https://www.waider.ie/hacks/diary/2025/december.html#09
Found 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.
https://www.waider.ie/hacks/diary/2025/december.html#09