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I checked by budget app today and found 91 new transactions to approve. They're all $1 charges for "GOOGLE *YOUTUBE SUPER G.CO/HELPPAY#CA", which looks like some YouTube premium service, but I don't think "SUPER" exists. It looks like this has happened to other people.

Well, I called it in to void our credit card number. This happened to us two years ago, which seems way too recently. As with last time, there are a jillion ways it could have gotten out to the dark web or directly into the hands of a rando. I paid an electrician and the YMCA by reading by number over the phone, and anyone at those offices hearing the numbers reported back could have copied them down. It could be a leak or someone at the credit card company. It could any of the dozens of businesses that we've paid with this credit card.

There's not a ton I can do, but I think I'm going to stop reading my credit card out over the phone if there's an option to pay by check. The thing is anyone with your account number and routing number can draw from your checking account, but at least there's fewer ways to do that directly on the internet. Financial transaction security is actually incredibly fragile.

Miscellaneous Findings VI. If you want to know how I set up a Pi, and some of the bad things that happen to you if you use VFAT, there it is.

Which government does what in the UK is extremely complicated. It’s an artifact of it actually being several countries that have subjects that still want the countries to be their own country, rather than a country divided up into units.

I could change my mind about this someday, but I'm really not into that pinging snare sound slam and goregrind bands are using of late.

Pleasant surprise: I was able to load Chrome extension code into Firefox, and It Just Worked.

I’ve been noticing that I can’t help but make pieces of music build in intensity as they go on. Part of the reason is that I just like this kind of song, but a lot of it is unconscious leaning that comes from listening to Metallica during formative times. I’m going to try to avoid that for this week’s song.

Five-mile run. No pull-ups to ensure back recovery.

Aw man, I think I messed up by back. Don’t push yourself for those last reps at this age.

What “value” does solving fake math problems actually provide to anyone? It’s all bullshit.

We live in an insane world.

There’s a bunch of interesting stuff in this Designer Notes episode with David Dunham, but the most interesting thing is that he and the other designers weren’t operating from any really crisp principles when they made King of Dragon Pass. They had a certain feel they were going for, not articulated perfectly to each other, and they just went at it until they had what they wanted.

I got started late on Ludum Dare because of vaccination sluggishness but landed on an interesting idea. Then, I got messed up trying to do stuff with D3 that I thought would be easy, but some combination of me being especially non-geniuslike yesterday and not having done anything with chord or force in a while made it take forever. Then, yesterday, I was implementing a version of Dijkstra’s algorithm, which I thought I understood pretty well, but my implementation kept giving fucked up answers, and I couldn’t figure out why this morning.

Now, I’m standing on a playground, so I’m extra-clearly not going to have anything to submit. But what I have is better than nothing, to be philosophical.

10-4-4-4-4-12. I found myself leg-swing cheating on the last three reps. I guess I really need to stay on top of this workout.

I had a lot of programming disaster yesterday, but on the plus side, I typed for seven-plus hours and don’t feel any pain today. This ridiculous keyboard may be working.

I did have some pain in my thenar muscles during the typing, but now I think there was a small chance that could have been part of the general weakness I felt from vaccine reaction/antibody-building.

Live reloading is great until the point at which it subtly does not actually noticed a dependency change and does not rebuild and reload, but you think that it did.

I’ve had fairly mild side effects from the shot, mostly sluggishness, but I’m now getting this “arm heat” from the shoulder I got the shot in, which is really weird, even if it’s not at all painful.

Via Alex: Yamauchi No. 10 Family Office

That's a hell of a way to get you to read a lot of text. I actually leaned my head to the side the whole time.