bcl @bcl@infosec.exchange
Joined Aug 2018
Added 'So I Married An Axe Murderer' to #movielandmarks - https://movielandmarks.com/#mv-561
Spent some time re-learning lat/long formulas so I could add a new feature to #movielandmarks - https://www.brianlane.com/post/fuzzy-middle/
Now it will jump to a relevant location for the #movie instead of just opening on Las Angeles. eg. The Goonies https://movielandmarks.com/#mv-3
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"Hi, this is the Lockpicking Robot and today..." https://hackaday.com/2022/05/01/this-3d-printed-robot-can-actually-pick-locks/
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Nova Scotia Northern Lights
Image Credit & Copyright: Jason Dain
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No one should be tracked without their consent. That’s why we were determined to get to the bottom of this. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/eff-investigation-mystery-gps-tracker-supporters-car
Upgrading #postgresql in a #freebsd #jail - https://www.brianlane.com/post/upgrade-postgres-jail/ with thanks to @mwlucas for his excellent books.
New blog post - https://www.brianlane.com/post/router-hell/ #openwrt upgade from hell.
Note to self. Output from 'df' doesn't include metadata usage and is not suitable for calculating minimum partition size...😭
New blog post - https://www.brianlane.com/post/prusa-slicer/ running #prusa-slicer in a rootless #podman container.
First blog post of the year. Setting up #alpine #linux using #ansible on a laptop - https://www.brianlane.com/post/alpine-laptop/
If firefox on the cmdline won't open new tabs in the running firefox check to make sure /var/lib/dbus/machine-id exists. If not, recreate it with 'dbus-uuidgen --ensure'
Updated https://weathertldr.com to fix the distance units glitch. NOAA changed the namespace so it was showing up as unks instead of meters :)
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"Apps Getting Worse" by Tim Bray https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/07/Apps-Get-Worse
My wife and I have a running joke where she'll complain about some awful new "feature" in an app that makes the experience worse, and I'll say "Somebody got a promotion for that." The sad thing is it's probably true.
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I was going to write something up about Apple's new child safety features, but the @EFF post on the subject covers what I would have wanted to say, better than I could say it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life
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The SeaGL 2021 call for proposals is open
office hours aren't yet announced, but we will have them
The #cfp closes August 5th for our November 5th and 6th virtual conference
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Like Mucas¹
If you have been waiting for #gitsyncmurder -- wait no more! For the ebook, at least.
https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/git-sync-murder-novel/
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Is it morally permissible to have a bot to retrigger CI until it either succeeds or the same test fails three times in a row?
I'm asking for a ... not entirely deterministic pipeline.
Some awesome suggestions for a rewrite of the #suckless website - https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2106/34335.html
Static #git repo hosting with #stagit - https://www.brianlane.com/post/stagit-scripts/
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It's gonna be hot today. Stay home and read a crime thriller.
Beaks: half Die Hard, half Robin Hood, and all trouble.
Apple: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/butterfly-stomp-waltz/id1087978575?mt=11&at=1010lvmc
My bookstore, as part of the 3-book bundle: https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/beaks-3-book-bundle/
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2QwLn6Y
Joined Aug 2018
