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Fri Jan 14 06:00:01 EST 2022 ======================================== Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. Cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers in the morning, then slight chance of flurries in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 20s. North winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northeast in the late morning and afternoon. Chance of snow 20 percent. Wind chill readings zero to 10 above zero. # Work * ✓ submit Entrata termination request for CL, GB, KW, and PR * ✓ investigate Entrata email question for Keyta * ✓ LEFT HIM VOICEMAIL. follow up with Meir _again_ about credit card payment for Twilio, and hope he finally calls me * NO. allow new fiber IP to Gab, etc. * ✓ allow new fiber IP range on property routers Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Partly sunny. A cold wind. Meir finally called me back, and we got Twilio payments working. Good! Gah, Microsoft ruined by afternoon with update KB5009624, which put our AD servers into a reboot loop. # Home * ✓ 1 PM grocery pick up * ✓ wash laundry https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ _A_G_ _A__G TANGY Yes, correct on the third guess! It's smart that they put up one puzzle a day to keep people coming back, instead of blowing through a bunch of puzzles and forgetting about it after an hour. Gave myself a haircut. https://kottke.org/22/01/one-minute-time-machine https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html > It’s probably good to have some clarity on why centralized platforms emerged to begin with, and in my mind the explanation is pretty simple: > 1. People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will. > 2. A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform. After 30+ years, email is still unencrypted; meanwhile WhatsApp went from unencrypted to full e2ee in a year. People are still trying to standardize sharing a video reliably over IRC; meanwhile, Slack lets you create custom reaction emoji based on your face. > This isn’t a funding issue. If something is truly decentralized, it becomes very difficult to change, and often remains stuck in time. Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0.5/0.5 Breakfast: orange, tomatoes, hot dog Dinner: coffee

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