I’m trying out The Wiki Game Daily, a challenge to get from one Wikipedia page to another by clicking only the blue wiki links on each page. I’ve played similar on some virtual hangouts, but this site provides a daily challenge.
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"text": "I\u2019m trying out The Wiki Game Daily, a challenge to get from one Wikipedia page to another by clicking only the blue wiki links on each page. I\u2019ve played similar on some virtual hangouts, but this site provides a daily challenge.\n\nToday\u2019s challenge: from Ed Sheeran to Arithmetic\n\nMy solution (spoilers!)Ed Sheeran\n\tPreparatory school (United Kingdom)\n\tPublic school (United Kingdom)\n\tCategory:Education in the United Kingdom\n\tAdvanced level mathematics\n\tCategory:Mathematics education in the United Kingdom\n\tCocker's Arithmetick\n\tCategory:Arithmetic\n\tArithmetic",
"html": "<p>I\u2019m trying out <a href=\"https://www.thewikigamedaily.com/\">The Wiki Game Daily</a>, a challenge to get from one Wikipedia page to another by clicking only the blue wiki links on each page. I\u2019ve played similar on some virtual hangouts, but this site provides a daily challenge.</p>\n\n<p>Today\u2019s challenge: from <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sheeran\">Ed Sheeran</a> to <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic\">Arithmetic</a></p>\n\nMy solution (spoilers!)<ol><li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sheeran\">Ed Sheeran</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparatory_school_(United_Kingdom)\">Preparatory school (United Kingdom)</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)\">Public school (United Kingdom)</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Education_in_the_United_Kingdom\">Category:Education in the United Kingdom</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_level_mathematics\">Advanced level mathematics</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mathematics_education_in_the_United_Kingdom\">Category:Mathematics education in the United Kingdom</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocker%27s_Arithmetick\">Cocker's Arithmetick</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arithmetic\">Category:Arithmetic</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic\">Arithmetic</a></li>\n</ol>"
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"text": "So, today Apple unveiled the new M4 Mac mini, which seems like a perfect upgrade for me! Except\u2026 they did something really asinine:\n\nThey put the power button underneath.\n\nThis means that you have to physically pick up the machine to turn it on, or to force-reboot it. Those are rare occurrences, but they\u2019re enough of one that this becomes a problem.\n\nWhy\u2019s this a problem? Well, part of it is that the mini\u2019s maximum storage configuration is pretty small, and upgrading the storage is stupid expensive, so pretty much everyone who\u2019s using these for doing, say, audio and video work is going to need an external drive enclosure. And external drive enclosures tend to have very short, fixed Thunderbolt cables, and managing those cables can become very tricky even when you don\u2019t need to move your device around.\n\nThis will also be a big problem for people who want to rackmount or monitor-mount their devices; as far as I can tell from various photos, there isn\u2019t really much of a gap/lip under which you can place a finger. Maybe people will start making custom button-pressing tools or something, I dunno. I guess that wouldn\u2019t be too hard.\n\nBut still, it\u2019s annoying that Apple would make this change.\n\n(Hopefully they at least put it under the front corner, which would at least be livable! None of the photos I\u2019m finding show which corner it\u2019s under though.)\n\nAnother annoying thing is that while there are now five USB-C ports (three of which are Thunderbolt), there are no longer USB-A ports, so at least for my setup I\u2019d need to run everything through a Thunderbolt dock, and finding one of those that\u2019s both reliable and provides the ports I need is troublesome at best. Also, in my experience, you really want a dedicated port (rather than a docking station) for an external monitor, a storage enclosure, and an audio interface\u2026 and that\u2019s all three Thunderbolt ports right there. So then my keyboard and mouse would have to plug into one of the USB-C ports in front, and that gets really messy really fast.\n\nSo anyway, power-wise the M4 mini would be a huge upgrade for me, but for the physical and connectivity requirements of my recording studio, it doesn\u2019t seem like a good fit.\n\nMaybe I\u2019ll get an M4 mini for my home office and then move my M1 Max Mac studio into the recording studio. Or maybe I\u2019m fine with the hardware I have already.",
"html": "<p>So, today Apple unveiled the new M4 Mac mini, which seems like a perfect upgrade for me! Except\u2026 they did something really asinine:</p><p>They put the power button underneath.</p><p>This means that you have to physically pick up the machine to turn it on, or to force-reboot it. Those are <em>rare</em> occurrences, but they\u2019re enough of one that this becomes a problem.</p><p>Why\u2019s this a problem? Well, part of it is that the mini\u2019s maximum storage configuration is pretty small, and upgrading the storage is stupid expensive, so pretty much everyone who\u2019s using these for doing, say, audio and video work is going to need an external drive enclosure. And external drive enclosures tend to have very short, fixed Thunderbolt cables, and managing those cables can become very tricky even when you <em>don\u2019t</em> need to move your device around.</p><p>This will also be a big problem for people who want to rackmount or monitor-mount their devices; as far as I can tell from various photos, there isn\u2019t really much of a gap/lip under which you can place a finger. Maybe people will start making custom button-pressing tools or something, I dunno. I guess that wouldn\u2019t be <em>too</em> hard.</p><p>But still, it\u2019s annoying that Apple would make this change.</p><p>(Hopefully they at least put it under the <em>front</em> corner, which would at least be livable! None of the photos I\u2019m finding show which corner it\u2019s under though.)</p><p>Another annoying thing is that while there are now five USB-C ports (three of which are Thunderbolt), there are no longer USB-A ports, so at least for my setup I\u2019d need to run <em>everything</em> through a Thunderbolt dock, and finding one of those that\u2019s both reliable and provides the ports I need is troublesome at best. Also, in my experience, you really want a dedicated port (rather than a docking station) for an external monitor, a storage enclosure, and an audio interface\u2026 and that\u2019s all three Thunderbolt ports right there. So then my keyboard and mouse would have to plug into one of the USB-C ports in front, and that gets really messy really fast.</p><p>So anyway, power-wise the M4 mini would be a huge upgrade for me, but for the physical and connectivity requirements of my recording studio, it doesn\u2019t seem like a good fit.</p><p>Maybe I\u2019ll get an M4 mini for my home office and then move my M1 Max Mac studio into the recording studio. Or maybe I\u2019m fine with the hardware I have already.</p>"
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"text": "Kinda rough day over here, but the new Leiahdorus album is lifting my spirits. Check it out if you dig synth/new wave: The Lost Tapes",
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"html": "<p>Jodie Ginsberg, CPJ\u2019s chief executive officer:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>No journalist from outside Gaza has been allowed in since the start of that war, and that\u2019s highly unusual. I speak to lots of war correspondents who\u2019s covered many, many wars over decades, and all of them talk about how unprecedented this is to not have any access whatsoever. And that, of course, puts additional pressure on these journalists.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/24/gaza_cpj\">CPJ Head Condemns Israel\u2019s Deadly War on Journalists in Gaza as IDF Threatens Al Jazeera Reporters</a></p>\n\n<p>In the interview, Amy Goodman also mentions \u201c<a href=\"https://mcgovern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=400123\">James McGovern leading 64 other congressmembers in a letter to Biden and Blinken</a>, urging them to push for Israel to allow in international journalists\u201d</p>",
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I decided I would appreciate being home at 9:30am instead of 5pm more than I will be annoyed at having to wake up at 4:30am, so I changed my flight home to the early flight. Hope I don't oversleep! #travel
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"text": "For several days my tinnitus and vertigo were getting progressively worse, which made me once again worry that I am developing M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease, which has a prognosis that is very much Not Good.\n\nAnd I mentioned this on a friend\u2019s Discord\u2019s venting channel, and someone else replied:\n\nI had a family member diagnosed with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s and it turned out to actually be TMJ dysfunction from teeth grinding.\nIt was causing Eustachian tube swelling and thus the vertigo\n\nThis was actually super informative, because I\u2019ve always had TMJ issues and pretty bad bruxism!\n\nSo, I started doing a bunch of research, and found a couple of useful videos:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSo I\u2019ve been doing these for a couple of days, and while it hasn\u2019t resolved everything, my tinnitus is already doing way better most of the day, and I haven\u2019t had any dizzy spells today.\n\nHere\u2019s hoping, anyway!",
"html": "<p>For several days my tinnitus and vertigo were getting progressively worse, which made me once again worry that I am developing <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ni%C3%A8re's_disease\">M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease</a>, which has a prognosis that is very much Not Good.</p><p>And I mentioned this on a friend\u2019s Discord\u2019s venting channel, and someone else replied:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I had a family member diagnosed with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s and it turned out to actually be TMJ dysfunction from teeth grinding.</p>\n<p>It was causing Eustachian tube swelling and thus the vertigo</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This was actually super informative, because I\u2019ve always had TMJ issues and pretty bad bruxism!</p><p>So, I started doing a bunch of research, and found a couple of useful videos:</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>So I\u2019ve been doing these for a couple of days, and while it hasn\u2019t resolved everything, my tinnitus is already doing way better most of the day, and I haven\u2019t had any dizzy spells today.</p><p>Here\u2019s hoping, anyway!</p>"
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