That’s one good looking butterfly.
A friend’s 6 month old Maine coon cat is already enormous. He’s such an outgoing and fun kitty to play with.
That job you applied for might not exist. Here’s what’s behind a boom in “ghost jobs.” - CBS News:
Fake job ads are proliferating online, with more companies admitting to posting realistic-looking job openings that don’t actually exist.
“Hiring managers are largely on board with the practice. Seven in 10 said they believe it’s morally acceptable”…
…to lie. Any company doing this is wholly untrustworthy.
Unboxing the Firewalla Gold Pro
My early access Firewalla Gold Pro 10 gigabit router came today. It’s replacing a Firewalla Gold Plus 2.5Gb router we’ve used for the last year.
The production line isn’t fully running yet but the packaging and the router itself look like it is. Firewalla says the hardware design is finished and this is the same unit everyone else will get later this year. The software’s still under active development.
The Gold Pro is quite a bit larger than the Gold Plus and doesn’t have mounting holes on the bottom for vertical installation. It does have holes on the side for installing rack mount ears.
A fan screamed when I turned it on. It turned off a few seconds later. I wouldn’t want it in the room with me if it always ran at full speed.
Setup was mostly easy. The Firewalla app prompted to replace an old box or set it up as new. I followed the “replace an old box” process and was running a few minutes later.
“Mostly” means:
- I had to reboot my ISP’s modem to clear out its MAC cache, and I initially plugged the WAN cord into the wrong jack on the Firewalla. Neither of those were its fault.
- A software glitch in migrating the firewall rules from the old router to the new one stopped one of my remote servers from connecting in. This is an early access device so I knew what I was getting into. I reported the problem to Firewalla’s tech support and they’re looking into it.
The end result was a smoking fast 8 gigabits down, 3.4 gigabits up connection. A speed test from my Mac Studio was faster yet.
This is a beta device. It may stop working at any moment, catch fire, overfeed the dog, or call me bad names. As long as it keeps racing along like this, I’m going to be a very happy tester.
I can’t look at a number without trying to contextualize it. Today I got a new home router that can handle our 10 gigabit Internet connection. My first connection to another computer was a 300 baud modem plugged into my little Commodore 64. This new link is about 33 million times faster.
Wait, isn’t a year about 30 megaseconds? Indeed. That means I can now download more data in 1 second than I use to be able to in a year.
I wonder if I’ll have a 300 petabit home connection some day.
I walked out of the little restaurant in time to see my kid standing at a bus stop awaiting a ride. I walked up behind them:
“Want an empanada?”
“Where did you come from? Really? What kind?”
“Chicken or mushroom.”
“Mushroom!”
They reached into the bag and plucked out a steaming hot treat. I walked off without saying another word. I bet the other riders at the stop had so many questions.
Slack said they’ll start deleting old data from free workspaces. While I understand why people are frustrated, you can’t trust your data to someone else’s server. If it’s important to you, keep a copy somewhere under your control.
It might be inconvenient to self-host something like Mattermost, but perhaps not as much as having a company delete all your data.
Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites:
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polyfill.jsis a popular open source library to support older browsers. 100K+ sites embed it using thecdn.polyfill.iodomain. Notable users are JSTOR, Intuit and World Economic Forum. However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Since then, this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embedscdn.polyfill.io.
This is fine.
The pattern matching on this shirt pocket makes me smile every time I see it.
Currently reading: Norse Mythology: The Illustrated Edition by Neil Gaiman 📚
Picked this up for some spa reading.
I’ll be seeing this in my nightmares tonight.
Bubbles.
Crab cake Benedict, Red House Cafe, Pacific Grove, California.
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.
The envelope itself has an NFC chip. You touch your phone to it to activate the card inside.
For Science™ 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 “Chat Control” 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 isn’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. 📚
The moon over Northern California.
I’ve got my weekend reading sorted out.
