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Mercer’s Methods & Tools

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What Mercer’s using

Name	Purpose	Status	Multi-select
Notion	Information management	In Active Use	PersonalWork
Polymail	Unified email inbox	In Active Use	PersonalWork
Motion	Calendaring	No Longer Using	PersonalWork
Vantage.sh	Cost control	In Active Use	Work
Plesk	Server management	In Active Use	Work
AWS	Server hosting & historical DNS	In Active Use	PersonalWork
CloudFront	Public networking	In Active Use	Work
PorkBun	Domain registrar & DNS	In Active Use	PersonalWork
Tailscale	VPN to intranet	In Active Use	PersonalWork
Brave Browser	Web browser with default privacy protections	In Active Use	PersonalWork

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Just a Quicky Link

I’ll see you in 2,184,471 years, computer

Diceware: Generate Secure Passwords You Can Actually Remember!

Weak passwords are a big flaw in computer security due to a lack of "entropy" or randomness. For example, how many times have you used the name of a pet or relative or street in a password, or perhaps the number "1"? Not very random, is it?

diceware.dmuth.org

Diceware: Generate Secure Passwords You Can Actually Remember!

It’s not me, right….?

It’s not me... it’s u.

downdetector.com

Marco....

Internet Speed Test - Measure Network Performance | Cloudflare

Test your Internet connection. Check your network performance with our Internet speed test. Powered by Cloudflare's global edge network.

speed.cloudflare.com

I was watching that!

Internet Speed Test

How fast is your download speed? In seconds, FAST.com's simple Internet speed test will estimate your ISP speed.

fast.com

Just throw the kitchen sink at it

Network Tools From MxToolBox

mxtoolbox.com

Check That DNS

Like a virus...have I propagated?

intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health

IntoDNS checks the health and configuration and provides DNS report and mail servers report. And provides suggestions to fix and improve them, with references to protocols' official documentation.

intodns.com

Here’s a variant.

DNS Checker - DNS Check Propagation Tool

DNS propagation is the time DNS changes take to be updated across the internet on the globe. It can take up to 72 hours to propagate worldwide. You can check your DNS propagation results from here. When you update your DNS records, it may take up to 72 hours for the changes to take effect.

dnschecker.org

DNS Checker - DNS Check Propagation Tool

What are you hiding under there...?

dnsdumpster.com

Find Me (or your IP)

I see you...

whatismyipaddress.com

Folks at Stanford (the tree ppl) wrote this one...