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Jonathan Corona
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Wasn't really till recently I needed to sync something over to my iPhone from my windows pc.
I had noticed iTunes no longer recognized my phone and thought that was a bit strange.

Come to find out, they made a new Apple Devices app for iPhone.
Took away the only way to load audio books to iBooks. Was very unfortunate and sad.

There is a bright lining to this.
They at least opened up your ability to load anything you want on the iPhone using icloud drive.

I did end up getting what I needed on my iPhone, just a sign of the times.

Side note, I saw this image on Vivaldi browser and it made me chuckle.  It's apt for this situation. 
A developer with a sense a humor it seems.  See alpha and beta stuff released for chromium they call canary. 
In coal mines, the miners use to carry around canaries as they would be the first to die, as a sign of trouble.

It is only fitting that untested stuff be called a canary build as the testers of such applications are akin to canaries... letting their systems hit the toxic bug infested crap before the rest of us can touch it.

2025/08/29 05:33 · jcorona

I don't know what happened but my TailScale exit node stopped working all the sudden for my home network traffic.

Didn't matter what I tried. Connected to the TailScale network, couldn't get internet on it.
I narrowed it down to flakey ICS and have a feeling if I just setup a Network adapter specifically for NAT, I could have bypassed ICS and got it working.

Decided to try Windows Subsystem for Linux and installed Debian.

Setup NAT on Debian and ip forwarding then installed Tailscale and advertised as an exit node.

Worked like a charm, my business IP is forwarded properly no matter where I am and I feel this will be the most reliable way to make my exit node never goes down.
Added WSL to a scheduled task so that it would reload with tailscale scan upon reboot.

Next step will be to eventually build a small linux server to host Tailscale, this website and my Plex server.

2025/08/29 01:57 · jcorona

First foray into sous vide tenderloin I would have to say was a complete success. It was actually not dry and very juicy.

Not very difficult to make and I love that you can actually leave it cooking for up to 4 hours before having to worry about it turning into mushy “mashed potato” texture.

Thoroughly cooked piece of meat and all thanks to the Anova Precision Sous Vide Circulator. The wonders of modern technology that something so simple looking can keep water at a constant 145°F. Could be that I'm easily impressed, but the temperature never dropped below that number.

Temp: 145°F (63°C) → USDA safe, juicy, no pink.
Time: 2 hours → That’s enough for this size pork loin to be pasteurized and cooked through.

Steps

Bag it up (already marinated, no need for extras unless you want pepper or oil).
Cook at 145°F for 2 hours.
Pull from the bag, pat dry, then sear in a hot skillet for 30–60 sec per side for crust.
Rest ~5 min, slice, and serve.

Keep Warm Window

After 2 hours, you can safely hold it in the water bath up to 4 hours total at 145°F. So if you start it exactly 2 hours before you’d like to eat, you’ll have a 2-hour buffer where it’ll stay juicy without going mushy.

👉 This way, you’ll hit perfect doneness at 2 hours, and if your guests are a little late, you’ve got wiggle room.

T-30 min (Now)

Leave the pork in the sous vide until you’re ready to sear (keeps it hot, won’t overcook in the next 30 min).
Get your instant mashed potato ingredients measured and ready (water, milk, butter). Don’t start cooking yet — they cook fast and are best served right away.
Wash and trim your asparagus.

T-20 min

Take pork out of the sous vide bag and pat it very dry with paper towels.
Let it rest on a plate while you prep the pan — drying it now gives you a better sear.
Season asparagus lightly (olive oil, salt, pepper, maybe garlic if you like).

T-15 min

Heat your cast iron skillet on medium-high heat until it’s just starting to smoke.
Start boiling water for your mashed potatoes (but don’t add the flakes yet).

T-12 min

Sear the pork loin first: add oil/butter to the skillet, sear pork on all sides (30–60 sec per side) until golden brown. Remove to a cutting board, tent with foil.
This gives you a flavorful pan base for the asparagus.

T-8 min

Lower heat slightly, toss in asparagus to sauté in the same cast iron (2–4 min, depending on thickness).
Add a squeeze of lemon at the end for brightness.

T-5 min

Make the instant mashed potatoes: remove boiling water from heat, stir in potato flakes, butter, milk/cream, and seasoning. This takes only 2–3 minutes.

T-2 min

Slice the pork into medallions.
Plate pork with asparagus on the side. Scoop mashed potatoes. Optionally drizzle reduced bag juices over pork.

Pork is hot and rested when sliced.
Asparagus is bright and not soggy.
Mashed potatoes are fresh and creamy.

2025/08/28 04:31 · jcorona

So AT&T did away with their Email To SMS gateway which isn't that great.
I was using it for my calendar reminders and ok…. it was awful… But it gave people the ability to send SMS messages to a phone number if you knew what provider they used.

I can see why they did away with it as I am sure there is so much spam that went out through it.

So I decided to build my own service through JAC Comptuer Services hosted on this greenguitarist.com server.
The platform I decided to with was Twilio.com.

Let me tell you there was a learning curve. about $50.00 later, I learned the hardway that it is practically impossible to pas A2P DLC10 registration for a local phone number.

This is not Twilio.com's fault as this is just regulation put in place thanks to all the spammers out there that made it hard for someone like me to use it for legitimate reasons.

So failing for the 4th time, even after getting a EIN number through the government… I noticed toll-free numbers are not required to do A2P DLC10 registration.
They instead have their own separate process.

Needless to say, I was slightly agititated that I didn't notice before, but hey, you live and you learn.

So here goes try number 5 but with a toll-free number now.
May the internet gods balance out this nightmare and let me get this idea off the ground.

2025/08/28 04:19 · jcorona

I had an interview at my job where the applicant answered my assessment questions with super textbook responses.

Too good to be true… Then I noticed his glasses. They had very small inconspicuous cameras on both the left and right side.

I thought to myself… those are smart glasses… possibly meta glasses.

This fella was probably using ChatGPT or Meta AI to listen to my questions and tell him how he should answer.
He also didn't use the mouse and keyboard to show me some of the things I was asking him, he was just blurting out the perfect answers.

I decided to throw him a question that might trip up the glasses if he was using ChatGPT to respond.

The question was, “How would you find how many hops it would take to get to an IP address?”.

His answer was 4 hops…. which makes absolutely no sense. The correct answer is TraceRT in command prompt.

He also answered some other questions with weird answers that made no sense.
Needless to say, it was a way to cheat an interview.

I looked up the glasses and sure enough, they definitely were the Meta Glasses