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Robot Vacuum

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Been a while since I had any updates. I’ve been disabled and I can’t really type very often. I’ve needed to rebuild this server forever, but I don’t think it’s going to get done.

Anyway! I’ve been using a robot vacuum and unlike my experience with several roombas, this one actually works and hasn’t died on me. I’ve been a fan of the iLife A4S. I can recommend it if you’re on the market for one.

I’ll be picking up a V3S Pro soon to see if that works better on pet hair.

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Some Asshole – FoxReplace substitution list for mass shooters

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New github repo – https://github.com/bswopes/FoxReplacements/blob/master/SomeAsshole.json

I’ve created this as a substitution list to replace the names of mass shooters with “Some Asshole”. So far, I only have the Oregon shooter and his inspiration from Isla Vista. Please feel free to share and submit pull requests with new names or fixes.

FoxReplace - Some Asshole

FoxReplace is available from the Mozilla addon store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/

Let me know if there are any compatible plugins for other browsers.

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Site slightly wonky

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The site is a bit busted at the moment. I’ve added SSL as part of https://www.resetthenet.org/ however I still need to tweak some configs. Can’t spend a lot of time on the keys right now, thanks to psoriatic arthritis. Should have this fixed in a couple days.

By the way, I got my cert from NameCheap for $1.99 as part of their support for Reset the Net day. If you’re thinking about it, now’s a great time to grab one.

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Kiva Country Collector – Now storing loan IDs.

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I had to archive everyone’s cached data, because I’ve made a major change to the data model and it wasn’t fully backwards compatible.

The upside, is that it’ll be less API intensive about pulling in updated data and won’t start from scratch each time.

The downside, though, is that I’m storing loan IDs now. So, that’s something you should consider if you want to use the app. If you don’t select the “Privacy Mode”, then I’ll be storing your lender id, loan IDs and countries you’ve loaned to in a file that looks like this:

$ head lenders/bswopes.csv 
"DO","[519186, 453620, 414509, 253513]"
"BF","[561459, 455699, 406311, 346733]"
"KH","[271711, 295024, 238144, 265943]"
"XK","[508414, 518939, 482881, 443775]"
"BO","[518671, 290774, 232177, 196661]"
"YE","[510083, 412907, 425078, 391416]"
"LR","[434516, 404925, 297545, 203097]"
"BJ","[561715, 404260, 361734, 227187]"
"JO","[480732, 443313, 380336, 310151]"
"AZ","[483852, 337269, 355439, 295106, 234743]"

Here’s what it had looked like before:

$ head old-format/bswopes.csv 
"DO",4
"BF",4
"KH",4
"XK",4
"BO",4
"YE",4
"BI",4
"BJ",4
"JO",4
"HN",4

EDIT 20130921: I’ve converted to json format and also include the total lender_count to clean up the re-import.

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Running some tor nodes.

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I’ve been running some tor relays for a while now. One runs on my linode box with a reduced exit policy and has been basically trouble-free. The second runs on a machine in my kitchen and has produced some issues.

I recently rebuilt that system as an ubuntu box to run tor, boinc, squid > apache > mod_pagespeed. Overall, I’ve been happy with it, but it seems like my network just dies out at times. It could just need some tuning love, but I’m about out of weekend.

So, I’m just going to switch it over to acting as a tor bridge for now. Should be safer from complaints by my ISP, at least.

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