mdlbear | Done Since 2018-09-23 (Reply)

Not a bad week? Hard for me to tell. Nothing disastrous happened, anyway, and my trigger thumb appears to be mostly better. I sent out two job applications, and got back a rejection from the one I had a phone screen for last week. There is one from a couple of weeks ago that I'm also waiting to hear from.

I spent almost all of Friday and a lot of Saturday programming -- it's very encouraging to know that I can still do that. It suggests that I probably can handle a full-time job. The program in question is an update of the rotating hypercube (and other polytopes) demo I wrote somewhere around 1990. The original was, of course, in C; the current version is in JavaScript. I'll be packaging the pieces, thereby adding to the confoundingly cluttered chaos that is the npm package ecosystem. Last night's work was unit tests for the polytope classes. So those are working, and I'm learning more about JavaScript.

The security kerfuffle of the week was Facebook's announcement that 90 million accounts had been compromised. Think about that number for a moment. You can find out whether your account was compromised in this or any other breach by entering your email address at Have I Been Pwned. Think about the fact that Facebook is not on their list of the ten largest breaches.

The privacy kerfuffle of the week was the latest version of Google's Chrome browser, which automatically logs in the browser whenever you log in to any of Google's other properties, e.g. gmail, calendar, and maps. You can turn the "feature" off, but you'll have to google for the instructions. Irony intended.

It's worth noting that if you only have one Google account and keep Chrome logged in so that you can sync, , this doesn't affect you, and you might even consider it the convenience that Google says it is. And if you're on Android or ChromeOS, where Google is your login, or (like me) have already switched to Firefox for other reasons, this doesn't affect you either.

I went through the list of symptoms at Burning Out: 12 Real Signs That You’re Overdoing It, referring to my last couple of years at $A. Twelve out of twelve. The author says that "Burnout is [...] a sustained—yet unsustainable—pressure on yourself that causes a physical, mental, or emotional collapse. That collapse can cause you to make really drastic, and sometimes disastrous, decisions." Yeah. That.

Notes & links:

0923Su
* up 6:30; W=199, S=6:54;
* weekly post.
Seeing the way DW archive pages are named, /yyyy/mm/dd/, made me realize that that can
be used to get the URL of the most recent one. (as long as it's public)
Not all that useful, since we're not making back-links and links from c-c.net are
trivial to compute (yyyy/mm/dd/name.html)
* singing: Mary O'Meara and (at C's request) Gentle Arms of Eden. Mary O'Meara was
apparently her mother's favorite, and she's had it running through her head for a week
* SL: tikka masala sauce (2), lemons, cabbage (cole slaw mix), bananas, fresh pineapple
+ lettuce, green beans
-Brachk's Royals, -Garam Masala ~coffee,
; L's meds, generic liquid cold med (guaifenesen, dextromethorphan, phenylephrin),
% feeling somewhat (??)strung out. headache and general "out of it" feeling. Will take
naproxen and try to get some extra calories.
* chicken tikka masala
: and I set down my damned splint so that I could wash my hands and cook, and now I
can't find it. Again. (last time it fell out of the waistband when I took my pants
off, but I don't think that's where it is now.)

0924Mo
* up 5:30; W=199, S=7ish; shower
: The splint turned out to be in my left pants pocket. What's weird is that I took what
I thought was everything out of that pocket _twice_. I blame the cats.
@ MagicMirror² pi. Cool project
o 7:45 leave for...
o 8am Dr. Rochier
o IMMEDIATELY head down to Rest Stop
@ Why I’m done with Chrome automatic login. :P Affects chromium too.
@ ModSecurity and nginx | Linux Journal
* mostly helping j with math
: rebooted; a nice side effect is that it gets the revised $BROWSER into all ENVs, so
that I don't get chrome when I followed links.

0925TTu
* up 6ish; W=198.2, S=7:51;
@ Quantum Physicists Attack the Riemann Hypothesis | Quanta Magazine
Claimed proof of the Riemann Hypothesis
Atiyah-Riemann Proof: banter summary | The Aperiodical
News re proofs of the ABC conjecture & Riemann Hypothesis
@ Chrome 69 effectively requires you to stay logged in (if you want to use any Google
services) - Liliputing
" Update: Google’s Adrienne Porter Felt
points out that the change was made to make it easier for users to see when they
were logged into Google services… but that logging into a Google service on the web
will not automatically start Chrome’s browser synchronization.
That requires an additional step.
The Chrome privacy notice has been updated to reflect this "
Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
Bálint | Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
@
* up 6ish; W=198.2, S=7:51;
@ Quantum Physicists Attack the Riemann Hypothesis | Quanta Magazine
Claimed proof of the Riemann Hypothesis
Atiyah-Riemann Proof: banter summary | The Aperiodical
News re proofs of the ABC conjecture & Riemann Hypothesis
@ Chrome 69 effectively requires you to stay logged in (if you want to use any Google
services) - Liliputing
" Update: Google’s Adrienne Porter Felt
points out that the change was made to make it easier for users to see when they
were logged into Google services… but that logging into a Google service on the web
will not automatically start Chrome’s browser synchronization.
That requires an additional step.
The Chrome privacy notice has been updated to reflect this "
Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
Bálint | Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
Google secretly logs users into Chrome whenever they log into a Google site
Google restores 'www' to Chrome URLs after user backlash | ZDNet
@ Google blog: Product updates based on your feedback
@ The 6 Causes of Professional Burnout And How To Avoid Them
* 9:40 leave for... -> bring paperwork. Pick up cat litter on the way.
* 10:15 consultation re: hernia. Coupeville (appt at 10:45)
205 South Main Street, Bldg A Coupeville, WA 98239; 30min drive time (gmaps)
-> he couldn't feel it, and there's something involving fat that might be similar;
scheduled a follow-up for three months.
@ What Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google believe about themselves can explain a lot
& installed Redshift (color temp adjuster)
% Not sure how I feel about it. I'll try it for a couple of days.
@ Table of Contents — How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition

0926We
* Up 5am; W=199, S=6:07;
% have had splint off for several hours. Used chopsticks to eat breakfast (ma po tofu)
at 10:21 it's triggering a little. Back on the splint.
: took call from MAC clinic - reschedule C's appointment from 0928 to 1004
@ Emacs Keybindings - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base works? unclear.
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs --type string
-> no music lesson this week -- next one is 1017
* 0926 https://www.flexjobs.com/HostedJob.aspx?appliedjob=1&id=977286 npm
@ 0926 thinkful Software Engineer
* humira

0927Th
* up 7am; S=; scale needs 2032 batteries
@ Firefox Monitor (LJ) but not as useful as
Have I Been Pwned, which also provides actual data about the breach in question
@ Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
" Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your
Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed
over for security purposes and contact information you didn’t hand over at all. "
@ Burning Out: 12 Real Signs That You’re Overdoing It | The Introverted Engineer
" Burnout is [...] a sustained—yet unsustainable—pressure on yourself that causes a
physical, mental, or emotional collapse. That collapse can cause you to make really
drastic, and sometimes disastrous, decisions. "
Also, " 12 Signs you’re on track for a burnout." 12 out of 12.
* researched Electron and npm for getting stuff started on Raven. (phq; also want to
start ncube-js, because logo)
& helped L clear out the cats' room. There are a few items that want to go down to the
garage, but it's usable.
% Splint off most of the evening; put it back on for night-time.

0928Fr
* Up 6:30; s=6:56; laundry
% trigger thumb seems to be recovered. We'll see.
~ C MAC clinic rescheduled to 1004Th
* working way too long on javascript version of ncube
* 4:15 pack up Desti
* 5pm Desti SWAC to have cyst drained - 0928; last was 0723. Need to check every week
% exhausted. Probably didn't get enough to eat -- or drink, for that matter
@ Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott (1973) - full text (N)
% 9:15 noticed some slight triggering, so put the brace back on for the night.
@ Security Update | Facebook Newsroom 5x10^7 accounts.

0929Sa
* up 7ish; S=8:23;
@ Microsoft/MS-DOS: The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference
purposes - MIT License.
* Lunch at Charmers and a drive to Oak Harbor with Colleen.
* still working on ncube. polytopes and transformStack defined
* SL: round rye bread, juices, eggs, coffee, stick butter, cottage cheese, English,
Italian cheese blend (not pizza), roquefort, cream cheese, almonds, pastrami,
kielbasa, 4*(sweet, hot) italian sausages, fruit, broccoli, bake at home bread, cole
slaw mix, chicken thighs, ground beef, 3 mushrooms, 2 steaks, small corn tortillas,
salsa, + tikka masala sauce; 2032 batteries,
* dinner: cheddar broccoli soup, BAH rosemary bread.
* wrote tests for polytopes.js module. Passes.