<p>I have a job now. I think. I've done my orientation but I'm yet to receive a schedule. I'm working in retail, specifically in the meat department. I won't disclose the name of the store, but they were very keen that I know the company started as a small meat delivery business before expanding into the multi-billion dollar national retail conglomerate they are today.</p>
<p>More importantly, I've finally switched domain registrars. I was using Domain.com, and I have a lot of gripes with them:</p>
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<summary>Gripes</summary>
<ul>
<li>The UI is bloated, slow, and overly javascript-y, like it's trying and failing to be an app</li>
<li>My ability to access their website via anything but Chromium with no VPN is spotty at best</li>
<li>I had to go through support to get <spantitle="Like an A record, but for IPv6. Basically, A and AAAA records are the DNS records that point your computer to an IP address when you enter a URL. Very important.">AAAA records</li> added to my domains. There's just not an option in the UI for it.</li>
<li>I've still got upcoming bills for my domains AFTER transferring them away with no obvious way to cancel them or remove payment information</li>
<li>No clear way to delete my account either</li>
<li>Also, they charge extra for WHOIS privacy</li>
</ul>
</details>
<p>All in all, very dubious. Steer clear. I now recommend Porkbun. It's the registrar I switched to and it fixes every complaint I had with Domain.com. Plus, it's much cheaper.</p>
<p>I'm tightening up my security practices, bit by bit. Just this week I've set up KeePassXC, <spantitle="This lets me give out customized email addresses to every website that asks for one so I don't have to reveal my real one. hmu at sussybaka.uwu@bathynomus.xyz">created a catch-all custom email domain in protonmail</span>, and purchased a Yubikey.</p>
<p>I also upgraded my Protonmail subscription to Proton Unlimited recently, and started using Proton VPN on account of I'm allowed more than one connection now and Unlimited is actually cheaper than paying for Protonmail Plus and Mozilla VPN separately. Funny thing, Proton VPN is also just better. Mozilla VPN is alright, but it's lacking features and you don't get very granular control over which server you're connecitng to, just which city it's in. Proton VPN gives you hundreds of different servers to choose from, sometimes dozens per city, with handy little indicators of which ones are good for streaming/torrenting/being routed through Tor. It's also got DNS leak protection, an automatic killswitch, and a built-in adblocker(!), none of which Mozilla VPN offers. My favorite feature, though I have no use for it currently, is the ability to hook your router up to it and pipe your entire network through it. They literally advertise that you can do this.</p>
<p>Good talk. It is now 3 AM and I need to sleep. Goodnight.</p>
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<h2>2023-01-23</h2>
<p>I've been trying to get more exercise recently. To that end, I've been going on walks. Crazy idea, I know. There's a forest near my house with a network of trails I've been using, it's nice.</p>
will
1 year ago