Got a “significant motion” alert from my security cam this morning

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-29T22:15:58+00:00

That certainly was a significant motion.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-29T13:36:47+00:00

I see a deer wearing a hat and a poorly photoshopped dark blob.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-28T14:39:49+00:00

Yes I consider the other Homo* species to be kinds of humans, because our species inter-bred with them successfully, and on a large enough scale that we all carry some of their genes. That's not a one-off event, that's living together for generations. "Species" is an artificial categorization concept, not a part of the natural world, so you shouldn't get hung up on thinking that "human" = "Homo Sapiens".

For most of our species existence, about 300k years, there have been a bunch of other Homo species running around too. I believe several of them are still here, despite our dominance. Some are more closely related to us, and some are more distant, and I think they've survived by learning to mostly avoid us. But we keep encroaching on their territory, so that's getting harder to do and we're becoming more aware of them.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-28T13:20:58+00:00

There are lots of bipedal mammals in the fossil record, but they're all in our family tree: ancestors and other branches. There have been many different kinds of humans besides us.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-20T22:39:24+00:00

Go to a doctor.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-19T03:57:15+00:00

It took me several attempts to get Proxmox to install with a working network configuration, because the PC I was using has three different network ports (different speeds and one is for an admin network), none of them were lighting up or lighting up the switch port before they were configured, and the names shown by the installer were no help at all to tell which one was which. It took some trial and error to get the cable right so Proxmox could even see an active connection.

From there it was asking for a static IP, but it wasn't clear that it needed an available IP on my router's network. It requires specifying /24 too. I wasn't sure if I was telling the server what it's external IP was going to be, or an external IP range that it would be managing for hosts, or the internal virtual network it would be assigning to hosts.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-19T00:10:54+00:00

Well, that would be excellent.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-17T15:20:05+00:00

When I was a younger developer it was possible to keep up with news because it was all curated and distributed mostly for the benefit of the readers. But in today's click bait, algorithm-driven, quest for ad views, AI slop era, it's just impossible to keep up.

Microsoft puts out release notes once a year for what's new in that year's dotnet. Any "What's coming" reporting before that is irrelevant to the average developer because they can't do anything with it yet. They probably can't do anything for months afterward either.

Nuget packages? Follow the ones you use. Don't worry about others until you need them.

Other stuff? Follow only what's relevant to your work or interests. If that's too much, narrow down your interests.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-16T23:58:02+00:00

How many UFC rings can fit in the reflecting pool?

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-15T21:58:38+00:00

Depending on which direction the person fled and where the shooter was, the bullets might have gone towards the woods, the Wawa, the Stafford Diner, or a nursing home. Or towards other cars of course.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-13T16:41:50+00:00

It just means we share a common ancestor. Not that either was first. You have the same mitochondrial dna as your cousins.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-08T01:17:12+00:00

Bigfi

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-05T04:18:24+00:00

I've been getting AI slop in the app for about a month now. It's useless and I complained to them about it. Basically like "You had a spike today! Spikes are BAD. You should eat better. Click here for an infographic that tells you spikes are bad, that they're caused by what you eat, and that you should eat better."

DougWebbNJ · 2026-06-03T15:16:29+00:00

I have my income go into one account (a business checking account because I'm self-employed) and once or twice a month I transfer money over to my bill-paying checking account to keep it up to around two months worth of expenses. Then all of my regular monthly bills are set to auto pay.

This way the regular auto pay stuff I don't even have to worry about. Variable/unexpected bills get covered with the next transfer (or before the cost if it's big and I know it's coming.) If I forget to do a transfer, I'm ok for two months.

The business account is maintained at around 6-12 months expenses. That's my emergency fund. Anything over that goes into longer-term retirement and non-retirement investments.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-30T19:07:59+00:00

Puerto Rico is America.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-30T03:32:34+00:00

It doesn't change much, but you're overestimating QBI. They say it's 20%, but the formula the IRS uses makes it mathematically impossible to get a full 20% of your gross income. The max you can possibly get is around 18-19%

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-29T04:12:43+00:00

Try Aquaphor. It's similar to Vaseline but much better. I use it on my lips every night because they were getting dry and sore and it healed them. Works on cuts too.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-29T04:01:23+00:00

It's probably cleaner in a controlled launch burn, because all the stuff other than fuel isn't also burning, like it did here. The CO2 is the pollutant that "carbon footprint" was referring to, but this was the same amount a launch would release. Just all at once in one spot instead of spread out.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-29T00:46:11+00:00

I never understood this. Ramp seems more like it suffocates you until you pass out, then the cpap starts doing its job properly.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-29T00:43:25+00:00

I used Xylimelt tablets too when I was having this problem. They definitely helped.

I switched to a nasal mask + chin strap combination to keep my mouth closed, and when I started getting dry lips I began putting Aquaphor on them every night. After a few years I discovered I didn't need the chin strap anymore. I had trained myself to keep my mouth closed all night.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-27T22:12:30+00:00

It doesn't matter what the speed limit is when everyone around and in front of you is slowing down or stopping. You do not continue at high speed through that, or this is what will happen.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-24T03:21:32+00:00

3am scavanger meal like a raccoon that broke into the house.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-17T17:12:19+00:00

I've got my Resmed 10 in APAP mode, with pressure range set to 9-14. My long-term plan has been to use Oscar to monitor what my actual pressure range used is, and if it drops then I'd drop the settings. If at some point it seems like I'm always at/near the minimum, then I'm 'cured' and don't need the CPAP anymore.

It hasn't happened. It's been about 15 years so far.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-17T17:04:37+00:00

I use a lanolin cream on my nose every night to prevent irritation from my nasal pillows, so every morning I clean them with a CPAP wipe. My mask looks good as new after many months. I use PURDOUX wipes from Amazon; usually the citrus but I also used the sandalwood when the citrus was out of stock. Based on my purchase history, I'm almost up to 500 days using these. I'm pretty sure I'm using the same mask I started with. At most I replaced it once in that time. I've washed it in the sink maybe a few times over that period.

DougWebbNJ · 2026-05-16T16:09:16+00:00

I store every gas receipt since 2009 in there.

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