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I haven’t had a medical checkup in a few years, so I thought I’d get one since my insurance covers all preventative visits. The medical office said I’d need to do a patient intake interview to get a primary care physician. Sure.Comments
In that phone call, I answered questions about my medical history, and I mentioned carpal tunnel syndrome. The physician’s assistant mentioned something about an ergonomic assessment, so to be polite, I said OK, that sounds like a good idea. (I have had one of those.)
Later, I found out that because of that, the “visit” was not marked as preventative since that counted as “counseling”. Thus, it was a $130 phone call.
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Finally got my first COVID-19 vaccination.I feel lucky that I only had to drive as far as the airport instead of to Swampscott, thanks to Katt’s leet CVS web site tricks.Comments
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12 pull-up today, 12 yesterday. I guess that one run is all I’m going to get in this spring break.Comments
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A good cube! I meant to go back and tune Slop Cube someday, but I never did.Comments
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There was a 20% chance of this turning out to be a cool move, but it didn't pan out. -
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I really need to be doing other stuff, but I revised the robot song twice today.Comments
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I am into this weird object: The TrudelturmComments
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Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspectiveComments
Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, and China; death squads in Bangladesh; military juntas in Myanmar; and those seeking to abuse and oppress in Turkey, UAE, and elsewhere. A few months ago, they announced that they added Signal support to their software.
This is an incredibly satisfying read. It is the rare dramatic story in a tech blog post.
Their products have often been linked to the persecution of imprisoned journalists and activists around the world, but less has been written about what their software actually does or how it works. Let’s take a closer look. In particular, their software is often associated with bypassing security, so let’s take some time to examine the security of their own software. -
I was looking at a programming summer camp for kids that, in the second half of the week-long camp, has them all working in Python. This is a camp for ages 6-10.Comments
Based on the way most six-year-olds type and read, I have serious doubts that they'll be able to do much more than copy code in a general purpose programming language like that, if they don't get bored and wander away.
I wonder if kids go to this, then come home and their parents ask "Did you learn to code" and they just say "Yes" and then they say it was fun because they got screen time and no one thinks any more about it. -
Run (maybe 15 minutes?), 12 pull-ups. It was good to get out.Comments
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In this Heavy Hole episode, they pronounce "Baphomet" as "Bapho-may", which is probably right? I've never heard it aloud.Comments
Also, Cannibal Cam Schwarz who's making a death metal documentary is into Bobby Brown and late '80s R&B. Back in the '90s, metal dudes would have given him a lot of shit about it.
This podcast is consistently good but also consistently 1.5-2 hours long. It also consistently comes out every single week, which is what a Good Podcast is supposed to do. The problem with this, in conjunction with Longform, Adam Buxton, and Thought Eater also delivering one hour plus podcasts, is that there is no way I can keep up, and I end up just sampling at random.
It is a "nice" problem to have so more good stuff than you can listen to but makes a good case for shorter podcasts like The Daily and (sometimes) Talking Politics. -
We played D&D with the guy yesterday, and he had fun, but I regret making a mystery adventure. Those are kind of rough, even with adults, but they don’t do things like come up with “maybe there are clues if we keep walking in this random direction for several days until we die.” (Though in this game, you just get knocked out at lose all your stuff.) Also, hinting is exhausting.Comments
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12 pull-ups. Maybe a real workout tomorrow? Spring break is tough.Comments
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A benefit of having reliable working backups besides not losing data is that you can take more risks that would otherwise result in data.Comments
My server in the cloud was down to just 65 MB of free HD space just now. I have another static-web-archive instance that I started years ago. It uses git for persistence. Now, I realize that that's not necessary and that the .git directory was taking up 13 GB. (There's a lot of media there.)
I was able to switch it to use the filesystem for persistence directly and delete that .git without worrying. It works fine. Now I can delay the question of what to move off the server for another couple of months! -
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