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> new post: 'Weekend’s sketch'

https://6days.exmosis.net/2025/03/31/weekends-sketch/

@Floppy yesss, this looks right in the centre of the ballpark...

@Floppy That's a good call - hoping stage 2 is to use the underlying cli tool directly, maybe syncthing to the dnla server.

A bit of a laptop refresh has done the world of good. New thermal paste, firefox tab clearout, and turned off all the "run every 10 minute" settings for thunderbird filters.

Load is down and fan seems a lot quieter this week.

@Floppy It's an attentional trashfire there. I've started downloading YT videos to watch offline - it might get blocked some day, but it's such a nicer, slower, more _selective_ experience.

> new post: 'Mini-weeknotes 2025×12'

https://6work.exmosis.net/2025/03/22/mini-weeknotes-2025x12/

Discovered rclone does client-side encryption super easily AND command-line configured bandwidth limit scheduling.

I'm a geeky but happy bunny.

The AI's "plan" to simplify the FAR was generic and unusable, of course. But it is a subject that Ehikian and DOGE keep returning to: Contracting. Acquisition. The money.

They want to file the corners off of the process that regulates government spending. They want to consolidate all government contracts in one place. And put AI in charge.

@Thayer If the internet knows about it, is it still a rave? 🤔

Also really enjoying codebase refactoring, server health and energy impact stuff and definitely looking to do more of this. Open to work 🍰 #getfedihired

Struggling to write #weeknotes
recently so let's try a more immediate form. This week:

- 30k-step walk in Brontë country
- 17 hour trip back. Travelodge reception, back seat of a truck, new words with an old friend
- Delivered summary of carbon footprint work, nice
- Various small and emergency tasks
- Thermal pasted laptop
- Watched The Electric State. Meh.
- Playing Hotel Dusk: Room 215 on the DS
- Trying out downloading videos up watch offline instead of streaming
- Decent badminton

@vicorva Been thinking in terms of having "healing time" a lot more recently and it feels good. Even if nothing specific is broken.

Palindromic 2FA code: 2 shots, one from the wrong side of the glass to cure hiccups.

> new post: 'follow this path until daylight catches you'

https://drpfd.exmosis.net/follow-this-path-until-daylight-catches-you/

What's the aftermarket for hard drives like - are refurbished and second hand SSD drives worth the risk?

Wow, github action suppy chain attack based on a compromised, re-pointed version number.

Check yourself if you're reliant on tj-actions/changed-files.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3849245/github-suffers-a-cascading-supply-chain-attack-compromising-ci-cd-secrets.html

#security #github

Laptop seems a lot happier today. Might have been disabling gnome's tracker daemon which it didn't like yesterday, but either way, seems like a good opportunity to redo some thermal paste and have a good tab clearout.

No syncthing for the Wii U? This is ridiculous.

Morning and #tzag all, and a very joyous spring #equinox to everyone and everything out there.

☀️ 🌕

Whether you're a small restaurant or not you have to ensure that you're not stealing your ingredients. So why is this any different?

What about the 1-2 person creative startups? Who is protecting their works in a society that devalues artists so much that "starving artist" is an expectation?