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Iā€™ll be seeing this in my nightmares tonight.

A store window is full of porcelain baby dolls sitting on cotton clouds. Many are dressed as angels. Their eyes look haunted. They can see you.

Crab cake Benedict, Red House Cafe, Pacific Grove, California.

A plate of poached eggs Benedict over a croissant, and rosemary roasted potatoes.

I just got the happy news that a Firewalla Gold Pro 10Gbps firewall is on its way soon. Today we’re limited to 2.5Gbps Internet connections because that’s what the current Firewalla Gold supports. Of course, now I also have to upgrade our other switches to match it.

This is shaping up to be an early Christmas.

Never doubt that Apple is the master of packaging. My replacement credit card came in the mail today in this unnecessarily beautiful wrapper.

A slightly off-white heavy stock envelope with rounded corners and an embossed Apple logo.

The envelope itself has an NFC chip. You touch your phone to it to activate the card inside.

A rainbow-colored cardboard sleeve with a titanium credit card nestled inside a perfectly-sized cutout.

For Scienceā„¢ I read the NFC with my Flipper Zero. It didn’t seem to contain any personal information. My guess is it’s a code that the phone interprets as “open the Wallet app and activate that credit card we told you was on the way”.

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 statement to CBS News Bay Area, the FBI said, “The FBI is conducting court authorized law enforcement activity on Maiden Lane. We are unable to provide additional information at this time.”

Election officials just announced that Thao’s recall election petitions met the criteria to be put to ballot. This hasn’t been a pleasant week for her.

EU today decided to postpone a vote of their ridiculous ā€œChat Controlā€ anti-privacy law. That a government would even consider it is a reminder of the critical importance of distributed, federated systems. A website operated out of Brazil isnā€™t subject to EU law. A Mastodon server in France can ignore bad US laws. A private mailserver in California doesn’t care about China’s laws.

Huge companies like Meta and Google with international business presences have to follow dumb regulations from around the whole world. You and I do not. This is our strength.

Currently reading: My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Many thanks to Jim for nudging me toward Book 1 way back when. It captured me. šŸ“š