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  • Created screensaver-control.sh
  • Watched some more Andromeda – (2000 TV show)[doesn’t exist], s03e16+
  • I somehow forgot about Baby Metal.

    • I’ve been too into Trance Music these days that I’ve forgotten my metal roots. Pointy stabby metal roots. Yes, Baby Metal counts as metal, and I’ll fucking stab you if you disagree.
  • Edited about a half a dozen pages to remove fancy characters.
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  • Future-proofing pages which use the full http://blog.spiralofhope.com/tag/ form, so they just use /tag/ in case there’s a URL change.
  • Many Linux distributions were updated, and tagged with whatever parent distribution they are based on.
  • Reviewed a pile of archived emails stretching back to 2002. Queued some things for posting soonish.
  • Updated aumix with a note from 2009.

    • Yes, I still have old TODO items to note.

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Problem:

  • On Windows 10
  • While booted into Windows
  • A hard drive is contained in an in-computer dock. (internal SATA)
  • That hard drive is powered on.
  • That hard drive is not seen by Windows, and does not appear as a new hard drive letter.

Notes:

  • It is seen and works in Linux.
  • This hard drive was “cloned” with dd.

Solution: The “disk signature” needs to (briefly) be made unique.



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“The Chalkening” is a thing where people draw chalk messages in support of Donald Trump‘s 2016 United States presidency campaign.

Opponents retorted with fake-PTSD -style reactions, and use words like “troll”, “hate” and “violence”. Because of chalk.

I have to go see a therapist because I saw some chalk in a certain pattern. It was horrifying! Freedom is bad, take it away from everyone (but me of course). — Horrible homilies

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