keywords:
description:Tampa Bay techie Joey deVilla on software, hardware, and everything in between.
Skip to the content Global NerdyTampa Bay techie Joey deVilla on software, hardware, and everything in between. Categories Current Events Tampa Bay The end-of-year Tech Meetup Extravaganza: December 8th at Armature Works! Post author By Joey deVilla Post date November 22, 2021 No Comments on The end-of-year Tech Meetup Extravaganza: December 8th at Armature Works!
It’s been a while since we’ve been able to gather Tampa Bay’s various tech meetups in a single place, but that’s exactly what’s happening at Armature Works on Wednesday, December 8th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.:
The End of Year Tech Meetup Extravaganza!
The folks at Computer Coach (who are also behind a number of great meetups that happen every week) are putting it together, and these Tampa Bay meetups will be there:
Tampa Tech Career Advice ForumTampa Bay AWS User GroupTampa Bay Azure User GroupTech4Good TampaHigh Tech ConnectLinkedIn Local Tampa BayComputer CoachHireUP FloridaThink like a CoderCoders, Creatives, and Craft BeerInfraGard TampaBlacks in Technology Tampa
From the organizers:
Our end-of-year extravaganza is casual and open to all! Cash bar, great conversations, and networking, networking, networking!
This will be an outdoor event please take any covid-19 precautions you feel necessary to be safe and have fun!
It’s free to attend, and it’s a great opportunity to network, catch up with old friends, and make new ones! I’ll be attending, and I look forward to seeing you there!
Register for the End of Year Tech Meetup Extravaganza here.
Categories Editorial ADAIO.online: Another crypto scam, this time for ADA Post author By Joey deVilla Post date November 20, 2021 No Comments on ADAIO.online: Another crypto scam, this time for ADA
Here’s a screenshot from a video that YouTube is suggesting to people who like watching videos about cryptocurrency.Regular readers of this blog will find its format familiar:
Once again, it’s supposed to be a live video of an interview with Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano, co-founder of Ethereum, talking about Cardano, with an offer to double your ADA —send them n ADA, and they’ll send you 2n ADA back.
This is pretty much the same scam as one pulled last month with a fake “double your ETH” offer. Read it first, then note the similarities below.
It’s a “live” rebroadcast of a five-month-old video
The so-called “live” video is actually this pre-recorded interview on Lex Fridman’s YouTube channel:
The scammers are playing the video on a loop and piping it to a live YouTube stream to give it the appearance of a live broadcast.
It promises to double your ADA in a way that seems too good to be true
Here’s their promise, take straight from their video:
There’s a reason that they take a lot of space explaining what “double your ADA” means with a lot of examples:it’s all about getting you to think of all that sweet ADA that could be sitting in your wallet —if you’d just point your browser at ADAIO.online and send them your ADA!
Think for a moment: What’s the business model in giving someone twice the ADA they just gave you, which nothing else exchanged?
The ADAIO.online domain is 3 days old
If you do a WHOIS on the domain ADAIO.online,you’ll get these tidbits of information that should trigger your “scammy sense”:
Created on 2021-11-17Expires on 2022-11-17Updated on 2021-11-17
As I write this, the domain wasthree days ago, andits owners are hoping you were born yesterday.
The display of ADA transfers is randomly generated
If you go to ADAIO.online and scroll to the bottom of the page, you’ll see a constantly-updated table of transfers that purport to show people sending them some ADA and then getting double that amount in return.
It’s fake.
A simple “view source” of ADAIO.online’s home page shows that the table’s data is randomly-generated. Scroll to the bottom and you’ll see the script behind the fakery:
script let day = 1 let hours = 0 let minutes = 0 let seconds = 0 let wallet = "addr1qxha6qprhk3dp325v7hrwmrg7z54j3wf2pl8wf5zseqfn740m5qz80dz6rz4geawxakx3u9ft9zuj5r7wung9pjqn8aqq79xwr"; // dont edit let titleWallet = document.getElementById("wallet").innerText = wallet.toLocaleString('ru'); let time = (day * (24 * 60 * 60)) + (hours * (60 * 60)) + (minutes * 60); // let timeContainer = document.getElementById('overTime').innerText = time; // dont edit function randomString(_0xe480x2) { var _0xe480x3 = ''; var _0xe480x4 = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'; var _0xe480x5 = _0xe480x4'length']; for (var _0xe480x6 = 0; _0xe480x6 _0xe480x2; _0xe480x6++) { _0xe480x3 += _0xe480x4'charAt'](Math'floor'](Math'random']() * _0xe480x5)) }; return _0xe480x3 } function randomStringHashBTC(_0xe480x2) { var _0xe480x3 = ''; var _0xe480x4 = 'bacfed0123456789'; var _0xe480x5 = _0xe480x4'length']; for (var _0xe480x6 = 0; _0xe480x6 _0xe480x2; _0xe480x6++) { _0xe480x3 += _0xe480x4'charAt'](Math'floor'](Math'random']() * _0xe480x5)) }; return _0xe480x3 } var divCounter = 0; function randomInteger(min, max) { let rand = min + Math.random() * (max - min); return Math.round(rand); } function randomIntegerBTC(min, max) { let rand = min + Math.random() * (max - min); return rand.toFixed(2); } function getRandomArbitrary(min, max) { rand = Math.random() * (max - min) + min; return rand.toFixed(2); } function getRundomMnogitel() { let asd = 1, 0.1, 0.01]; let getRandom = Math.floor(Math.random() * asd.length); return asdgetRandom]; } function GenerateAddress() { var result = ''; var characters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'; var charactersLength = characters.length; for (var i = 0; i 8; i++) { result += characters.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * charactersLength)); } return 'add'+result; } function GenerateHash(length) { var result = ''; var characters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'; var charactersLength = characters.length; for (var i = 0; i length; i++) { result += characters.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * charactersLength)); } return result+"..."; } function genDiv() { divCounter++; let valet = document.getElementById("wallet").innerText; var _0xe480x9 = `${'div class="item"div class="top"div class="data"div style="" class="data-item"{t1}/divdiv style="display: none" class="data-item"{t2}/divdiv class="data-item" id="btcstr"{t4}/divdiv class="data-item"{t5}/divdiv class="data-item"{t6}/divdiv class="data-item"{t3}/divdiv class="data-item"{t7}/divdiv style="display: none" class="data-item"{t8}/div/div/divdiv class="bottom"div class="data"div style="" class="data-item"{b1}/divdiv style="display: none" class="data-item"{b2}/divdiv class="data-item"{b4}/divdiv class="data-item"{b5}/divdiv class="data-item" id="btcstr"{b6}/divdiv class="data-item"{b3}/divdiv class="data-item"{b7}/divdiv style="display:none"; class="data-item"{b8}/div/div/div/div'}`; let _0xe480xa = GenerateHash(10); let _0xe480xb = "616" + randomInteger(1, 9) + randomInteger(1, 9) + randomInteger(1, 9); let _0xe480xc = 'right now'; let _0xe480xd = GenerateAddress() + '...'; let _0xe480xe = 'IN'; let _0xe480xf = valet.substring(0, 10); let valueSend = getRandomArbitrary(1500, 40000); let _0xe480x10 = valueSend + ' ADA'; let _0xe480x11 = ((Math'random']() * 0.009 * getRundomMnogitel()) + 0.0001 * getRundomMnogitel()) 'toFixed'](6); let _0xe480x12 = GenerateHash(10); let _0xe480x13 = "616" + randomInteger(1, 9) + randomInteger(1, 9) + randomInteger(1, 9); let _0xe480x14 = 'right now'; let _0xe480x15 = _0xe480xf.slice(0, 10) + "..."; let _0xe480x16 = 'OUT'; let _0xe480x17 = _0xe480xd; let _0xe480x18 = (valueSend * 3) + ' ADA'; let _0xe480x19 = ((Math'random']() * 0.009 * getRundomMnogitel()) + 0.0001 * getRundomMnogitel()) 'toFixed'](8); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{t1}', _0xe480x12); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{t2}', _0xe480x13); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{t3}', _0xe480x14); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{t4}', _0xe480x15); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{t5}', _0xe480x16); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{t6}', _0xe480x17); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{t7}', _0xe480x18); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{t8}', _0xe480x19); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{b1}', _0xe480xa); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{b2}', _0xe480xb); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{b3}', _0xe480xc); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{b4}', _0xe480xd); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{b5}', _0xe480xe); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{b6}', _0xe480x15); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{b7}', _0xe480x10); _0xe480x9 = _0xe480x9'replace']('{b8}', _0xe480x11); var _0xe480x1a = $(_0xe480x9)'prependTo']('.table-body'); $('.item')'each'](function () { var _0xe480x6 = $(this)'index'](); if (_0xe480x6 0) { $(this)'find']('.top .data div')'eq'](5)'html'](_0xe480x6 + ' min'); $(this)'find']('.bottom .data div')'eq'](5)'html'](_0xe480x6 + ' min') } }); setTimeout(function () { _0xe480x1a'find']('.top')'fadeIn'](); _0xe480x1a'find']('.bottom .data div')'eq'](5)'html']('right now') }, 2000) } $(document)'ready'](function () { genDiv(); setInterval(function () { genDiv() }, 15500) }) genDiv();/script
Note that some functions have “BTC” as part of their name, which suggests that they were originally used for a Bitcoin scam and that the scammers simply reused the script.
At least the coin-ether.net scammers tried to hide their script. The lazy grifters behind ADAIO.online didn’t even put in that amount of effort.
How much have they been able to collect from gullible people?
By pasting the wallet address that ADAIO.online provided on their site at the time of writing (the better scammers know to change wallets often) into Cardanoscan, it appears that they’ve collected about 66,000 ADA in the past five hours. At current prices, that’s just under $125,000, or $25K an hour.
Let me say it again: There’s a lot of opportunity in crypto, but these “give me some of your crypto, and I’ll give you double back” offers ain’t it.Don’t fall for the scam!
Categories Current Events Tampa Bay What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 22, 2021) Post author By Joey deVilla Post date November 19, 2021 No Comments on What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 22, 2021)
Here’s your weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, November 22 through Sunday, November 28, 2021.
This is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog,Global Nerdy!For the past four years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net.It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testingTech project management / agile processesVideo, board, and role-playing gamesBook, philosophy, and discussion clubsTech, business, and entrepreneur networking eventsToastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandomsAnything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
This list includes in-person events as well as online events. The COVID-19 numbers are dropping sharply, but be smart and responsible —get your shots, mask up in crowds, and we can get back to what passes for normal sooner!
Keep in mind that this the week of Thanksgiving. The closer an event is to Thanksgiving Day, the more you should double-check that it’s actually happening. Many fo the events in LinkedIn and EventBrite are generated “on autopilot” and might not account for holidays.
I try to keep this list up-to-date. I add new events as soon as I hear about them, so be sure to check this page often!
Monday, November 22Tuesday, November 23Wednesday, November 24
This is the day before Thanksgiving —double-check that an event is happening before attending!
Thursday, November 25
This is Thanksgiving Day —double-check that an event is happening before attending!
Friday, November 26
This is the day after Thanksgiving —double-check that an event is happening before attending!
Saturday, November 27Sunday, November 28Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!
Join the mailing list!
If you’d like to get this list in your email inbox every week, enter your email address below. You’ll only be emailed once a week, and the email will contain this list, plus links to any interesting news, upcoming events, and tech articles. Join the Tampa Bay Tech Events list and always be informed of what’s coming up in Tampa Bay!
Categories Mobile Programming How to fix the “Android emulator crashes when I take a screenshot” bug Post author By Joey deVilla Post date November 19, 2021 No Comments on How to fix the “Android emulator crashes when I take a screenshot” bug
The Android emulator for the current stable version of Android Studio (“Arctic Fox” 2020.3.1 Patch 3, built on September 30, 2021) has a bug that could be a problem if you write articles or document apps: When you press the “screenshot” button (the one with the camera icon), it quietly crashes. The application shuts down without an error message, and it doesn’t save a screenshot.
I rely on the emulator’s “take a screenshot” feature in my developer advocate job, so this was a big problem for me. Luckily, I found a fix.
This bug will eventually get fixed, but until that time, the workaround is to update the emulator to the version in the “Canary” build, Android Studio’s leading-edge preview. You don’t have to download the Canary build for all of Android Studio —just the emulator. I’ll show you how to do it in the following steps.
Step 1: Temporarily change Android Studio’s update channel to “Canary”.
Open Android’s Preferences window, expand the Appearance Behavior menu, and then its System Settings sub-menu, then select the Updates item.
In the Automatically check updates for menu, select Canary Channel, then click the Apply button.
Android Studio is now set up to get its updates from the Canary Channel, which is where the pre-beta versions of upcoming versions live.
Step 2. Download the Canary Channel version of the emulator.
Select Android SDK from the left menu, then click the SDK Tools tap in the right pane.
Check the Android Emulator checkbox in the list of SDK tools, and then click the Apply button.
You’ll be presented with this dialog box:
Click OK and let Android Studio do its thing:
When the process is complete, you’ll see that you have the 31.1.3 version of the emulator:
At this point, you’ll have a version of the Android emulator that doesn’t crash when you take a screenshot.
Step 3: Change Android Studio’s update channel back to “Stable”.
You can stay on the Canary channel if you like living on the bleeding edge, but most of us are better off with Android Studio getting its updates from the Stable channel.
Go back to the Updates screen, select Stable Channel, and click the Apply button and then the OK button.
Tags Android, bug, emulator, workaround Categories Current Events Tampa Bay What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 15, 2021) Post author By Joey deVilla Post date November 12, 2021 No Comments on What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 15, 2021)
Here’s your weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, November 15 through Sunday, November 21, 2021.
This is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog,Global Nerdy!For the past four years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net.It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testingTech project management / agile processesVideo, board, and role-playing gamesBook, philosophy, and discussion clubsTech, business, and entrepreneur networking eventsToastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandomsAnything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
This list includes in-person events as well as online events. The COVID-19 numbers are dropping sharply, but be smart and responsible —get your shots, mask up in crowds, and we can get back to what passes for normal sooner!
I try to keep this list up-to-date. I add new events as soon as I hear about them, so be sure to check this page often!
Monday, November 15Tuesday, November 16Wednesday, November 17Thursday, November 18Friday, November 19Saturday, November 20Sunday, November 21Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!
Join the mailing list!
If you’d like to get this list in your email inbox every week, enter your email address below. You’ll only be emailed once a week, and the email will contain this list, plus links to any interesting news, upcoming events, and tech articles. Join the Tampa Bay Tech Events list and always be informed of what’s coming up in Tampa Bay!
Tags Tampa Bay Tech Events Categories Conferences Current Events Programming GDG Southern DevFest 2021: This Saturday, November 13! Post author By Joey deVilla Post date November 10, 2021 No Comments on GDG Southern DevFest 2021: This Saturday, November 13!
GDG Southern DevFest happens this Saturday, November 13th! It’s a free online conference featuring a day’s worth of talks on Google tech and a chance to network with the tech community.
Southern DevFest is a single-day, single-track, inclusive conference for all developers. GDG Chapters and Women Techmakers from the Southern region of US invite you to join — and once again, it’s free!
Stretch your mind, learn something new, grow your network, and make new friends from the comfort of your own home this Saturday. Talks will cover all sorts of Google tech, including:
FlutterAndroidTensorFlowGoogle Cloud Platform
This event is made possible by the GDGs (Google Developer Groups) in the southern U.S., which includes Tampa Bay’s very own GDG Suncoast, which is headed by our very own Carol Bolger!
Join us on Saturday, November 13th for GDG Southern DevFest. Once again, it’s free to attend — just RSVP here!
Categories Current Events Tampa Bay What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 8, 2021) Post author By Joey deVilla Post date November 5, 2021 No Comments on What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 8, 2021)
Here’s your weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events —plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week ofMonday, November 8 through Sunday, November 14, 2021.
This is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog,Global Nerdy!For the past four years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net.It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testingTech project management / agile processesVideo, board, and role-playing gamesBook, philosophy, and discussion clubsTech, business, and entrepreneur networking eventsToastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandomsAnything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
This list includes in-person events as well as online events. The COVID-19 numbers are dropping sharply, but be smart and responsible —get your shots, mask up in crowds, and we can get back to what passes for normal sooner!
I try to keep this list up-to-date. I add new events as soon as I hear about them, so be sure to check this page often!
Monday, November 8Tuesday, November 9Wednesday, November 10Thursday, November 11Friday, November 12Saturday, November 13Sunday, November 14Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!
Join the mailing list!
If you’d like to get this list in your email inbox every week, enter your email address below. You’ll only be emailed once a week, and the email will contain this list, plus links to any interesting news, upcoming events, and tech articles.Join the Tampa Bay Tech Events list and always be informed of what’s coming up in Tampa Bay!