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I purchased a C-3718-5B drafting chair from Wayfair. They drop-shipped it from China. The actual assembly instructions are OK, but it contains a few oddities.

I read a paper, The Historical Impact of Revealing the Ultra Secret by Dr Harold C. Deutsch.

It was published in 1977, in Parameters, Journal of the US Army War College. It was Approved for public release; distribution unlimited

I installed OpenWrt 24.10 on a Linksys Velop WHW03 V1 wireless router. This is the story of how I got all 3 radios it possesses to work.

Got some more takeout from the local strip mall Chinese/Thai place.

The mystery of the Belkin heartbeat illustrates what kind of bullshit companies will pull if you buy into their proprietary software, and let them get away with demanding that you run everything through “The App”.

The experience made me check if OpenWrt is available and runs on Linksys Velop hardware.

I noticed that my DNS aggregator, DNSMasq, was periodically getting bursts of queries about “www.belkin.com” and “heartbeat.belkin.com”.

Challenge of Outer Space, a roughly 30 minute film by the Office of Armed Forces Education and Information, 1955.

I recommend a viewing.

I had my pet Roomba, Dobby, vacuum the living room. He did a self-confessed terrible job.

When you write Go code, you use os.Stdout and os.Stderr instead of our old C friends, stdout and stderr from stdio.h. os.Stdin, os.Stdout and os.Stderr have type *os.File. This Go type encapsulates encapsulates Linux file descriptors (small integer values representing open files).