Warm and sunny, clear and beautiful. That’s the way yesterday turned out, and it would be great to have that again today. I guess…. we’ll see đ
Spent yesterday doing auction stuff, and plumbing. I won a wind generator for a dollar. Looks complete, new in box. Not a huge one, but I’ve wanted one to play with, and there is a natural wind tunnel effect at the BOL so I have a good place to put it. I’ve been eyeing the spot since shortly after we bought the place, now I’ll have to find some time to put it up. Should be interesting.
Finally finished the plumbing repair to the drain in the bath tub. Used the parts from goodwill, with a few add ons from Home Depot. The goodwill assembly saved me about $80. Had to go and get a part I didn’t know existed until I tried to put the thing together. That was fun. Things don’t quite line up but I made it work. (They never lined up, and the previous guy made it work…) That should let us delay ripping up the bathroom for a bit longer.
Spring Break is coming up and we’ll be at the BOL for most of the week. I’ll be working the list and getting all the “spring” things going up there. Sprinkler system is top of the list at the moment. Stabilizing the hill and retaining walls is on the list too, but that will have to be other specialists. The tree guy still has to come by and do the trimming and removal. I’d like to get a couple of fruit trees planted, but I’m not finding anything in the big box stores. I missed the apple trees apparently. I’m not going to plant anything that isn’t cold hardy either, so the cherries at HD right now won’t do. I don’t care for plums, and HD only had one variety of pears. You need two to get good yields. I’m not planting citrus up there either. I knew I should have bought the apple trees when I saw them….
Oh, and I’ll be tasked with getting the starlink set up and wifi coverage installed.
Today I’ll be doing a pickup for the wind generator and some other smalls I won. I’ll probably do some more hobby website, and maybe unbox the starlink too. I would like to have all the net stuff ready to go when we head up. Minimum is the starlink and some additional wifi… I’ve got the gear, just need to do it.
Maybe I can find some time to fish during the week…
One can hope. In the mean time, I’m stacking infrastructure. Stack some of your own.
nick
Once they hang Trump on the Capitol steps, the gallows will be someone’s soup bowl.
The national park concessionaires will make money.
n
Grey and warm, and moist. Looks like tornado weather but probably isn’t. Not quite green enough.
Forecast has little precip in it, but the school bus had a few drops on it.
Microclimates, we haz em.
n
Iâm sure the concessionaires donated all of their Jan. 6 profits alongside the DC Panera and Starbucks franchisees:
Or are those outlets corporate stores? Iâm sure the companies did the right thing.
92% of Haley Voters Approve of Biden’s Performance
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/03/07/92-of-haley-voters-approve-of-bidens-performance-n3784219
So the people that voted for Haley in the Republican primary give a higher approval rating to Biden than the people that voted in the Democratic primary.
sniff, sniff
To I detect PLT’s in the woodpile?
uh-oh
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/03/07/fani-willis-caught-in-a-whopper-of-a-lie-n2393697
McAfee just got what he needed.
Orange is the new Fulton County DA uniform.
Virginia has an open primary.
Even if it didnât, six of the ten wealthiest counties in the US ring DC, and most of the largess originates in the contractor cabal. People will vote their soup bowl, which Orange Man pays lip service to taking away in a big way by ending the Ukraine fiasco.
A large check will be involved, but Raytheon, Boeing, et al will not âwet their beaksâ from the payola.
(I will use a mafia term in this context. It fits.)
Supporters of Nimitata, the former Boeing board member, will likely have a favorable opinion of Biden policies.
Plus, as Iâve pointed out before, America has a lot of Bad Daddy issues to work out.
Trump is the Baddest Daddy.
Subbing today. One of the male bathrooms is out of order, again. Seems that one of the special education students took a dump on the floor, again. Spread it on the walls. Third or fourth time this year it has happened from the same student.
I am all for giving disabled students the opportunity to function as high as they can. But if they cannot follow simple toilet rules, or the parents refuse to provide diapers, then the student needs to be somewhere other than a public high school.
The parents see it as a way to get a publicly paid babysitter for little Johnny while the mother can shop at Walmart or watch Whoopie Goldberg spew her vile rhetoric. Meanwhile, regular students suffer.
Are they sure it was a special education student?
Vandalizing bathrooms and filming the event for Tick Tock is a popular activity in the local schools:
Yes, reasonably. The same child has done it before. The bathrooms are monitored during the break between classes. It was reported shortly after a classroom break.
>> I did some more poking at my hobby website too. Oy. Glad I donât have to do it here.
>> addedâ and waiting a half hour or more between folder uploads would separate them in time so they would be easily select-able (for values of easily.) WHich would be helped by me manually sorting them into some order and uploading them in that order. Lotâs of manual in that process, when it would be a lot cleaner to just be able to upload whole folders and keep the structureâŚ
So WordPress is the âeasyâ solution, huh?
>> A St. Louis television station is under fire after an anchor âmistakenlyâ described minority homeowners using an âoutdated, offensive and racistâ term.
Television station KMOV issued an apology for using the term on Feb. 26 while previewing a story about racial bias on home appraisals, according to reports.
âTonight, colored homeowners are sounding the alarm when it comes to undervalued home appraisals,â anchor Cory Stark, who is white, said on air.
Next on the Amish agenda – going after HGTV for not editing all the old episodes of House Hunters to change âMaster Bedroomâ to âPrimary Bedroom.â
Mainstreaming for genuinely retarded (non-PC term) kids is idiotic. All it does is screw up the school for everyone elseâŚ
Yes. Building a site âmanuallyâ (with HTML code and maybe PHP) takes longer than building a WordPress site.
Nick’s issue is how media (images/etc) files are stored on the site (file structure). Which is not really an issue, as the actual image locations are not used when you select a Media (image) file to insert in a page (or in a slide show). You just choose the media from the thumbnail version. It’s a different concept to grok.
You can filter the Media thumbnail list by upload date. Since Nick was doing a mass upload of existing files into Media, they (by default) are put in the order of upload.
The storage of the files (if you were to look at it via FTP or the hosting File Manager) will show that files are put into the folder corresponding to the upload date. But inserting media files (images) into posts/pages/slide shows is easily done via the thumbnail list.
Doing it all via hand-coding will be much more time consuming. You have to plan your hand-coding files to use templates (if you want all pages to have the same âlookâ), which requires much more work when working with multiple site pages. And changing the âlookâ of the site (so that pages are consistent in their âlookâ [theme]) is a lot of work.
I’ve done hand-coded, PHP files, and WordPress sites. For most sites where you want a consistent look to all pages on the site, WordPress is much easier (once you decide on the theme to use, and you tweak the theme).
If you are coming from working with hand-coded sites, learning how WordPress does things is an adjustment. But the time involved in âadjustingâ is worth it – you get a consistent-looking site without worrying about how to code the âengineâ. And there are tons of tutorials and videos for how to use WordPress.
So, IMHO, doing it via WordPress is easier than hand-coding, once you understand how WP works. (You had to learn how hand-coding HTML works, didn’t you?)
SQLite has an internal table in every database file, sqlite_master, which stores admin information about each table, including the schema. My use of this table causes my code to flunk internal sensitive string scans everytime I make a change in our DB code.
From the âIf You Cant Beat Them, Join Themâ files, when I submitted a patent idea recently related to how I handle a specific DB task, one of my arguments presenting the case to the lawyers was the use of the insensitive string limiting prior art. Weâll see if that flies, but I wasnât immediately turned down for the submission
âHouston Muslims give Mayor Whitmire ultimatum: Call for cease-fire or elseâ
https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/muslims-letter-mayor-whitmire-18709586.php
âPro-Palestinian groups urged the mayor to support a cease-fire by 5 p.m. or face losing audiences, business partners, and votes from the growing Muslim community.â
Screw ’em.
92% of Haley Voters Approve of Bidenâs Performance
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/03/07/92-of-haley-voters-approve-of-bidens-performance-n3784219
So the people that voted for Haley in the Republican primary give a higher approval rating to Biden than the people that voted in the Democratic primary.
sniff, sniff
To I detect PLTâs in the woodpile?
RINOs.
CMT hasnt put âThe Dukes of Hazzardâ back on the air even though Warner could desperately use the cash flow.
The rumor this weekend in Star Trek circles had Warner buying the franchise and burying everything made since 2005, launching a new series continuing the Next Generation era with another crew.
â and yet they continue to run the puppet.
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Mainstreaming for genuinely retarded (non-PC term) kids is idiotic. All it does is screw up the school for everyone elseâŚ
â and adds the cost of a $100K âaideâ for every mainstreamed kid with severe disabilities. Also doesn’t help the kid who needs a different environment, different teaching method, or is simply incapable of learning like the other kids. Makes the parent feel good though.
No money for teachers? Look at how many âaidesâ they have in the district.
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So WordPress is the âeasyâ solution, huh?
â from everything I’ve seen, and from using it daily here, yes. I built my first website using âHome Page Builder 1.0â on a mac in the early 1990s. There have been untold wizards, packages, even whole philosophies of how and what you should do that have passed in the mean time.
WP is widely supported and widely deployed. It’s the Visual Studio of the web, I think⌠and will be around for far too long. Which is good for someone like me and our org. Because the proprietary tool the original hosting site used to âquickly and easily buildâ a site isn’t even supported by that company anymore, with no migration path even to their current proprietary tool. Lock in sucks for the users. (the last copyright date on our site is 2015, which is probably the last time the tool was used to do more than just edit existing stuff, so the website tech is almost 10 years old, and likely older, since we were not the first customers.)
All that said, like anything, there is more to WP than meets the eye, demos are easy, rebuilding existing is much harder, and it’s old enough that it has to be extended and kludged to do things. And it’s a tool of DESIGNERS who keep messing with the superficial things, which makes online advice and tutorials go out of date, and makes it visually hard to tell what the heck you’re working with. They are the kings of the âclean unclutteredâ look, so you don’t have any indication of where elements end, where they overlap, when one element holds other elements inside, etc. Like using win10 with no borders or window titles, and all your colors set to the same blue, and sliders set to âskinnyâ and “disappearing’.
There is a whole lot of clicking on things to see what boundary box highlights⌠and how a separate properties pane changes.
n
The rumor this weekend in Star Trek circles had Warner buying the franchise and burying everything made since 2005, launching a new series continuing the Next Generation era with another crew.
Picard is good. Discovery is just meh.
The Next Generation movies kinda sucked.
âNovo valuation surpasses Tesla on experimental obesity drug dataâ
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/novo-nordisk-present-early-drug-071135073.html
âCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Novo Nordisk on Thursday surpassed Tesla Inc in market valuation after the maker of the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy announced positive early trial data for a highly anticipated new obesity drug.â
âShares surged more than 8% to record highs, shooting Novo Nordisk up in global rankings to the 12th most valuable company from 14 previously, after it told investors a Phase I trial of the pill version of experimental drug amycretin showed participants lost 13.1% of their weight after 12 weeks.â
The next thing is that people will be buying Wegovy on street corners.
I sure would like to read the thirty year report on this stuff before I take it. But I would like to drop fifty pounds the easy way rather than dieting. Dieting sucks. And I am a sugar addict.
âIf an entire continent is planning ahead for emergencies, why aren’t we?â
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/if-entire-continent-is-planning-ahead.html
â… over two days in central Brussels last month, some 60 European Union and government officials, food security experts, industry representatives and a few journalists gathered to confront the possibility of something barely on the radar a few years ago: a full-blown food crisis.â
It is because their coming famine is self induced with all of their global warming nonsense.
âJohn Kerry: People would âFeel Betterâ about Russiaâs War in Ukraine if Russia would âMake a Greater Effort to Reduce Emissionsââ
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/john-kerry-people-would-feel-better-about-russias/
What in the world ? Somebody needs to put Kerry into an Alzheimer facility.
The Botox is rotting his brain.
It’s a company that has an API that allows medical providers to check benefits status and arrange payments for services. They got encrypted by an overseas gang, and paid them with $22 million in Bitcoin.
Here is a twitter thread about it.
https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1765170835919143293
⌠and an article on the payment.
https://www.wired.com/story/alphv-change-healthcare-ransomware-payment/
âŚand this article from Brian Krebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/blackcat-ransomware-group-implodes-after-apparent-22m-ransom-payment-by-change-healthcare/
âŚwhich indicates that whoever got the ransom (“BlackCats”/ âALPHVâ) has decided not to share with it’s affiliates. And has gone offline. Affiliates – some of whom hold the actual data – are not happy about not getting paid. And since the affiliates hold the data, it could still be released.
Glad I am not working in InfoSec anymore. Every business – large or small – needs to have a recovery plan (that has been tested), along with hardening systems. This is a big-budget item for many companies, but the recovery process is always more expensive than the prevention measures.
âFirst Contactâ has aged extremely well.
The last seaason of âPicardâ was an accident.
The reset under another production team or even studio has been in the works for a while, pushed by the merchandise licensees. The âThose Old Scientistsâ episode of âStrange New Worldsâ is the reason I tend to believe the rumors.
Watch carefully and listen to every line.
At this point, you’re not serious about that statement.
When you get serious, you’ll treat it like the addiction that it is, and drop weight and meds quickly.
Maybe not to your goal weight, but probably enough to get a decent blood sugar level by HbA1C measures and drop or reduce blood pressure meds if you’re on them.
But the answer to addiction is to stop.
I’m down almost 70 pounds from when I started, normal blood sugar now, dropped one HBP med and cut the other in half. The most recent 5 pounds took me 3 months, so I’ve reached the point where it’s a slow grind. 40 more to go, which would match my weight 50 years ago. I may never reach it, but I’ll continue trying.
The easy part was cutting out sweets, bread, and grains. Then potatoes. Ok, Pizza was the hardest to cut out.
One of the hard parts is the conscious realization that everything you were taught about diet is not just wrong, but dead wrong. We’ve been lied to that there are health benefits in fruit, vegetables, vegetable oil, and whole grains, and that red meat and saturated fat were bad.
Eat eggs. Eat butter. Eat lard. Eat meat. Limit vegetables. Don’t eat seed/vegetable oils. Salt is good for you. Fat is good for you; in fact, you probably don’t eat enough of it.
Sugar is poison. Including fruit.
Lift weights but don’t overdo it. This builds bone density.
Fast, which you can do gradually in steps. At least a week for each step, maybe 6 weeks.
Remember that there are essential fatty acids (from fat) and essential amino acids (from animal protein) which need to come from your diet, but there are no, zero, nada, zilch essential carbohydrates.
It took you decades to get unhealthy. It’s going to take a while to get better. And you may have damaged your metabolism permanently, so there may be limits to how much better you can get.
“Roku Bricking TVs Unless Users Accept ‘Dispute Resolution Terms'”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/roku-bricking-tvs-unless-users-accept-dispute-resolution-terms
âPeople can’t use their TVs unless they agree to the terms, and opting out requires customers to send a letter to Roku’s offices with a purchase receipt attached.â
I’ve got three Roku’s and have yet to see this. Of course, my wife would click right through it. I might too.
⌠and an article on the payment.
https://www.wired.com/story/alphv-change-healthcare-ransomware-payment/
Wired wants me to pay them $5 to read that article. Not gonna happen.
âFirst Contactâ has aged extremely well.
Yeah, I forgot about âFirst Contactâ. That was excellent.
I donât usually watch those âtool hacksâ videos, because they are usually a waste of time. This guy makes small rotary wire end brushes for odd jobs. Along the way, he shows some good tricks and craftsmanship. Well worth watching, and I look forward to watching some of his other videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=TxoB6AyPYNg
In my work, I use a variety of brushes, with wire and fiber bristles. I find they are indispensable for cleaning and finishing. I sometimes find them in unlikely stores, such as Dollar Tree for larger hand brushes.
I will add some of my own tricks. I often shorten the bristles of a small paintbrush with sharp scissors to make them stiffer. That would be easy here: just slide the wires in the copper tube so more or less length is exposed. Use copper wire, both hard drawn and annealed, for work needing softer bristles. Finally, I sometimes sharpen the bristles of a flat wire brush on a sanding belt or grinding wheel for more aggressive behavior. That would also work here.
Although his home made brushes have some better features, consider buying them as well, because some are really cheap:
https://www.amazon.com/Extended-Stainless-Cleaning-Polishing-Accessories/dp/B08GHNNDX8?tag=ttgnet-20
Leave it to Amazon to show a variety, including brass and copper, although the copper is likely brass.
https://www.empireabrasives.com/wire-end-brushes/
These are larger diameter, but also include abrasive loaded nylon bristles.
I havenât tried the nylon bristle brushes, but have noticed that Harbor Freight carries them. They might be worthwhile for decorative finishes.
All of our flat screens are âdumbâ TVs. It isn’t even possible to configure any of them for Internet.
Our living room TV is still the Grand Wega my wife bought me for Christmas in 2001. The running joke is that we will replace the beast when it dies.
Old school Sony. Hecho en Tijuana. That set may outlive me.
I don’t think fruit is poison. Fruit is a seasonal food. So no strawberries or whatever in the middle of Winter. Same with vegetables. Eat what is in season.
Seed/veg oils, yeah, I don’t think that stuff is good. Just for the amount of say, sunflower seeds or peanuts, I’d have to eat to get a tablespoon of oil. Canola tastes bad to me.
But def get off of the sugar. It’s hard. I like cokes and gatorade and orange juice. I cut that out, just that, at work from âstuff to drinkâ and lost almost 20 pounds in three or four months. Getting the sugar out of my coffee took a whileâŚ. no Coffee Mate either. Half and half is fine.
There’s sugar in damn near everything now.
âŚand this article from Brian Krebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/blackcat-ransomware-group-implodes-after-apparent-22m-ransom-payment-by-change-healthcare/
âŚwhich indicates that whoever got the ransom (âBlackCatsâ/ âALPHVâ) has decided not to share with itâs affiliates. And has gone offline. Affiliates â some of whom hold the actual data â are not happy about not getting paid. And since the affiliates hold the data, it could still be released.
Glad I am not working in InfoSec anymore. Every business â large or small â needs to have a recovery plan (that has been tested), along with hardening systems. This is a big-budget item for many companies, but the recovery process is always more expensive than the prevention measures.
I am amazed that anyone would pay the ransom. One needs to take the ransom money to ascertain how you got infected and the rebuild of your computer infrastructure.
Of course, a large provider like this should have a backup web server system that is mirroring the main system.
Jonathan Frakes is a really good director who, unfortunately, blew out his career with âThunderbirdsâ, something I doubt he really cared about beyond the paycheck, which was a mistake.
Frakes arranged for Alfre Woodard to take Whoopi’s place as the voice of reason in âFirst Contactâ since they were personal friends going back to their early days in Hollywood.
âInsurrectionâ was death by studio notes, and âGenerationsâ was rushed. Both had scripts barely more complex than the TNG series episodes, most of which were made with budgets smaller than the per-episode cost of âCheersâ.
Maybe the less said about âNemesisâ the better but it didn’t permanently damage the franchise.
The Barbarians are inside the gates at a lot of big companies. Team Viewer and RDP have been the source of a lot of security breaches. Even before the pandemic, everyone who punched a keyboard all day wanted to work from home even if their job’s security policy prohibited it.
I’m still not sure how TeamViewer is breached, but my gut tells me something is wrong there.
Closed source security is always a bad idea.
BTW, Frakes directed âThose Old Scientistsâ which reinforces my belief that a deliberate soft reboot is in the works for the time when Bad Robot, Jar Jar Abrams, Secret Hideout, and what seems a few dozen Executive Producers are all purged from âStar Trekâ.
The TV here is a 55″ Vizio I bought late November 2009. Cost a lot, too. Well, I think almost two grand is a lot. But it was pocket change. I dumped and rolled the change jar.
I have a Roku. Meh. Someone watches Nascar and Longhorn football on Sling and that’s about all.
All the menus in Roku and then in Sling you have to drill through, yeah, I can do it. But there’s nothing I want to watch enough to deal with that bullshi(-r)t.
txtify.it is your friend.
https://txtify.it/https://www.wired.com/story/alphv-change-healthcare-ransomware-payment/
Paying the ransomware supposedly gets your data back, and the data is not released to the public. There are issues with just letting the data âgo publicâ. Personal info on your customers (more than just name/email/address), proprietary information (trade secrets), etc. Letting this data go public can cause more issues and more fines.
So paying a ransom to prevent data from being released, or getting your data decrypted, is a consideration.
Recovering from an intrusion is more than just restoring yesterday’s backup. You have to determine how long they have been in the system – it can be months. You have to inspect each system to make sure there aren’t any âleftoversâ or other back doors into the system that can be used to infiltrate your system again. Not to mention purchasing new hardware and rebuilding everything. While still making sure that you aren’t reinstalling the backdoor access.
And how does your company function during that rebuilding process? How do you process orders? How do you do payroll? How do you keep making what you make?
Very complex to recover. Very complex to prevent. Very hard to sell the $$$$$ (many $$$$) of the cost of prevention to the âbig bossesâ. Although the cost of recovering from an intrusion is often much more than the prevention cost.
There are ways to prevent intrusion. Many are hard and expensive to implement. And there is reluctance to spending the time/money to prevent. There are lots of âwhat we have is good enoughâ and âit won’t happen to usâ.
Except it will. To any company. To any business. To any person. Even you.
Consider a cherry plum tree (prunus cerasifera). They are hardy and disease resistant, make beautiful scented blossom in spring, followed by wine-red foliage.
If you don’t like plums, leave the fruit on the tree to attract wildlife, or gather a few bucket loads and make tkemali, a kind of savoury ketchup. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tkemali
The fruit can also be steeped in alcohol with sugar and a vanilla pod, making a nice topping for ice cream and/or a pretty good plum âwineâ. Do this in a pretty bottle, and they make very acceptable home-made gifts.
To me? Well, I have WAN access to my LAN disabled.
So if âtheyâ get me it’s my stupidity for clicking a link and installing something. I have an off-line backup.
But at work, uh, lots of stupid people at workâŚ..
Just a random thingâŚ.
I bought replacement cables for my LAN. Big River split the order into three parts. All are suppose to be here tomorrow, Friday. Only one part has tracking. The other two are âorderedâ.
What’s odd to me is the order with tracking has Serial Numbers for each cable. Two 25 foot cables? Two serial numbers. One 15 foot cable, one serial number.
Interesting.
âRoku Bricking TVs Unless Users Accept âDispute Resolution Terms’â
https://www.pcmag.com/news/roku-bricking-tvs-unless-users-accept-dispute-resolution-terms
âPeople canât use their TVs unless they agree to the terms, and opting out requires customers to send a letter to Rokuâs offices with a purchase receipt attached.â
Iâve got three Rokuâs and have yet to see this. Of course, my wife would click right through it. I might too.
Upon a reread, this is apparently for those TVs with an internal Roku. We don’t use those as I had trouble keeping them updated and running out of memory easily. We use external Rokus which can handle about 20 or 30 streaming services before running out of memory.
Paying the ransomware supposedly gets your data back, and the data is not released to the public. There are issues with just letting the data âgo publicâ. Personal info on your customers (more than just name/email/address), proprietary information (trade secrets), etc. Letting this data go public can cause more issues and more fines.
So paying a ransom to prevent data from being released, or getting your data decrypted, is a consideration.
Apparently in this case, the victim paid and got stiffed. And a third party provider to the ransomware provider is claiming that they have a copy of the 4 TB of data and are going to dump it on the intertubes unless they get paid. Who do you trust here ? Do you really trust the guy who broke into your shop and stole your stuff and set everything on fire on his way out ?
If I was the victim, I would pay the ransom to a security specialist to come in and harden their web. Obviously they have a problem. And yes, they probably have other ransomware on their internal intertubes but even I know how to stop that from talking to home. A big hawking firewall that everything must have a login and password to go through.
If you are concerned about an external entity getting through your firewall, this site is a trustworthy place to request a port scan.
https://www.grc.com/shieldsup
Clicking on the wrong email is not something that a firewall can prevent, however.
If you want to run a VPN on the router, don’t use the PPTP option, no matter how tempting since it is easy.
I can configure PPTP to be usable and secure in certain scenarios, but I don’t recommended it for the typical home user who is likely to attempt connection via untrusted WiFi.
Except it will. To any company. To any business. To any person. Even you.
Yeah, I am surprised that we have not been penetrated. Not that they have not tried. We get phished almost daily.
I run all of our email through gmail using my MX domain record. Been doing that for over 20 years, I was a beta tester for them. Gmail does not miss much.
Fast, which you can do gradually in steps. At least a week for each step, maybe 6 weeks.
Eeeee ! He said fasting !
I actually did that for a while in 2004 before my first heart attack in 2009. Dropped 40 lbs in less than 4 months.
I killed my sugar desire first. That took two weeks of hell.
No, I had this pop up on my external Roku the just other day.
I read the changed terms, basically you have to agree to arbitration in a dispute. I agreed, though I wonder what the underlying issue was that caused them to be so agressive?
Hard to break the sugar habit. That was the hardest part about real Atkins. Induction is designed to break the habit, concentrate the misery while you are most motivated, and give you an immediate result to encourage you. Still miserable.
Did my pickups. Got another MrHeater LilBuddy. Got a part for my laser cutter. Got the kid some stuff for her upcoming birthday. Went to the chiro and the HEB. Prime sirloin steak was on sale, $6 limit two. Yes please. Brisket was down to $3.50 but since I know it can be cheaper, I passed for now. Some other stuff on sale, but not pasta. Pasta hasn’t been on sale in a long time.
Got home a little too late and missed getting a solar panel. 200w for $28 was the winning bid. I’d have gone to $60 if I’d been here watching.
Currently bidding on a Yaesu FT 817 radio. I’m winning at â ebay price with 12 minutes left to go. It’s a super desireable radio, comes with an antenna tuner that’s another $100-150⌠I’ll go a bit higher before I drop out. I’ve got hobby money in my pocket after the hamfestâŚ
The same estate has a loom with essentially no bids, tons of craft and electronic stuff, 3d printers and supplies, adafruit boxes of parts, I’d be bidding on all of it, but the prices are risingâŚ
n
My guess is that you don’t have employees surfing pr0n in the office, day trading, or online gambling. Even personal email is an issue with almost all of the big services people use now free as in beer with minimal screening.
A lot of problems could be avoided if companies enforced their stated Internet policies with a firing or two ⌠or three ⌠or a hundred. Unfortunately, that would mean facing that many TWC tribunal hearings in Texas at a minimum.
“Stormy”
Of course they will premiere it here tomorrow as part of the kickoff of the SxSW, one of two biannual bacchanalia events in Austin.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stormy-documentary-trailer-1235844310/
Bad Daddy.
With the total lunar eclipse happening on the 8th of April in Temple/Belton, Austin will get one more mass bacchanalia the weekend of the 6th and 7th.
I’m not kidding when I say that Bell County asked for and received an advance disaster area declaration from the state within the last few weeks.
Won the radio. Paid more than I would like, but it did come with the tuner.
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Wow, Joe is already tongue tied and shouty, His cadence and rhythm are weird too.
He burned 10 minutes of coherent time entering the room. I expect the slurring to start in 10 minutes not 20 now.
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I’m like wilson. Putin is like hitler.
trump bowed down to putin
J6 insurrectionist!!
People are joining NATO, go us!
Democracy is on the line.
FREAKING GUY is using the âforeign and domesticâ as a rallying cry against T!
History is watching. Again.
Anti abortion is bad
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Tonight’s Next Generation rerun has Mark Lenard as Sarek dealing with Vulcan dementia.
Too much of a coincidence.
Life once again imitates “Star Trek” art, simultaneously in this case.
He’s 10 minutes in and the slurring should start. he just said âavfâ instead of âivfâ.
He’s starting to get words mixed up.
He just blamed Trump for the covid response. Says he failed in his duty to care.
Apparently we are in a big American Comeback, but no one is telling anyone about it.
Hey we beat covid!
Kamella is bouncing up and down like a jackin the box.
Apparently inflation is the lowest in the world. and headed down.
consumer confidence is soaring!
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And the Camel apparently canât stay in her seat. I guess her hemorrhoids are inflamed.
I read the changed terms, basically you have to agree to arbitration in a dispute. I agreed, though I wonder what the underlying issue was that caused them to be so agressive?
You cannot do a class action suit if you are required to arbitrate.
Heâs 10 minutes in and the slurring should start. he just said âavfâ instead of âivfâ.
I cannot stand to watch him. He just lies continuously.
Don’t pee on me and tell me it is rain.
Can’t tell if it’s slurring or he’s just saying the words too quickly.
Just unironically pimped CLEAN WATER for every child and removing lead pipes.
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one of her past talents
Pimping the UAW.
slurred âlabor leaderâ into âlaborerâ.
Go Unions!!
I did, I did, I did.
It’s YOU that did it, you that did it, you that did itâŚ
I’m gonna build up the middle class!
I’m gonna make prescriptions cheaper by setting drug price caps. Slurred “big pharma”.
Oh here comes Angry joe.
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Oops, almost went off the script⌠and attacked obamma care.
Long list of stuff he wants to do to destroy healthcare in the USâŚ
Second coughâŚ
2 year subsidy for mortgages.
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Bucket list:
Visit John McCain’s grave and p*ss on it.
He’s having trouble reading.
His expression is weird, strained and fixed at times, gape mouthed.
Wow, kamel just can’t stay seated.
Oh boy he wants to give more money to schools, and student loans, expand pell grants, debt forgivenss is good for the economy! Raises for everyone!!! more money more money!
BTW we cut the deficit! Over 1 trillion, so far, tax the rich!! We’ll keep cutting it! By taxing corporations⌠and wealthy people suck!!!
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cut the federal deficit?
only in your demented dreams you old liar
âbig compraniesâ
Tax the big corps!! Fair SHARE!!! Billionaires pay too little! all 1000 of them.
Wants to squeeze them for $500B over the next 10 years while increasing the debt $1 T every couple of monthsâŚ
Social security, those bad guys want to cut it. I’ll make those wealthy bastards pay their fair shareâŚ
Oh god, he just found out about shrinkflation and wants to regulate it.
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More regulations for ccard companies.
getting rid of âjunk feesâ
more regulations for online sellers, cable companies
Gonna grow the immigration bureaucracy.
Wants emergency powers to shut down the border!
Whoops, totally lost it now. Started mumbling. Needs distraction! TV cuts from close up to long shot.
Picked up something and starts talking about smugglers and dead kids.
LOST CHILDREN MYSELF!
Coughing.
Slurring.
Dreamers. Pathway to citizenship.
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Just a terrible SOTU address. plugsâ Adderal pump has run dry. Whereâs âDrâ Jill with the amphetamine syringe?
More coughing.
We all came here we’re all Americans!
Civil rights march, âour great friend was on that marchâ [and other dems were wearing sheets and doing the beating.]
More coughing.
Shout out to civil rights, trans gender, minimum wage, climate crisis, diversity is our strengthâŚ
âconserving 30% of America’s lands and watersâ ???? federal land grab?????
“America’s safer today than when I took office.” Heckler yelling in background.
DOPE isn’t a crime!
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Trump 2017-2019, deficit increased $3.15 trillion, added $4.22 trillion in 2020, total $7.37 trillion
Biden 2021-2023, deficit increased $6.22 trillion, 2024 projected $1.6 trillion , projected total $7.82
It is totally irrelevant that in 2020 a worldwide pandemic shut down the global economy and prompted unprecedented deficit spending.
Signer is a partisan hack.
And ugly.
Waiting for him to mention the UN report about Hamas raping dead bodies.
We will deliver billions of dollars in aid to Hamas to help build up their depleted supplies.
Uvalde.
Expanded .gov with Office of Gun Violence Prevention, headed by the kamel.
Another T misquote.
Wants the laundry list of gun control.
âI taught the 2nd amendment for 12 yearsâ [ WT actual F? No way he did.]
âSlaughtered after enduring sexual violence.â [who writes this crap?]
mis read prompter again.
throat clearing
trying to thread the needle on Hamas and Gaza and IsraelâŚ
âI’ve been working non-stopâ [my ass]
Yup, building a port for gaza.
Massive humanitarian shipmentsâŚ. [no mention of where those are coming from]
Only real solution is a two state solution. [oh F me. ]
Fantasy after fantasy.
But he hasn’t melted down totally, and that ensures that he and Jill will be able to hang on to the nomination.
At least for now.
Tonight’s Biggest Loser: Barrack Hussein Obama and his cabal of puppet masters.
china.
lies lies lies.
Bag on trump.
I helped the vets
I’ll fund the military
I’ll end cancer!
I’m old, but I should be treated equally.
I see a future [full of big government]
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1:15~ from entry to end. That’s the longest he’s kept it together (mostly) in 4 years. Exit, stage right.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13167271/biden-state-union-bingo-trump-gaffe-2024.html
Bingo!
Hit most of them.
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Ahhh, that part where he lost the prompter, got confused, then picked up something and talked about illegals killing kids⌠the alt feed shows him being heckled by Marjory Taylor Green. Not shown at all on the main feed.
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In other news, somehow I didn’t win the auction with the wind generator. Somehow the whole think got reset, and is still running. Something shady going on there.
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I’m not sure a Wine Mom was the best choice for the Republican response. That’s so 2021.
Back to âStar Trekâ. I don’t usually watch âVoyagerâ.
The line is âThat’s a bingo!â then Pitt corrects him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugpg8XruhVk
Not Guilty. But the Wilco Sheriff was still deposed over the incident.
Javier Ambler was Austin’s own George Floyd.
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/javier-ambler-death-trial-verdict-deputies-found-not-guilty
The reporterette on the Faux News live feed just dropped âSuch a waste of timeâ when she didn’t realize she was back on camera from tape.
Someone’s getting fired.
That’s a good radio. Now you need an antenna and a backpack to hold them.
And a good CW key, and headphones, andâŚ
For my QRP radio I bought a photographer’s backpack. Well padded and a few compartments.
Deposed as in removed from office.
The dismissal of the Sheriff’s case *in Travis County* is next.
Hmmm.
Some localities have noise ordinance regulations about these, btw.
They can be pretty noisy, around here you have to get a signed agreement from every neighbor within a certain distance.
>> Wild and wacky energy storage innovations:
https://youtu.be/gkGWDv4LJZk
After watching most of the above (20 minutes), this one on the sidebar caught my eye:
Why don’t more people do this⌠for another 20 minutes.
What form do I file to get that time back??
@EdH, should be fine out in the country at the BOL. If it’s noisy, I won’t like it either. I think it has 5 blades? Don’t know if that’s better or worse than 2 or 3.
It’s not big, looks like it might be 3-4ft across when assembled. I’ve seen similar in use on my way to Austin or College station to power gate actuators. If I win it again, it will be an experiment⌠like the solar.
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Looks a lot like this one, only the tail design is different.
https://www.amazon.com/Emoshayoga-Adjustment-Waterproof-Horizontal-Monitoring/dp/B0CD6FS47M?tag=ttgnet-20/
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Biden 2021-2023, deficit increased $6.22 trillion, 2024 projected $1.6 trillion , projected total $7.82
The 2024 projected deficit is $3.6 trillion. We are running $1 trillion deficit every 100 days right now.
>> Iâll disagree with âLLMs are an abominationâ. They are another tool available for use. Not the best tool, but a good one. At least how I have used it.
These folks would definitely fall into the âagree on abominationâ group.
Because you can’t put anything on the internet that isn’t true.
https://youtu.be/3DZbSlkFoSU
As long as the monkey trick worksâŚ
(But kudos to @RickH for checking multiple sources.)
@Nick: That’s fairly small, 200W is smaller than I expected, more like those you would see on boats at the marina. Could be fine đ
>> Vandalizing bathrooms and filming the event for Tick Tock is a popular activity in the local schools:
Biden campaign debuts official TikTok account, but app is still banned on most government devices
Rules for the, not for me.
Also, good that they make sure Plugs has on fresh Depends if he makes a campaign stop at a school.
“10 Things I HATE About The Tesla Cybertruck”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcVaRlLtBPw
I hate the steering wheel.
I will stick with my F-150 4×4 with the locking rear axle and 36 gallon gas tank with my 16 to 22 mpg.
âWorldâs First Cybertruck On TRACKS Is Crazier Than You Think!â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BfQ0yW0pk8
Apparently the cybertruck is easy to wrap.
I’m going to bed. Brain is full. Been poking at the hobby website and am frustrated by simple things. Like moving a picture to a new spot, or resizing it. Or shutting off comments. Can’t find that option at allâŚ
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I didn’t watch the SotU address, and so have no opinion of my own. From reading about it, both MSM and other sources, it’s pretty clear that Biden remained coherent (which was unexpected), but also used the event entirely as a campaign speech. Which is it’s own kind of problem, because that’s not what it is for.