spamfaux

Welcome to mead brewing! Melomels are a great first brew!

Without knowing the recipe you used it’s hard to provide a ton of specific help but something’s to consider:

• the separation comes from the CO2 pushing the fruit bits up… you can do some punching down with a sanitized stirring tool (spoon, chopstick, whatever works) to let some of that gas out
• this becomes extra important if you brew your next melomel in a bucket - punching down keeps your fruit moist and prevents mold growth
• watch for blow off - some yeast goes hard for fruit and may cause a ton of expulsion of gas which can get in your airlock. If that happens either clean it out or swap to a blow off tube rig

Otherwise, good job and have fun watching your yeast chomp that sugar.

While that is a fair stance (that I agree with), you also have to take into account the rule of “ooh new shiny” which has folks sign up for apps/service that they don’t need just because it is a new shiny thing.

Nice. Good note. I’ll keep that in mind. Peach is on my list to try and brew with. I’ve also read that apricot juice is a good substitute to carry a stronger peach flavor but I’ve not had a chance to confirm that yet.

I’ve read that it’s hard to carry through the peach flavor. How’d you do it for your brew?

I just shipped my personal take on a Chai Mead to the MeadStampede competition. So far it is my best recipe.

Non-technical: Just shipped off a mead for a competition so today will be planning for the next batch.

Technical: Side project web application browser puzzle/word game. First time developing something in node.js so it has become an interesting adventure in learning.

I would say that password expiration and password rotation are not exactly the same thing. I think expiration has it's place when pair with login time. Such as, if a user does not log in for X amount of days - begin a timer to expire the password. But rotational password changes harm the overall security posture of the concept of password security.

But, I agree with what @LittlePrimate@feddit.de said below, I don't think I see how the changing of a password within a password manager would fall under the harmful category. Most managers have a system to actually expedite and simplify the password change process. I don't think this needs to be used regularly but if you suspect that your account might be included in a breach or some other indication of compromise, then hit that "change me" button.

I would argue that the article's stance on the "password manager, MFA, login" dance is the more harmful perspective. The MFA process has been significantly simplified and integrated into most login functions. We're at least beyond the dongle number generator stage of consumer MFA. The combination of MFA and password managers is the primary and most accessible solution to today's password woes.