Râu Cao @raucao@kosmos.social

Rode up the Sambuca hausberg today. Beautiful day, and a beautiful nature reserve up there. #cycling

1. Sender sends package here
2. Italian DPD partner gives me their tracking page
3. Out for delivery
4. Driver marks address as invalid, doesn't call the phone number
5. They send me a link to a page where I click to retry delivery
6. Out for delivery
7. Driver marks address as invalid, doesn't call the phone number
8. I explain the situation to the sender, they ask DPD to send it to the address again
9. Out for delivery
10. Driver marks address as invalid, doesn't call the phone number

Cyberpunk 2019: HK police fighting a violent battle with their own citizens over control of the country's Internet exchange:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/control-of-the-internet-may-be-the-real-reason-for-police-violence-at-chinese-university-of-hong-kong_3145742.html

English, how does it work? It's Home Assistant with an A, of course.

Set up Home Assistent on a Raspberry Pi this evening. Nice stuff!

Also finally gave ZeroTier (and ZeroTier One) a try, and holy shit is it great.

Next step: making the Home Assistent accessible from the Internet, via a reverse proxy on a server that is connected to the same ZeroTier network.

Reckless driving for the greater good:

> Italian host families driving on the wrong side of the road to make an English guest ‘feel at home’ (yes, it happens)

https://www.thelocal.it/20161130/ten-things-italians-do-that-make-foreigners-feel-awkward

I hate Microsoft Edge as much as the next dev, but turning the new app icon into a literal wave, so you can surf the Web on it, is a pretty great idea. (And if it wasn't the designer's intention, then the outcome is just lucky af, because I can't not see it as a wave.)

> In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices by federal agents at airports and other U.S. ports of entry are unconstitutional.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/11/victory-federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-of-travelers-phones-and-laptops-unconstitutional.html

Windows 10 Update, classy as ever:

#woodworking newbie question:

What's the most overlooked yet important thing to buy for your first tool collection?

Was learning me some #woodworking theory on YouTube, and the guy on my favorite channel recommends to just get dado blades and do rabbet joints for pretty much everything.

Turns out dado blades are illegal in the EU, because we're all little children who can't be trusted to use big boy tools: https://www.bosch-professional.com/gb/en/community/category/dado-blades/389289-t