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plot twist, bingo is the farmer's not the dog's name-o

buying out the local costco of vinegar and brown paper so if anybody breaks their crown during lockdown i can price gouge the shit out of them

the couple k-i-s-s-i-n-g were in the same tree that, much later, baby falls from cradle and all, a cautionary tale of when dendrophilia goes too far

oh wow spain is going to do universal basic income

👨 i love all this rain here in socal
🧠 seems like more than normal
👨 yeah makes for a really nice work from home environment
🧠 maybe the weather patterns are changing
👨 what why
🧠 coronavirus
👨 lolwat
🧠 fewer cars on the road, no smog, you can see all the way to the mountains, socal is reverting to the cool rainy paradise it should be because of the pandemic
👨 no it's just springtime and we moved here back when there was an extreme drought so our sense of normalcy is off
🧠 it's a conspiracy

you know there's a pandemic on when your grizzled cave-dwelling back-end programmer goblins are directly interacting with end users

dear valued customer we're very apologize for the inconvenience. by the way, you wouldn't even have that problem if you ran a real operating system like GNU/Linux,

home lan improvement project:

1. self-host services
2. lock down iot garbage
3. open guest wifi

to do all this safely i think i need to set up vlans, firewall rules, and possibly openvpn

so if an internet-facing or iot device gets exploited, the attacker can't easily access my trusted lan

and so the open wifi can be throttled and restricted

i've got a wireless router running dd-wrt. sadly it can't run openwrt.

this was a good resource: https://www.shackleton.io/blog/2019/05/07/internet-of-shit.html

looking for more of the same

i've been on average pleased by a number of things that have changed for the better with my kids' public schooling than what i experienced

but hmm they still do the pledge of allegiance?

well, they only have to do it once per week (even when not under pandemic) so that's an improvement

i guess "publicly rehearse this sacred phrase in a monotonic drone" hasn't yet registered in mainstream cultural consciousness as creepy as fuck

friend detected

possibly the biggest bold jumping spider i've ever met

their abdomen markings are like 😍

i wonder in which of my recipes i can substitute pancake mix for flour

besides pancakes

because nobody has flour but pancake mix is still on the shelves

i'm a computer nobody but i'm on at least speaking terms with some computer folks i'm convinced will be in history books

i kindof feel like that main character in your favorite historical fiction novel who is buddies with the likes of newton and huygens but since their actions, insignificant in comparison, never amount to anything recorded in the annals of history, the story doesn't shatter your suspension of disbelief

my dog is pretty chill and only barks when strangers come around

she has learned that the doorbell means a stranger is outside, so she always goes nuts when she hears it, even if it's obviously my kids that rang it

now the kids have Zoom meetings

and Zoom makes a doorbell sound when it connects

so their arrival in most of their classes is announced by a loud ass barking dog and a dad stumbling over toys going stfu, dog, it's not even the real doorbell