WarOnPrivacy

A family friend had a yellow ~73 Duster. Tim Curry autographed her hood in spray paint. This was back in the early Rocky Horror days - a live performance in NYC, I think. Everyone adored the signature.

ff to mid 80's: She is leaving work. She gets to her parking space and sees that her hood is just yellow; the autograph is gone.

She's staring in shock when the attendant walks up to her and says in a heavy Arabic accent: "I'm so sorry that happened to you. I scrubbed and I scrubbed all morning until I finally got it all off!" and is just beaming at her. Her shock hasn't let up any. She manages to squeak out a "Thank you" and leaves.

    However, there is evidence in the literature that the use of the 
    bristlecone pine series as a temperature proxy may not be valid
    (suppressing "warm period" in the hockey stick handle); and that
    bristlecones do exhibit CO2-fertilized growth over the last 150 
    years (enhancing warming in the hockey stick blade).

    Further driving misreadings of the report is where the 
    researchers refer to a a standard scientific practice as a
    trick. This standard practice is replacing the unreliable
    tree-ring data from 1960 onwards with actual thermometer readings.
    ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wegman_Report

    Featured two decades later now in the AR6 SPM is a longer Hockey
    Stick with an even sharper blade. And no longer just for the Northern
    Hemisphere, it now covers the whole globe. The recent warming is seen
    not only to be unprecedented over the past millennium, but tentatively,
    the past hundred millennia.
    ref: https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/08/a-tale-of-two-hockey-sticks/

> These pop-ups have been the bane of my life.

Adding the below in Ublock Origin->My Filters helps with this:

    ||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p

    winget install -e --id=eloston.ungoogled-chromium
    winget install -e --id uazo.cromite

We're defiantly in the rainy side of the scale. https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/data/statewi...

As for this seasons storms in WCFL, every week I see storms that barely move - often just sitting in place for an hour or more. It's a change from the historical lines that marched across the state.

A National Treasure, on the other hand - they enrich life without being a vector for tribalism (eg:Michael Kramer/Kate Reading).

    Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urges iPhone maker to find other
    solutions to AI-driven chip supply crunch

    Commerce Secretary urges iPhone maker to keep US RAM supplies depleted
    so that US RAM prices will remain at historical/ever-increasing highs.

https://archive.ph/lXFW1

of interest: The longest tornado in FL history crossed the entire state, from west of Tampa to near Cape Canaveral. ref:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_April_4%E2...

...and against AAMVA and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to enjoin AAMVA from complying with the DOT’s parallel demand for the same data.

To me, this sounds a lot like DHS knew it's request is so dodgy - federal courts might grant a request to quash it. Filing a duplicate order from a different agency might have spread the request over 2 judges, doubling the odds of landing in one of the rubber-stampy courts.

I figured it was something like that.

    dig @1.1.1.1 _dns.resolver.arpa SVCB

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    _dns.resolver.arpa.     300     IN      SVCB    1 one.one.one.one.
     alpn="h2,h3" port=443 ipv4hint=1.1.1.1,1.0.0.1
      ipv6hint=2606:4700:4700::1111,2606:4700:4700::1001 key7="/dns-query{?dns}"

    _dns.resolver.arpa.     300     IN      SVCB    2 one.one.one.one.
     alpn="dot" port=853 ipv4hint=1.1.1.1,1.0.0.1
      ipv6hint=2606:4700:4700::1111,2606:4700:4700::1001

Neat! Let's try: nslookup _dns.resolver.arpa

    [mine] unblound.lan can't find _dns.resolver.arpa: Non-existent domain 

    [1.1.1.1] can't find _dns.resolver.arpa: Non-existent domain

    [8.8.8.8] No internal type for both IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses (A+AAAA) 
    records available for _dns.resolver.arpa

    [9.9.9.9] Name:  _dns.resolver.arpa

[my self-important Kagi shtick awakens, pokes at it's restraints]

Diphenhydramine, Hydroxyzine, Tizanidine, Mirtazapine, Phenibut, Kava, Indica.

I take Phenibut and Tizanidine together, 2x week max. Phenibut increases my REM sleep. Tizanidine helps me fall asleep but then wakes me up after 5hrs - and Phenibut counters that (keeps me asleep).

I rotate those two with Hydroxyzine. Staggering meds helps me keep my doses low. I generally take about half the prescribed dose.

Mirtazapine causes weight gain. I only take it when the insomnia is so bad it feels like sleep is broken.

Indica makes me miserable thru disassociation. That kills my tendency to chatter to myself. It also makes me sleepy.

Kava is hit or miss. But I'm trailing a new Kava extract that seems to work better.

My mornings have always been impaired, going back to pre-school. Meds don't make my mornings any worse than my baseline.

It is astoundingly good. A contender for the best show I've ever seen (and I saw the 1st run of Star Trek TOS).

It's a VLK. During early XP days, Volume License Keys were widely accepted and when using them, XP would show as activated.

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From my perspective, it's a clear manifestation of humanity's most pervasive failing - the one that defines every group, eventually.

    No One Anywhere Wants To Clean Their Own House.

    Despite the damage and deaths, the building was open for business
    on many floors the next Monday morning, less than 48 hours later.

I learned this the hard way in 1998. I built up a dual PII system and installed Win98. sigh

That said, I recently got a USB mouse working in a NT 4.0 box (it was controlling a gas chromatograph or some such thing).

Brave has been advertising their new containers but I haven't tried them yet. https://brave.com/blog/containers/

Given Google's hostility toward non-chromium browsers, it's on my check-it-out list

Last week, I needed to do Google Takeout on a doz different user accounts (hours between request and availability). In a few seconds, I had a doz temp containers to keep the sessions alive and isolated, until the downloads showed up.

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/timeline-trump-administrations-ac...

    the legendary Core i7-8700K

I see a number 4770 and 4790 still doing the job they were bought for. I expect the same for 12th gen when they're 13yo. Not so for anything between 4th and 12th.

It's underpowered all around. Athlon Silver 3050e, 4GB DDR4 (3.4 avail & not upgraeable) but it's running Win11 enterprise IoT 24H2. The device would sometimes throttle the CPU for unknown reasons (not thermal, no throttle flags). Universal x86 Tuning Utility completely fixed that.

The experience is really good up to 1080p videos. It can choke on 4k but it's a bedroom TV; it's fine. Videos on Firefox are no trouble. I'm quite happy with it.