Things I learned lately 14 Aug

• Apparently you can buy fake negative Covid tests in Miami.
  
• The files you burned to CD-R and DVD-R in the late 1990s and early 2000s probably aren't readable anymore. You should check any important write-able optical discs you've kept and get the data off of them while you still can, if you still can. The same applies to CD-RW and DVD-RW. Remember how they said those discs would last decades? They were mistaken.
• If you're still running Windows 7 at work or at home, you're vulnerable. Many folks aren't aware, but a free upgrade to Windows 10 is still available. Due to the 'end-of-life' status of Windows 7, Microsoft is not improving 7's security posture anymore. You know things are dire when the FBI (for real - not fake news) issues a warning to corporations: "Don’t allow either direct internet access to Windows 7 systems or direct access to your corporate network, remotely or locally from them. Remote workers running Windows 7, not currently behind the corporate perimeter, should be at the top of the equipment replacement list."
• It is illegal to move alcohol between Canadian provinces without permission.
• It would take almost 16 hours to drive from the southeast corner of Alberta (Wild Horse, AB) to the top of Alberta (Indian Cabins, AB) over a distance of 1,579 kilometres. In the same amount of time you could drive from Wild Horse to Mesquite, Nevada.
• 63% of Covid-19 deaths in Canada have been in Quebec.
• If you get a packet of seeds from China, don't open it. It likely contains seeds of plants that may be invasive to your ecology.