Max @max@smeap.com

Vendor today told me it's a feature, not a bug, that their software doesn't understand time zones. Triple checked just now that it is 2019 and not 1819.

New Steam Guard email with a Brazil IP address. Last password change was 10/23. Passwords are 20+ character random line noise and unique to Steam. Less than three months to crack is super concerning, and this is now happening regularly. So far as I can tell, Steam Guard is working for now and there's no intrusion beyond the password getting cracked, but ugh, still not great for the anxiety and paranoia.

Poseidon Descending

Aquaman was quite a spectacle.

Finally got around to reading The Quantum Thief, am 18% in, and wow is it painfully and sadly obvious that this is the story that the Destiny games wish they could be when they grow up. So much seems directly (and poorly) cribbed from this book at even 18%.

Also great~? The new mandatory, always on VPN software seems to crash the Windows WiFi stack every so often. It's possible in it's defense that it is confused by all the virtual switches for Hyper-V VM work in my system's current stack and maybe I could untangle it, maybe. Work from Home is a "joy" with all these system restarts.

I love~ how GitHub doesn't work correctly on our corporate network/corporate machines because who needs working CORS and subresource integrity checks when you can have the "security" (theater) of reading everything in flight? TLS Interception is a plague that needs to be eradicated for the health of the damn internet.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Debating if a blog post on the TechnoGnostic Eschatalogy of Westworld and Travelers is of much merit to anyone other than me getting it out of my own head. Falling into weird TechnoGnostic Eschatology rabbit holes is partly why I've got fascinating chapters attempting to expand my story Princesses for Planetary Peace to a novel I don't think I could actually sell.

A woman just asked me why I was reading in a bar (drinking fresh beer) on NYE, and fam I did not not have great answers, because this is my life year round

The afternoon rain today smelled so deeply of the angels share. It was an interesting mix of pleasant with the unpleasant damp soaking as I walked to a late lunch today. Old histories describe the smell of this city that way, that even on an ugly rainy day there's a weird sort of pleasant ring at the back of the nose. It's nice to have that back, I suppose.

I love this late night jazz club (Jimmy Can't Dance) under this multi-generational sandwich shop (Another Place Sandwich Place), but my lone complaint remains that I want a late night sandwich menu.

EarthLink's deal to run cable modem services seems to have expired, so there went my backup plan from the Regional Cable Monopolist. The site claims I could get 75 Mbps DSL from them, but:

A) 12-month contract. Bah.

B) Contractual equipment fees. Humbug.

C) No I can't. Regional Phone Monopolist tells me quite clearly that the lines to the building aren't capable of high speed DSL ($40/mo 5Mbps lolsob).

When can we rise up and take the wires back from these monopolistic landlords?

When the anthropological history of twerking is written, do you believe that Cosmic Thing by the B-52s will be appropriately recognized as an ur-text? If so, do you expect healthy academic debates regarding the songs thesis that twerking like actions are a gift from space aliens?

In today's round we have a person in UPS uniform muttering to themself in a Qdoba. Has the holiday season finally got to this driver and drove them off the deep end? Are they simply just still on the clock and have to deal with work over the phone while eating, because capitalism demands it? Crazy or Bluetooth?

Had to take tax documents to the Post Office. It was both better and worse than I expected for this time of year. Better because there was basically no line, which surprised me. Worse because I forgot how many "shopping opportunities" exist in the strip mall around this particular branch near work and the parking lot is a nightmare.

This seems an okay start:

.status__content__spoiler-link {
width: 100%;
padding: 0.3rem;
text-transform: none;
background: rgba(255,255,255,0.05) !important; /* haunted ghost button; I don't like !important here because it breaks hover/focus but a smarter override is tough here */
}

I was also hoping to bump up the size of the Boost and Fave buttons, but those sizes are inline styles (in px!) and overriding that is painful. There are too many things sized in px.

Note to self: Override the size/padding of the CW "Show More" button in your instance's admin so you aren't yelling at it so much that it is too small for your thumb and you keep tapping the wrong things.