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.
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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.
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...
Cool Jungles in Which Blurs Pursued Blurs
Reread #Vollmann’s Whores for Gloria: In the windowpanes of bars all around the blue neon Budweiser signs, reflections made cool jungles in which blurs pursued blurs. Remembered reading this with sadly gone #IainBanks in...
Headache Time
So Brenna has started trying to count up as high as she can go and progressed from a couple of weeks ago naming “one hundred… two hundred” etc to variations on a thousand and...
Ow My Vaccinated Balls
Ow! My balls! The Stupidity! “You have 100 million viruses sprayed up the nose, along with other things like MSG (monosodium glutamate) and sugar, which causes inflammation … Someone who gets vaccinated could say,...
The One Percent
The total wealth of American households is estimated at more than $60 trillion. It is heavily concentrated in very few hands. A conservative estimate given the lifespans of Americans would be that 2 percent...
Pizza Time with Baking Steel
I decided I should expand from making just curries and pilafs. So I looked into getting a pizza stone but then found out the silly things break all the time. So I researched around...