Coding Relic

Random musings on software in an embedded world.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Venmo Public Transactions

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Venmo pushes hard for transaction activity to be Public. It doesn't say whether any past payments were actually public, and puts up an i...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

EFF Privacy Badger

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I started using Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation several months ago. It is a browser extension — I use it with Chr...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Ringing Endorsement for Signal

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As published in The Atlantic today: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders include...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

sync; sanc; sunc

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# sync; sync; sync # Pros: Works. Cons: Boring.   # cat ~/.profile alias sanc=sync alias sunc=sync # # # sync; sanc; sunc Muc...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Giant Airplanes Flying Low at 3am

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Why yes, a Boeing 747 flying low directly over our house at 3am does wake us up. Who could possibly have predicted it?
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Deleting Pokémon GO data

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My final Pokémon I was an enormous fan of Pokémon GO for several years, zealously playing no matter where I was. It spurred me to do in...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Ausland Urkunden, Berlin Standesamt 1

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In 2023 my wife and our children became German citizens via a declaration process called Staatsangehörigkeit § 5 . The official paperwork ca...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Exporting 23andme Data

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Our whole family had submitted DNA kits to 23andme including our kids and even my mother, who has since passed away. Our earliest kits us...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

German Mothers Prior to 1975

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My spouse's mother was German and emigrated to the United States in 1958. Until 1975 German mothers did not pass on citizenship to child...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Google Photos Takeout Download using Firefox

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Four months ago I exported all photos from Google Photos to import into immich , and scheduled followon Takeout runs every two months. I ...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Electrified USPS Fleet

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In its initial proposal for a refreshed fleet of delivery trucks in 2022, the US Postal Service and its contractor Oshkosh Defense proposal ...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Google Cloud Four Cent Bill

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I'd say not to spend it all in one place but I think the maximum number of places they could possibly spend it is four, so... go ahead. ...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

OPNsense 25.1 and ZFS

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OPNsense 25.1 has been released. I'll update in a week or two, it looks neat. My OPNsense instance is a VM running on a Proxmox hos...
Monday, January 27, 2025

YOLO Credit Union

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This is a legitimate credit union in Davis, California, I just find it amusing.
Sunday, January 26, 2025

:cpu: emoji reaction

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I agree, Slackbot.
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