transplanting indoor lettuce heads while half-watching Ambassadors.

(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382598/, https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/13085146)

Troy's Laws #372: No builder shall use a wood with a Janka hardness less than oak (1290) for flooring.

Use red oak, use white oak, stain it however you want. Ash and hard maple are also fine.

A builder who uses a comically-soft species for flooring - including Douglas fir, cedar, cherry, and walnut - shall be subject to someone walking it on high heels the morning before buyer acceptance.

#construction

I'd like OnTrac's shipment tracker to include the "Driver has hurled package in the general direction of dwelling" event

Ben at Feedbin (@feedbin) released fixable RSS feeds: https://feedbin.com/blog/2024/01/15/fixable-feeds/

I suggested something like this in 2022. After 10 (!) years as a happy Feedbin customer, some of my feeds had changed URLs without redirecting. To test the idea, I manually re-retrieved the current RSS autodiscovery URL for each dead feed. It worked.

Ben's implementation is much better than I hoped for 🙂

Stack-and-slam wire wedging should be the wedging method that ceramics classes teach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HApNjUnI9U4

Somehow it's still hidden in a few YouTube videos and Reddit threads.

Unlike spiral and Ram's head wedging, there's no risk of carpal tunnel or wrist strain, it's hard to do wrong, and one can quickly wedge any amount of clay that can be lifted.

#ceramics #handbuilding

I ordered an AirGradient air quality monitor: https://www.airgradient.com/indoor/

Why #AirGradient? 3 reasons:

1. Documented sensors & accuracy: https://www.airgradient.com/documents/spec-sheets/Spec_Sheet_AirGradient_ONE_I-9PSL.pdf . Others hide it.

2. First-class Home Assistant support. The device doesn't depend on AirGradient: https://www.airgradient.com/integrations/home-assistant-esp-home/

3. A vision for AQ monitors to become a commodity, so monitoring is everywhere: https://www.airgradient.com/blog/why-we-wrote-a-manifesto/

(alternatives: Atmotube Pro doesn't track CO2; Awair Element will die when they pull https://old.reddit.com/r/Awair/comments/y7i5ku/awair_discontinues_support_for_v1_devices/ )

Spammers are sending hundreds of millions of messages through Outlook.com infrastructure. They seem to be exploiting Exchange Online Protection (EOP), but to relay outbound spam, not filter inbound mail.

Hundreds of stolen EOP creds? New Exchange Hybrid or EOP exploit?

As https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-365-docs/blob/public/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/outbound-spam-protection-about.md says, it's sure not designed for this.

As other people have noted, Microsoft's abuse department has done nothing:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Outlook/comments/18oo8ao/why_is_outlookcom_sending_so_much_spam/

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/why-isnt-microsoft-filtering-malicious-emails/eda58735-9145-4057-b365-b89cf9ddee71

#outlook #MicrosoftExchange #smtp

So you want to print something precise that's bigger than one piece of paper. Options:

A. For bitmaps, use Posterazor to split the file: https://posterazor.sourceforge.io/online/

B. For vectors (like a .dxf exported from Fusion 360), open in Inkscape, add pages (https://inkscape.org/~inkscape/%E2%98%85creating-new-pages-with-the-page-tool), add text or shapes to act as registration.

Note: Most home printers can't print edge-to-edge ("borderless"). Each page will have a blank 1/8" border.

C. Take a PDF to a print store for A3/tabloid, A2, A1, or A0.

#woodworking