the one in the html mail works, the one in the text mail 403's, as does the one in the x-unsubscribe header

#linode is spamming marketing emails and all unsubscribe links in them lead to error pages

enjoying golden hour before a 7 pm* sunset on this spring† day

* personal timezone adjustment applied
† climate change adjustment applied

When Mark and I moved to Ohio, I was excited to continue the strawberry plants I’d started growing in Virginia. Everything was going great until the chipmunks came along and ate my entire crop. After trying everything, I was ready to throw in the towel. Then Mark came along and said, “Anna. No. We’re not giving up on strawberries. I can fix this!”. 

His solution was an ingenious critter-proof strawberry bed, outlined in full detail in my new book, Building a Better Garden: DIY Gardening Projects. Essentially a raised bed with a hinged cover, it works great not only for strawberries but also for melons and any other short plants critters like to nibble on. To build your own:

1. Construct two rectangular frames out of treated decking boards, which will serve as the base and the cover for your bed.
2. Under your bottom frame, attach a layer of hardware cloth. This prevents chipmunks from digging into your plants from underneath.
3. Fill up your bottom frame with soil.
4. Use two door hinges to attach your rectangular frames together.
5. Attach a plastic mesh to the top of your upper frame using exterior screws and small washers. The mesh should have holes large enough to let in water, light, and pollinators but small enough to keep critters out.
6. Plant your strawberries and enjoy your delicious, chipmunk-free harvests!

For more information on the critter-proof strawberry bed, as well as five other great projects to keep out pests and grow a bountiful organic garden, check out Building a Better Garden: DIY Gardening Projects, available as an ebook and in print. Plus, you can check out the video course for more hands-on construction details if you prefer that format over reading. Enjoy!

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At a Denny's at a truck stop. Helped someone plug her Bolt in, charger was very unclear that it was not fully latched. #evlife

One the one hand, I've never been an author on a published paper.

on the other hand, I've never been one of 100 authors on a paper who quote an LLM generating the text "Wait. Wait. Wait. That's an aha moment" in the middle of working a mathematical proof, who all uncritically concluded it learned to think harder. lol

topped up my car for a trip with 9 hours of #offgrid charging, including 13 kwh of solar production and half of the house's battery bank

Maybe added 50 miles of range for tomorrow's road trip, although winter does reduce EV range. I'll dump the rest of the house battery into it in the morning to defrost and warm the car.

underground it's still flowing

having some fun charging the car from solar in this arctic weather

Yesterday, it was cloudy and the charger was only powered intermittently. The battery actually went down 1%, so possibly the battery heater was using more power than the charger was providing.

Today, it took at least 2 hours after starting to charge for the battery to warm up enough to start charging.

I have an inverter upgrade pending that will improve all of this, It's only charging at 1kw currently.

I assume this all means they have left their website to rot in favor of an app which I will never use.

interactions with new health insurance company have gone as follows:

- I have no id card, and the web page that they say contains a "digital id card" does not contain one (but has thing at the top saying "this page contains the digital id card").

- Trying to pay them results in a cgi error along the lines of "no ID parameter".

- Trying to contact support, on today, a weekday, results in "we are not available on weekends" (ok ok, it's MLK day)

Mom's birthday hike bird.

first #sourdough bake in a long time, 50/50 whole wheat. I forgot that white flour likes a lot less water than my usual 100% hydration so this was very challenging to shape and so I'm happy it turned out this well

baked between hot coals in the woodstove at 700F-500F

so begins phase 2 of solar install

what a way to end a day.. tractor trailer driver called an hour before sunset and we decided he should not attempt even the dead-end road my driveway is on, and so I hiked to the highway with a wheelbarrow to meet him there

caught a lift back to my driveway in a pickup truck and got everything hauled as far up as makes sense until the snow melts

freaking loot boxes

half mile difficulty level

waiting around for fedex in a 8 hour delivery window, snowy driveway edition, tractor trailer pallet load expansion pack

me, cat, citrus trees, house, car, all soaking up the sun before 6 inches of snow dump on us tomorrow

eff is constitutionally incapable of making this statement

https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/113794742431836312

Mind, this is not a kneejerk reaction for me. I've been keeping track for about a decade of the extent that the EFF criticized governments vs the extent they criticized major corporations. I can take the libertarian leanings as long as good things are being accomplished. At the same time, I saw how much that tendency was leaving on the table.

But once I associate you with corporate lickspittle to the extent I now do, how do you ever come back from that?

eff eff

getting a pallet load of solar ground mounts delivered on Monday and with the snow forecast, maybe I will be able to drag them half a mile up the driveway as a sled train, rather than wheelbarrowing them. lol

up to 775000 unique ips crawling my gitweb

starting consulting on "leveraging blockchain to supercharge AI training"

$$$

... I'll just be teaching their scrapers how to tell they're crawling gitweb, and do a git clone

solar fence rules on a snow day, making plenty of power without needing any cleaning

Did some further investigation and I was wrong about the causalty here -- there was an ongoing crawl distributed amoung thousands of IP addresses before the fast crawl that I blocked.

Both crawls did start at close enough to the same time that they might be linked somehow, but blocking one didn't trigger the other one.

imagine using a botnet of 600 thousand unique ip addresses for days and all you get is a few git repositories you could have cloned in seconds

running at 200 new unique IPs per minute now, no problem, keep em coming

thing is, 80k hits is a tiny amount of hits when you're not running expensive perl scripts.. gitweb is a pig though and its load average checks are a joke when there are 500 of them all running before they are able to check load

70 thousand unique ips now

I have enough (non-ip-blocking) amelorations in place that things are working again now.

40 thousand unique IPs and still climbing

DDOS seems to be from all chinese IPs although the initial scraper was running on google cloud

the person I got thru to didn't even treat this chicken and egg problem as a problem, it was just "ok, I'll get you that information"

And I'm down with that, didn't press the issue. Let's keep Blue Cross's onboarding procedure a mess, it's a useful signal I'm sure.

blocked 2 IP addresses that were crawling gitweb with scrapy and causing a server load of > 500, and a minute later was hit by a full DDOS attack from hundreds of IP addresses all trying to access gitweb

I have disabled gitweb access unfortunately, it's too tempting a target for these asshats

37 minute estimated hold wait lol

changed health insurance to Blue Cross, and got an email saying "your membership card is digital, log into website or use app to get it"

Tried to log into the website, and to register for an account they require information from your ID card.

srsly?

My offgrid EV charge control code has gotten a bit more tuned. Yesterday it was mostly cloudy and snowy, still once the house battery charged up enough, it decided to charge the car for about an hour and a half on and off, and the day ended with the house battery at 100%, so I had plenty of power in the evening to bake some banana bread.

it's snowing and I'm thinking about a week in June

Just because every git-annex issue I've dealt with today came from that week, when I was too busy to keep up.

So many other summer weeks to catch up on this winter..