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Been playing around with the riticulum network. It's interesting but sideband kills the shit out of my phone's battery.
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In case anyone here is also using Reticulum, I can be reached at: lxmf@32f62870f2d7c418b59f1c5f9f1617e2

Don't know yet if it's something I'll use long-term, but it is at least interesting to play with for now.







For reasons I shan't get into, Katy had to adjust her diet for 24 hours, and I decided to do likewise so as to not make the experience any more unpleasant for her than it had to be. After reading the label, I have come to the conclusion that Ensure meal replacement shakes are not designed with diabetics in mind. They have about 75% of the sugar content of a can of Coke.

Oops...



At the hospital again for nearly two hours. Still waiting to see the one after-hours doctor they have on staff...

It's going to be a long night. I can already tell.

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Ohh. I was more thinking about the quality&total experience. But my bad!



neti pot discussion (gross)
While my neti pot is really good at clearing my sinuses, it has an unfortunate side-effect. I'll end up with a small amount of water trapped in my sinuses which will randomly drain at some unpredictable point when I happen to tilt my head at just the right (or wrong?) angle.


I've been playing around with #OpenWeatherMap's air quality API. Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement between its report and Environment Canada's. The former says "Good" and the latter says "Moderate Risk". Granted, they use different scales, but that still seems a rather significant discrepancy.


Time to go inside for some fresh air.

...weird that that's now the world that we live in.



I don't need an air quality report to tell me things are bad right now. I can see haziness in the air when looking at things that are less than a block away.

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Kitchener Public Library has discontinued their 3D printer program, but Waterloo Public Library hasn't.

In other news, I now have a custom phone holder for the car.

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I'm getting old. Every time I get up from sitting today, my back screams at me.



Oops. Brought the server down for backups this morning and forgot to restart it.

Sorry about that.





TIL my local grocer uses network connected e-ink displays for price tags. I just watched all the prices in a whole aisle change before my eyes.

That was... creepy.

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A thing that's always bothered me about Star Trek:

They always talk about the Alpha quadrant, Delta quadrant, etc. Space is three-dimensional. Shouldn't they be octants?

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They are only talking about our galaxy, the Milky Way. It's more like a disc than a sphere. So I find the quadrant nomenclature satisfactory.


Went to the emergency room today (everyone's fine) to discover that the two main hospitals in town have merged.

Me: Hmm... I wonder what the implications of this are going to be.

First words out of the doctor's mouth when he sees us: Are you okay with us using AI to record and transcribe this conversation?

Me: ಠ_ಠ



So, I've recently learned that solo RPGs... exist.

This is going to be bad for my bank account.



I wonder if there's a market for someone who can convert a schematic drawing (or rough sketch) to an STL file for #3DPrinting on a freelance basis. I'm getting to be pretty decent at it, and it's kinda fun.

I'm pretty sure there's probably already some AI garbage that purports to do so.

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Setting up a #Windows machine for the first time in forever. I've been out of the game for a while. What, if any, antivirus is decent these days?

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@Jonathan Lamothe when I did use microsoft I just used the microsoft virus checker. But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software. So, the only way to stop the viruses is to stop using Microsoft. That is the only real solution.
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@beko

But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software.


Can you... elaborate on that one?

@beko
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@Jonathan Lamothe I have used several operating systems such as Linux, which had no problem stopping viruses on the same machines as Microsoft. If they could do it, Microsoft could easily have stopped viruses. We might have accepted a transitory issue when viruses first appeared, but not a continued issue that continue despite many updates. The truth is Microsoft did very well from all the viruses, because they were used to deter people from trying non "official" microsoft software. That put Microsoft in a very dominant position and that is what made it so much money from some of the crappiest software on the planet.


Cleaning and re-inking my #FountainPens and I managed to spill one of my favourite Inkvent sample bottles. Fortunately, I somehow managed to save the majority of the ink. Don't ask me how.

I guess it's gonna be one of those days...








I love marketing.

"We're committed to reduce our carbon footprint by shipping directly from the manufacturer to the consumer."

Sooo... drop shipping then? That's one way to spin it, I guess.



I'm particular about my morning coffee. I always have 170g of coffee to 15g of flavouring syrup. (I used to drink double that, but I'm trying to keep the stimulants down.) The ratio is important.

Every now and again (like this morning) I accidentally overshoot on the syrup and have to adjust the amount of coffee to compensate.

This means, I get extra coffee (yay!) but I have to do semi-complicated math before my morning coffee, which is a little annoying.




Nothing like getting all cozy and bundled up in a hammock with a book only to realize you've forgotten your glasses.

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Encountered my first mask ban in Canada. I had hoped we were smarter than this, but I suppose I'm not surprised. I guess they value their bottom line over public health, but it's a vape store, so I suppose that tracks.

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Edit 2: It has been pointed out to me that there is an exemption for medical masks in the tiniest font imaginable at the bottom of the sign... almost as though they don't want you to read it.

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mask ban

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