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Happy birthday to Naomi and Gabriel! And happy birthday to Eliyahu as well! And congratulations to my nephew Chaim for completing his degree! And congratulations to Sarah, we hope, for keeping her job!

Sarah’s job was supposed to run through September, since she’s filling in for a woman on maternity-leave. But that woman decided to return to work much earlier, so Sarah was up for the chop. Fortunately, they offered her two other positions; at present, I don’t know which she’ll take, but either is better than not having a job.

Since we ran out of wine this past ''shabbat'', we made a trip this week to the liquor store to refill our stock. I’m embarrassed to say, the owner was very happy to see us and greeted us with gusto. We hadn’t been there since before ''pesaḥ'', so he wondered what had become of us. Fortunately, he hadn’t run out of wine.

A friend in need, is a friend indeed.

I spent considerable effort his week on two main projects. First, resuscitating Esther’s old laptop. Second, migrating my web and email server to new hardware.

Esther’s laptop suddenly stopped working about a year ago now, and we sent it in for repairs. The repair person returned the laptop claiming it was fixed, but it was in fact, “not fixed”. So though I was mightily displeased, I decided to find alternatives. I spoke with someone I knew, who led me through some diagnostics and eventually came to the conclusion that the charger and battery were the actual problems. So I asked, “how much?”, and decided I could do better ordering on-line.

Due to the COVID hysteria of this past year, we didn’t have the opportunity to get the parts, so we took advantage of our recent US trip to get them (for much, much, less than the repair person quoted). I put the parts in the laptop this week (in about 20 minutes), and voilà! the machine works like a champ. If you want an anti-recommendation for a repair-person in Jerusalem, you can ask me privately…

The second task was a lot longer and more difficult. My previous server was an old laptop with a broken screen, which I repurposed as a server quite a long time ago. The new server is a [https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCKPro64_Main_Page ROCKPro64] which was given to me, with a 500Gb NVMe disk attached to it. No moving parts, and uses much less electricity.

I’ll spare you all the details, but since the new machine is running a very new OS (the [https://www.armbian.com Armbian] hardware-specific port of Ubuntu 20.04.2 “Focal”) and the old one had started out on Ubuntu 12.04 and been migrated up over the years, there were a lot of things which were done in an obsolete way, so I had to do some retooling.

That’s one reason why the blog email this time is a direct email, and not from an email-list. That’s the way it’ll be going forward. This is the way.

Bits and pieces:
* A [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1395555636650430467.html long thread] highlighting recent [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljs18AM2AGI antisemitic attacks] in America and Europe.
* The mayor of Chicago is an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsEOIMxPpw4 overt racist]. As “Dumpster Fire” says, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5SAFPxjiQA everything about this is bad].
* The considerable (if circumstantial) [https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/the-considerable-if-circumstantial-evidence-of-a-wuhan-lab-leak/ evidence] of a Wuhan lab leak. [https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-says-hes-not-convinced-covid-19-developed-naturally-calls-for-further-investigation/ Even Fauci] doesn't rule it out. Likewise [https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038 this science reporter]. It can no longer be dismissed as solely a “conspiracy theory”. Consequences? Unlikely, for the PRC, anyway.
* New tech might give us [https://newatlas.com/aircraft/oblique-wave-detonation-engine-hypersonic-ucf/ Mach-17 aircraft]. TL;DR: that means possibly sub-thirty-minute flights from NY to LA. Of course, you'd still end up in LA…
* Another tech advance gives [https://newatlas.com/automotive/mahle-magnet-free-electric-traction-motor/ electric motors which don't need magnets]. TL;DR: less dependence on China for “rare-earth” materials, and more reliable motors.
* Cloudflare [https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-wants-to-kill-the-captcha/ wants to kill the “CAPTCHA”]. Who doesn’t? But their solution involves “security keys”, which can then be used to determine who (of a group, at least) is using the browser. This is a bad, bad, idea (because: privacy).
* And: scientists reliably predict age by [https://www.nmn.com/news/scientists-reliably-predict-age-by-measuring-blood-proteins measuring blood proteins]. The rest of us will have to rely on birth-certificates.

The weather will be hot and not-hot for ''shabbat'', becoming very hot during the week. Summertime, and the living is roasting…

Because Esther is toodling off to Tel Aviv this morning to engaging in public-knitting, it’s up to me to make the ''shabbat'' food. ''caveat eator''.

My ''shabbat'' menu highlights:<br>
homemade ''ḥalla'' (Esther’s, from the freezer),
[https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/potato-leek-soup/ potato-leek soup],
[https://jewishfoodexperience.com/recipes/fesenjoon/ ''fesenjan''],
[https://www.themediterraneandish.com/tahdig-recipe-crispy-persian-rice/ Persian rice (tahdig)],
roasted peppers,
[https://www.eatingbirdfood.com/roasted-sweet-potato-salad/ roasted sweet potato salad],
cabbage salad,
various ''salatim'',
and cupcakes (also from the freezer).

Until next time,<br>
''shabbat shalom''!

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