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I am “hurt my back playing video games” years old.

Some friends and I got a pack of Orbic mobile hotspots so we can install the EFF’s Rayhunter software on them to detect “StingRay” IMSI-catchers. This is what one looks like.

In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

I moved in down the block from Mark when we first came to the Bay Area. One day he saw me getting out of my car and noticed my EFF hat. He asked if I worked for them, and I said I’m just a happy supporter. He told me they once helped him out of a bind and said I should look him up.

Mark was a super nice guy. He also had the world’s most aggressive golden retrievers that would bark at me as I walked down the block. One day I found a “sewer cleaning” van parked on the parallel street behind his house, but to this day I wonder what it really was. They drove off right after I took a picture of it.

Of the security stuff I do for friends, nothing less excites me than financial compliance. If the task has “PCI” anywhere near it, you owe me a nice dinner.

I bought a case for my Meshtastic radio. It came with a couple of buttons and switches that reminded me that I’m only so-so at soldering. I still like how it came out, and everything works like it’s supposed to.

Happy Day of the Dude on this first day of Carpet Diem.

May you mark all strikes, no gutters.

We just finished “Shogun”, and it’s going to take me a day or two to decide what I think about that ending.

A Case for Turning Tulsa Into the Next Big Tech Hub | WIRED

Requirements OK will never meet:

• Better politics. Techies are largely for individual rights. The Midwest largely isn’t.
• Better worker protections. Great tech jobs aren’t usually in right to work states.
• Employees own their ideas. In CA, for example, you can launch your own startup while still working for someone else. In the places in the Midwest I’ve lived, your employer generally owns things you create while working for them.

If you don’t build those, they won’t come.

I bought a 50MB (yes, megs) HD from an acquaintance. It was freaking slow connected to my Amiga, like 20-30KB per second. It also made a horrible high-pitched whine.

Figuring I had nothing to lose, I turned it over and squirted some 3-in-1 oil on the motor spindle. The whine started increasing in pitch as it quietened, and slowly the HD benchmark program started creeping up toward a more reasonable 1MB/s or so. I didn’t use that drive afterward, and just copied the, ahem, public domain apps and games off it and then threw it away.

I have not before or since sped up a computer by oiling it.

Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Presidio.