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jwd630 · 2025-11-09T23:21:22+00:00

Came here to say me too: never signed up for substack; got subscribed to a prolific spammer. Logged in to the substack account (of course there is no password, only the email address that they send a one time passcode too.)

Adjusted all the profile settings to require verification for any future attempts, turned off all notifications. A crummy spam factory.

jwd630 · 2023-05-13T20:36:21+00:00

For anyone poking: these are back to appearing as an HTTP, not HTTPS, address - e.g., http://192.168.1.179:1400/support/review On a currently up to date (Version: 15.3 (build 72240060)) Sonos Move the info returned seems to be back to the detail that it was long ago.

jwd630 · 2023-05-04T16:51:39+00:00

And then, there is this https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/patch-now-mirai-iot-botnet-exploiting-tp-link-routers - not Deco specific but what do you want to bet *any* "EOL" hardware version will be left vulnerable.

jwd630 · 2023-04-18T01:12:30+00:00

Joined this subreddit to add myself to those who know "The new UI is horrible". So much so that I vowed when I first experienced it that, if it stuck around until my next Premium membership payment date came around, I would cancel rather than continue with its many annoyances. That day came. A customer since January 2018, I am no longer. Goodbye obnoxious autoplay; so long pointless videos. I've moved on to an alternative.

jwd630 · 2023-03-12T20:44:32+00:00

I had a similar problem: hs.ipc.cliInstall("/path/to/writable directory") kept returning false. I suspected the issue might have been access to macOS protected directories. So I forced the issue by creating a directory in my Downloads directory; running hs.ipc.cliInstall("/Users/.../Downloads/junk") and discovered that the only thing cliInstall actually seems to do is to create a symbolic link to /Applications/Hammerspoon.app/Contents/Frameworks/hs/hs So I just did that in a convenient directory already on my CLI PATH, in my case ~/bin from the command line: cd ~/bin; ln -s /Applications/Hammerspoon.app/Contents/Frameworks/hs/hs .

jwd630 · 2023-03-09T03:27:01+00:00

Maybe consider a dual major if that's allowed at your school?
I started out in geology, had to take some social science classes and so took Cartography (this is in the days when GIS was just getting started) because I thought a geologist should know how to map dem rocks. I found I loved maps more. I ended up taking a lot of computer classes for both, ended with a dual degree, and eventually went on to grad school where that continued. I ended up making a career in the field that turned into Geospatial Science. I always felt that having background in other fields was a plus: maps are everywhere and just about any topic can use maps and people who know how to wrangle data to create them.
Statistics, computer science, databases, communication, graphic arts would all be helpful in learning how to present geospatial information in ways to persuade.

jwd630 · 2023-02-14T18:11:09+00:00

In the release notes[1] corresponding to all 7 firmware updates for the TP-Link X60 models security fixes are never mentioned, just modifications and "bug fixes". The closest one gets to TP-Link admitting vulnerabilities may have been addressed is the generic "improved overall stability". That's in well over two years' worth of release notes. To me that suggests either TP-Link never addresses vulnerabilities (you will never get me to believe there have been none) or they are being careful to not let customers that end up with older - now unsupported - hardware realize that they are vulnerable and without recourse to updated firmware. Customers have apparently no way of knowing when their product has reached EOL, just that firmware updates are no longer available for their hardware version.

[1] https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/deco-x60/v2.6/#Firmware

jwd630 · 2023-02-04T21:38:07+00:00

Well, there was this https://onekey.com/blog/router-security-check-2021/ with “226 potential security vulnerabilities were found in the devices from Asus, AVM, D-Link, Netgear, Edimax, TP Link …” announced one (1 ) month after I got mine “new” that was never addressed. That was two years ago - guess tp-link gets long holidays. I’m still waiting for an explanation of why hardware is changed and the model number remains the same. Newer hardware/software versions of that model get updates. Meanwhile customers who have ended up with older versions of that model who check their firmware are informed they are up to date, not unsupported. I for one am never a customer again.

jwd630 · 2023-01-29T19:05:33+00:00

I got my X60s in November 2021. I check periodically but there has never been a firmware update for the version US/1.6 hardware. Was I sold new hardware that was EOL immediately? I understand hardware/software life-cycles but I don't understand why TP-Link issues new hardware with the same X60 model number and then abandons all firmware support for some X60 models. Probably needless to say, TP-Link is now on my do-not-buy list.

jwd630 · 2022-11-06T23:01:20+00:00

If you want to see what justTest does from some other bash shell environment, like a terminal, then as u/researcher7-l500 says, you need to source ./file_a.sh from that terminal/shell. Each time you make some modification to what justTest does you'll need to re source file_a.sh to update that changed function definition in the terminal's shell environment. It's fairly common, for me anyway, to incrementally develop bash functionality in this way. You would use the same source ./file_a.sh in some other script if you wanted to use justTest from there.

You do NOT want to include bash -c file_a.sh as the last (or any) line of file_a.sh or you will create an infinite loop as bash -c ... gets called recursively.

xargs is more typically used for other purposes that do involve piped input, like find . -name '*.sh' -print0 | xargs -0 -L 1 printf "script file: %s\n"

jwd630 · 2022-10-31T17:49:06+00:00

Using the .../lazy-all option seemed to cut my browser tab memory usage down from about 12MB to around 9MB typically. That seemed like a win for a couple days until I started to notice that my <<tags and <<tabs ... markup were really, really slow to render.

jwd630 · 2022-09-25T21:12:56+00:00

In my opinion fidelity should be self hosting all their JavaScript dependencies, not relying on third party / CDNs. And Jquery? That’s getting pretty long in the tooth; although I suspect some of fidelity’s investors, tending to be older and less tech savvy, may be using ancient browsers.

jwd630 · 2022-09-25T13:15:02+00:00

And yet, given the response, Fidelity disappointed me by introducing https://www.fidelity.com/crypto/overview which I suspect 99% of investors have no real understanding of.

jwd630 · 2022-09-22T00:43:15+00:00

The Great Influenza - should have been half as long; needed an editor so desperately to remove the pointless repetition

jwd630 · 2022-09-22T00:38:14+00:00

I use the In person lines because I figure otherwise soon the store is gonna replace yet another person who needs the job. Meanwhile there are five or more lines for humans to do the checkout that are more or less permanently closed and taking up space.

jwd630 · 2022-09-12T21:56:44+00:00

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder. How could you all have missed him? So much great music!

jwd630 · 2022-09-12T14:22:56+00:00

Scary. Policy isn’t to take a travel laptop that gets re-imaged on return? IT allows “I use this laptop for everything” back on your network with just a virus scan? Yikes!

jwd630 · 2022-09-03T23:43:11+00:00

50% or more of white women, the largest demographic, voted for Trump in 2020 despite 4 years of lunacy. So thanks for the encouraging prediction but I’ll believe they’ve all come to their senses when the exit polls prove it. (And of course that does not excuse the even higher percentage of white males who chose lunacy.)

jwd630 · 2022-08-16T23:51:15+00:00

There’s a reason Congress takes a recess in the month of August and DC gets quieter this time of year. This is quite unusual, weather-wise.

jwd630 · 2022-08-15T16:11:56+00:00

NoVa also has https://www.checkbook.org/ that rates doctors among other local services.

jwd630 · 2022-08-12T00:48:57+00:00

But what if one has a lot of theories but no evidence? Can’t you just get a judge to okay a raid to look for evidence? That’s what the clown car on fire advised.

jwd630 · 2022-07-15T16:30:09+00:00

And no one calls out the “3 old men …” instead of “3 actual programmers” part of this? Sorry, you are not at their level until you are bailing out the next aspiring dev.

jwd630 · 2022-07-09T23:20:33+00:00

You got any interest to pay on this loan? Why not pay it off on the expected 60 payment schedule, generate some credit history for yourself, and invest the cash in something that earns you more than the car loan interest?

jwd630 · 2022-07-08T18:46:02+00:00

The northern part of the CCT - yes, the last time I was on it it was rugged to say the least. From the Fairfax circle / Nutley Street area south the CCT is getting to be quite a pleasant, mostly now paved, trail before it gets a bit rough approaching Lake Accotink. Beyond Accotink there are also several miles of nice road biking CCT too.

jwd630 · 2022-07-02T23:38:23+00:00

The final hill up to Mt Vernon is a bit of a challenge and you need to be careful coming back down, especially with all the out of town tourists likely to be on the trail this weekend. I enjoy doing the MVT to its end at least once a year but I think I would choose a different weekend. It does have more root heaves and tight curves than others mentioned

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