WebP is basically the format used to store i-frames in WebM/VPx videos. Google acquired on2 technologies for this tech many years ago, and it was to stop W3C from standardising a patent encumbered codec like H.265. These were all well intentioned.

WebP / WebM has all been superceded by AV1 / AVIF anyway. It never really took off, and it’s too late to start now.

If it leaves your device, you cannot control it.

The Kirkland branding is everywhere. I see it at the Australian stores.

Obsucuring means making it partially or entirely not visible.

Obfuscating, however…

My company has a 6 month probation period. It also has a 6 month password expiry. Because of all the SSO nonsense, it’s quite possible for it to lapse without warning.

It’s now a running joke that get locked out on the last day of probation, and you’re expecting a call from HR any minute.

i could add more detail, but it just raises further questions.

• The payroll officer was emailed from an aol.com address, not the company email domain.

• The bank account was changed to a branch in another state, several thousand kilometres away.

• My office was physically next to the payroll officer. Despite sitting 2 metres away, I was not contacted in-person at any stage.

• At least two staff members oversaw this.

• They just wrote off the money and paid me for the month again.

This triggered a policy change. Bank account updates had to be confirmed in-person after that.

It doesn’t take much. I once put my name, job title and employer on LinkedIn. That was enough for someone to email my payroll officer and convince them to change my paycheck to a different bank account. I had no idea until my pay was missed.

My payroll officer was a dumbfuck, but that’s all it took.

IPv6 should not be disabled under any circumstances.

In fact, many devices in my house have IPv4 disabled. Disabling IPv4 on my public-facing SSH reduced the attack traffic to zero.

IPv4 is shit.

Public-facing: Password generator, stored in a password manager.

Internal LAN: Everything gets the same re-used, low-effort password.

Nobody is going to hack my CUPS server.

This new thunderbolt feature hilariously does what I once did with RS-232.

And I can’t immediately do the thing, I snooze the alarm.

I bet a ton of it is Nvidia and AMD junk.

The internal board of my model M survived the dishwasher. In fact, it fixed it. They’re tough.

I have an OG early 90s model with a birth certificate on the back.

Filco Majestouch keyboard. I’ve been programming on mine for over 5 years.

It probably won’t outlast my IBM Model M, but it does feel lighter on the fingers.

I’ve now got NGK plugs, leads and coils in my 21 year old car. They definitely don’t need replacing often. Especially of you go iridium.

noisy environments like plains, trains and rideshares.

I dunno. Plains are usually pretty isolated and quiet.

Look up ADHD and “Auditory Processing Disorder”. I believe there’s a decent overlap between the two.

I’m ADHD (inattentive type, so just ADD I guess).

This all checks out. The audio processing disorder part is particularly frustrating. I can hear everything perfectly, but can’t focus on a person speaking because my brain will give equal attention to every other noise source around me. I feel like a robot trying to solve a captcha when I process speech.

There’s a LOT of symptoms and traits to ADHD. Perhaps find a list and run through them. Like, do you find that stimulants have an opposite effect and actually calm you down? Do you naturally sleep several hours after everyone else? Do you fidget and jitter when idle? are you “time blind”?

And that’s the SLOW way!

21 minutes. Mother of God.