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Counting Dogs And Broken Films
Athena apparently knows exactly how many treats she’s supposed to get, while my dad’s old home movies proved a little less cooperative. Between updating my genealogy site and repairing a broken 8mm film, it was a surprisingly busy quiet week.
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Counting Dogs And Broken Films – Bob Mueller
Athena counts her treats, I update my genealogy site, and a broken 8mm film sends me searching for a way to repair Dad’s old home movies.

Athena apparently knows how to count. At least, she knows when I short her one treat.
Meanwhile, I upgraded my genealogy site and managed to break one of Dad’s old 8mm films during digitization. Fortunately, it broke at a splice, and I found a clever way to repair it.
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Counting Dogs And Broken Films – Bob Mueller
Athena counts her treats, I update my genealogy site, and a broken 8mm film sends me searching for a way to repair Dad’s old home movies.

Google hat einfach mal 2x3km Wald in Nord-Finnland illegal abgeholzt und den Mutterboden abgeräumt.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

Enttäuschend genug, dass Lüneburgs flimsiges Stück Fahrradstraße und Busspur in die Fußgängerzone Kahlandstraße mündet - ein ewiger Stressfaktor - jetzt treffe ich hier immer häufiger auch noch auf die übliche Park-Anarchie, die das Leben extra schwer macht.
#Lüneburg #radwüste
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Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/oura-sues-rival-…

Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback | TechCrunch
Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.

Security personnel around the world are on high alert following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet.
As of late morning Tuesday, browser makers and some major apps and programming languages had blocked all eight of the intermediate certificates.
There are no reports of certificate transparency logs, which track the issuance of all browser-trusted certifi…

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

#footpathFriday
#RockyMountainNationalPark
Along Cub Lake Trail. October 2015

Pillar of Salt
Genesis records the first health warning about sodium. Lot's wife, fleeing the burning city, looks back and turns into a pillar of salt....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/23/pillar-of-salt/

Meta delays new commercial terms that critics say let it scrape publisher content to November 20, a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded their withdrawal (Sarah Fielding/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91628981/meta-

Meta quietly delays controversial update that critics say will allow website scraping
Following outrage from news publishers, the tech giant pushed back an update for business accounts by three weeks. It still plans to move forward with it.

Filings: Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, spending $2.2M, $2.1M, and $1.5M, respectively (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/1016585/openai-anthropic-nvidia-lobbying-re…

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters
Leading AI companies are ramping up their federal lobbying spending, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia having their biggest lobbying quarters yet ahead of the midterms.