This coming week is special. European DST adjustment is today, the US is next week. German Consulates around the world add appointments at midnight *in Germany*. Polling right as they are added has the best chance of grabbing one, and midnight in Germany is at a different time this week.

YES! Where do I sign?

Earthquake big enough to make the house sway, near Redwood City.

Huh. I wonder what they'll talk about.

ancestry.com appears to have just taken itself down altogether rather than deal with continuous partial failures. They're serving a static failure page from the edge caches. Honestly I don't blame them if the site couldn't really function before.

selfhosting for the win today, I guess.

Things had improved since the AWS-east outage earlier, but it looks like half the Internet just broke again.

Your eyes linger on the lush, ample melons, stacked and arranged appealingly. The other adults in the room with you seem equally intrigued, especially for the price: 20 cents per pound.

CI broke last month

Someone is very interested in ensuring that I, some rando they saw a posting from, am WRONG on the Internet.

Better to be lucky than good, I guess. I ordered refills of RXes in advance of losing COBRA coverage, but didn't pick them up by 9/30. Fortunately the bags waiting on the bins were billed when they were filled, not when we picked them up. They charged the COBRA plan.

"Safety Update: Non-Credible Threat Today <school> received a threat which was deemed non-credible by the Police. We are conducting a sweep of the school to ensure the safety of our students. We will return to classes as scheduled after the sweep has concluded." This is the world now.

canceled that subscription.

I might have been too sneaky for my own good.

I submitted a Trademark application recently. It is still sitting in the queue at USPTO, likely to be looked at some time next year. But trademark applications are public. The trademark industry is a hive of scum and villainy. So far I have received:

I had reasons for putting the legacy comms thingy in a network namespace with only access to its IPsec tunnel. Prometheus metric scraping? Fine, I'll craft up a proxy to Unix domain sockets. But it cannot send traces to honeycomb either. I'm rethinking the namespace now. Honeycomb is awesome.

D'oh! Signal, why are you so good at preserving privacy! I want to contact this person and I don't know their username. (I do know why, but my preferred problem-solving method involves kvetching.)

Death by Scoville

Ok, I've been buried in code since yesterday what did I mis- HOLY FUCK

Ok, AT&T Wireless, you're on my shitlist. No Christmas Card from me this year.

Whole family got the COVID booster in Redwood City on Thursday. When I booked the appointments a week before I checked the box about health conditions necessitating the booster (and meant it), but at the actual appointment they said nothing about it and just administered the shots.

Whole family got the COVID booster today, in California.

Spouse's maternal grandfather in Germany was unknown, grandmother would not speak of him unto her death. Mother unfortunately passed away without ever knowing her biological father. We identified him last year, via a 1.3% DNA match with a modern descendant. His name was Ludwig.

I really don't understand what just happened with the Cracker Barrel logo.

You know that thing, where you convince yourself that this draft is good and a good approach to take, and you send it, and you immediately shift to thinking you've just made a huge mistake and should have taken a different approach and tone? Yeah. That.

My inner 16 year old is amused.

Can anyone recommend an English->French translator? I want to hire an actual human, not an LLM. It is a one page marketing website, I'm looking for a translator aware of business cultural norms in France who can adjust it to better fit the French market.

Last summer, German speakers would switch immediately to English with me. On this trip, several times I've been asked, in German, if I want to continue with Deutsch or switch to English. I feel like this is progress. I'm counting it as a win.

I have to keep re-learning the lesson that in the US, "Premium" means "same thing, but costs more."

github.com/orgs/communi... "Our new code search backend does not support date filtering. In order to prioritize this, it'd be useful to hear more about your use case for wanting ... certain date ranges" How does one introduce a new code search backend in 2023 without support for date ranges?

Sad update from MethaneSAT, communications with the satellite have been lost since June 20. The spacecraft appears to have failed for unknown reasons.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode, no SW, ST, or LOTR) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

A Canadian privacy-oriented social network built on top of ATProto sounds fascinating!!!! With lots of people on the founding and advisory teams whose reputations I trust 👀👀👀 gandersocial.ca

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cuomo R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn !!!

Been working intensely on stuff for 6 days what did I ... oh.

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Our neighbor is an opera singer. Yes, really. It has been fine. We can sometimes hear them rehearsing, but it is pleasant. Makes me want to pour a glass of wine and sit on the deck for a while.

I guess the measles outbreak must have fixed itself, probably by better diet and exercise and some vitamins and stuff. I haven't heard any updates about the spread of measles for a month or so.

Looking for a community of bootstrap founders building stuff in US telecom services for the market in Europe or Canada. Not the most common niche, I guess.

No, not a blockchain role, thanks.

I am nearing the end of my Recurse Center batch and starting to look for work! If you know of something short- or long-term that might be a good fit, please be in touch. More details in the next post

Ok, back at it today, trying to decode SM-TP TPDUs.

I submitted a do-it-myself trademark application in 2019. I began receiving letters three days later from legal firms offering to assist. Then text messages, and phone calls. I ultimately did not see the trademark through to completion, the thing I was going to use it for did not work out.

Too much. Gonna go back to focussing on something which is not current events for the rest of the day. So, eSIM suppliers with voice+SMS service plans in their catalog. Know any? Ideally with T/Mobile as one of their MNOs.

Eldest sprog is currently taking a final at UC Davis. Just, you know, pretending everything is normal.

I have been stuck for OVER A WEEK trying to figure out why a digest authentication is failing, where the remote system is a black box from which I can get no logs. It just says "494 Security Agreement Required" without more information about what is wrong. AAARGH

Some days I wonder if I've left reality altogether. Maybe back in the real world I'm not getting enough oxygen and this is what my brain cobbles together as best it can. This is one of those days: They're fighting. In tweets. Infinite resources, being deployed in a playground scuffle.

Just so we're clear: the ability to add your driver's license to Google or Apple Wallet means you'll now be handing your unlocked phone to a police officer who will walk away with it, and you have no recourse. Right? They can hook it to a device back in the car to dump its contents.

So the argument is that the bill is full of pork and doesn't cut *enough.*