![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
December 18
Dec. 18th, 2025 11:59 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
waider_geeks_feedOur beloved fatcat, Buddy, went for the long sleep tonight at
23:45 after a short illness. Goodbye, you lovable
disaster. You were a good cat. 
waider_geeks_feed
December 9
Dec. 9th, 2025 11:59 pmwaider_geeks_feedFound a set of discs where I'd swapped disc 1 and disc 2 of a
season while ripping (i.e. ripped disc 1 as disc 2 and vice
versa). In the old days this would have been prevented, or caught,
or at least minimised by a CDDB lookup. My half-hearted attempts
to find a modern equivalent for DVDs that doesn't somehow involve
selling a kidney or its weight in PII have failed miserably, so I
am reduced to looking at the disc content. Of course, this means
I'm rewatching bits of shows I enjoyed enough to buy, so that's
not exactly hardship.
It would appear that the promised November 30th end-of-life for the vendor API for my car charger has finally arrived, only a week late. Someone's done a third-party hack that replaces the vendor software with local management software; I'm halfway inclined to set it up, but also cognisant of the fact that I've never really used any of the API - I plug the car in, it charges, the end. I guess I can at least make sure that the charger doesn't sit there for all eternity trying to phone home only to get sucked into a botnet at some point in the future when the vendor lets the domain lapse, or goes out of business, or whatever.
It now occurs to me to wonder if they've remotely disabled the charger's phone-home capability... ok, just tried poking the API with the hacky client I made. It's definitely no longer a going concern.
It would appear that the promised November 30th end-of-life for the vendor API for my car charger has finally arrived, only a week late. Someone's done a third-party hack that replaces the vendor software with local management software; I'm halfway inclined to set it up, but also cognisant of the fact that I've never really used any of the API - I plug the car in, it charges, the end. I guess I can at least make sure that the charger doesn't sit there for all eternity trying to phone home only to get sucked into a botnet at some point in the future when the vendor lets the domain lapse, or goes out of business, or whatever.
It now occurs to me to wonder if they've remotely disabled the charger's phone-home capability... ok, just tried poking the API with the hacky client I made. It's definitely no longer a going concern.
December 8
Dec. 8th, 2025 11:59 pmwaider_geeks_feedSlowly chomping my way through TV series DVDs while also
wandering around the house doing stuff, and also recovering from the
vaccinations. The last mostly involves not expecting my arms to go
as high as usual, because someone stuck a chunk of steel into each
shoulder and that causes trauma.