rclone and Google Drive: Fast
rclone gets 105 MiB/s download from Google Drive and now I am impressed. It’s basically just maxing out my ethernet. Finally “Takeout” is worthwhile. And they’ve added a GUI.
Author: mike
Super Nerdy: Anki + Fedora 30
This is super nerdy, but Anki 2.1.15-1.fc30 simply would not run on my Fedora 30 machine. It kept crashing out with: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/anki”, line 6, in import aqt File...
Bye SpamGourmet
The greatest email service hardly anyone ever heard of, SpamGourmet, is shutting down after the owner tragically developed GBM. I’ve used SpamGourmet for nearly 20 years to block spam from finding me. It was...
I Have Been Busy
I have been busy for the past while, but now I am less so. There may be updates.
Mo Borders, Mo Troubles
Wrt Brexit’s Irish Question… During “The Troubles“, there were 3,600 people killed, over 50,000 injured, and thousands of bombs (this is only a small sample of notables). By the 1990s, the impact and economic...
The Old Iron Dream
Noted radical activist for The Old Iron Dream, Jerry Pournelle, has died. He was a pioneer of word processing in fiction. Rather fittingly, his final blog entry from last Thursday suggested a “Service Guarantees...
is You Takin’ Notes?
The NYT has a story that’s really something. An “earlier” copy of a memo Trump wrote firing FBI Director Comey is now in possession of the Mueller investigation. Some key takeaway points are that...
Heavily Weathered
Bruce Sterling has a way of being so right, he throws out asides in his books that for many writers would be centerpieces. In the spirit of the times, I’ve been re-reading “Heavy Weather”,...
Sonarr, Mono, and TLS, Oh My
So my Sonarr on CentOS 7.3 just stopped working. Error contacting all newsnab indexers over https. Among a bunch of traces to Mono, it was throwing this exception: Error: SecureChannelFailure (Object reference not set...