So far I have seen the first four episodes of Apple TV's series based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. My 7-day free trial period ended ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• The Border Gateway Protocol and (of all things) the Book of Faces, for giving me something interesting to write about yesterday. Not to mention making it really hard for FB to pretend it isn't a monopoly.
• (FB whistleblower)Frances Haugen, appearing on 60 Minutes.
• Not having to decide whether or ( Read more... )

If you're sensible enough not to use Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram, or to have set up "log in with Facebook" on any site you use regularly, you might not have noticed that they all disappeared from the internet for about six hours yesterday. Or if ( Read more... )

1. The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked: source code, user payouts, hashed passwords. Change your password RIGHT NOW.
2. Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked; Criminals were inside Syniverse for 5 years before anyone noticed - Malwarebytes; Syniverse responds to data breach. Good ( Read more... )

It's been a strange day. ( CW: death of loved ones )

Not a tremendously productive week, but more productive than many, so I'll take it. Sleeping longer on average -- not sure what that indicates.
I finished up $writing-gig-3 and sent in an invoice. It went a lot more slowly than I'd expected; I'm not sure I can ramp my computer-related writing up far enough to re-start Computer ( Read more... )

Welcome to October, 2021!

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Today I am grateful for...

• My housemates.
• Linux Mint on an inexpensive thinkpad (new Sable) from eBay.
• The thinkpad it replaces, Panther (formerly Sable) still being usable, at least when its fan isn't acting up.
• Getting off my (figurative) arse and writing. Maybe this time?
• Getting off my (literal) arse and walking.
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A rather mixed bag of things that, arguably, I should have written about a week ago.
1: the Let's Encrypt root certificate.
Hopefully this won't affect you, but if your browser starts complaining about websites suddenly being untrusted, you need to upgrade. The problem is that Let's Encrypt's root certificate is expiring, and ( Read more... )

Me: I found something that's going to make me subscribe to Apple TV...
G (skeptical): What?
Me: Foundation.
G: Not fair!

[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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