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Oracle Files Thousands of H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs: Federal data shows Oracle filed …
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macOS Tahoe has one feature that I adore: a setting to remove an app’s icon from the menu bar …
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I wrote a little Python web chat thingy ages ago, Seshat. I haven’t touched it again in over …
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You can tell much about a person by the logos they wear. For example, if someone has a shirt or …
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My back’s been killing me after some weekend hijinks. This morning I threw a 20 pound plate in …
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Target texted me the same one-time password 3 times in a row. No April Fool’s joke here. This …
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Prompt injection is a lot like SQL injection: take untrusted data, shove it into a data stream that …
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There are entirely too many Yankees hats on BART today. Have these people no shame? No soul?
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Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy: From April 24 onward, interaction …
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Prompt 3.5 for Apple Vision Pro adds a wild new immersive environment! I was today years old when I …
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Oakland Tribune building, Oakland, California.
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Took the family to see Nine Inch Nails in Sacramento last night. If we’re going through the …
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Bathroom door at Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe, Emeryville, California.
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If you use Python 3.14’s venv module to create a virtualenv, it adds an Easter egg.ᐅ python …
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One of our credit card companies, acting as “Californians for Medical Privacy”, is …
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I am disappointed that we still have to have this conversation in 2026, but apparently we do. Listen …
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature “We built the agent …
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A vendor asked us to “add a quick DNS record for them”:TXT _dmarc v=DMARC1; p=none; …
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In a shop window in Berkeley.
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Frozen BBS v1.5.0 is out now. The biggest new feature is multi-node accounts. If you access the BBS …
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“Hey Droid, generate 10 random AKC show dog names.”
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester Privacy-focused email provider …
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Use Snyk? Use OpenTofu or Terraform and wish you could use it to manage which repositories your Snyk …
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This is really cool and they’re going to sell a gazillion of them. It’s …
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This weekend, I agent-coded a two-way sync between Linear and my favorite task manager. Now all my …
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Happy birthday, Mom. This is the first time I haven’t been able to tell you that. 💔
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I cannot overstate how much I did not want to hike up this hill.
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Steve Austin would be the Forty Five Point Five Million Dollar Man, adjusted for inflation.
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Team rescues missing Putnam County man found shoulder deep in quicksand As a Gen-Xer raised to …
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“Would you like to join us for an exclusive dinner event?” Yeah, I’d love to! …
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I’m standing in the office kitchen, slowly munching a snack donut and watching traffic. A big …
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The Tic Tacs website is nostalgic in many ways: SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS PC: Operative system …
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Snow on Mt. Diablo, as seen from Brentwood.
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The scariest people I know are also the kindest and most generous. They don’t have anything to …
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We’re having an honest-to-god thunderstorm in San Francisco! I’ve missed this so much.
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I’ve gotten tired of struggling against Entware on my Synology NAS (and darned if I’m …
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My new Seiko watch with an 4R34 movement loses about 2 seconds per day. I’m pleased with that, …
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It’s not possible to get the iOS Clock app to show you the current time’s seconds, …
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Dress code in the Bay Area means wearing jeans and an OCBD shirt and having coworkers repeatedly ask …
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Dean is practicing to be a goalie.
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Yesterday’s haul from Urban Ore was something I wanted so badly back when my C64 had a 300 baud …
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I saw Frank Chu carrying his sign in Oakland’s Chinatown! This is gonna be a great weekend!
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Sectigo, who signs about 25% of all SSL certificates, updated their root certificate in December …
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I saw a little hummingbird this morning and it reminded me of how much Mom loved them. I thought …
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My Animal Crossing island tune is the intro to Depeche Mode’s “Black Celebration”.
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I’VE HEARD that you can load your Flipper Zero up with Amiibo so that you can invite any …
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After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny : NPR Just then, a young man approached …
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Sam and Dean are growing up, and they’re still best friends.
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Call me suspicious, but I bet that’s not my real year end bonus notification.![Screenshot of an email from "strauser HR Support Desk/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP [...]", titled "Important: strauser End-of-Year Compensation", to me, with an attachment named "strauser_Year_End_Bonus_Form_[...].pdf". Zooming in on the sender's info show it was sent by "anthony@boobie-brands.com".](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/763/2026/scr-20260127-jppj.png)
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My wife and I have been spending a lot of time with the new version of “Animal …
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It’s been a long time since I’ve worn a watch that didn’t involve electricity.
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When I say there are a lot of self-driving Waymo cars near my work…
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Google Cloud emailed me a reminder that they’re about to make breaking changes in permissions …
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I realized that my entire career seems to be built on saying, “huh, that can’t be …
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As seen on BART. I love my neighbors.
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We saw a blue heron on our hike today.
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I just got an email from AWS support asking for some data, saying, and this is a copy-and-paste …
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With the sun behind me at sunset and reflecting off the buildings, and a perfectly clear pink sky …
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The Cardputer-Adv + Cap LoRa-1262 combination is turning into the little pocket Meshtastic radio …
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In the middle of our weekly Hyperventilate Watching The Bills session.
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I opened the box containing the replacement shower drain cover, and its bag of screws — which is …
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The National Park Service claims putting a sticker over inappropriate parts of the 2026 pass …
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Initial impression of unboxing an Oura Ring: it would have been so easy to make sure the inner box …
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Far be it from me to tell anyone to clean their gutters, but if you have cattails growing in yours, …
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I just got a Yaesu FT-70DR and everything you’ve heard is dead-on. It’s built like a tank. The UI is …
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I realized today that I’ve accidentally de-Googled myself without deliberately meaning to. …
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Today I used our Droid AI to analyze a vendor’s security questionnaire response. It was one of …
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The homeless guy next to me on Muni was very upset. I asked if he was OK and he said someone pepper …
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I have a pair of AirPods Pro 2 that I wear every day during my commute to quiet the sounds of the …
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June Bug’s not too sure about the new housemate.
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Santa must’ve thought I was nice. (Pro-tip: his server has a weak password.)
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I read Yann Esposito’s blog post, How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers, and …
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It’s about time for the annual attempt to migrate from OmniFocus to Reminders, which will …
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I’ve heard friends talking about trying Zyn nicotine pouches and I want to shake them. They were …
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A popular public transit app’s year end recap labeled me “Lord Tool, the Bus Punk”. Uh, alright, I …
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The dentist’s office has full-blown novels in the waiting room, which bodes ill for expected …
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2 weeks in and GitHub still hasn’t replied to my urgent support ticket for a security-related …
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I released v1.4.4 of Frozen BBS. It adds a ping command, a configurable delay between long reply …
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My coworker Secret Santa gets me.
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I just bought my first “real” handheld ham radio, a Yaesu FT-70DR. I’ve been …
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My coworkers weren’t sure what my “2600” baseball cap referred to. I sense an …
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This morning’s programming-adjacent task: making a Shortcut that sets my phone to “reduce …
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My AirPods Pro case stopped charging on my MagSafe charger. The Internet told me, and I quote, Just …
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I talked to my company today and told them how phishers use a sense of 1) danger, and 2) urgency, to …
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Currently reading: The Random Universe by Andrew H. Jaffe 📚 I have no idea what I’m getting into.
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Finished reading: Class Clown by Dave Barry 📚
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Govt. Issues SIM Binding Directions To WhatsApp and Telegram India sees US and EU lawmaking idiocy …
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Another hiker caught my wife and me cresting the top of a hill, then airdropped the photo to us. …
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The Black Panther Party had a 10 point platform. These demands are painted in various places around …
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Mise + fnox + macOS Keychain is a great combo for running Ansible with stored, encrypted secrets. In …
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For giggles, I added a new Rust implementation of Little Fluffy Clouds so that you can use it as a …
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Chinese Regulators May Kill Retractable Car Door Handles That Never Should Have Existed Compared to …
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The crucial part to booting FreeBSD on my 2018 Intel Mac Mini (macmini8,1) was in the FreeBSD wiki: …
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Emergency cat pics! June Bug is grooming “her” kitties, Sam and Dean.
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PG&E charges $1.50 to make debit/credit card payments on their website. I’m going to …
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North Carolina Town First in U.S. to Deploy Defibrillator Drones During Actual 911 Emergencies …
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The jq command line tool is a useful way to query, filter, and reformat JSON files. I use it every …
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I’m carrying a pot full of homemade macaroni and cheese to work today. I’ve successfully …
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Technology is not evenly distributed, even in the US. Every time I use Apple Pay on my watch here in …
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The current art exhibit at SFO D gates is a bunch of old phones.
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Mom would never have described herself as a feminist. The local politics made that unlikely. She …
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My mom passed away this morning. We knew this was coming. She’d been sick for a while. The last …
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I ran 3 miles worth of intervals today, and the numbers weren’t spectacular but they were …
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Commute step 1: Leapt onto Muni as the doors closed. Step 2: Waited 2 minutes for BART. Step 3: …
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We’re having visitors in our office tonight, and the office manager reminded us to put away …
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Comcast verified that they processed my data deletion request, with exceptions including: For …
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My Fish shell tweak of the morning: Now when I …abbr --add checkout --command git "switch -c"
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From the letters to the editor in a recent issue of “2600”: We used to subscribe to …
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My version of a DIY GR1 hip belt
I wanted a hip belt for my GoRuck GR1 backpack. I tried GoRuck’s own padded hip belt. …
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San Francisco at night from the Alcatraz ferry.
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Have you ever used The Policy Wonk to manage your AWS permissions? Cool! Me too! But alas, my …
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A seasonal reminder that a “fun size” Twix bar would be roughly the size of my forearm, …
: Why I’m Returning the reMarkable Move: Premium Hardware, Mediocre Software The device itself is amazing. It’s capable of much more than its oddly limited OS and apps will …
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When I see the HH logo on clothing, my first thought is Harter House, a local butcher shop where I …
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Mrs Tek and I are having fun playing “Pokémon Legends: Z-A”. I made the mistake of looking at its …
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Rippling’s MDM has been force upgrading our office Macs to Tahoe, even though our update …
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UnitedHealthcare just sent me a plaintext email with all kinda of fun HIPAA-covered information. It …
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This is either sunset behind clouds, or San Francisco has grown a volcano.
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A confession: I’m sitting around on a Friday night indulging in some agent-driven development …
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SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new U.S. fully integrated exchange in decades - CBS Texas …
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Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet Synology has quietly …
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Python Release Python 3.14.0 | Python.org We had PyPy and PyPI. Now we also have PiPy.
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I don’t know if the perfect video game exists, but “Hades II” slots itself flawlessly into the part …
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“Challenge: Name the worst possible TV show you can imagine.”
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JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI …
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Think I’ll walk a little faster.
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Watching the Bills game at a bar in San Francisco.
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The kitties are acutely interested in my project.
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I have found my happy place. (Lake Tahoe, Cali.)
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New hotel, new cloned keycard.
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The previous version of NIST SP 800-63B, section 5.1.1.2, said that organizations SHOULD NOT require …
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I don’t care how beautiful and well made Hollow Night: Silksong is. I hate this game and as soon as …
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I cannot stress this enough: if you have more to your name than fits in your pocket, and you have …
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I’m using Ansible to manage a small fleet of Raspberry Pis. I’d been using the copy …
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The little desk thermometer my mom’s sales rep gave her way back when.
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I’m looking at the old, unused clothesline and remembering hanging up clothes to dry when I was …
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This is a “breakfast fatty”. It’s basket woven bacon, layered with sausage, then eggs and cheese, …
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I could either fly out at 5AM with a 1 hour layover, or 7AM with a 6 hour. And that’s why I’m …
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Let’s go Ballers! 👏🏻,👏🏻,👏🏻-👏🏻-👏🏻 These games feel like small town events in ways people in neither …
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I am sorry, little spider buddy, but you have broken the covenant. I know you do an important job of …
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China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World On September 3, China will hold a …
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If you ever feel like your career’s been all over the place, remember that the same guy wrote …
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Being on a customer call at 7AM should come with hazard pay.
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That feeling when you feel absolutely crummy, then you remember other people have it worse, so then …
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I see too many people wearing heavy backpacks with the straps loose so that they’re hanging low on …
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We’re fostering kittens again. This pair is only a week old and we have to bottle feed them. …
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Today I learned that our $6000-per-month UnitedHealthcare “platinum” insurance …
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In honor of its new financial arrangement with Donald Trump, Intel announced its new flagship CPU: …
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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology By hiding the eyes, mirrorshades prevent the forces of …
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UnitedHealthcare sued by shareholders over reaction to CEO’s killing The group, which seeks …
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I’ve spent too much of this weekend writing Ansible to make all my Raspberry Pis similar. This …
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Trucking companies sue California, seeking a release from Clean Truck Partnership They include …
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Def Con was amazing and exhausting and fascinating and terrifying and just all around exhilarating …
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If you get on a plane, stick your carry-on at the very front, then walk to the very back so that …
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PHP: Not exactly bad, but still a strange one
PHP is so hard for me to describe. I used it a lot in the late 90s when we were migrating off …
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I’m about to head to Def Con where I’ll be hosting a mobile Frozen BBS. I’m carrying it into work in …
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I just cut The Def Con Release of Frozen BBS, and updated the little radio and Rasperry Pi boxes …
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Target followed up on my compromised credit card, which again, has never left my house except to go …
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The emergency room I went to a couple weeks ago texted me a link to pay the bill. It’s to some …
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Pollito is still a photogenic little fellow.
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It’s been a busy week at work. Our coffee maker broke and had to be sent for repairs. …
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Banner over the street on my commute.
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I think someone at Target’s having a bad day. I got a store credit card there a while back. …
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Bathroom poster, Brickhouse, SF. I did not add that sticker.
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SF BART stations have restrooms with keys that have expiration dates.
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The GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 travel router I bought a year ago is on sale today for 38% off. If you’ve …
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Brendan Barker Obituary (1974 - 2025) - Legacy Remembers Oh man, this hurts. Brendan umped our kids’ …
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Bob, being dogsat, likes to perch on the back of the couch behind my head.
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She stood a cautious distance from the racked spamcannon, its GPUs glowing with malice and infrared …
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Because my ex-employer pays for a “platinum plan” health insurance policy, with family premiums of …
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I’ve been using Just for a while as a task runner. It’s similar to Make, but optimized …
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I had a patch embroidered for my wife, a foot doctor.
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Today I’m trekking the 1.5 mi walking part of my commute with 20 lbs of iron in my backpack. …
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Waking up to KMFDM blasting in the bedroom, a very surprised looking cat, and the HomePod she just …
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When an email’s footer starts with “The content of this email is intended for the person …
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I’m super excited to be joining a small company next week as their first dedicated security …
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This is the one day a year I immerse myself in Apple news. A buddy and I have a decade long …
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We worked to lose a nice bit of weight over the last 6 months or so. Today I hit the treadmill …
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The new Apple News daily Sudoku results page is sloppy. As screenshotted on an iPhone 15 Pro, you …
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Infomaniak breaks rank and comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law | Tom’s …
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I just successfully performed concussive maintenance on a recalcitrant smart speaker. Me: Hey Siri, …
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I’m not a huge fan of OSI — I prefer my software Free — but their idea of Open Source is the …
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My house has old plaster and lath walls, aka “a Faraday cage”. My kid’s bedroom is …
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I just got this email from someone who’s definitely not a North Korean agent seeking to work …
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Microsoft released a new PostgreSQL IDE for VS Code. It has a proprietary license with deal-breaking …
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Thanks for letting me know, Signal!
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Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help We’ve made the difficult decision to …
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Kim Jong Un’s New Warship Capsizes at Launch Due to ‘Absolute Carelessness’ - The Wall Street …
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Dr. Phil’s Son Jay McGraw Is Tied to Minto Money’s 700% APR Loans — ProPublica McGraw settled a …
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A Swift Cloud - Things Blog - Cultured Code culturedcode.com/things/bl… This is so …
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I’ve learned way more than I wanted to about houseplants, spider mites, and neem oil.
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Forgejo Runner in rootless Podman on Debian
I wanted to experiment with Forgejo’s Actions as a DIY alternative to GitHub Actions, using a …
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How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn – The Markup: As visitors filled …
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Gitea vs Forgejo development activity
I was curious whether Gitea or its recent fork, Forgejo, has had more development activity. I cloned …
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Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests - GitHub Changelog Summary: Microsoft is locking …
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I just noticed that Forgejo 11 LTS is out now. It’s time to upgrade my older v7 LTS setup!
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Released Wonk v0.8.0
I just pushed Policy Wonk v.0.8.0. There are no code changes, just dependency updates and other …
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Send help, can’t move, besieged by wildcats.
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Happy Mother’s Day to anyone who’s ever been Mom!
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Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy to leave posts in White House, …
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The new office’s view is quite nice.
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My camera can’t capture the glowing orangey-pinks and violets of these flowering bushes on the …
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Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users: This is …
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Screenshot your LinkedIn app home screen. Make a web page with that background. Add a link at …
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Sharon Osbourne calls for Irish band’s U.S. visas to be revoked after Coachella show - …
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California is now 4th-largest economy in world, surpassing Japan Some Americans constantly talk …
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Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome Summary: Synology wants to force …
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How to bypass Credit Karma's 2FA
Locked out of your Credit Karma account’s 2FA? No problem! Here’s how I can log into …
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The afternoon’s adventure: Traveler’s Notebook aficionado nerdery.![Photo of a page in a notebook: “- Went to a nearby stationery store to get a Traveler’s Notebook stamp” And a red stamp saying “Luiban Berlin, Germany […] Official Partner Shop Visit Pass”](https://kirk.micro.blog/uploads/2025/image-20250416-143601-53ed421d.jpg)
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CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract, leaving security flaw tracking in …
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This is what a dare looks like.
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My wife and I went to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. My god. My god. It’s never been …
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2025-03-17: I report a critical vulnerability (trivial, complete 2FA bypass) to a well-known …
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cormiertyshawn895/PixelPerfect:Pixel Perfect lets you increase the text size of iPhone and iPad …
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I am not thrilled with the price of new video games. Don’t take this to mean that. But in …
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I’d started a new job a month before April Fools. I got to the office very early and then had …
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France Fines Apple €150 Million Over iOS Data Consent Rules - Bloomberg Things like this are why …
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As of today, I’ve owned this domain exactly half my life. Great googly moogly.
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I ordered new prescription sunglasses today. The optometrist asked if I wanted regular or mirrored …
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This is a copy-paste of a conversation I just had with my kid. Kid: Can I get a ride home at like …
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But her emails!
After White House national security adviser Michael Waltz’s idiotic misadventure of texting top …
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AG Bonta reminds 23andMe customers of right to delete data
AG Bonta reminds 23andMe customers of right to delete data:California Attorney General Rob Bonta …
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Unboxing the DM42n
I didn’t need a new calculator. I have an HP 50g on my desk I hardly use. I work on a …
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I am “hurt my back playing video games” years old.
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Some friends and I got a pack of Orbic mobile hotspots so we can install the EFF’s Rayhunter …
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RIP Mark Klein
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying I moved in down the …
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Of the security stuff I do for friends, nothing less excites me than financial compliance. If the …
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I bought a case for my Meshtastic radio. It came with a couple of buttons and switches that reminded …
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Happy Day of the Dude on this first day of Carpet Diem. May you mark all strikes, no gutters.
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We just finished “Shogun”, and it’s going to take me a day or two to decide what I think about that …
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A Case for Turning Tulsa Into the Next Big Tech Hub | WIRED Requirements OK will never meet:
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I bought a 50MB (yes, megs) HD from an acquaintance. It was freaking slow connected to my Amiga, …
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Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Presidio.
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AWS WAF now uses /64s instead of /128s for IPv6 rate-limit bucketing. That’s a huge and …
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June Bug, the new kitty, is mad at me for flinging her off the bed last night. By extension, so is …
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June Bug is starting to relax into her new home.
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Girl Scout outside the grocery: Sir, would you like to buy some cookies? Me: I’ll catch you on …
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We wrote a pretty powerful AWS infra tool in Python, and haven’t done much with it in a couple …
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Today I learned you can’t just go adopt a cat. I figured you’d show up, find one you get …
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I'm coming around to AI-assisted programming
I’m working on a personal project where I saved some initial programming time by hardcoding a …
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Jort is sucking a blanket and making biscuits. #caturday
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This PlayStation Network outage is about to irk me. I just wanna play some Diablo.
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Credit Karma stopped accepting my decade-old Google Voice phone number for 2FA. It won’t let …
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Jort also likes learning about synthesizers.
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Tapestry is out now
Tapestry from Iconfactory is out now and you should get it. I’ve been using it for months in beta …
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My wife ordered a new shower curtain that is advertised as, quote, “waterproof”. I would …
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I wish monitors had frame buffers and that video out could optionally just send diffs. I have 2 4K …
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Amiga 1000 was a 32 bit computer
I’ve heard people describe the Amiga 1000 as a 16 bit computer a few times lately and it always …
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Will macOS 15.3 be the minor version where Safari (but not Chrome or Firefox) regularly stops …
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I like running Ollama on my MacBook so that I can play with various AI models locally. Today I asked …
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There’s an older fellow cashiering at the grocery we go to. Tonight he saw my Def Con tshirt …
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I spend all night dreaming I was asked to document our vampire hiring outreach program. I came up …
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Every time you press the brake pedal to come to a stop at a planned location, you’re doing …
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We somehow ended up watching a silent Alfred Hitchcock movie accompanied by an orchestra at Grace …
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Friday night project: shoe shining.
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In case you wondered if kids ever get cheaper, this just happened: Kid: Hey Dad, uh, can you pay my …
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We’re watching the Netflix “Senna” series, which is fun to see, and in which you learn that he was a …
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Currently reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 📚
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Our living room smart lights had been turning themselves on randomly for the last few weeks. There …
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Finished reading: The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran 📚
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Me: Use the open sriracha before you open a new bottle. Kid: OK! opens the new bottle Me: Why did …
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I just released Frozen BBS v1.3.0. It has a boatload of backend improvements, not all backward …
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It happened! It happened! Berkeley Mono v2 is here! It’s a Christmas miracle!
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This year’s winner of the “Most Random Present” award: my buddy who gave me a set …
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My kid wanted to watch Airplane! tonight. This is the best, goofiest movie ever. I could watch it …
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My sister worked in infectious disease control at a large hospital. Her department head asked her to …
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The state of local AI today: llama3.1 (the 8B version) runs well on my MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM. …
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‘Tis now officially the Christmas season.
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First light of my new Frozen BBS Meshtastic message board. It’s not beautiful, but it works. …
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One of my very first non-trivial coding projects was trying to write a BBS for my Commodore 64 so …
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We’re dog sitting a chihuahua. I just had this conversation with their owners’ kitchen spybot: …
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We’re dogsitting Holly. She thinks my jokes are hilarious.
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The new cajun place next door finally has muffuletta sandwiches in stock. First, they’re every …
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I’ve been up on the roof installing the mount for a new Meshtastic antenna. I don’t actually need an …
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I bought a Meshtastic radio and I could see getting addicted to experimenting with it. The little …
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Currently reading: The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran 📚 Next up.
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Finished reading: My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚 I would read a thousand pages of him …
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Apple Card's stil broken after Apple broke it
After Apple broke my Apple Card yesterday, I thought I’d found the correct, undocumented, …
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Apple updated my Apple Pay so that I couldn't pay Apple
I got an email this weekend that Apple was updating my Apple Card’s expiration date. The old …
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Last night we said goodbye to Gigi after a sudden medical event. She went to sleep surrounded by a …
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If you want to really understand how Internet protocols work, I heartily recommend writing your own …
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I was making the bed while the cat laid on it, surfing the waves of bedding as I shifted things …
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The comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as taken from our suburban back porch right in the middle of …
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Silent Hill 2 is not fun. It’s beautiful. It’s immersive. It’s engaging. But …
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Python 3.13 launched today. I’ve done it. I’ve lived long enough to see a less-GIL …
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Ugh, “walkable” cities. 🙄 To get dinner, we had to:
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Google writes safer code with Rust
From “Google hails move to Rust for huge drop in memory vulnerabilities”: In Google’s own …
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It astounds me that in 2024 there’s no canonical way to select which CSS to use for a web …
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The fine folks who make iA Writer wrote about their challenges supporting Android. My first …
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My Raspberry Pi 4 started running hot when I moved it from a freestanding case to a fanless server …
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So we were all talking about Palm Pilots, and someone mentioned that they’re available dirt …
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BetterDisplay Pro fixed my multi-monitor pet peeve
I have a 32" monitor and a 27" monitor on my desk. Don’t ask. But although …
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When we got this kitty, she was darn near feral. Now she won’t leave me alone.
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I hear too many acquaintances worry that employees might work from a coffee …The coffee shop is fine
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It’s an Aperol spritz kind of afternoon.
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I found a odd control in AWS Security Hub’s CIS Benchmark 3 findings. It reports “IAM …
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We went to the local swap meet across the channel from the Port of Oakland. Photos don’t do …
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All household children deny knowledge of the situation, but I am skeptical.
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Today I learned about Emacs’s table handling. Start with a mess:| *Name* | *Type* | *Flavor* …
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Literally every time I open the CA DMV digital drivers license app:
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If I bought this, “everyday" would mean “…for the rest of my life, and you’ll have …
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Sometimes Rust makes me so happy. I wrote this over the weekend:let embedded_data = include_bytes!( …
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The hen is very curious about my lunch.
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Today’s spam starts: How are you doing? I’ve been following you on LinkedIn for a while …
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My wife took a vow to put up with me 25 years ago today. Since then, she’s been my ride-or-die best …
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Project dream 1:
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We survived Def Con. Barely. It was about as much fun as I’m physically able to tolerate in 1 …
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Best Buy’s new anti-privacy practices are even more awful than before. They’ve lost any business I’d …
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Def Con badge acquired. Most of the way through the merch line; another 4 hours at most.
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We made it to Vegas in 1 piece, ate a deliciously unhealthy lunch, checked in early (pro-tip: pay …
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DEF CON is nearly upon us. Today we’re finishing our packing, checking into flights, …
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Amazon sent me an email about their new “Amazon One” service: Amazon One is a fast, …
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My last work day before Def Con. I’m getting so excited and a little anxious! I’m going to see a …
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The email: Click here to enhance your account’s security with two-factor authentication! …
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My friends and I are getting ready for the EFF Tech Trivia contest at DEF CON. We took a year off …
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If the cupboard door is open, Jort will sense it and come running from across the house so she can …
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Hi, person reading this who writes code that parses RSS or JSON Feed! Thank you for making neat …
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So tell me about this dressage thing. Well, a horse walks around. Really fast? No, just walking. …
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Keeva became ill in the last week. I took her to the vet expecting she’d need some medicine …
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I’ve modified my Python program that sends new drafts from my Freewrite Alpha to my blog. Now …
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John Deere Dismissing 15% of Global Salaried Workforce Today | AgWeb:Online sources say the layoffs …
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I dusted off an older Raspberry Pi 4 to play with. Now I remember how glacially, painfully slow …
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Happy little bee on happy little flowers on my walk to the happy little pizzeria.
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Although I’ve trusted OmniFocus for years, I’m still compelled to try out the …
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I’ve written a couple extensions for PopClip that make my life a little easier. One shows you …
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Currently reading: My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚 Now that I’m done with Gaiman’s …
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Finished reading: Norse Mythology: The Illustrated Edition by Neil Gaiman 📚 The gods are mad.
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We’re nearly 2/3 of the way from Y2K to Y2K38. That thing you’d been putting off fixing? …
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When a coworker forwards you an email to ask if it looks like phishing, take a moment to publicly …
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If you’re writing an SDK, don’t include a section on how to fetch all the pages of …
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I’m testing a new writing workflow to prepare for DEF CON. It looks like:
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Scientists Discover a Cause of Lupus and a Possible Way to Reverse It - News Center: Northwestern …
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My Freewrite Alpha just arrived. While I’ve barely started using it, these are my first …
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I’m going to DEF CON next month. I’ll be live-blogging my way through it to give a peek …
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California now requires credit card companies to assign a merchant category code to gun stores. …
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That’s one good looking butterfly.
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A friend’s 6 month old Maine coon cat is already enormous. He’s such an outgoing and fun kitty to …
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That job you applied for might not exist. Here’s what’s behind a boom in “ghost …
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Unboxing the Firewalla Gold Pro
My early access Firewalla Gold Pro 10 gigabit router came today. It’s replacing a Firewalla …
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I can’t look at a number without trying to contextualize it. Today I got a new home router …
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I walked out of the little restaurant in time to see my kid standing at a bus stop awaiting a ride. …
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Slack said they’ll start deleting old data from free workspaces. While I understand why people …
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Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites: The
polyfill.js is a popular open source library to …
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The pattern matching on this shirt pocket makes me smile every time I see it.
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Currently reading: Norse Mythology: The Illustrated Edition by Neil Gaiman 📚 Picked this up for …
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I’ll be seeing this in my nightmares tonight.
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Crab cake Benedict, Red House Cafe, Pacific Grove, California.
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I just got the happy news that a Firewalla Gold Pro 10Gbps firewall is on its way soon. Today …
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Never doubt that Apple is the master of packaging. My replacement credit card came in the mail today …
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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's home raided by FBI agents - CBS San Francisco
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home raided by FBI agents - CBS San Francisco: In an emailed …
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EU today decided to postpone a vote of their ridiculous “Chat Control” anti-privacy law. That a …
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Currently reading: My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard Many thanks to Jim for nudging me …
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The moon over Northern California.
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I’ve got my weekend reading sorted out.
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I spent all last night dreaming about making a web interface for an AI chat API so I could play with …
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I’ve gotten 4 plausible recruiter cold emails today. Nature is healing.
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Things I like about our relatively new Whirlpool refrigerator: It usually keeps our food cold. …
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A sleepy Keeva caught a patch of sun.
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My company hosted a business dinner last night for infosec leaders. It was a reminder how small the …
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This is interesting and dangerous. I’m trying the new macOS Sequoia Passwords app. I exported …
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I’ve recently started playing with Zellij. What you need to know:
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I think I’m going to upgrade my personal MacBook Air to Sequoia tonight. YOLO!
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It’s time to view the samizdat, the Entertainment.
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Since Ben Surtees sold his Bartender 5 app to some (IMO) shifty company without telling his users, …
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The conference has little rubber duckies all over the place to play with.
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My boss was right: having an unusual job title is an excellent icebreaker. A dozen times today …
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I’m heading in to staff the booth at a convention. That’s far outside my comfort zone, …
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There are more people at tonight’s Oakland B’s game than at the average A’s games this year. John …
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We’re getting ready to see the first ever home game of the Oakland Ballers. Go B’s!
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A friend just pointed out: ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes …
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This is what Hell looks like.
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My old debit card got compromised last month so I got a new one. The replacement had my name wrong …
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The atmospheric pressure sensor in my back yard experiences time non-linearly.
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I just noticed the bizarre label on the package from a luggage tag I’d ordered. I think I need …
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Retiring DEVONthink
I used DEVONthink for many years to store, organize, and search all of my personal information. …
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Today’s candidate in the ongoing Worst Captcha Ever Contest. This is screenshotted as-is …
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On the subject of annoying iOS bugs…
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I found and reported a bug in Apple’s new “Quartiles” game:
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Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump’s sons react to guilty verdict in hush money trial - ABC News: …
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I just got a notification that “Silent Hill 2” for PS5 is available for pre-order now. I don’t do …
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North Korean trash balloons are dumping ‘filth’ on South Korea | CNN: North Korea has adopted a new …
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So many memorials today. Dad, Laurie, too many friends. I love you all and miss you dearly.
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We’re watching “Blade Runner 2049” and it’s off-puttingly unrealistic. …
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St. Louis ribs, cooked for 20 minutes in an Instant Pot then basted and baked for 10 minutes.
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The cats are making an 80s alt rock album cover.
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Little Snitch 6 came out yesterday with many quality of life improvements. It’s always the …
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There’s a certain Apple ecosystem notetaking app I heard of from a paid blog post. I …
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Adding AI the right way
Three of my favorite tools, BBEdit, Drafts, and iTerm, have added support for ChatGPT-style AI …
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In which I try frying turnips for the first time.
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I seriously love Oakland. It’s my kinda grimy.
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I set my pillows on the floor to make the bed. Keeva had burrowed in by the time I got back around …
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I am not exaggerating this: I created a new hostname in DNS, then added it to my existing webserver …
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Justice Department takes 'major step' toward rescheduling marijuana:The Justice Department took a …
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I have an IKEA Dirigera hub connected to my HomeKit setup. I also have a bunch of Nanoleaf Matter …
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Old computer ads are something else. Source: BYTE, Vol. 6, No. 9, September 1981, page 299
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Python 3.13 is removing more Amiga “dead batteries” modules, like chunk: The chunk …
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We bought a flower kit from Costco. It had some potting soil, pre-planted seeds, and a pot — just …
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I lost my Diablo 4 level 71 hardcore rogue today. Although I was momentarily bummed, I feel good …
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My buddy picked us all up to go rollin’.
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How I’m working right now. I couldn’t move if I had to.
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I’m dying to know the story here.
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Apple: "What's a professional?"
Apple announced their new iPad Pro and I couldn’t care less. The hardware itself is brilliant, …
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You know how sometimes you come to decide that an entire niche market is so filled with awful and …
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Gigi turns 15 today. We’re celebrating with lots of cuddles and ancient dog appropriate …
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Demand that car companies respect your privacy
How to escape Honda’s privacy hell: With sensors, microphones, and cameras, cars collect way more …
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Previous lock picking sets having been sneaked out of my possession by various household children, …
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Very fancy electronic badges at BSidesSF this year.
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Conference tracks where more than a few people are wearing khaki:
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While I dropped a friend off and helped him unload his stuff, I told him about the Oakland Ballers …
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My credit union called this morning: “Did you just make a purchase from OnlyFans?” Nope. …
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The BASIC programming language turns 60 | Ars Technica
The BASIC programming language turns 60 | Ars Technica Like so many others, I got my start typing in …
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What sadist invented this captcha?
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What's my Apple Card balance?
I spent 1 hour and 25 minutes on a call with Goldman Sachs about their mistakes on my Apple Card …
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Today’s first software update for the Rabbit r1 adds missing keys to its on-screen keyboard, and now …
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Drug Scheduling
On the subject of Drug Scheduling: Schedule IV Schedule IV drugs, substances, or chemicals are …
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US will reclassify marijuana in historic shift: AP sources | AP News
US will reclassify marijuana in historic shift: AP sources | AP News: Once OMB signs off, the DEA …
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My Rabbit R1 just arrived. I haven’t played with it enough yet to have an opinion on the software’s …
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I wish OmniFocus used perspectives in Forecast
I wish OmniFocus would replace the way its Forecast view selects items to display with a …
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Palo Alto's exploited Python code
watchTowr Labs has a nice blog post dissecting CVE-2024-3400. It’s very readable. Go check it …
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I fought State Farm (and won)
State Farm claimed we owed them money. I said we didn’t. They pursued it. I countered. They ended up …
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Tennessee bans kids playing in sprinklers
Tennessee’s new “chemtrail bill” is inherently ludicrous. It’s also as poorly written as cold be …
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Fixing Things with Keyboard Maestro
I can’t help playing with Things sometimes. Even though there are
plenty of reasons not to use …
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Testing my fountain pen inks' water resistance
I wondered how water-resistant the inks from the various pens on my desk would be. For my …
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Reliable Shortcuts with Stream Deck and Keyboard Maestro
I talked myself into buying a Stream Deck to control my Mac. I didn’t want one for the media …
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Opt out of Hulu's new binding arbitration clause
Hulu’s new subscriber agreement claims to require users to resolve significant disputes …
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Making Notes look like a Markdown editor, if you squint
I use Apple’s Notes app to, well, take notes. It’s the only non-Markdown I regularly use …
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Adding CarPlay to our Toyota's Entune system
Our 2016 Toyota Sienna is perfect, except for its janky entertainment system. Every time I plugged …
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Biden pardons cannabis users
US President Joe Biden pardoned all Federal convictions for the use and simple possession of …
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One Pill Can Kill
I’ve seen things that looked like ads for apps in the iOS App Store. Today, I saw an ad for …
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In the beginning was Word
My kid is home from college. I’m watching them do their homework while struggling against the …
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Fixing the Casper Glow Light charger
Our Casper Glow Lights are nice. However, their charging bases are poorly made, and as seen in user …
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Back to OmniFocus. Again.
I know I said I’m using Things to manage all the things I need to do, but I’ve switched …
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Kitty likes her SureFood microchip pet feeder
We have 2 cats. One of them1 requires a prescription food. Predictably, because he’s a cat, he …
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Review job applications quickly
I got an automated response to a job application that said: Over the next several weeks, one of our …
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An Amazon seller tried to bribe me
I bought a suitcase from Amazon, partly because of its good reviews. The suitcase is alright. …
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macOS 14 Sonoma is out, and mostly OK
Apple release macOS 14 Sonoma today. I always install the major OS beta versions on my work Mac when …
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Newsom vetoed self-driving truck bill
California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required self-driving vehicles to …
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TriNet shares employee PII without controls
My employer’s HR department asked me to validate a coworker’s identification documents …
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Veilid in The Washington Post
I’ve been helping on a fun project with some incredibly brilliant friends. I found myself …
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Simply Sabotaging an Office
The US Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of today’s CIA, wrote the Simple Sabotage …
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Happy 25th birthday, honeypot.net!
In times of yore, my friends gave their computers cool cyberpunky names so that they sounded cool at …
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Twitter went dark. Now what?
Twitter is in a race with Reddit to see who can ruin their service more quickly. That’s the …
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Quitting Reddit
I’ve spent way more time on Reddit than I should have. I justified it to myself by saying it …
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Fake landlord tried to scam my kid
My kid and their friend are looking for a house to rent. They found a perfect match, with a nice …
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Language Server Protocol Launched a Golden Age of Editors
Microsoft developed Language Server Protocol (“LSP”) a few years ago to make it easier …
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I use Things without encryption
Update 2023-11-03: No, I don’t. I tell people not to use Readdle’s Spark email app. …
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iA Presenter Public Launch
I’ve used iA Writer on Mac and iPad for years as my main writing environment. I’m typing …
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Accidentally Hacking the Planet
Last summer I tried to hack the Wall of Sheep at DEF CON. It didn’t work. The short version is …
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Favorite apps: PastePal
I used to think the Copied clipboard manager for Apple devices was spiffy. I don’t know how or …
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Pianos.
I worked as a software developer with a strongly opinionated manager. He believed that we’d …
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eero + Firewalla = perfection
Update 2025-12-14: I replaced all of my eeros with Firewalla Access Point 7 devices because they …
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Wake up, little sunshine
I prompted ChatGPT with: “Write a song I can sing to my son to get him awake and moving to get …
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The Internet is a rough neighborhood
This week I stood up a new firewall in front of my home network. This one has much better logging …
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Fox News fired Tucker Carlson
However it’s spun, Fox News fired Tucker Carlson. Carlson had the most popular cable news show …
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Integrate Things with Focus
I use the Things task manager to keep track of what I need to do. I use the Focus pomodoro timer to …
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Apple won't totally block unwanted emails
Apple’s email apps and services don’t allow users to completely block senders. If …
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Upgrade your Raspberry Pi with an SSD
I upgraded my Raspberry Pi to use an external SSD drive instead of its built-in SD card reader. If …
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A Boston Terrier Married a Cat
I prompted ChatGPT: “Write a Shakespearean sonnet about a Boston terrier marrying a cat.” It …
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Easily copy file contents with ForkLift
I use the ForkLift 3 file manager on my Mac. Part of my job involves copying-and-pasting the …
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Recovering a Raspberry Pi password on an M1 Mac
I would never accidentally change my Raspberry Pi’s account password before clicking …
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I watched the Tyre Nichols video
I watched the Tyre Nichols video. I didn’t want to because I knew what it was going to contain …
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My travel project template
In an older post, I talked about making a project template for trip planning. The goal is to build a …
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Muradin wallet doesn't block RFID
My wife bought me a cool Muradin RFID-blocking wallet for Christmas. I like it a lot, except for the …
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Happy 2023!
2022 was a whirlwind of disasters, plagues, wars, elections, recession, inflation, and other …
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SteerMouse makes my Logitech mouse better
I bought a Logitech MX Vertical Wireless Mouse last year. The mouse itself remains delightful and my …
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Audrey Auden's "The Voice in All"
I read Audrey Auden’s new book, “The Voice in All”, the first in her new …
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Easily delete your Twitter account the hard way
The folks at Conscious Digital have a nifty website, yourdigitalrights.org, that makes it easy to …
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Of course dogs smile
I hang out on parts of the Internet where people often post pictures of happy animals. All too …
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California 2022 Midterms Voting Guide
These are my recommendations for the November 8, 2022 midterm election in California.Propositions …
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Winding down
I knew the conversation wouldn’t be easy when the veterinarian asked if this was a good time …
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Surprise eero hardware end-of-life
Amazon is ending software support for 1st generation eero devices at the end of September 2022. …
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Trying (and Failing) to hack the Wall of Sheep
The Wall of Sheep is a popular exhibit at DEF CON. Participants run packet sniffers on an insecure …
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How QBasic jump started my career
When I was an enlisted sailor in the US Navy, I spent an awful lot of time on a deployment hacking …
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Slack was broadcasting hashed passwords for 5 years
I received an email from Slack on Thursday, 2022-08-04: We’re writing to let you know about a bug …
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Not Upgrading for Stage Manager
Apple’s iPadOS 16 features a new multitasking mechanism called Stage Manager, but only on very …
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How to give compliments
It’s fun to receive compliments. It’s as much fun to give them! That can be …
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Don't buy a cheap Apple Watch Series 3
Don’t buy an Apple Watch Series 3. Many recent articles enthuse about its current wonderfully …
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The dynamic range of emotions
“Dynamic range” describes the difference between the softest and loudest bits of a …
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Internet Explorer is finally dead
I was working the night shift at a motel while going to school during the day, when my parents saw a …
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Do not use Readdle's Spark email app
I’ve written before about Readdle’s Spark email client, which is popular, highly rated, …
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Microsoft's gotta Microsoft
A long time ago, back in the dark days of the Browser Wars, Microsoft hated Free Software, …
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Dealing with Princeton's flawed privacy research
This has been an odd week. Last Friday I got an email from someone asking about my hobby …
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...And Back to OmniFocus
I recently wrote about switching from OmniFocus to Reminders and gave a lot of reasons why I …
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About the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking
I’ve written before about Hook, a nifty way of linking things you’re working on together …
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Better incentives for showing web ads
I use ad blockers on all my devices. Still, I understand that the sites I enjoy depend on ad …
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AirTag lost its way
Apple released their new AirTag product six months ago, and as competent as it is for finding lost …
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From OmniFocus to Reminders
My wife’s been a Mac user much longer than I have. Years after she’d been happily using …
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Notability's subscription model is an insult
Ginger Labs’s Notability is a popular note-taking app for Apple computers. It’s a nice …
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Jira is a code smell
Good Project Managers are important. As an Application Programmer, they’re your Interface to …
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Introducing Glass Knife
I’ve been using Obsidian lately for taking notes and I’m certain I’ll be saying …
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Released The Policy Wonk
Today we released the first public version of “The Policy Wonk”, or just …
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Unusual shipping fail from Apple
I ordered a couple of Apple AirTags and keychain holders this weekend, and UPS dropped the package …
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Fact-Checking Snopes
I want to like Snopes but I’m not convinced that they weigh evidence correctly. As a personal …
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GoDaddy Terminates Texas Spy Site
GoDaddy gives Texas abortion website notice: Find new host ASAP: The highly controversial and …
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What HIPAA's Privacy Rule Says
As someone who deals with HIPAA’s privacy compliance as part of my job, I don’t ever want to …
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The Itanic Has Sunk
By today, July 29, 2021, Intel has shipped the last of its Itanium processors, the last holdout of a …
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Opt-Out Tracking is an Awful Idea
Someone invented a new standardized way to opt out of telemetry for command line applications. This …
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Quackbooks.
It seems like Intuit is never any the news for anything good that benefits normal people. …
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Antivaxxers not owed a soapbox
In a new post in Science Translational Medicine’s “In the Pipeline” blog, Derek …
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Digital notes are better than paper
Techie people regularly rediscover paper and write about how they’ve created a good note …
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The Risks of Third-Party Email Clients
There are a lot of neat third-party email applications available for Mac and iOS. From an end user …
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Pain-free with a Logitech MX Vertical Mouse
When I spend my days programming, I don’t often use a mouse. I have a nice keyboard and use as …
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Bing is censoring Tank Man search results
Bing is censoring images of the Tiananmen Square “tank man” image. DuckDuckGo, who uses …
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Uniquely bad identity branding
My company has an account with a certain identity provider so we can test that our single sign-on …
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How I get things done
After years — decades — of experimentation, I’ve learned this about myself: when I follow a …
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Tripping on a Cracked Sidewalk
Amazon Sidewalk is a new project which allows Amazon devices (like Alexa, Ring doorbells, etc.) with …
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Can't hire? Pay more.
Many recent news stories feature companies having a hard time hiring workers. In capitalism, this …
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Wisdom of the ages
The iOS App Store recommended that I check out a meditation app named “Calm”, featuring …
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Taking one for the team
Scene: Nick’s intermediate league baseball game. Bottom of the last inning. Other team at bat. …
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Signal was cheeky, but right
In her article “I Have a Lot to Say About Signal’s Cellebrite Hack”, the extremely …
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Review: Jellycuts
Jellycuts for iOS and iPadOS is 2 things:
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Review: Apple Fitness+
I’ve been using Apple’s Fitness+ service since it came available. It’s still a …
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Review: Hook by CogSci
I’ve been playing with Hook, an app I’ve started hearing about. It’s an interesting …
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Mastodon apps for iOS
Updated: November 11, 2022 There are several excellent Mastodon apps for iOS and iPadOS. These are …
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Google v. Oracle - victory!
This morning the US Supreme Court ruled for Google in Oracle’s case against them. This is …
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Favorite apps: Copied
I think Copied is the best clipboard manager available for Apple devices. I use Copied constantly. …
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Smart progress bars
Progress bars suck at predicting how long things will take. I’ll tell you what I want (what I …
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Little League wants all your information
To sign kids up for our city’s Little League baseball program, you have to prove that they’re …
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New favorite command: Zoxide
My favorite new command is zoxide. It’s like a faster z, autojump, or fasd. In summary, it …
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"Let's Fix OmniFocus", indeed
If you use OmniFocus, you should check out Paul Sahner’s Let’s Fix OmniFocus post: But …
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Use local Git repos for personal work
I’ve heard a lot of online arguments about whether you should host your Git-based projects in …
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Dell doesn't honor warranties
In late August 2020, I bought my kid a new Dell SE2419HX monitor for his birthday. School was …
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Automating this static website
I use the Hugo website generator to create this website out of a bunch of Markdown fils. A lot has …
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Security training for the masses
My company is going through its annual HIPAA privacy and security refresher training. This is a good …
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Google v. Oracle, by analogy
Suppose Joe opens a restaurant. He hires a waiter who is really great at following directions, but …
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November 2020 Voting Guide
These are the notes I collected to determine how I’m going to vote on November 3, 2020. …
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Staying away from WD NAS drives for now
Western Digital just admitted to Tom’s Hardware that they use a notoriously slow technology, …
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The Kansas City Wormhole
I’ve had one inexplicable thing happen in my life. I remembered it today and texted an old …
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More apps lost to subscriptions
Two more apps I really like(d) have recently announced that they’re moving to subscription …
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Commodore declared bankruptcy 25 years ago today
Commodore International declared bankruptcy on April 29, 1994, and pretty much sealed the fate of …
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A standard for describing a site's password rules
There’s not a universal standard for what a valid password on a website must look like. Some …
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Ringing the bird
I was on an early morning walk and came across a guy staring at the telephone wires. As I …
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Heavy traffic is not a DDoS
Ajit Pai claimed that when the FCC asked citizens to comment on Net Neutrality, their website was …
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Happy birthday to me!
I registered Honeypot.net on July 1, 1998, so today is its twentieth birthday. We’ve had fun, …
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"At a Crucial Juncture, Trump's Legal Defense Is Largely a One-Man Operation"
At a Crucial Juncture, Trump’s Legal Defense Is Largely a One-Man Operation — The New York Times …
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How many minutes of Internet are you paying for each month?
If you pay for a 100Mbps cable connection to the Internet and your plan sets a 300GB data cap, you …
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Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries
Airlines Restrict ‘Smart Luggage’ Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries : The Two-Way : …
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App subscriptions must offer value
Software authors are increasingly switching to subscription models to make their work “sustainable”. …
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Introducing metric quantity units for computing
In computing, metric-sounding prefixes almost universally refer to sizes expressed as powers of two: …
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Traveling with OmniFocus and OmniOutliner
I don’t travel a lot, so when I do I invariably find that I’ve forgotten something important (9 PM …
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Provider
The shield was half-heartedly poking at her keyboard when the car started to move. Oh. “I …
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America's military versus the world
I am pro-military. I think having a strong military means we’re unlikely to have to use it to …
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Search-proof your devices when traveling
Over-eager airport security has recently taken to making travelers unlock their phones and tablets …
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Rebooting
I started this blog twelve years ago. I always meant to update it regularly, but… life intervenes. …
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Purge your Yahoo account (but don't delete it!)
There are about 1.5 billion reasons to want to cancel your Yahoo account. Don’t do that! …
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Migrating off Evernote
In late 2016, Evernote updated their privacy policy to explicitly grant their employees the right to …
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Focus.
I was in a meeting when I noticed the sun was hitting my water bottle just right.
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It's still there, isn't it?
Gigi isn’t so sure about our new decoration.
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Technology IS Politics
It’s not possible for technologists to avoid politics because technology is politics: …
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Electronics Kit for my Kids
Cory Doctorow mentioned that Elenco makes a perfect copy of the Radio Shack 200-in-One electronics …
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We had a scary basement
When I was a kid, my parents had a horror movie basement. It was unfinished, poorly lit, and …
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My phone was Lyfted
My son needed a ride to a Boy Scout campout yesterday and neither Jen nor I were
home to take him. I …
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Christmases Past
How I imagined the backstory of the dad from “A Christmas Story”: I’ve seen things. Lots …
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Adventures in Comcast support
We live outside San Francisco, and Comcast is our cable provider. We wanted to watch college …
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What I Tell My Kids About The Internet
Hi kid! You don’t know me, but I’m one of those “Internet expert” kind of …
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My FCC Net Neutrality Letter
This is my letter to the FCC on September 12, 2014 regarding the upcoming net neutrality decision …
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Cut Hoodies Some Slack
No good article about the Bay Area misses jokes at hipsters in their hoodies, whether biking through …
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Scaling with Eventual Consistency
Originally published on the Crittercism Engineering Blog and reprinted with permission. by Kirk …
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Wet Shaving: A Year Later
I’m a sucker for the idea of ritual. When I learn about a traditional, labor-intensive …
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Great Expectations
I probably sound like I gripe all the time, but that’s really not what I’m like. …
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Making Devonthink Sync Between Computers
Update: 2021-05-27 This is still getting traffic for unknown reasons. Today, in 2021, the problem is …
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More Shoe Fails
I had a wonderful experience buying new Rockport shoes from Brown Brothers Shoes in Alameda a couple …
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To Sell A Car
In the process of moving to another state, we decided to sell my car to some friends. This turned …
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Applecareless
While I almost never buy extended warranties, conventional wisdom is that you should always buy …
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Omaha World Herald Makes School Remove Christmas Message
The Omaha World-Herald published a story about a Lincoln public high school who wrote …
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On Generated Versus Random Passwords
I was reading a story about a hacked password database and saw this comment where the poster wanted …
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Stop The E Parasite Act
This is the letter I just sent to my representative, urging him to vote against Hollywood’s …
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Making DOS USB Images On A Mac
I needed to run a BIOS flash utility that was only available for DOS. To complicate matters, the …
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Taken To The Cleaners By Abe's Detailing
I read a nice newspaper story a while ago about Abe’s Detailing in Norfolk, NE. When I wanted …
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Guest Post By Gabby Crazy Squirrel
I was at grandma’s house last weekend, and there was a power outage.Turns out, it was a …
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Guest Post By Gabby It Snowed
It snowed!I went outside today and played! bet I would have stayed out there if it had snowed more …
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Just Get Home Already
While waiting for Jen to return from a conference, I thought about calling her to get her estimated …
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Guest Post By Gabby There Here
Grandma and Grandpa got here yesterday!My camera is working again to!I took a picture of a …
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Open Letter To KCAU TV
As of mid-August, I can’t watch the local ABC affiliate TV channel over my satellite dish …
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Guest Post By Gabby I Went To The Lake
We took a trip to Grandma’s house on Thursday last week, and on Saturday we went to the lake.A …
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Dropkick Murphys The Meanest Of Times
This is kind of a hard review to write. Short take on the music: it’s brilliant. If you like …
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Baseball Chatter
Hi! You’re the guy who sat behind me at my 8-year-old daughter’s teeball practice. I …
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In Defense Of The Model M
There are few joys in life like using something that is the perfect expression of its intent. Each …
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Shades Of Green
In Nebraska’s May 13 election, two Green Party candidates ran for Douglas County Commissioner, …
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Sue For Mayor
I’m voting for Sue Fuchtman for mayor of Norfolk. I know her personally, and she’s the …
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Fun With Software Licenses
Did you know that you’re probably not allowed to make backups of your computer? It’s …
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Hot About Warming
Global warming is real. Forget the arguments about what’s causing it. Forget trying to …
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Why Is Cloning Bad?
I haven’t figured out exactly why human cloning is a bad thing that should be opposed. It …
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Nebraska Wants To Adopt Your Kids
Senator Brad Ashford of Omaha has proposed criminalizing the act of keeping your kids home from …
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You Want How Many?
I used to work near a little restaurant called “Rasta Grill”. It was this weird fusion …
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Buffer Overrun In Antitrust
Skip this unless you’re really, really geeky. Still with us? OK. In the movie “ …
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Don't Bump That Flash Drive
From the manual of an Asus Eee PC: The solid-state disk drive’s head retracts when the power …
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Guest Post By Gabby My Other Cat
Another blog about a cat!I had a cat named Oat meal.We gave him away 4 years ago.He hated us, he hid …
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Guest Post By Gabby The Ancient Shark
There is a extinct shark called Megalodon.it lived 45,000 million years ago! Fact:Its teeth are …
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How Not To Save A Game
I was about halfway through a game called “Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings” on my …
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Vick Sentenced
Michael Vick was sentenced to 13 dog years.
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Guest Post By Gabby Hatchetfish
The hatchetfish spends the day in deep water and rises closer to the surface at night to feed.It has …
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SCOX Is Deficient And Bankrupt
Right now, as I type this, the Yahoo! Finance page for SCO has a caution sign and the text: …
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Guest Post By Gabby Goalsgoalsand More Goals
At school we divide the school year into four quarters.In each quarter we have a reading goal.A …
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It's Been A Long Time Since I Rock And Rolled
It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled, It’s been a long time since I did the …
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Guest Post By Gabby My Morning
When my alarm went off at 7:00 I got out and landed on my sister, Ari.She
fell out of bed and I …
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Guest Post By Gabby The Fall Festival
There was a Fall Festival at school today I first went to the sign that said
sandy candy.We got a …
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Guest Post By Gabby Dad Is Funny
Dad is funny.He played a trick on my sister.He says somthing like “Guess
what?“Ari …
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Guest Post By Gabby Jake Is Crazy
My brother Jake, is crazy!In baseball he ran with his jaw open and his arms
in the air!He whacked …
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Scam Calls From Card Services
I just got a phone call from a “private caller” (that is, with no caller ID information) …
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I Guess I Do Really Hate Shopping At Wal Mart
Jen and I were in Kansas City for a convention when Jen decided to exchange some newborn-size …
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Yam No More
Back in my Amiga-using days, I had an email program called YAM. It was excellent and ubiquitous; …
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My Ecco Shoes Are Junk
I bought a nice looking pair of Ecco shoes a couple years ago. Actually, they were probably the …
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Winning By Any Means
I was walking through our house when I saw Jake. He was watching me stone-faced with eyes open wide …
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Becoming Unrooted
So, I forgot my root password. For non-technical types, that’s pretty much the key to the …
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baby.lisp
In our household, a baby just ain’t a baby without an appropriately geeky birth announcement. …
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Vapor Rises
Dan Feather, aka “Vapor”, died today after he lost control of his motorcycle. Dan was …
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Down To The Uptown
As our anniversary dinner tradition, Jen and I drive to Stanton to eat at the Uptown Brewery. Each …
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I Am Awesome
I got the best fortune cookie ever a few days ago: Your modesty will shame those with lesser …
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Electronic Survival Kit
So, you’ve made a survival kit to keep you
alive until the good guys come to rescue you. Well, …
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Negotiations With Western Digital
We bought a Western Digital external hard drive for Jen’s computer while we were in Omaha. I …
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Fresh Sushi Better
Jen and I took Jake and Ari to Omaha. I had joked with Jake that I was going to make him eat sushi, …
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Mowing With Max
I have a nice Craftsman lawn mower. I like my lawn mower. I have no desire to get another lawn …
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Pre Packaged Sushi Not Bad
I was buying groceries and saw a new display of pre-packaged plastic boxes of sushi. In the middle …
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Long Weekends
Summer’s upon us again. The kids just got out of school on Wednesday, which reminded me that …
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Up In The Morning And Out To School
Well, it’s officially school time again. Gabby and Ari started back yesterday, and Jake went …
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Tilden Days
Last weekend, we took the kids to Tilden’s “Prairie Days” festival, a celebration …
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Running Before Walking
The kids started swimming lessons yesterday. They all had a great time and left smiling. As I was …
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If God Meant For Man To Roll
It seemed like such a simple idea at the time: I’d buy a cheap bike and ride to work whenever …
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How To Make A Survival Kit
On my birthday in 2005, I read a Slashdot article discussing what things you might want to take with …
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Our Bird Is Dead
Gabby was in the preschool at Christ Lutheran School, and her classroom had a caged parakeet. One …
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The Piano's Broken
We got a used piano a few months ago. After we cleaned it and put it where we wanted it, I played a …
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They Were How Big?
Well, today was the big day — Jake and Ari had their tonsils removed. The doctor said Jake’s …
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Filtering Spam With Postfix
If you are responsible for maintaining an internet-connected mail-server, then you have, no doubt, …
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Strangers In The House
On Tuesday evening, August 24, 2004, I left my wife and three young children (ages four, three, and …
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The Amiga Alternative Audio Page
Note: This is an exact snapshot of the page as it was last modified by CISC back in 2002. I …