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Good News Of The Day.
There are turtles involved.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-10-06/endangered-turtles-get-a-boost-with-the-help-of-massachusetts-school-kids

Endangered turtles get a boost with the help of Massachusetts school kids
Children across the state have helped raise baby Blanding's turtles for years.

I like how El-Sayed handles this.
https://bsky.app/profile/abdulelsayed.bsky.social/post/3my4gocauzs2x
I don’t think he knew this kid was a (GOP-connected Christian nationalist) plant:

Abdul El-Sayed (@abdulelsayed.bsky.social)
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Since we're on the topic of “disk almost full":
tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates / |grep 20|while read f; do tmutil deletelocalsnapshots $f; done
Deletes lokal time machine snapshots
Another good candidate may be iChat History at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat
All messages including pictures and movies of the last like 10 years are stored there. So if you use iChat (aka Messages) a lot this is BIG.

Inside the silent messages Boye Mafe sends every game day https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50258881/cincinnati-bengals-boye-mafe-sign-language

Status: Scanning an entire distribution for certain CA certificates…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@watson_news/117469165748635781
Warum das also sehr sinnvoll war, dass man sich früher™️ Musikkassetten aufgenommen hat!

Yesterday: me complaining at engineers for using 1-line commit messages.
Today: me looking at AI-generated commit messages, and actually losing the will to live.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-iAEXz-nkTGqWZquq_SQr3w:a:3195441-/0
IT’S BEEN A LOT.
Most of my physical mail this month has been campaign garbage. I have received more obnoxious text messages than I can count.
The stuff being sent by/for GOP candidates is particularly repugnant. I can’t wait for Wednesday.

Update on the #homeassistant restore - everything worked almost perfectly. Three gotchas I found so far:
- The “restoring” page would just keep displaying, since after the restore, the service no longer responded to homeassistant.local. Luckily I saw my soundbar turn on, which is always a good indicator that HA rebooted.
- The backup seemingly did not contain the sound files I had uploaded, so my improvised temporary doorbell is borked until I upload a new sound file.
- The most interesting one: The zigbee devices did not reconnect initially, except for a single one, and the reason was interesting - I learned something new about Zigbee today.
Apparently Zigbee has a frame counter, and the devices will remember the last frame counter they observed, and refuse messages with a lower count afterwards. The backup contained stale frame counters, since the machine died several hours after the last backup, hence, all devices were refusing messages from the coordinator. The solution was to power-cycle all mains-powered devices. The battery-powered devices came back automatically after that, except for two buttons which I had to re-pair manually. Credits to Claude for figuring this out based on the logs.
Other than that, quite happy with the “restore from backup” on Home Assistant for now. Now I only need to reconfigure my two wall tablets to point to the new local home assistant URL, as the RPi has a different hostname on my network now, and the wall tablets used the local alias of the old machine for the connection, as I did not want to route them via the internet ingress through Nabu Casa. But that’s not the fault of the backup, that’s just me configuring my stuff weird.

Out for a walk, I get a text as I’m trying to cross the street where a guy has stopped his car in the cross walk. Siri starts to read the text as yell “fucking asshole” at the driver.
Siri, dejected: “Ok. I won’t read your messages anymore.”