Ads, masquarading as surveys, by the Trump 2020 election campaign have been appearing on a lot of the news sites and blogs I read such as Raw Story. I’ve filled out a few of those “surveys”. They have the sort of questions you would expect. For example, “Do you think the mainstream news media has treated Trump fairly?” To which I check “no”. In fact, my response to every single question makes it crystal clear I wouldn’t vote for Drumpf to be the town dog catcher let alone President of the USA.

A few days ago Eric Trump, son of Donald Trump, stated on Fox & Friends that “95% of the country is behind him”. Which is obviously absurd since even the most popular presidents have never had an approval rating that high. Too, Trump has yet to have his approval rating exceed the percentage who disapprove of his job performance. So the question is where did Eric get that figure? I have a good idea after clicking on a web ad asking me to take a survey about Donald Trump.

Quartz reports: People feel strongly about straws, and US president Donald Trump is here to capitalize on that. “Liberal paper straws don’t work,” tweeted Trump’s campaign, with a link to purchase a pack of 10 red plastic straws emblazoned with Trump’s name for $15. If you think all that’s outrageous about a $1.50 plastic straw is the price, think again. For environmentalists, plastic straws have become a potent symbol for the toxic and persistent scourge of single-use plastic—an everyday item that can be easily eliminated from use, not unlike the plastic bag.

The grocery market closest to my home has started selling Beyond Meat burgers. When I saw it on sale for $1 less than its usual retail price ($5.99 vs $6.99) I decided to give it a try. Let me start by saying I enjoyed the taste and the experience of cooking a Beyond Meat burger. Having said that I think anyone who regularly eats beef burgers will easily identify this as not a beef burger.

Last night I was at my local Grocery Outlet. They had some Mama Mary’s whole grain pizza crusts. I wasn’t intending to make pizza but decided to give them a try since they were heavily discounted (which should have been a warning sign). Even before baking the pizza I had my doubts. The crust was very stiff and was pockmarked with holes on both sides that is the hallmark of cheap, mechanically produced, pizza crust.

As I wrote in my previous blog post I recently switched from Apache+Wordpress to Caddy+Hugo. But looking at the Caddy access log I was perplexed to see almost no attacks being logged. So I looked at the caddy.log. Bingo! It contains lots of warnings like this: 2018/11/14 16:32:26 [INFO] 73.189.179.153 - No such site at :80 (Remote: 59.110.139.59, Referer: ) 2018/11/14 17:45:02 [INFO] skepticism.us - No such site at :80 (Remote: 181.

I have never been very happy about using WordPress for my blog. Granted, that is mostly because I’ve been running it on my home server. Which means keeping Apache, WordPress and PHP up to date. Not to mention configuring that stack of software. Especially doing things like adding rewrite rules to Apache to minimize the risk that I would be hacked by someone trying to exploit WordPress/PHP vulnerabilities. And over the years I’ve had several breakages when I’ve updated my OS or any of the aforementioned packages.

Mr. Carter seems to think he is running for office in the Republic of Gilead (see “The Handmaid’s Tale”) rather than the USA. He is either lying or too stupid to hold public office if he thinks “one nation under God” was in the original version of the pledge of allegiance. He also claims to be for “common sense in government” which is ironic since religious leaders tend to have very little common sense.

Two and a half years ago I noticed the Apache mod_dumpio module does not include null bytes (or the data which follows those null bytes) in its output. So I searched the Apache Bugzilla database and found bz#57045 which someone had opened a year earlier. So I wrote a patch and attached it to the bugzilla issue. When I noticed the issue I was using the then current 2.4.16 release. There have been 13 bug fix releases since then (it’s now at 2.

I frequently find myself wanting to perform an operation on all the files modified in the workspace or staging error. For example, run edit all the files or run them through a tool like clang-format or oclint. If there are no uncommitted changes I want to work with all the files in the most recent commit in the branch. To do this I wrote a gitfiles fish shell function (transforming this to bash should be trivial):