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Video editing apps:
InShot on mobile, Wondershare Filmora on mobile or desktop, iMovie for Mac

Captioning:
automatic captions of Facebook, rev.com, Quicc.io, Clips or Clipomatic apps on iOS

I made a note of the following on 26 August 2016

The White House says that President Barack Obama will expand by proclamation a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world’s largest marine protected area.
It will quadruple the monument created by President George W. Bush in 2006. The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument will be 582,578 square miles, more than twice the size of Texas or nearly five times area of the British Isles

This rocked me back; reported in the Guardian ‘Out’ section 30 July, 2022

Fire of Love: For two decades, Katia and Maurice Krafft documented volcanoes together, until in 1991 they lost their lives in a volcanic explosion. This documentary from film-maker Sara Dosa explores their work, relationship and legacy.

A hinny is a domestic equine hybrid, the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey. It is the reciprocal cross to the more common mule, which is the product of a male donkey and a female horse. The hinny is distinct from the mule both in physiology and temperament as a consequence of genomic imprinting

Two-factor authentication (2FA), which adds something you have to do to the something you know (your username and password) during login, is a must-have.

Use either an authenticator app such as Authy or Google Authenticator, or a hardware token like a YubikKey.

Don’t use 2FA that sends codes by text message. “If your phone Is stolen, the thief can put your sim in another phone and request an SMS code for resetting the password to all your accounts,” warns Cesar Cerrudo, chief technology officer at security research company 1OActive.

Setting a pin on your sim card is recommended, but that won’t help if someone cons your network provider into transferring your number to their device, a scam known as sim-swapping. “SMS-based 2FA is vulnerable to sim-swap attacks,” says Paul Bischoff, privacy advocate-at Comparitech.com, “but if it’s the only option, It’s better than no 2FAat all.”

Reported in The Week 15 January 2022

Copenhagen Top spy arrested:

The head of Denmark’s foreign intelligence agency was arrested last month on suspicion of leaking highly classified information, and has been behind bars ever since, it emerged this week. Danish officials revealed at the time that four serving and former intelligence officers had been detained, but It was only when Lars Findsen appeared in court, and reporting restrictions were lifted, that Danes learnt that one of the arrested officers was their equivalent of the head of MI6. “I want the charges brought forward, and I I plead not guilty,” he told reporters. “This is completely insane.