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It never fails to amaze me, opening a website and getting a message that the site is only available during certain hours.

This time, it is the government's Social Security website.

This service is not available at this time.
Please try again during our regular service hours (Eastern Time):
Day             Service Hours
Monday-Friday 	4:15 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Saturday 	5:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Sunday 	        8:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Federal Holidays Same hours as the day the holiday occurs.

The subscription page had a minor problem after I mistakenly entered my last name in the email field. After getting the edit message and correcting my entry, the Submit button didn't show up anymore. But refreshing the page and reentering my data fixed that.

The "Thank you for subscribing" page includes links for creating an account or logging into one. Neither works; they display an "Oops... Looks like we can't find what you're looking for" message. I imagine that is because the site no longer has content which requires a login. So that can be ignored.

They emailed me a link to the digital version of their print magazine. That's nice but I probably won't access it often. I opened it though to see what it is like. It displays one page in the browser at a time. There's a zoom button, but clicking it makes the page display smaller instead of bigger. The browser's zoom function doesn't work on the page. So I wouldn't find it easy to read anyway, unless I used the Windows magnifier tool to enlarge it. That isn't Time's fault though, as the digital magazine is hosted on a different site, emagazines.com.

Let's see. Using the site's Mobile View option provides easier-to-read pages with larger text, and that way the browser's zoom works ok too. But Firefox doesn't display the Forward (>) buttons sometimes, making it impossible to navigate right in the Mobile View. It works ok in Edge.

Hmmm. I've been contemplating again switching to Linux, if I ever find the time. How many different browser options are there on Linux?
Oh cool, Firefox, Edge and Chrome are all available for Linux too:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/2/22759123/microsoft-edge-linux-stable-channel

Lately when I open articles that people have posted links to and hit a paywall, I'm often relieved. I realize that I don't really want to read the article that badly (otherwise I'd disable Javascript or something). I get to save myself however much time I would have spent on reading it. I get to avoid reading the depressing (in some cases) content.

I want to support websites whose content I often read. I really do. But some of them make it so difficult to give them money.

I signed up for a digital-only subscription to Wired.com in November 2018, at their special introductory price of $5/year. That was fine.

In November 2019, my subscription renewed at the price of $19.99. I didn't know why I was charged that amount when their website indicated the regular digital-only price was $29.99, but I didn't mind.

In November 2020, I got an email that my subscription would renew at the price of $29.99. My card wasn't charged until two months later, in January 2021. That seemed strange, but no big deal.

In October 2021 (a month earlier than usual), I got an email notification that my subscription would renew at the price of $29.99. This time my card was charged in December. The charge was declined as I'd set the account up with a virtual credit card with a limit of $40/year.

I logged into my account to update my credit card information. The website gave me many difficulties, only one of which was updating my payment info. I did finally manage to enter my new card number, but there was no way to submit it for immediate payment. The site incorrectly showed my account as already paid through 2023.

Their system continued trying to charge my old credit card number - 3 more times over the next 3 weeks, and it kept being declined. I was only aware of this due to the automated notifications I got from my bank. At no point did Wired.com email me to let me know there was a problem.

At this point I was so bothered by it all that I chose to cancel my account. I found a link for doing so online, but like almost everything else on their account pages, it did not work. It redirected me to a Register/Sign in page, and when I signed in (again), it gave an error message.

So I emailed them requesting the cancellation. I also provided a detailed list of all the problems I'd had with their website, hoping they'd use the feedback to improve their website.

They replied, confirming that they were cancelling my subscription. No mention was made of the problems I had listed.

..

Now it is 2024. I still read articles on Wired.com fairly often. I use ad-blockers, so they aren't getting money from me that way. They still have a $5/year introductory price special. I decided to sign up for it, optimistic that hopefully they'd fixed some of the problems I'd had last time.

Their pages make it look like the the normal price is $30, as that number is crossed through and followed by "$5". Yet the fine print at the bottom of the page says "The regular annual rate is currently $80." Hopefully $80 is the price for the print+digital subscription, as I wouldn't choose to pay that much per year for this website.

Their $5 offer includes a "free tote bag". I think I got one last time; it's too small to be very useful. Also "FREE STICKERS" - that seems silly, but getting free stickers does sound nice - Good job, marketing team!

The cost of sending a small tote bag and stickers probably uses up most of the $5 they'd get in the first year. If the 2nd year costs $80, I would likely cancel my subscription. In that case, subscribing in the first place would be fairly pointless in terms of supporting them.

They also have a gift subscription option. That way there might be no automated renewals, which would avoid the problem I had in 2021. I could buy the gift sub with one email address, and gift it to another email address of mine.

But the gift subscription page doesn't work. You have to choose your Location, and of all the countries listed, "United States" is not in the drop-down! I tried with another browser; same thing. The page source shows that the drop-down does have an entry for United States, but its style is set to "display: none". Sigh.

That doesn't bode well for the other website problems having been fixed. I don't know if I'll still sign up the other way or not.

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I've had similar problems with digital subscriptions to two other well-known sites. Problems which were bad enough to make me cancel.

Then there is Time.com. I signed up with them in February 2022 for $15. It renewed in Feb. 2023 without a problem.

Then out of the blue, in June 2023 I got a pro-rata amount of $11 refunded to my card, with no email from Time.com about why. So I emailed their customer service asking what had happened, and letting them know that I did not cancel. They never replied to me. I never heard from them again. I still haven't figured that one out, but have to assume that they don't want my money.

Oh, now I found this article from 2023/04/26:
Exclusive: Time to remove digital paywall , which mentions:

Details: Time currently has 1.3 million print subscribers and 250,000 digital subscribers.

- The digital content from Time's magazine will now be free, alongside all other content on the website, including 100 years' worth of Time's archived content.

- The company will still charge for the print product and still offer a paid digital version of the print magazine through retailers (like Amazon Kindle and Apple News) and through Apple’s App Store.

- Paid subscribers to the website will be notified of the changes immediately, and their subscription payments will expire when the paywall is removed June 1.

Oh, that was last year, and it *was* when I got the refund. I wonder why they didn't explain it then.

The Time.com website now still has a "Subscribe" link with a digital-only option for $20/year. That is good; I wouldn't want to have to go through Amazon Kindle to support them.

I suppose I could try subscribing again; I didn't have a problem with *their* website last time, at least.

I was going to sign up for a new Patreon membership, but the page indicated I'd be charged right away for the first amount, and then on the same day each next month. The new donation amount wouldn't be combined with my other Patreon membership charges which are all taken out on the first of each month.

This is what Patreon calls Subscription Billing, and it is the new default (since September 2022) although creators can opt to switch to the legacy billing models. It seems that patrons can't choose when they want to be billed, except by waiting until that day to sign up for a new membership. That is what I plan to do on February 1 (if I don't forget), so that the new amount will eventually be combined with my other amounts in a single payment each month.

I can understand that many people likely prefer the new billing model. But it would be nice if Patreon were to give patrons an option to sign up now and not be charged nor get any benefits until the first of the next month (or whatever payment date they chose), so they could keep getting a single combined charge for all their memberships. Surely that would benefit Patreon the company too, as a single larger credit card charge would have a lower transaction fee than multiple smaller charges.

I also noticed recently that Patreon now supports annual billing, if the creator offers annual membership plans. That pleased me to see, but I don't think most creators have enabled it. And if I'm going to have monthly charges for some creators, I may as well have monthly charges for all of them, rather than some monthly and some annual. Although with the new Subscription Billing model, the annual option makes more sense (being charged on a different day for each creator's membership but only once a year).

thewayne: I think we'll be seeing RIP: Bandcamp in the not distant future

I noticed today while browsing my online collection of prior purchases on Bandcamp, that songs from a particular artist were missing. The artist's page no longer shows up on the site, so they likely closed their account.
Apparently when an artist does that, any items you purchased from them are no longer be downloadable or accessible online.
I always download my purchases right away, so didn't lose anything. But it was a surprise to me that they would disappear from my online account like that without any warning or notification. So, beware.

I've found out the following about Ring's Neighbors app:

You can install and use the app without having any Ring devices:
https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005447323-Joining-Ring-Neighbors-without-a-Ring-Device

Once you install the app and set up your account, you can also log in from a browser on a computer. You can view and post to your feed from either the app or your computer.

In the app you enter your address, which controls what messages you see on your feed. The default area for which you get messages is a circle of some large radius centered on your address. You can customize it to a smaller polygonal area by means of 8 draggable vertices.

I believe you can create an account at ring.com without using the app, but I think the rest won't work unless you set it up in the app first. When you login via a computer, if it doesn't take you directly to your feed, look for the link labeled "Neighborhood Web".

From what I've seen so far, unlike Nextdoor, the post topics are limited to safety, crime, and lost/found pets. Neighbors by Ring Community Guidelines indicates what kind of content is allowed.

How Public Safety Agencies Use Neighbors (ring.com)
A Helpful Guide to Request for Assistance Posts (Posts by Public Safety Agencies) (ring.com)

Ring's police problem never went away. Here's what you still need to know (CNET - 2021/09/27)
You shared Ring footage with police. They may share it, too (CNET - 2019/09/04)

One concern I have about ChatGPT and similar things is how they will affect us being able to find reliable and useful information online.

In the last few years, I've noticed more and more webpages which appear to consist of data scraped from other places on the web. These pages contain a series of questions and answers on a particular topic. One can tell a human didn't write or compose the page, because the questions are repetitive and include many variations of the same question. The answers in one part of the page sometimes contradict other answers on the same page.

Presumably these pages have ads on them, and the people who create them do so to get money from ad-traffic. I don't usually see that due to my ad-blockers.

Now with ChatGPT, I imagine that rather than generating pages like that with data scraped from the web, people will generate pages with questions answered by ChatGPT. The text on these pages will look much more convincing than the ones out there now. The information will probably be less reliable. The reliable information sources will be greatly outnumbered by the unreliable ones, and it will be difficult to distinguish them.

Maybe it has already happened. For example, this page: Are American Toads Poisonous to Humans, Dogs, or Cats? doesn't seem like one of those generated/scraped pages. But it repeats itself multiple times which makes me suspicious. I can't tell from reading it whether I should trust it or not. I know that I probably shouldn't trust anything, especially not a random website I've come across, but for non-critical questions, it's nice to do a search and find a plausible answer that satisfies my curiosity or need-to-know, and then get on with my life. It's nicer if the plausible answers are true or at least based on what someone believes to be true, as opposed to some made-up answer.

I worry that there will be fake accounts on sites like Dreamwidth, posting content generated by tools like ChatGPT. I worry that someday I won't be able to tell which accounts are real people and which not, even when I interact with them. Will that affect my desire to interact with other people online?

I worry about art and music and poems, that I won't be able to tell if a human had a large part in making them or not. And that I won't feel as enthusiastic about them, for not knowing.

A few minutes after submitting the final page to e-file my taxes at OLT.com, I received an email that there was an error which I need to correct. But the error shown on the site doesn't sound like anything I can fix:
"Tech support escalation... Reviewing..."

I did a web search and didn't find anyone else having ever posted about getting that error on OLT.
So I'll log back in tomorrow to check again.

Update:
I submitted a ticket, and the problem got resolved later that day without me needing to do anything else.

One of the bothersome things about Nextdoor is that their email notifications only display the beginning of each message, with a "See more" link. In the past, if it sounded interesting and I wanted to see the whole message, I'd have to click the link to read the post on the Nextdoor site.

Now I've discovered that if I view the emails as plain text instead of HTML, it shows the whole message!

If I want to read the replies to the post, I still have to open the website. But at least now I know what the topic is really about beforehand, and if it is worth reading more.

I'll have to try that with the Facebook-like Workplace emails we get at work.

In my SoundCloud notification settings, "New post by followed user" is selected under the Email column.
But I haven't been getting any notification emails, even though the people I'm following have uploaded many new tracks.

Do any of you use email notifications for SoundCloud, and do they work for you?

If it's not a SoundCloud bug causing me not to get them, I suspect my email provider may be blocking them as spam. But this email account doesn't have a spam folder; suspected spam is simply blocked, so there's no way for me to be sure. That's always made me uneasy and will probably eventually make me stop using that email.

Our SC primary elections are on Tuesday. I voted on Friday already, the last day of early voting. One bad aspect about early voting is that you may miss out on debates or interviews that are held later on.

Friday evening, a debate was televised between 3 of the Democratic candidates for South Carolina governor: Carlton Boyd, Joe Cunningham, and Mia McLeod. There are 2 more candidates who didn't take part in the debate.

It had been hard for me to decide which of the gubernatorial candidates to vote for, and I was curious if watching the debate before voting would have changed my mind. So I watched part of the debate.

When I had looked up info before voting, I found hardly any information on Boyd. I didn't even find a website, which knocked him off my list. But his performance in the debate impressed me. During one answer, he mentioned having a website, so I searched for it again, harder this time. It still did not show up in the Google or the DuckDuckGo results. But I finally found a link to it (see above) on Facebook.

I think the debate would not have changed my mind about who to vote for. But I felt bad at not having tried harder to find Boyd's website to begin with. When I originally didn't find it, I assumed he didn't have one.

Now in researching it further, I think the site's robots.txt file is causing the problem. Based on this info on robots.txt syntax, it looks like his would prevent all search engines from crawling the site. His webpages have "noindex" tags too. No wonder the site isn't showing up in search results. I will drop him a message about it.

Since the beginning of February, there's been a noticeable change in the type of email notifications I get through Nextdoor. Previously they were mostly topics like:

- Hi neighbors! New to the site (or neighborhood)
- Missing or found dog/cat
- Problem with tap water or other utilities
- Looking for work / offering services / don't hire this person/company
- Looking for / offering to give away something for free
- What kind of snake/plant/flower is this?

Now they are mostly mood-lowering topics like:

- home broken in to
- car stolen
- suspicious people seen on driveway or trespassing
- mail / packages stolen or damaged

I like being able to hear news from the neighborhood. But this shift in tone of the messages has me considering turning off notifications completely. Then I'd probably only ever visit the site if I have a topic of my own to post, or to check if anyone else has posted about something I'm curious about.

I'm not clear if there has been a real shift in the topics being posted about, or only in the notifications sent to me. The latter might be due to some Facebook-like algorithm based on which messages I've clicked to read on the website. Anyone else who uses the site noticed this recent shift in tone of notifications?

Another thing I see is that many of the more recent messages reference other areas of town, not my particular neighborhood. The older messages I see don't reference any particular areas so I can't tell about them. But I haven't changed my Nextdoor settings regarding which areas I want to receive messages from.

In my Nextdoor settings, all notifications are turned on except "For Sale & Free" and "Digests". So before now, I must never have felt a need to switch anything else off. There's a "Popular everywhere" item at the bottom... maybe this is new? Well, I've turned that one off now. I'll see if it makes a difference.

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This was another recent message: "Did anyone hear about the kidnapping at [...] elementary?"

Based on the above, it sounded like more bad news. But the rest of the post, when I clicked to read it, was, "It's fine, he woke up!". ::groan:: ::but amused::

That post now, like many others when I later click on them, says "Sorry, the post you're looking for has been removed."

I just noticed that the original Wordle URL has been redirecting to a New York Times page for the last few days. Which is fine, except that it's not updating my stats anymore. Every day I open it, it has the same starting stats ("24 played", etc.). After playing that day's game, if I close and reopen the browser and return to the page (via the original URL), it shows the gameboard like I didn't already play it, and the stats are reverted again.

This is the original URL I'm using:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

That page redirects to the below nytimes URL, passing my stats as parameters:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle?data=[ my stats and preferences data ]

That page then redirects to:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html?data= [ same stats parameters as above ]

The same stats parameters are passed each time (except for the first "time" value).

I can't tell if the problem is due to my browser or cookie settings.
I've tried adding rules to allow powerlanguage.co.uk stuff on nytimes.com and vice versa. But my stats still don't save.

Are the Stats still being updated correctly for anyone else?

On Twitter other people say they're having trouble like me, but I don't know if we are the minority or not:
https://twitter.com/NYTimesWordplay

Update:
See my comment below. I had to set a browser exception for nytimes.com to let it store cookies. Using the uMatrix plugin, I sometimes forget that I have to allow cookies for a site in both places if I want the cookies to be saved across sessions.

Among the handouts given to me with both of my Covid vaccine shots was one about v-safe, the "after vaccination health checker". It's a smartphone-based tool for providing feedback to the CDC of any side effects you experience from the COVID-19 vaccines.

I didn't sign up for it after my first shot, because I didn't like that it is only phone-based, with no option to use a laptop instead. But also because I had too much other stuff going on at the time, and then also because I only experienced one side-effect, which was a very common one anyway.

But after my 2nd shot, I tried it out. It doesn't require installing an app on your phone. You sign up at the above website, which can be done on your phone or on a laptop. When signing up, you are asked for your name, date of birth, zip code, sex*, and mobile phone number. Then you are asked for the date of your first and/or 2nd shots, and which vaccine you got.

Thereafter, you supposedly get a link to an online questionnaire sent to your phone via a text every day (around 4pm for me) for the first week. Then some more at weekly or monthly intervals. The questionnaire asks about any symptoms you experienced that day, and also asks your race/ethnicity*.

*An option is included for "prefer not to say".

Yesterday I copied the questionnaire link from the text to my laptop by manually typing it in. (Just to be perverse, to see if it would work, and it did.) After filling in the answers, something distracted me. It may have been that I took too long in deciding "Did any of the symptoms or health conditions you reported today cause you to... Be unable to work... Be unable to do your normal daily activities..." (etc.)

I *could* have worked if I had really needed to, in spite of the mild fever. I *could* have taken Tylenol earlier than I did, and then probably would have felt better earlier. And I *did* do some work later that day. Most of the time, I do most of my work later in the day anyway. But I decided to select the options, as I hadn't really felt up to working earlier that morning.

When I returned to the page and finally submitted it, it gave me a time-out error. However, I was able to open the page, re-enter my answers, and then submit it successfully.

Yesterday I did the questionnaire a couple hours after getting the text.

Today I waited until after I had finished my work for the day, and after I'd done a few other things. Ie., until 3am. This time I clicked the link on my phone, deciding to do it the way it was designed. But it gave an error, "Sorry, this Health Check-in has expired" !!!

So you have only a limited amount of time, not even a full 12 hours, to submit each day's questionnaire after being sent the link.

It was only my 2nd day of using the tool, and it already has failed me. No point in continuing with it, I think. It didn't let me enter any symptoms (in arrears) from my first shot either, by the way. So it's only useful if you sign up for it right away after getting a shot, and then answer the questions promptly every day after getting the texts.

It occurred to me to wonder in what year Wikipedia was started. So what do I do? I look it up on Wikipedia!

2001, by the way.

This chart is a reminder that Wikipedia is not only an English-language resource:
Article count of European Wikipedias by language family

There have only been a few times I recall seeing or reading articles in a non-English language Wikipedia. I wonder if you look up something on one language version of the site, if the results ever include articles in the other language versions? Or are they completely separate. Are there completely different articles in different languages on the same subject? That would be interesting to see, sometimes. They ought to link to each other.
But I only wonder, not wanting to take more time of my day now looking up about that.

I was reading this page*:
https://gen.medium.com/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-already-there-ba1e4b54c5fc

Every once in a while my browser showed "Transferring data from gen.medium.com". It seems that my scrolling the page a certain amount or to a certain location triggers it.

The Web Console shows it sending a message to this URL: https://gen.medium.com/_/batch
The Params include: key: post.streamScrolled

So I searched on "streamScrolled", and found only a few mentions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/7qe4kj/browser_as_botnet_the_coming_war_on_your_web/

PedanticPistachio
I couldn't help but to run the communications through burp while reading this blog. Only found that medium was tracking my every move (certain information redacted just to be safe):

[{"type":"e","key":"post.streamScrolled","data":{"postIds":["redacted"],"collectionIds":["redacted"],"tops":[211],"bottoms":[26992],"areFullPosts":[true],"viewStartedAt":1516049551112,"scrollTop":6072,"scrollBottom":6806,"scrollableHeight":28133,"loggedAt":redacted,"sources":["post_page"],"timeDiff":13041.199999999953,"userId":"redacted","referrer":"https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/","location":"https://medium.freecodecamp.org/browser-as-botnet-or-the-coming-war-on-your-web-browser-be920c4f718","browserWidth":1536,"deviceId":"redacted"},"userId":"redacted","timestamp":1516050235600,"eventId":"redacted"}]
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696596

Couldn't agree more. If you look at what's happening in the network tab of the developer tools, you'll see it's doing a lot more than providing just a static blog page.

Instead, every x seconds it executes another POST request with pretty much all the details they can gather (scroll from top, scrollable height, referrer etc.). As soon as you start moving your cursor, the new requests start adding up very quickly, with lots of new params such as "experimentName: readers.experimentShareWidget" or "key: post.streamScrolled".

It really is collecting every single interaction with this page. As it's provided by Medium I'm sure it's part of their data collection program.

Medium.com isn't the only site I've had that kind of thing happen on. It may even happen on Dreamwidth sometimes, possibly related to embedded YouTube videos, if I'm remembering right.

It annoys me because while it's showing those "Transferring data" or "Connecting to", etc., messages, it prevents me being able to see links' URLs by hovering over them.

So I'd like to find a way to block webpages from sending extra messages that aren't initiated by me clicking on something. But I don't have time right now to research it further.

*This statement on that page is rather sobering, as is the rest and the other linked-to posts:
In the last three months America has lost more people than Sri Lanka lost in 30 years of civil war.

In order for the videos on this CNBC page to load, in uMatrix I had to enable the "Other" category for domain "acidpigs.com":
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/17/a-vegan-etf-just-launched-and-its-holdings-may-surprise-you.html

Wait a minute, "acidpigs"???

The domain's home page, https://acidpigs.com/, says of itself:

This domain is used by digital publishers to control access to copyrighted content in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and understand how visitors are accessing their copyrighted content.

This domain accepts GET and POST requests over standard HTTP ports (TCP 80 and TCP 443) via traffic originating from web browsers.

The requests contain information such as metrics that help a site owner in understanding and authorizing access to their site and copyrighted content.

According to this page: https://better.fyi/trackers/acidpigs.com/
On cnbc.com, the blocker blocker script provided by “Admiral” is served from acidpigs.com.

According to this page: https://www.neowin.net/news/anti-ad-blocking-firm-admiral-deals-potentially-damaging-blow-to-adblockers
Admiral, an anti-ad blocking company, which was behind the removal of the link said the domain is part of the DMCA copyright access control platform.

The link referred to in that case was "functionalclam.com". It sounds like Admiral uses a lot of weird domain names like that for serving its scripts.

According to this page: https://better.fyi/trackers/receptivereaction.com/
Admiral is owned by Leven Labs, Inc, and:
Alongside “receptivereaction.com” and “resonantrock.com”, Leven Labs seem to follow a pattern of alliterative domain names.

But obviously they don't only use alliterative ones anymore.

I'm feeling increasingly alienated from other people. But actually, no. I already felt that way. About everyone actually. Every single one. My mom, after having had a bit too much to drink perhaps, said a couple of things which disappointed me. And I thought, even her, such words? But she, like so many others, loves her God that she believes in. So, I was already alienated from her in that regard. This was just one more thing.

I'm free. Free as a bee without a hive.

But I still get along fine with people. Everyone seems fine and sane and dandy until they speak on certain topics.

Today I downloaded this year's tax forms, and printed out the ones I'll need. This is the first year since 2014 I got that done before March. So I'm a step ahead, yay. Can't say when I'll get the forms filled in, but still. Might be tomorrow even.

I also got registered on my company's new 401k website. That was quite a hassle. 401k websites are some of the most unfriendly ones I've encountered. Both the old one and the new one. Turns out I already had an account on the new one. Apparently from about 20 years ago, when my company was dealing with them before under a different name.

me: Register as a new user
site: You've already got an account! Do you want to find out your user name, or reset your password?
me: Find out my user name.
site: Your user name doesn't adhere to our new standards. You have to change it! In order to change it, you need to tell us your password.
me: Cancel
me: Register as a new user
site: You've already got an account! Do you want to find out your user name, or reset your password?
me: Reset password
site: We've sent you a verification code to your email address
me: Oh, so I don't need to know my old user name in order to reset my password. That's a relief. Here's the code
site: Cool! You can change your password now. And by the way, you need to change your user name too.
...
me: Ok, all done. Now where's my 2019 account statement?
site: I've only got data starting from 12/31/2019 because that's when the transfer happened.
me: That makes sense. But wait, you don't even provide downloadable PDF statements? I have to save a screenshot each time? This site is no improvement over the old one.

Yesterday I went through old paper documents from work and got rid of a big stack of mostly obsolete stuff. I scanned a bunch of stuff too. Now there is space in the cabinet for new papers.

I read some articles yesterday about accidents in the last few years involving self-driving cars. I hadn't realized there were normal cars with that functionality already being used by normal drivers, as opposed to special cars still being trained and tested by special people. It's a sorta scary thought, that some of the cars I encounter on the road may not react like a human-driven car would.

My mom has worked for the census before, and applied again this year.

This time, she keeps having an odd problem when trying to log in to the applicant site, where the page immediately gives a message that her account has been temporarily suspended due to too many invalid login attempts, and to wait an hour before trying again. This has happened on several different days, even on her first login attempt of the day. But other times it logs in ok.

I'm thinking it must be a problem with the website. But from doing a few searches, I haven't seen anyone else post about this problem.

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regular website hours

time.com's pages have some problems too.

paywalls

digital subscription problems - wired.com and time.com

Patreon billing models

Bandcamp

Ring's Neighbors app

chatGPT and trust

oh swell, still not done with it.

Nextdoor emails

SoundCloud notification emails

candidates, primary election, website problems

tone of Nextdoor posts

wordle stats [resolved]

v-safe vaccine symptom reporter tool

what does it say about itself

webpage tracking

strange domain names: acidpigs

silent night, weary and bright

Census jobs website problem