High of 60 today in Massachusetts and we'll be cycling between 40s/50s with another potential 60 day next week

Completely standard New England weather pattern bouncing between seasons all winter with almost no snowfall

I'd settle for just 9am meetings with all the 8 and 8:30s encroaching on my usual catching up on emails in peace time slot :P

Like the turnout for last month's election in Newton was 27% of registered voters - so we can say of that 27% the majority did support pulling back on zoning for density but less clear as to whether that's really what a majority of residents think or just the subset that showed up off-cycle
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That's the tough issue to crack, I'd imagine most people don't have strong feelings either way but the anti-development crowd is dedicated and turns out in force to meetings and off year elections so they end up setting the tone
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Roughly - they kept what was needed to meet MBTA Community Act requirements along with Auburndale (due to the CR stop) but removed six villages which were part of the original plan but not on the two rail lines

About 400 more than minimum but 700 less than originally proposed

Yes, approved by the outgoing council 21-2, wide enough margin that the council changes wouldn’t have impacted but it was scaled down partially because of the election results

Watching OpenAI getting ready to give X a run for it's money in the corporate collapse speedrun category is indeed pretty wild

Ah, yeah you're right, had Waban mixed up with the Elliot/Woodland stops, it's included at the very start of the Waban-Newton Center green line corridor which is part of the MBTA communities zoning

Not thrilled to see Chestnut Hill and Waban conveniently excluded as with the new council those are probably going to be dead in the water but OK with including Auburndale if that ensures we can finally get the commuter rail stops properly rebuilt

Newton hasn't rejected it yet - the city council is having an off-cycle meeting tonight to debate and "likely" vote on at least the changes needed to meet state law

What might get cut out are the village centers that aren't a part of meeting state requirements

I had to have two done earlier in the year, taking donor tissue from the roof of the mouth is still a thing but uh.. They used -plenty- of novocaine, like six or seven jabs to make sure anything and everything in the area was numb

No local anesthetic sounds like straight up nightmare fuel

Steam deck is pretty nifty between the design and Arch-based OS but every time I think about getting one I glance at my Switch which pretty much lives in it's dock 24/7 :P

Still running a dedicated desktop for gaming paired with a laptop for non-gaming stuff, thought about merging them but not a fan of bulky gaming laptops so the tower stays

Feel like we've got a solid solution to "more shit to carry" with device passkeys, just needs a bit of time to build up support and streamline. Legal side is going to be the tricky one to try and solve

If it's any consolation, us security practitioners aren't too keen on that either

The challenge is one part making sure all the supporting controls are in place to not need to care about password rotation and one part changing corporate IT policy being comparable to electing a new house speaker

And on the headscratcher side, from the same report apparently part of their malware investigation process was to.. Scan the IT member's laptop with the -free- version of Malwarebytes?