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Oh ok. Thanks for the clarification. I couldn't remember the exact details.

I guess this is rather niche, but I go to thesession a lot for fiddle tunes. They are ostensibly an Irish traditional music site, but their collection is a vast community-led effort and there's all sorts of stuff of varying genres on there. Folk music in general is improvisational by nature, and what's interesting about thesession is you will find multiple versions (aka settings) of a given tune as it's played by different artists or in particular regions. None of them are "right" per se, but it gives you some ideas when trying to work out your own style.

Wow, I did not know about the OLED with the bigger screen and presumably better battery life. I really want one now!

I think I read somewhere that Factorio is more efficient running under Linux/Mac because it takes advantage of some quirk in the Unix forking mechanism that Windows can't use? I don't know if this means it would burn through battery even faster if the SD ran Windows, but it wouldn't surprise me…

Mine says 99% health. I don't know how reliable a metric that is?

Lately, I've been playing on battery exclusively and basically going with the 1 gaming session = 1 battery charge regimen to self-regulate. I may need to re-evaluate this as the battery ages, but it's good discipline for me at the moment…

I once had a dream featuring a T-Rex hopping like a kangaroo and woke up thinking wait, how would we know they didn't do that? I guess this answers my question.

For instance, in February 2023, the hosting giant disclosed that unknown attackers stole source code and installed malware on compromised servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year breach.

I assumed their security for this was to keep shuffling around their web site to make that cPanel stuff impossible to find? It's like a store that keeps rearranging their floor inventory. I dread having to do anything with cPanel. Kudos to the hackers who managed to work it out.

Same with my cat. Sometimes when he's lying on my chest, he tries to "pet" me on the face, which is not fun as he has claws, so I pin down his left paw but he never ever uses his right for this.

I think from a free advice perspective, it's worth talking to your local pharmacist? While not a substitute for doctor visits, my experience is that their advice on minor maladies is way more on-point than what I get from relatives, co-workers, etc. And they are super well-versed on the pitfalls of off-the-shelf remedies. Yet a lot people only approach them to pick up a prescription.

Yeah, I have some Python scripts that reflow selected passages of code for me using this approach. It always feels so weird when I'm using some OS that seemingly doesn't support any sort of GUI scripting.

It's worth noting that while you can simulate mouse clicks and key strokes within any app, some support a few direct scripting commands. For example, in Terminal, you don't need a GUI script to open a new window and type in it to run some command. You can just issue an AppleScript command to tell app "Terminal" to do script "top" or whatever. That's because Terminal's scripting library includes a do script command.

For more on this, you can fire up Script Editor and go Open Dictionary. You will see a list of all apps with any sort of scripting support and be able to get documentation on what you can do with it.

I've seen more bald eagles of late and I'm in Canada. Are they fleeing for some reason?

At least the Canada geese are going the other way. Those things are the devil! Chasing after me on my bike hissing…

I don't know about good, but today was an unusual day for me.

With a blizzard setting in, I figured my best chance to get to work was on the bus. So I was walking up to where I could catch it passing various houses with Christmas lights and decorations, only to stop dead in my tracks at one particular house.

It's sole decoation was an 8-ft tall Krampus on the front lawn. It had a goat head with horns and demonic eyes and sharp claws holding a gnarled staff on one side and chains on the other. It's dark burgundy cloak had a dusting of snow on its shoulders to complete the look.

Then I was on the bus trying to digest what I had seen when who should walk on but Polar Man! He's a local superhero with a bushy beard and a mask. He helps people in distress shovel out their driveways. At one point as the bus was passing through a residential area, he got up and yelled "Driver! Stop the bus!" and leapt out dramatically to cheering passengers.