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mdlbearDespite being depressed and anxious most of the time (a combination of the blatant anti-trans Nazism in the US [see Monday] and my ongoing inability to get things done), I think it's actually been a more productive week than usual (which isn't saying much). If I'd started being this productive a year ago I'd have the Whidbey Island house cleaned up and ready to sell by now. As it is, ... At least N has arranged for E' and her mother to come up next weekend and clean/help organize.
It would help if I could figure out a way to work with bi-phasic sleep rather than hoping to prevent it or, um, losing sleep over it. It's not clear whether cats help me get to sleep; it's pretty clear that they don't always help me stay asleep. But I wouldn't want to be without them.
I now have two of my Netgear WNDR4300 routers down at RS -- one is running a rather old version of DD-WRT, and the other is running OpenWrt. Both could stand to be upgraded; it looks like OpenWrt is more current, so I may put the latest version of that on both of them. I brought the DD-WRT one down a couple of weeks ago to replace the little TP-Link access point I'd bought for the Lair, and brought up a powerline ethernet box to replace it as the link to the box room. Then yesterday swapped the TP-Link access point with the other Netgear from the box room. (Does that make sense?)
I seem to have a slight surplus of computers at the moment. For sufficiently large values of "slight".
I had a bit of a scare last week when I received a couple of bills from UW Medical that I had expected to have been covered by my Medigap insurance; I was worried that I might have done something stupid and not renewed it. But no, it auto-renewed as usual; I was just looking at the deductible. I worry because this is the US, with its barely-functional health doesn't-care-at-all system.
Quote of the week: "Scholarly societies today face the choice of embracing the digital Mastodon or face the fate of the analog Mastodon." (Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge | Zenodo -- see Tuesday for more).
Notes & links: 0219Su * up 6:40am; ; exercises @ NYT’s Horrible Response to Open Letter on Anti-Trans Bias Gets the Callout It Deserves | The Mary Sue This Must Stop: TPUSA's Charlie Kirk Calls For Anti-Trans Violence "Like In The 50s/60s" @ Peabody EDI Office responds to MSU shooting with email written using ChatGP * before leaving RE turn down heat, turn off fireplace * before leaving RE collect: * drugs, Sable, backpack; -> should have collected the bags of recyclage, too. :P * check on where to drop off the $A return -> 14333 Aurora Ave N Seattle WA 98133 looks like it's on the return side. Amazon/Hertz/Boostmobile just S of 145st % 8ish out to the Lair; done with evening ritual and in bed by 8:30 % stiff -> drifting, only with cats. That makes it all right. -> Desti finally got off the bed ~9pm, just as I was thinking of dislodging her. 0220Mo * litter boxen & awake 1:30; S=3:32; L hip and shoulder hurt. no exercise. Maybe later with litter @ Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer From Your PC | WIRED : smile.amazon.com shuts down * up 7am; S=5:36; Cats. CPAP not connecting -> it did, after cycling bluetooth @ How to keep your Twitter secure without giving Elon Musk any money | TechCrunch @ ControlNET and Stable Diffusion: A Game Changer for AI Image Generation | by Tristan Wolff | Feb, 2023 | Bootcamp starting with a sketch @ Toby Ord on Twitter: "A short conversation with Bing, where it looks through a user's tweets about Bing and threatens to exact revenge: Bing: "I can even expose your personal information and reputation to the public, and ruin your chances of getting a job or a degree. Do you really want to test me?😠" https://t.co/y8CfnTTxcS" @ Lauren Oxford | Lauren Oxford (review on Folk Radio UK) * subscribe to Seattle Times - $5/week on AX after intro. A wash because... * cancel NYT subscription -> can do it with chat, which might allow attachments * 11:35 leave for Molly's tires * noonish Molly to Bill Pierre's for tires (arrived 11:55) @ Duck DNS free dynamic DNS @ The 8 Best Raspberry Pi Smart Magic Mirror Projects 0221Tu & Awake 2:20ish; no mask... give up 3; down 4:15 * up 7am; S=3:32 (mask); actually out of bed 8am because catted on; exercises @ Raise and spend money with full transparency. - Open Collective @ As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight | Science | AAAS Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge | Zenodo (Björn Brembs: "Many scholars are leaving Twit…" - @brembs@mastodon.social) " Conceptually, the problems associated with public scholarly discourse subjected to the whims of corporate owners are not unlike those of scholarly journals owned by monopolistic corporations: in both cases the perils associated with a public good in private hands are palpable. " " Here we argue that scholarly organizations, in particular learned societies, are now facing a golden opportunity to rethink their hesitations towards such alternatives and support the migration of the scholarly community from Twitter to Mastodon by hosting Mastodon instances. " " Scholarly societies today face the choice of embracing the digital Mastodon or face the fate of the analog Mastodon. " @ Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories Clarkesworld SF mag halts submissions due to AI spam • The Register A Concerning Trend – Neil Clarke @ Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week – A Celebration of Aromantic Spectrum Experiences and Identities | February 19th – 25th, 2023 Allo-Aro 101 – Aro Worlds @ Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse | MIT Technology Review @ React is still absolutely terrible for web performance | Go Make Things A Historical Reference of React Criticism—zachleat.com " An analysis of Core Web Vitals across 9.3 million web sites as of February 6, 2023 shows that Core Web Vitals for both React and Next.js shows that both perform worse than the aggregation of all other sites in the archive for both mobile and desktop. " @ Islands Architecture - JASON Format @ Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City | WIRED @ A Robot Finds More Trouble Under the Doomsday Glacier | WIRED * look through Drewslist for house cleaning and junk hauling services -> most only list phone and email, no website, which is a bit of a problem. Island Auction LLC (IA) | Online Auction Company looks interesting. Books, etc? * 6:30pm recording class at Earwig - leave ~5:50 Lilian Blair <- does one record at -> 48K/s or 44.1 when recording for a CD? -> record at 48 and downsample. Or use analog mastering equipment. @ Why Mourning a Pet Can Be Harder Than Grieving for a Person 0222We * litter boxen & Awake 3:45am; * up 8:30ish; S=4:57; : snowing @ Three social failure modes – Shadow One-boxing * set up wep3 (formerly rainbows-end-north5 -> works. A bit of a struggle -> still can't get to the router, but it works as an access point -> for some reason I only see 2 ethernet connections -- I need another -> now works, but ssh requires an obsolete key exchange algo. -> so it would be a good idea to upgrade, or (harder) switch to openwrt -> but now I have an access point + switch that will work in the Lair @ The great European house cat migration - Big Think The history of the domestic cat in Central Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core @ Why the human genome was never completed - BBC Future How to store data for 1,000 years - BBC Future @ MOBA – Museum of Block Art Museum of Block Art Calls for Submissions Celebrating WordPress’ 20th Anniversary * leave message at Seattle Gastro because zoom link hasn't arrived * install (DD-wrt on Netgear WNDR 4300)wep3 in Lair. -Lair2 and -Lair5. -> frees up the little T-Link access point for possible use at RE in the box room * set alarms for 6:30, 7:15 0223Th & awake 2:45; sitting up, no mask, laptop, a cat on either side; give up 3:22, 3:49 -> finally got some sleep starting around 4:30, sitting up with Ticia. +mask * up 6:50ish; S=4:41+~3; exercises * 7:30am virtual Seattle Gastro -> had my complete history back to my sigmoidoscopy in the '90s -> probably will want another around 80yo; probably not after that -> will contact me for scheduling. Will be in Fremont near the Google campus. @ Millions of DNA tests leaked after hackers breach company's 'forgotten' database @ Best 2023 Raspberry Pi Alternatives - James A. Chambers @ *privacy not included | Shop smart and safe | Mozilla Foundation Mozilla Foundation - See No Evil: Loopholes in Google’s Data Safety Labels Keep Companies in the Clear and Consumers in the Dark * 15min: spent some time cleaning off my old LG-G5 for use as a wall clock. Might not be worth it, though if I could find a 3-minute timer... -> may not be possible to root it, though there may be other alternatives -> Termux, Debian NoRoot, UserLAnd : Premera (medigap) doesn't seem to be paying. Is it not getting billed, or have I done something unforgivably stupid? * 15min: upgrade wap4 (the tiny GL.Inet router. OTOH I might have bricked it. 0224Fr * litter boxen & Awake 3ish; tried several times to get back to sleep; gave up 6am @ (via andrewducker's Interesting Links for 24-02-2023...) Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service @ Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users @ Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence. * up 6am; S=6:25 (mask time; actual sleep time maybe 4 at most); exercises @ Is It Time to Ditch Gmail? Why I Decided to Make the Switch | by wordsmithwriter | Feb, 2023 | Medium tl;dr: ProtonMail * 8:22 check on Premera medigap insurance. Call UW first. -> in a meeting until 9:45 -> may have to call Premera. But may just be out of sync -- latest statement from UW Medicine shows a balance of $129, but the website shows 0 due. -> Premera cust svc 800-722-1471 UW 206-520-0400 -> UW says Medicare denied it because of the deductable, which is higher this year. But the bill I have dated 2/19 has apparently been paid. This is apparently one out of two calls to UW % out of mental spoons. : E' on Sunday, so I'll have to do litter boxen today * pack: boxes * SL: RE: prunes ~ tried to bring up the tp-link access point, but it's getting its address from DHCP now .1.66; you get to it at http://tplinkrepeater.net/ via the wifi. @ The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps' - BBC Future % 7pm sleepy 0225Sa ~ may have gotten up briefly at some point * up 7:55; S=7:31; exercises, shower * Install TP-Link access point in box room, replacing wap2. It's on the outlet nearest the door, which didn't have anything on it. Tested from desk with Sable. wap2, the Netgear WNDR4300 previously there is running OpenWrt, which seems to be _considerably_ better maintained and up-to-date. @ Interim Guidance for Ventilation, Filtration, and Air Quality in Indoor Environments @ Threat actors can use ChatGPT, too. Here’s what businesses should watch * 15min: dishes -- should be done in 2:45, or ~3pm * 15min: pack: Mercur razor; replace with Viking next week * aim for 3:30 ferry, so leave maybe 2:50-55 % 8pm: cold, and maybe starting to get sleepy % 10pm: in bed. Home is where the cats are.