@cks@mastodon.social

A PS about my Fediverse account: I don't normally do this much of it, but the picture boosting will continue until morale improves.

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

Toronto's waterfront fog can sometimes give you absolutely marvelous photos and moments, as I was reminded by posts yesterday evening by @nev@flipping.rocks . Many years ago I was lucky enough to take a photo in mid-summer evening fog along the waterfront that I rather like:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22276923@N06/4788499989/

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

For no particular reason, here's my greebled up commuter bike in some of its natural habitats, first outside just before I left on this morning's commute and then in the office (in a not exactly scenic setup, but that's life). Enterprising people can look through the stuff on the shelves behind the bike in the second picture to find amusing computer things.

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

Today's bike ride[1] was a solo pre-ride of a route that I'm hopefully going to lead a club bike ride on this coming Sunday (it's possible we'll skip the top of Highland Creek at Ellesmere for Reasons and go down Orton Park to get to the regular entrance). It was a great day for a ride apart from the wind, and I'm pleased to see that there's now a crossing of Highland Creek at Ellesmere that doesn't require using streets, although it sure is A Climb (I explored it).

1: https://ridewithgps.com/trips/217652012

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

During today's ride I stopped to take a picture of my weekend fun bike, inspired by @derekvanvliet@mastodon.social (but nowhere as good, and also I don't ride every day). This is at the mouth of Highland Creek, at one end of the bridge where it meets the lake.

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

I have to admire this writeup for the sheer deranged glory of remotely unlocking your desktop's encrypted root drive on boot by setting up Tailscale and a very limited SSH server in your initrd, so you can SSH in to enter the unlock password. And of course you give your initrd a separate and limited Tailscale identity and its own set of SSH host keys.

https://jyn.dev/remotely-unlocking-an-encrypted-hard-disk/

(via https://tech.lgbt/@jyn/115939595372361611 or https://lobste.rs/s/spemfa/remotely_unlocking_encrypted_hard_disk )

kulupu jyn
@jyn@tech.lgbt

oh well it wouldn't have worked anyway because i forgot that i don't actually have ssh keys on this host because they're tied to 1password lol

anyway, https://jyn.dev/remotely-unlocking-an-encrypted-hard-disk/

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

I really wish the Internet Archive could stop lying in their HTTP User-Agent headers. To be specific, I wish they could stop claiming to be either ancient versions of browsers or modern versions of browsers that are different from the browser engines they're actually using. It's hurting their ability to, you know, archive stuff, because these days such mismatches look a lot like bad crawlers.

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

I guess it's time for everyone to start freezing their Firefox versions and not updating (which you can do on a DIY basis through an 'enterprise' policy). I can't believe I'm saying that, automatic browser updates were a great improvement for practical web security, but here we are with Mozilla blowing off their entire lower torso.

Or maybe switch to a Firefox fork, if there's a good trustworthy up to date one.

https://indieweb.social/@jbz/115729870388130839

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

Today's sad thought: I wonder if there's any easy, request efficient (and bandwidth efficient) way to offer git repos for cloning that won't be excessively ransacked by LLM crawlers.

(... because if there is maybe the modern way to publish a git repo is 'here is the readme, here is how to clone, if you want anything more clone and look, you can thank LLM crawlers for this'. Maybe a (static) text page with a few of the recent commits.)

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

@fiery@snac.bsd.cafe @georgieboy@mastodon.social Carrying only water in my water bottles makes life easier; I can refill them at any water source without diluting anything, I have clean water for non-drinking uses,I never worry about sugar making stuff grow in them, etc. And often I only wanted water, or only wanted a bit of a snack, rather than the whole Gatorade package all at once (which I felt was often too much sugars along with my water).

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

@fiery@snac.bsd.cafe @georgieboy@mastodon.social AFAIK any sports drink with mixed fluid, salts, and sugars has to make an assumption about how much energy you're using (so how much sugar you need) as you go through a certain amount of water. As a recreational cyclist instead of a racer I had the strong feeling that Gatorade assumed I was burning a lot more energy than I actually was and so was loading me up on sugars/carbs in the process of giving me more fluid.

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

@fiery@snac.bsd.cafe @georgieboy@mastodon.social I'm a recreational (and commuter) rider and I drifted into it because I started out never putting Gatorade into my water bottles, just carrying it separately and also carrying various snacks/etc. So all I had to do for a complete replacement was get some salt pills.

(My first bike had only one water bottle cage so I was always carrying extra drink stuff in panniers or a rack bag.)

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

@fiery@snac.bsd.cafe @georgieboy@mastodon.social Carrying only water in my water bottles makes life easier; I can refill them at any water source without diluting anything, I have clean water for non-drinking uses,I never worry about sugar making stuff grow in them, etc. And often I only wanted water, or only wanted a bit of a snack, rather than the whole Gatorade package all at once (which I felt was often too much sugars along with my water).

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

My smartphone will be nine years old this fall so I really should plan to replace it with a new model for various reasons (including that there are an increasing amount of apps that won't run on it because it's too old, most recently uBlock for Safari). But I don't really want to. It's a perfectly fine phone and it would be excellent with the latest OS and maybe a refreshed battery.

(Also, increasingly all smartphone sources suck in various ways.)

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

A PS about my Fediverse account: I don't normally do this much of it, but the picture boosting will continue until morale improves.

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

For no particular reason, here's my greebled up commuter bike in some of its natural habitats, first outside just before I left on this morning's commute and then in the office (in a not exactly scenic setup, but that's life). Enterprising people can look through the stuff on the shelves behind the bike in the second picture to find amusing computer things.

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

Today's bike ride[1] was a solo pre-ride of a route that I'm hopefully going to lead a club bike ride on this coming Sunday (it's possible we'll skip the top of Highland Creek at Ellesmere for Reasons and go down Orton Park to get to the regular entrance). It was a great day for a ride apart from the wind, and I'm pleased to see that there's now a crossing of Highland Creek at Ellesmere that doesn't require using streets, although it sure is A Climb (I explored it).

1: https://ridewithgps.com/trips/217652012

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

During today's ride I stopped to take a picture of my weekend fun bike, inspired by @derekvanvliet@mastodon.social (but nowhere as good, and also I don't ride every day). This is at the mouth of Highland Creek, at one end of the bridge where it meets the lake.