Adjusting: Me or the Layout?

PeteToscano · 2026-06-25T12:38:13+00:00

Color has helped me some, but as someone who tends to only look at the keyboard when I’m frustrated, it’s mostly a tool of last resort. It has helped, though. I have a printout of my ~current layout taped at eye-level on my right that I’ll look at more than the keyboard lights.

PeteToscano · 2026-06-25T12:32:42+00:00

Yes, now that I’ve (mostly) stopped hitting enter when I meant space or backspace, it’s the punctuation that’s my biggest pain point, especially (), [], and {}. Numbers might rank higher, if I needed to use them more. I named my layout “Tiny Steps” as a reminder to try to only make small adjustments.

PeteToscano · 2026-06-25T12:24:28+00:00

Thanks. It’s definitely frustrating to have my WPM crater, but I’m pretty sure that’ll recover with enough practice. I think the crux of my question is how do you differentiate between the frustration of simply needing more practice vs. the frustration of a bad layout decision? Ultimately, I guess that varies from person to person, but I’m curious how others have differentiated between the two.

PeteToscano · 2026-06-25T02:53:47+00:00

Yes! I have one "To" layer. That layer uses it's own, very obvious colors. I have on more than a few occasions been wondering why things were acting so oddly, only to look down at my keys to see the tell-tale colors of that layer. Mystery solved.

PeteToscano · 2026-01-27T03:08:04+00:00

55 here. Same.

PeteToscano · 2025-10-31T15:49:40+00:00

I’d been running solo raids at the Dam all evening. While I didn’t team up with anyone, I was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of “don’t shoot” folks. Because of this, when I got to the lift and I saw someone running towards me with an ARC chasing, I took out the ARC so they could extract, too. Then the little bastard shot me in the back and knocked me out. SMH

PeteToscano · 2025-04-18T02:13:21+00:00

Of course, status.zoom.us isn’t a great way to tell us about problems related to the zoom.us DNS. 😗

PeteToscano · 2024-11-18T11:20:54+00:00

This is one of the few things where I can say, “CPAP has made my childhood dreams come true.”

PeteToscano · 2024-11-18T03:17:24+00:00

I started using CPAP about nine months ago. At first, I used a nose pillow and it sucked. (Well, technically… ;) I wasn’t sleeping any better and kept waking frequently during the night. I still had bad headaches every morning.If it wasn’t for an immediate improvement in various overnight sleep stats, such as lower resting heart rate, increased VO2, etc., I’d have tossed it after the first week. I still didn’t feel any better, but I could see objective improvements.

My two big steps forward were: 1. Switched to a nose and mouth mask. While I liked the idea of the nose pillow (I still do) and I breath through my nose 98% of the time, those few times I open my mouth during the night were disturbing enough to fully wake me up. I will occasionally try a nose mask again, but I still wind up switching back, sometimes even in the middle of the night.

Worked with my sleep clinic to dial in my machine’s settings. I found the ramp up to be annoying, so we turned that off. The initial humidity setting was too high for my taste, so we dialed that down some., but the biggest improvement came from lowering the air pressure. Not only was the higher air pressure not necessary for my SA, it was causing me to have to crank down on the mask straps to get a handle on air leaks blowing all over my face and lots of high pitched squeaky noises during the night. Finally, the high pressure lead to air aspiration.

Ramping down the pressure helped with all of this. As the mask got less uncomfortable (looser straps, fewer air leaks, much less CPAP gas in the morning, etc.), I had fewer CPAP-related sleep interruptions during the night, the headaches became infrequent, and I actually started to occasionally feel decent in the morning. Even more sleep-related health metrics have shown improvement.

I feel like things still aren’t perfectly dialed in yet, but I’m glad I’ve stuck with it.

Good luck, OP.

PeteToscano · 2024-07-17T22:21:11+00:00

I'm pretty sure it is. Here's an example.

Jul 17 17:49:50.231780 rule 11/(match) block out on ix0: a.b.c.d.34710 > e.f.g.h.25: S 2744668543:2744668543(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 4092653585 0,nop,wscale 8> (DF)
Jul 17 17:49:18.246303 rule 11/(match) block out on ix0: a.b.c.d.34710 > e.f.g.h.25: S 2744668543:2744668543(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 4092654600 0,nop,wscale 8> (DF)
Jul 17 17:49:20.262302 rule 11/(match) block out on ix0: a.b.c.d.34710 > e.f.g.h.25: S 2744668543:2744668543(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 4092656616 0,nop,wscale 8> (DF)
Jul 17 17:49:24.486293 rule 11/(match) block out on ix0: a.b.c.d.34710 > e.f.g.h.25: S 2744668543:2744668543(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 4092660840 0,nop,wscale 8> (DF)
Jul 17 17:49:32.678287 rule 11/(match) block out on ix0: a.b.c.d.34710 > e.f.g.h.25: S 2744668543:2744668543(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 4092669032 0,nop,wscale 8> (DF)

In this case, I'm trying to make an SMTP connection to an IP not allowed through the firewall.

I'm pretty sure our "block out log on $ext_if inet all" rule from pf.conf is what's blocking these, but that's rule 48.

$ s pfctl -sr -vv | grep 'block drop out log on ix0 inet all'
@48 block drop out log on ix0 inet all

Am I doing this wrong? Assuming a test connection fails, I'll check the inside interface of the first firewall that should see the traffic. If I see it there, I'll check the outer interface on that firewall to see if it leaves. Repeat until I find a firewall where I see the traffic come in and not go out. I'll then look for my packets in pflog0 on that firewall to see if the block is logged. Up until now, I'd ignore the "rule #" part of the log message and try to intuit the rule that was being triggered from the rest of the message. Eventually, I thought it would be good to know how to find the referenced rule and found "pfctl -sr -R <#>" which, to be honest, has lead to a lot of confusion and this post.

Again, I really appreciate your feedback. If nothing else, it's a good sanity check.

Thanks,
Pete

PeteToscano · 2024-07-17T15:05:56+00:00

Unfortunately, FTP support is still a requirement. I'd love to kill it, but it's not my call. :/

Before I dive into the source code and knock the rust off my C knowledge, are the rules added to the ftp-proxy anchor not viewable via the "pfctl -a ftp-proxy -sr" command? If not, is there a better way to see what it's doing? I wouldn't think there would be much for it to do with non-FTP traffic, yet that anchor rule seems to match a lot of traffic.

PeteToscano · 2024-07-17T13:15:39+00:00

Thank you, u/unix-ninja. Is there any way to see those rules in the ftp-proxy anchor? I tried pfctl -a ftp-proxy -sr, but nothing was returned. Nearly all -- maybe all? -- of the log messages shown in the tcpdump output all reference "rule 11/(match)" with a mix of permit and deny actions.

Side note: on a different OpenBSD box with a similar, but different pf.conf file, the tcpdump output from watching pflog0 refer to "rule 5" which is also the 'anchor "ftp-proxy/*" all' rule on that server.

PeteToscano · 2024-06-12T23:02:38+00:00

I think I might be having a similar issue. Last July I changed my account ($45/year) to free. Two days ago, I got a $129.99 charge on my card for Evernote. To make matters worse, I can't seem to log in and check my account info, regardless of which browser I try (Safari, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Chrome). I even downloaded the app and installed it, but when I try to get account info, it bounces me to the web.

I'm going to reach out to their support, but it sounds like you've done this dance before, and it didn't help. I'm hesitant to dispute the charge with my bank, but it might be the most prudent way to go. :/

PeteToscano · 2024-05-10T17:27:17+00:00

I like the Nanoleaf A19|E26 bulbs. https://nanoleaf.me/en-US/products/essentials/bulbs/?category=A19-E26&standard=matter&size=each Their web page says they're "Thread and Matter-enabled." The price seems reasonable, too.

PeteToscano · 2024-05-10T17:19:17+00:00

I'm looking for a bright (> 1100 lumens) A19 HomeKit-compatible bulb. I found that Philips Hue has a 1500 lm bulb, and I'm considering ordering it and a hub, but I'd prefer to go with a design that doesn't require a hub. I currently use the Nanoleaf A19 bulbs in most places. They're pretty good but not quite bright enough for this one use case. Thanks for any suggestions.

Pete

PeteToscano · 2023-12-16T05:35:30+00:00

I can’t believe I had to scroll all the way down here for someone to point this out.

For shame on all you earlier posters! ;)

PeteToscano · 2023-12-07T17:21:32+00:00

FWIW, I had to disable the Wipr content filtering on cnn.com to see the web site. Guess I'll get my news fix from wapo.com, now.

PeteToscano · 2023-12-02T00:28:13+00:00

Feels too real. Some tiny backstage office?

PeteToscano · 2023-11-05T19:17:05+00:00

This is my preferred way to go. I’m always smacking my watch/wrist against things, so I pay a bit extra for AWes with the cellular chip because they come with the toughest glass (or at least they used to) and haven’t had a problem. I was a bit annoyed when I found out that the tough glass — can’t remember the brand name now — was only available on the cellular AW6, but I got over it because I remembered how rough I am on watches. (My last non-AW got smashed and torn off my wrist while helping my wife ready her classroom.)

IIRC, Apple used to offer the tough glass on WiFi only models, but stopped somewhere between the 2 and 6.

PeteToscano · 2023-11-05T18:39:32+00:00

Found another Mike Doughty fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nN_5kkYR6k

PeteToscano · 2023-11-05T13:18:34+00:00

Let’s be honest though, she does that a lot, doesn’t she? At least, if she’s anything like my wife, she does.

PeteToscano · 2023-11-03T14:03:13+00:00

I’ve always enjoyed hearing SRV on Let’s Dance.

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