I keep getting “session lost” when I enter the code.

Nevermind: took 5 tries, but finally logged in.

Turso: https://docs.turso.tech/libsql#encryption-at-rest

Also, DuckDB devs said it was planned: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/discussions/4512

I read a book. Usually have an e-book or graphic novel queued up. Worse case, grab a paper book and a booklight, set to low. That always works.

9/28. WTF’ing through 90% of the questions.

The whole point of SO was to let experts answer specific questions and build a trusted knowledge-base. Having AI answer questions removes the need for humans to even try answering anything.

These are all great ideas for enterprise (especially training on their internal knowledgebase). Not sure it’s worth their while to have a consumer-facing side any more.

Totally understandable.

If scanning to help send traffic to your website, that’s cool. If scanning to generate summaries that won’t send any traffic your way. No bueno.

Ultimately, it should be whatever most benefits users.

1100 patents! Holy smokes.

That bike lane took forever to get through. It will NEVER be used as much as cars taking up the bridge.

Whining about it is like complaining that sidewalks use up valuable space alongside a road.

If nginx, here’s an open-source blocker/honeypot: https://github.com/raminf/RoboNope-nginx

If you have it set up to be proxied or hosted by Cloudflare, they have their own solution: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/

Absolute horseshit. Bulbs don’t have microphones. If they did, any junior security hacker could sniff out the traffic and post about it for cred.

The article quickly pivots to TP-Link and other devices exposing certificates. That has nothing to do with surveillance and everything to do with incompetent programming. Then it swings over to Matter and makes a bunch of incorrect assertion I don’t even care to correct. Also, all the links are to articles on the same site, every single one of which is easily refutable crap.

Yes, there are privacy tradeoffs with connected devices, but this article is nothing but hot clickbait garbage.

Work smart, not hard.

ILL is the older system, where you make the request to the library and they go try to find it.

There’s a newer “Link+” service where you can do the search yourself and request delivery to specific branches. Supported by a lot of member libraries, for example: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/103121

In our library system, they don’t put Link+ holds with normal holds. You have to go ask someone to look. We get an email that it’s arrived and we have 3 days to pick it up.

He already has a nickname. Behold “Young Cardamom:” https://youtu.be/DZ1OblYm5YY

Every time someone says something mean about Mamdani, you could post a link to his alter ego, Young Cardamom: https://youtu.be/DZ1OblYm5YY

There’s a director out there, going: “I need this for real in my next movie.”

Beginning if I like it.

Am working my way through a comedian’s interview podcast. Was a tough slog listening to all the episodes through the pandemic.

As culture wars continue to brew in schools across the United States, one unconventional group is pushing for more representation in the classroom: Satanists. This has particularly caused controversy in states like Tennessee, where an elementary school formed a program for children called the “After School Satan Club.”

This program was created by an organization called the Satanic Temple, a relatively new religious movement that purports to teach “compassion and empathy toward all creatures.” However, the introduction of these clubs has unsurprisingly made parents upset, while supporters of the Satanic Temple say they are working to improve the lives of children.

https://theweek.com/education/satanists-school-representation-after-school-satan-club

Let’s go back to rocks and sigils…

My car needed some repair work. Insurance set me up for a rental with Hertz who told me not to pay for bridge tolls with my own car’s transponder. When I take the car back, they tell me I’ll be invoiced later for the tolls. Had 4 toll crossings which ordinarily would come to less than $30 (even less if I had used the transponder).

A month later, the Hertz charges show up: $77 (including ‘processing fee’). Called and complained. They said they’d look into it. Never heard back.

Not using them again.