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mdlbearThanks to a major mask mishap (in other words, I was stupid) I ended up spending most of the week isolating in the Lair with the cats. This was not really a hardship -- the cats are excellent company even if they do get rather distracting at times.
I spent some of the time improving on my to-do item counter scripts, ostensibly as a preliminary to pruning and organizing them. As with most of my projects, it's mostly stalled. I also greatly improved the network connection in the Lair, using a couple of powerline ethernet adapters and a cheap access point. I should probably have spent a little more time looking and gotten something that would also work as a server. Maybe this week -- there are a lot of little ARM boxes that are new since the last time I looked. In any event, refreshing my network manager trying to get a usable access point was a major time-waster, and that's over with now. I'll have to look for something else.
I also wasted some time in the cloud storage comparison rabbit-hole. The immediate excuse was that I'm nearing the limit for free Google storage. An upgrade isn't terribly expensive, and would take care of my email and photos, but it's too expensive for backing up nearly a terabyte of random files from my home server. Many of which I have no intention of trusting to $G, anyway.
Notes & links: 0115Su * litter boxen * up 7am; S=7:05, BP=112/71, P=70, W=198.0; exercises, shower @ VƎX Werewolf #OpenDnD: "Like we're seeing the point in late-stage capitalism where the capitalists just straight up stop understanding that customers exist" / bird @ Microsoft Adaptive Mouse Review | PCMag M$ Adaptive Hub @ jart/blink: tiniest x86-64-linux emulator Porting to webassembly · Issue #8 · jart/blink @ Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations | Nature Reviews @ earworm of the day: JUDY COLLINS - "My Father" 1969; LIVE 2002 - YouTube Judy Collins at Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2022 Shrewsbury Folk Festival # better to-do item counter: ignores files with no items and files in post archives. for f in $(find /vv -type f -name \*.do); do echo -e `grep '^ o ' $f | wc -l` $f; \ done | grep -v -E '^0' | grep -v /20 |sort -nr |tee /dev/tty | wc -l @ Hackers discover that vulnerabilities are rife in the auto industry | Ars " Armed with nothing more than a vehicle identification number, the hackers were able to access the remote services for cars from Acura, Honda, Infiniti, Kia, and Nissan, including locating and unlocking the cars, starting or stopping the engines, or honking the horns. " Chevy is not mentioned in the article, but... * */15 pay AX cards @ RIP Les Barker, " died yesterday, age 75 after attending a local footie match. Found in his car in the car park after the match. The police are presuming a heart attack. " % sad @ Cancelled D&D Beyond Subscriptions Forced Hasbro's Hand * SL: RS: catfood, greenies : discussing the move with N and G. We also have another possible buyer for the house A bookstore sounds like a real possibility for a qualifying business. First thing I'm legitimately optimistic about. 0116Mo MLK day k's birthday & awake 4ish. mostly incapussitated * up 7am; S=5:58; in bed until 8am; pill the cats, exercises @ Google Online Security Blog: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 @ ysabetwordsmith | Motherlode as a Genre promising, and some great links & filled out survey from apolloneuro; gave permission to follow up but don't expect it : j very happy to get the book on ancient Rome that I found among the art books @ Why Clearing Clutter Can Feel Impossible - The New York Times * 15min: cleanup in to.do -> 304 undone: 143 to, 66 must, 95 wibnif earlier today : 315 undone: 154 to, 66 must, 95 wibnif for f in *.do; do echo -n `grep '^ o ' $f | wc -l` "$(basename $f .do); "; done; echo -> 26 colleen; 5 eol; 6 mom; 45 must; 137 to; 87 wibnif; * 15min: change the way to-do items are counted. Look at all *.do files. make report -> 310 undone: 141 to 45 must 87 wibnif ... 26 colleen 5 eol 6 mom 0117Tu & awake 3:15; two cats, no WiFi. down 4ish; didn't sleep * up 7:30ish; S=5:21; exercises; pill cats : WiFi back, at least temporarily. -> Very temporarily. * plan on isolating in the lair for the rest of the week. (Possible exposure Sun.) * from house: - grab kind bars, snacks, plink, backpack, - oximeter % There are worse things than being in bed with two beautiful girls. Even if both of them are a bit catty. * 6n/1 CPAP * : replace plastic filter: -may- have to order one ~ 5pm Pacific (with replay) / 8pm EST Grief webinar (whatsyourgrief.com) -> joined at 6:15, so will try to catch the recording * 10pm pill the cats * load drugs * 15min: re-arrange storage cubes to make the light switches both on the wall and the tower accessible. Required disassembling the cube above it, of course. 0118We * litter boxen * up 5:55; S=7:09, BP=127/69, P=66, p~=3.5-4; exercises @ CNET's Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors (solarbird) Internet Horrified by CNET Secretively Publishing Articles Written by an AI Deep Learning Expert Says GPT Startups May Be in for a Very Rude Awakening Microsoft Working on Deal to Add OpenAI's GPT Into MS Word * singing: Millennium's Dawn * 9:15 pill the cats @ There's a Problem With That AI Portrait App: It Can Undress People Without Their Consent * 11:30ish walked over to the taqueria on 90th and got a chile relleno for lunch % no problems with the walk. Minimal pain * Tag this repo (Major-changes-to-do-files) -- this can be used with `git diff` to see what's been archived and what's simply gone away. : Ticia actually _sat in my lap_ for quite a while this afternoon. In bed, so my legs were stretched out (I don't think chair lap feels secure enough for her), but still. * send $1500 to the kids * 4:45 covid test -> negative as expected. * 9:30pm pill and feed the cats 0119Th & awake 3ish * up 6:30; S=5:41; exercises : email from $A: " We are writing to let you know that we plan to wind down AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023. " * 8ish pill the cats. -> Desti stole Ticia's treat -- hopefully won't do either of them any harm. It was the last of Ticia's gabapentin ("as needed for pain"); : looking at cloud storage, since my GDrive is 80% full. Minimum upgrade is pretty cheap, so I'll do that anyway, but for bulk storage there are less expensive options. IDrive, Dropbox, PCloud, and iDrive look cheapest; PCloud is a 1-time large payment, and iDrive really only works with MacOS et.al. (and isn't supported by rclone) * noonish: covid test -> negative @ Breaching the Trust Thermocline Is the Biggest Hidden Risk in Business - Every : Got an alert from Android on passing 2GB of data usage, mainly due to the last few days with lousy WiFi. But my account is good for 12GB, so I'm okay. -> raised the alert level to 6. -> lowered to 3 because the real limit may be 4GB/line (= 12 total) : My purple 24-cell arrived from Shapeways. This makes me happy on several levels. * finished the last of the Heaven's Door whiskey * 9:20ish pill Desti * test powerline network. Works, though apparently not in the outlet that would be most convenient for hacking in bed. That's okay -- can be dealt with. But not tonight. -> but ...5G_RE appears to have connected, so that's okay. -> but not for long 0120Fr & awake 3am; gave up trying to get back to sleep 5ish. Cold. * up 5ish; S=5:32; exercises : The ethernet cable I have reaches, but just barely. It'll work for now. Or not. -> ordered access point. Not a particularly capable one, but it will be here today -> arguably should have spent the extra $10 to get a powerline AP @ Twitter officially bans third-party clients after cutting off prominent devs Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients | Engadget Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom : powerline adapter works in the socket on the wall behind the bar, so I'll put the access point and, eventually, server on the shelves above the microwave. * 8am covid test -> negative * Coffee and fiber (cookies and prunes) in the Lair -> left for the house ~8am @ The London Stereoscopic Company Ltd - LSC Official Online Shop Virtual Reality From Brian May. It's real. * put in query about Desti's dosing schedule. -> I-131 treatment is $1500-1800. Feline Hyperthyroid Treatment Center, Shoreline Feline Hyperthyroid Treatment Center * took apart and rebuilt Starshine -- still dead. Fsck. Strip it for parts, I guess * Set up TP-Link access point -- IP addr 192.168.0.118 One peculiarity is that it will only let one client log in, which causes trouble because it means you _have_ to log out. It apparently also connects to a TP-Link server so you can log from a phone app -> Think I'll skip that bit. * set up access point in lair. -> Works perfectly. 0121Sa & awake 3:30ish; incapussitated @ Mass Climate Migration Is Coming | WIRED @ siderea | Q: ANSI colors, terminal.app, and emacs? [tech] @ One-Pan Baby Back Ribs - Muy Bueno Cookbook * up 8:20; S=6:42; exercises * Proud to be the 2,186th 😎 on @BackerKit for Zeus: Worlds First & Smallest 270W GaN USB-C Charger. Thanks @chargeasap -> made account under s@t; there was already one under s@s @ Seal and robot discovered potential climate change disaster at glacier - WaPo Denman Glacier - Wikipedia Antarctica's Denman Glacier is sinking into the world's deepest canyon Denman Glacier in East Antarctica | NASA Denman Glacier Losing Some of Its Footing Antarctica's Denman Glacier is sinking into the world's deepest canyon | UCI * SL: RE: coffee, ribs, lime juice, lemon juice, iceberg, x Tso's * pack: small roll of black cable ties for tidying. -> in backpack : 1:30ish arrived on-island. no obvious wind damage, and in fact someone seems to have cleared the remaining debris (from the wind storm before last) off the street * charge Apollo @ What if failure is the plan?. I’ve been thinking a lot about failure… | danah boyd " Frankly, there’s a part of me that keeps wondering if there’s a way to end this circus faster to prevent even greater harms. (Dear Delaware courts, any advice?) " * pack: plates, glassware * pack: litter scoops -> only found 1, ? litter genie * baby back ribs for dinner -- they were on sale at Payless @ Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Cory Doctorow " Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. " @ How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms | by Cory Doctorow interoperatability * */15 CPAP: change paper filter, wash tubs * singing: The River, Riverheart, Toolmakers, Eyes Like the Morning @ dw_news | Password security reminder: Please continue to treat your LiveJournal passwords as compromised -> changed @ Google Password Manager offering on-device encryption - 9to5Google
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Date: 2023-01-23 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-24 12:01 am (UTC)I've been doing that for well over a decade, which is why it hasn't been a particularly high priority. I'm mainly worried about disaster recovery -- with the server and backup drive in the same location it's something I keep thinking I ought to consider.
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Date: 2023-01-24 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-24 01:56 pm (UTC)That happens to me too. Stuff gets lost, and drives get stashed away and forgotten about... I need to do a major sweep through the house and the garage, but between procrastination and decision paralysis I've wasted years when I could have done that. If not decades.