Red Roof Inn in Batavia NY gives a master class in how not to respond to a mediocre review
Several factors led to a mediocre experience at the motel, and their passive-aggressive response about my complaints made things worse instead of better.
Tried to report likely fraud to insurance company, hit wall of cluelessness
No good deed goes unpunished.
What journalists don’t understand about reporting Trump
The journalism education industrial complex compels journalists to report in a way the majority of the country doesn’t understand.
Planet Money gets AI wrong (again)
In its ongoing quest to provide cover for the AI bubble, Planet Money ignores the fact that rigged markets aren’t efficient and that data centers built specifically for AI are useless for anything else.
A better way to migrate your data from Bitwarden to 1Password
Use my previously shared bitwarden-backup.py to export your data from Bitwarden, and my new 1password-from-bitwarden-backup.py to import it into 1Password.
The why and how of backing up your Mastodon data
Your server or your Mastodon account could go away at any time. If you don’t want to lose your data, you should back it up. Here’s how to do that, and how to restore it later.
Unbelievably, offensively useless chat with Healthfirst online support
A website that refuses access to critical documents is bad enough. Completely clueless chat agents who provide stock, bullshit, useless answers is much worse.
This is how to make the “Install pending software updates” checkbox go away in GNOME
You can switch GNOME Software to manual updates, or block offline updates completely with polkit. Neither solution is perfect. The GNOME developers have no interest in improving the situation.
Comics Aggregator: workaround while “Nancy” is in transition
If you read the comic strip Nancy in the Comics Aggregator, you may have noticed that your comics page is loading slowly and displaying an error for Nancy. This is because Nancy has stopped publishing new strips temporarily while transitioning to a new artist. The slow page load is due to the fact that unfortunately… Read More »
Review: EVEN Hotel, Rockville, MD: a bad hotel and the people who run it should feel bad
A mediocre hotel with mediocre amenities provided by its staff in a mediocre way.