Another hiker caught my wife and me cresting the top of a hill, then airdropped the photo to us. People on this trail tend to be either don’t-bother-me busy with their workout, or very social and ready to chat. Not that I’m either of those, exactly.
The Black Panther Party had a 10 point platform. These demands are painted in various places around Oakland, CA. This is the painting for number 4:
We Want Decent Housing Fit For The Shelter of Human Beings.
It’s in the middle of a homeless encampment. Some things are better now. Some are not.
Mise + fnox + macOS Keychain is a great combo for running Ansible with stored, encrypted secrets.
In mise.toml:
[env]
DBSERVER_PW = { value = "{{ exec(command='fnox get DBSERVER') }}", tools = true, redact = true }
In Ansible’s host vars:
my_servers:
hosts:
dbserver:
ansible_become_password: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'DBSERVER_PW') }}"
Now you can run ansible-playbook and friends without hardcoding your sudo passwords anywhere!
For giggles, I added a new Rust implementation of Little Fluffy Clouds so that you can use it as a standalone binary. The Python version isn’t going away! It’s still the only solution I know of for merging lots of IP networks quickly and correctly.
Chinese Regulators May Kill Retractable Car Door Handles That Never Should Have Existed
Compared to mechanical door handles, however, these door handles come with a trade-off in complexity. They require electricity, motors, and a functioning control system to work. When all is well, this isn’t a problem. However, when things go wrong, a retractable electronic door handle often proves inaccessible and useless.
I’m glad this is getting attention. I would not ride in a Tesla. I’m astonished that these insane door handles are legal at all, and that they haven’t been sued into bankruptcy for willful negligence.
The crucial part to booting FreeBSD on my 2018 Intel Mac Mini (macmini8,1) was in the FreeBSD wiki:
$ mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes
$ bless --mount /Volumes --setBoot --file /Volumes/efi/boot/BOOTX64.efi --shortform
$ diskutil umount /Volumes
$ reboot
Emergency cat pics! June Bug is grooming “her” kitties, Sam and Dean.
PG&E charges $1.50 to make debit/credit card payments on their website. I’m going to research the most expensive possible way for them to process my payments. Drive to their office and swipe an American Express? Check written in crayon that has to be manually entered? Pennies duct-taped to a caribou? I need to think on this.
North Carolina Town First in U.S. to Deploy Defibrillator Drones During Actual 911 Emergencies
“Once the call goes in, the drone is launched to that location, the person is on the phone with a 911 operator, they’re guiding them, letting them know what to do, what to expect. The drone is in flight with the AED attached. Minutes later, the drone appears in the sky–not a bird, not a plane, not Superman–a drone and an AED[…]”
- That’s amazing!
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The jq command line tool is a useful way to query, filter, and reformat JSON files. I use it every day at work. It’s great. However, replacing a jq command having a beefy select() clause with a simple call to rg cut a script’s runtime from 79 seconds to 6.
Choose the right tool for the job.