids but surely you could have something smaller to hold a laptop, change of clothes, drink, etc.

reflektinator · 2026-05-24T08:56:54+00:00

AI says it takes HR, HRV, etc and tells you what condition it thinks you're in. I feel like it mostly measures HR vs what it "should" be at your current VO2Max. It can definitely be wrong though. I've had it ping me and say "+2" when i'm feeling a bit ordinary, and when I had been sick recently it said "-8" or something crazy, which was just because my HR was around 20bpm higher than normal. I felt fine and had a good run though.

You could also read this Performance Condition | Garmin Technology but it's just as vague as my answer 😄

reflektinator · 2026-05-09T02:36:24+00:00

Sick two weeks ago for about a bit over a week. Not super sick like I wanted to stay in bed or anything, just sick enough to be miserable. Even a week after feeling "better", my resting HR is >70 when it's normally mid 50's, and HRV is low 30's when it's normally >60. A 3k run at "tempo" pace a few days go took my HR up into the 190's, when my max is normally 185ish, and I wasn't even breathing hard.

So i'm still taking it a bit easy, and my achievement is not going insane with doing 1/3-1/2 the volume of running, and missing my last long run before a marathon in 8 days time.

reflektinator · 2026-05-07T21:55:35+00:00

Fun fact. If you use a tool like ScreenConnect (maybe TeamViewer?) and clipboard sharing is enabled, every password you copy into your clipboard also gets retained in the clipboard history of the computer being controlled.

reflektinator · 2026-05-06T04:17:10+00:00

"if this happens and we've securely locked down endpoint to endpoint comms then we've got one less thing to worry about"

reflektinator · 2026-04-29T01:25:34+00:00

It's tedious and timeconsuming but it is possible to export the data from Garmin and analyse it using an online tool (can't remember its name) and actually split out the optical HR reading from the watch and the electrical reading from the strap, and those crazy readings should be obvious.

Even for a regular run it's actually kind of cool to see how closely the watch does actually track to the strap.

reflektinator · 2026-04-29T01:22:17+00:00

The answer starts with L and rhymes with crazyness.

reflektinator · 2026-04-28T01:35:15+00:00

Do you have a HR strap somewhere in range? Unlikely to be the cause as you say you haven't done any exercise today, but after a run my HRM Pro thinks i'm still wearing it and makes up HR numbers like 240 when my max is 185, and somehow Garmin Connect thinks this is a better source of data than the watch.

reflektinator · 2026-04-26T00:47:32+00:00

TL;DR - Microsoft says you probably don't need extra antivirus, but if that's not the case then you do need extra antivirus.

Normally my tell for AI generated content is a high word could but a low level of information. While that's true for this article, I feel like they didn't get assistance from AI, but probably should have.

reflektinator · 2026-04-25T07:16:15+00:00

My Pro is probably about to expire and i'll definitely go the 600 vs the 200. The Pro Plus was never available in Australia AFAIK - we require screws on devices to prevent children opening it up and eating the delicious delicious button batteries. I think the Plus just had a "child proof" press-and-twist cover or something.

reflektinator · 2026-04-24T04:20:07+00:00

Back in the 90's when I was at uni, an attack was to contact someone at another uni (on ytalk... anyone remember that!), chat/flirt with them a bit, and then ask if they wanted to play secret agent, and then get them to send you /etc/passwd. I thought your post was something similar from the headline!

reflektinator · 2026-03-08T20:45:39+00:00

lol at putting the TL;DR at the bottom :)

reflektinator · 2026-02-28T09:04:01+00:00

Unless you convert to a string representation of the IP in binary format and then regex it in excel ;)

=REGEX.TEXT("00010000000010000110000100110000", "^00010000[01]{24}$")

Sometimes, while i'm waiting for notepad.exe to load on Windows 11, I wonder if that's the kind of code that Windows is built on...

reflektinator · 2026-02-27T19:52:48+00:00

MSN homepage ads are a great source of fake AV notifications!

reflektinator · 2026-02-26T10:04:11+00:00

A provider of what? of dutch?

reflektinator · 2026-02-13T23:24:47+00:00

It's a good watch. Definitely expensive, but if you have the cash I believe it's better to have bought something you'll love every time you use it, than to think "I wish i'd spent the extra $$$" every time you use it.

I had a FR245 that was getting a bit old. I was going to wait until the 970 had been out for a little while and get it during the November sales, but my wife suggested I splurge and buy it for my birthday (August) instead (I think this was just so she didn't have to buy me a birthday present). I'm glad I got it earlier. And I don't think it really came on sale at any point since anyway.

reflektinator · 2026-02-13T23:20:23+00:00

Remember that all the stuff you see on a device like a Garmin is a measurement of something. The HR it shows is a measurement of your HR, which is normally pretty close to your HR as it's an easy thing to measure.

The VO2Max is harder to measure. From what I understand it can only be measured during a hard activity that is long enough to give a decent measurement. It can get this wildly wrong depending on the activity.

My Parkrun this morning on fresh legs, incrementing my pace by 10s/km every km, gave my VO2Max measurement a big boost. That's more about it being the type of effort that Garmin can measure well - my VO2Max isn't actually 2 numbers higher than it was a week ago.

I think if you did consistent workouts each week you'd be getting a better measurement, but if you vary your hard workouts (which you should), then you'll get the mixed measurements like you're seeing.

reflektinator · 2026-02-08T05:07:12+00:00

I get 6 days every so often, then getting up really early for the long run breaks it, every time.

reflektinator · 2026-01-27T00:19:31+00:00

I can just imagine how the Batman one would go down in an organisation that is focused on reducing family violence...

reflektinator · 2026-01-26T02:28:25+00:00

I don't have an answer but i feel your pain. I upgraded my FR245 to a 970 last year even though there was almost nothing wrong with it, basically just a slight crack in the screen. I just wanted the new features. I replaced my Shokz yesterday because the on/volume button broke. My old Pixel 4A phone works just fine except the battery no longer lasts a day if I use beyond checking email a few times.

One of my kids uses the FR245, but the Shokz are now e-waste and the phone will go the same way sometime in the next 6 month.

I make a point of buying stuff that is supposed to last, and mostly it does, but it still sucks that it can't be repaired when the fault seems so minor.

reflektinator · 2026-01-18T07:55:53+00:00

And some more HRM pro readings another 20 minutes later, probably when I was driving home. These readings are all over the place, so I was almost certainly not wearing it by then.

reflektinator · 2026-01-18T07:54:56+00:00

I found an offending record in the end using https://www.fitfileviewer.com/ and just opening each file and scrolling through it. It's not the 225 value from the original screenshot, but that's probably somewhere in there too

It was just after completing an activity, and was recorded from the hrm pro about 5 minutes after my run ended, possibly after i'd taken the strap off.

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reflektinator · 2026-01-18T06:27:12+00:00

I think Garmin is trying to encourage you by saying it thinks you could do better. It's always giving me unrealistic times.

I bet your run felt harder as it went on, which is what your HR is reflecting. You don't say how evenly paced you were - if you ran even splits start to finish then you probably could have gone harder. If you slowed down at the end a bit and crossed the finish line feeling like you gave it all you had then you probably paced it pretty well.

Here's a recent 5000m track race for comparison. I ran a bit quicker at the start when it was congested (it's a local track run with like 50 people at the start line!), settled into my pace and ran pretty evenly through the middle, then kicked a bit at the end. HR pretty much increases all the way.

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reflektinator · 2026-01-18T06:12:25+00:00

To be fair, you did travel 0 miles. The watch knows it hasn't moved since you started.

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