Operation: Have a Conversation

Genres: Business, Computer Science, Dystopian

Moods: Informative, Mysterious, Slow-paced

Three high school friends embark once again on their herculean mission: To stay in contact with each other as adults. Mikhail learns about signing certificates, Mark presents a hands-free reading solution, and Jack goes hard in the paint. Join this determined trio as they dive into the ever-growing stacks of annual book crates accumulating in the basement as they discuss novel organization in the modern world.

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Mourinho Disgust Meme

Barefoot Charles Albert

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS) | Wikipedia

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) vs HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) | Wikipedia

Certificate Authority (CA) | Wikipedia

Enabling HTTPS | Tailscale Docs

country-list-js | NPM

MouthPad – Hands-free mouse for computer control

Boox – E-Ink E-Book Readers

Xteink – E-Ink E-Book Readers

Calibre E-Book Management

StoryGraph – Book cataloguing platform

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky | Wikipedia

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Wikipedia

The Giver by Lois Lowry | Wikipedia

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau | Wikipedia

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | Wikipedia

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | Wikipedia

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury | Wikipedia

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | Wikipedia

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy | Wikipedia ​

If you learn the dark arts to battle the dark wizards, how long before you become a dark wizard yourself? Confront this and other riveting existential questions while listening to Jack, Mikhail, Mark, along with special guest and two-thumb fanatic, Matt, as they thoroughly wring their thoughts from their skulls. Matt gets a proper introduction, Mark has a bag reunion, Jack is definitely present for the entire episode why would you even ask, and Mikhail harvests off the radioactive glow of his friends that are plugged into the matrix. But most of all, all y’all need to step up your password management system. Stay safe out there.

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Pi-Hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking

Tailscale VPN

Mullvad VPN

Password Wallet

Bitwarden

1Password

ExApp (RPass) | Rippling

DocuSign 

Salesforce

Tandoor Recipes

Patreon CEO Jack Conte on supporting artists in the AI slop era | The Verge

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers | The Verge

OHAC 69: Bean Juice on Ice

Value4Value – A new way to think about value

Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralised communication

Mastodon (social network) | Wikipedia 

Tapestry | Iconfactory

James SA Corey Writes a Novel | Patreon

Nick Bare

Campaign Skyjacks | One Shot Podcast Network

OHAC: Two Thumbs Up

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https://ohacpodcast.com/category/uncategorized/feed

Free File – United States government service | Wikipedia

CONSUMER ALERT: Attorney General James Distributes $141 Million Settlement to Millions of Low-Income Americans Deceived by TurboTax Owner Intuit

IRS Direct File | Wikipedia

EDI – Electronic data interchange | Wikipedia

SaaSpocalypse (Software as a Service apocalypse) [citation needed]

Caffeine (macOS app)

Amphetamine (macOS app)

tmux | Wikipedia

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog | Wikipedia

Why Are “AI Coders” Carrying Open Laptops Through Airports and Gyms Now | ABP Live

Podman – Daemonless container engine

Docker – Container engine

Anaconda (Python distribution) | Wikipedia 

UV – Python package and project manager | Astral

Seaicecp – Initial Setup: Podman | Read the Docs (Mikhail’s notes on building a container)

The Container Commandos Coloring Book | Red Hat

Docker is deleting open source organizations | Alex Ellis  

Devin agent platform

TechSniper (OCR tool for macOS)

The Boring Internet | Terry Godier

Eternal September | Wikipedia

Usenet | Wikipedia 

Active users | Wikipedia – DAUs, WAUs, and MAUs (Daily/Weekly/Monthly Active Users)

Soma fm – internet radio

Cryptpad – open-source collaboration suite

Mimestream – A native macOS email client for Gmail

RSS – Really Simple Syndication | Wikipedia

What the HEIC is this? Another Corner-Case Corner takeover? Come fill your ear holes with mildly-informed accounts of niche technology issues as Mikhail appeals to a different government, Mark rides the post-Raising Canes roller coaster, and Jack fundamentally disagrees with almost every word you just said. In an enormous show of restraint, discussion on the Theory of Property and Value is curtailed and no one acknowledges any number-based humor.

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icloud_photos_downloader by AndreyNikiforov | GitHub

Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP)

OINP e-Filing Portal is unavailable (screenshot)

OINP contact page (screenshot)

Meta AI offers to summarize one (1) single-sentence WhatsApp message (screenshot)

ChatGPT in the Starbucks App (screenshot)

Ordering with the Starbucks ChatGPT app was a true coffee nightmare | The Verge

Hello Fresh unsubscribe attempt (screenshot)

Factor Meals

TaxSlayer

E-File: Do your taxes for free | IRS

My Free Taxes

CONSUMER ALERT: Attorney General James Distributes $141 Million Settlement to Millions of Low-Income Americans Deceived by TurboTax Owner Intuit

The only good reason to use image generating AI

FreeTaxUSA

Big Blog Update | For Your Consideration

WordPress.com owned by Automattic | Wikipedia

WordPress.org – An open source publishing platform

Gohugo – Framework for building websites

Netlify – Push your ideas to the web

Atkinson Hyperlegible font

Building this site with Hugo and GitHub pages | Mikhail

How did I make my personal academic website? | Nicole Paul

Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet? | Krebson Security

31.4 Tbps DDoS Attack Via Aisuru Botnet Breaks Internet With New World Record (“Night Before Christmas”)

DarkNet Diaries Podcast Episode 172: SuperBox

Tencent – Chinese conglomerate and holding company | Wikipedia

Affinity Plus Credit Union

Diskutil command: Disk utilities in MacOS

Xteink X3 – Ultra Compact Magnetic eReader

CrossPoint Reader – Open-source E-ink firmware for Xteink

Value4Value – A new way to think about value

Podcasting 2.0

Podcast Index

Adam Curry | Wikipedia

Self-Hosted podcast

Jupiter Broadcasting

Hedgehog / Frieza

OHAC 68: **PodcastEpisode.Description**

OHAC Podcast

To: you

Date of publication: 2026.03.21

Hosts:

– Mark (Click here to select speed of text-to-speech)

– Mikhail (Free upgrade in tolerance for black pepper)

– Jack (Reluctant appreciation for greeting cards included)

Contents:

– Introduction and Follow-up

    – Amount: 0:12:01

– Corner Case Corners

    – Amount: 0:31:19

– Work Trips

    – Amount: 0:49:19

– Hot Takes

     – Amount: 0:06:47

– Total: 1:39:26 

    – Includes rambles, anecdotes, sound effects, tangents, hot takes, and all other categories of musings

Your consumption of this podcast is non-refundable.

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Fedora Linux

GNOME desktop environment

Claude Code by Anthropic

Mark’s Markdown Reader

Mark’s blog Claude Built Me a Markdown Reader

2.5 Admins 289: Hunter2

Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design | Irregular

Tidal – High Fidelity Music Streaming

Subject line from an Apple email: **InvoiceEmail.Subject$CAN**

OHAC 44: Love Triangle of Concerns – Panera Bread Email Error ​

Look at this graph. Every time I do, it makes me gasp. How is it that those sets of points didn’t show? And where the hell did the purple line go? 

iOS 26 has bugs, I’m so fed up. I think Apple should really fix it up. Maybe Mikhail should try something else. Open-source OS is a whole world unto itself. 

This episode is all about themes, reflecting on the year and lessons gleaned. Mark tries bouldering again. The Strava map was quite intense.

Jack had his Year of the Athlete. Now his podcasting performances will be elite. Life’s better with a sense of direction. Such a good state of mind to be in. Oh, whoa. Oh God I. 

Every memory of setting me some healthy goals, helps with the motivation to every day just keep going. Will we make it? Will we make it? We’ll try. Stand by.

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WordPress podcast duration in RSS feeds

Matplotlib – Visualization with Python

Mikhail’s plots: With bug

Mikhail’s plots: Without bug

T430 Laptop (ThinkPad) | Lenovo

CTFTime – All about CTF (Capture the Flag)

Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)

Pop!_OS by System76

iOS 26 | Wikipedia

iPadOS 26 Calendar bug

iOS 26 autocorrecting “Youre”

Mark’s Tinted homescreen

Mark’s Clear homescreen

Mark’s Original homescreen

PinePhone by PINE64

GrapheneOS

LineageOS

MacOS Tahoe | Wikipedia

OHAC 60: I’ll Meet You Guys at the Pommel Horse (2025 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 54: Crowd-Sourced Rube Goldberg Machine (2024 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 47: Doctors Hate Them – Extremely Legal Tactical Journaling (2023 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 42: In the Non-Lethal Way (2022 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 30: I’m an Agent of Chaos (2021 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 21: 18 Pounds of Meat in the Mail (2020 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 14: Happiness is Shallow (2019 Yearly Themes)

Mikhail’s 2025 theme: Year of Compassion

Mikhail’s 2026 theme: Year of Resiliency

Mark’s 2025 theme: Year of Fitness

Strava

Mark bouldering on Strava

Fitbod

Jamie Oliver | Wikipedia

Mark’s 2026 theme: Year of the Kitchen

Jack’s 2025 theme: Year of the Athlete

Jack’s 2026 theme: Year of Performance

It’s time to look back at the time we’ve spent together! Here’s your OHAC Recapitulation:

What a journey we’ve had so far. Anyway, in this episode, Jack, Mikhail, and Mark deliberate the finer points of how to best accomplish real-time sharing of cursor location in a text document.

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Open tabs and links in split view | Google Chrome

Split View: View Multiple Tabs at Once

Tree Style Tab by Piro (piro_or) | Firefox Add-On

ATP Episode 96: The Windows of Siracusa County

Self-Hosted episode 32: Google Turning the Screw

David Heinemeier Hanson (DHH)

DHH’s Blog: We have left the cloud

Mark’s Blog: Local LLM Thesaurus

Ollama | GitHub

Mistral AI | Wikipedia

Enchanted | GitHub

Nvidia

At 53, Chris fell in love with an AI | YouTube

Discord Checkpoint 2025 (year in review)

Spotify Wrapped | Wikipedia

Apple Music Replay

Pocket Casts Playback

YouTube Recap

Spotify Addresses King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard AI Slop “Cover Band”

TIDAL

Don’t be evil – Former motto of Google | Wikipedia

Notes | Apple iCloud

CryptPad 

HedgeDoc

Official Cursor-Resting Area | GitHub

Proton Sheets 

Proton Docs

HackMD

Obsidian Sync

LaTeX

Coelacanth

Unlike the post-2020 MLB postseason, we’re gonna keep this short. Mark adopts a bean, Mikhail runs into yet another Colemak corner case, and Jack believes in magic. Enjoy.

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Premium text-to-speech voices on Apple devices

Mikhail’s blog post – Using remote Jupyter Notebooks on iPad

Notability

MullvadVPN

The app gets stuck in a connecting loop at startup | MullvadVPN GitHub issue

Forest app

Hank Green’s Focus Friend app (i.e., the cause of Mikhail’s drop in audio quality)

Add colemak keyboard layout | linux.debian.maint.boot Google Group

Include Dvorak Native Brazilian in list of keyboard layouts | Debian Bug report logs – #698322: ”Sorry but, just like other request for including Yet Another Dvorak Layout in Debian Installer, I’ll close this one.”

DisplayBuddy (monitor volume setting)

xarray.open_dataset() documentation (`mask_and_scale` parameter)

Major League Baseball postseason | Wikipedia

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CA DMV – Moving out of state

AZ DOT – Do I need to let you know when I move and register my vehicle in another state?

PTE Core English test

Jack’s graph

Firefox vertical tabs

Manage tabs in Chrome

Orion browser vertical tabs

Termius – Modern SSH Client

Project Jupyter

Port forwarding | Wikipedia

Flowchart for Mikhail’s iPad coding setup

iPad OS 26 introduces new windowing system

Ferrite Recording Studio

Lap steel guitar | Wikipedia

SpongeBob Squarepants Music: Lap Steel | SoundCloud

Time Machine Backups Interfere with Internet Access | MacRumors

Apple Shortcuts

Obsidian

Praise sandwich | Wikipedia

Radford job leveling | Aon

Slack | Set your Enter key preference

A World Without Email – Cal Newport

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Inglorious Basterds Three Finger Meme

Klack – Mechanical Keyboard Sounds

Backblaze

Front – Email Client

CA DMV – Moving out of state

AZ DOT – Do I need to let you know when I move and register my vehicle in another state?

Paul Bunyan Plumbing

ServiceTitan – Software for the Trades

John Gruber | Wikipedia

Markdown

The Talk Show – ‘A Professional Internet User’, with Vlad Prelovac

DuckDuckGo

Kagi Search – A Premium Search Engine

Orion Browser by Kagi

PTE Core English Exam | Pearson

Pearson Testing $18.2M BIPA Class Action Settlement 

23andMe Data Breach Settlement: $30M Deal Covers Millions Whose Info Was Stolen 

Lopez v. Apple Inc. Case No. 4:19-cv-04577-JSW

23andMe | Wikipedia

Reasonable person | Wikipedia

South Park – HumancentiPad | Wikipedia 

6 Days to Air | Wikipedia

Incongi – Data Broker Removal Service

Vimtutor | Vimschool