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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Huh, that sounds very different from my experience. Everyone taped from TV, and traded tapes, even people who couldn’t set the time or schedule it. People were so desperate for time-shifting away from TV broadcast schedule and to share videos that they sat through entire shows to record them. There were frequent glitches from people trying to not record commercials, before commercial skipping technology became common. This was also the only reasonable way to have a movie collection, given the obscene prices of movies on tape. And of course child me thought I was clever to figure out how to schedule a recording, only to be frequently screwed up by sports and political events running long - I’d schedule an extra hour and sometimes that wasn’t enough


  • Signing (intermediate) certs have been compromised before. That means a bad actor can issue fake certs that are validated up to your root ca certs

    While you can invalidate that signing cert, without useful and ubiquitous revocation lists, there’s nothing you can do to propagate that.

    A compromised signing certs, effectively means invalidating the ca cert, to limit the damage






  • I don’t generally find any tab. I work with the set related to my task then close them. The tabs for the previous task are right there, so I can just continue that task until completed, then close those tabs.

    It partly works, but I don’t always close tabs for interruptions and aren’t always able to work my way back to uncompleted tasks, so it builds up.

    I want to start using workspaces or tab groups to improve my discipline but haven’t yet

    Edit: and yes there are times when I don’t remember I started a task or can’t find my set of tabs so open a new set.

    And no, multiple windows was a horrible idea. Instead of making it easier to organized tab sets, it made it easier to open many more tabs








  • Not really but I do believe it’s the future. For any future devices, Matter/Thread is my preference.

    But of course using HA means you don’t have to limit yourself. Both my Zigbee and zwave meshes are solid.

    I did have a conversation with a friend a few months back who asked what I recommended. It’s tough because

    • Matter/Thread is rolling out very slowly so you can’t really count on it yet.
    • always avoid WiFi with vendor portals
    • is it worth it for a newcomer to invest in Zigbee or zwave?