Equifax doesn't actually send an annual credit report. What they will send is a credit report if it has been 365 days since the last time they sent an annual credit report, and since they will not send it on a weekend, if you order one on the same day, you will not always get it if you ask for it on the exact same day. So some years you actually have to wait more than one year for their "annual" credit year. For me, this year I got a letter from them "We received your request for a copy of your annual free credit report from Equifax. However, our records indicate that a free copy already has been sent to you in the past 12 months." This is BS since I requested it last year on January 1, 2020, and I ordered it this year on January 1, 2021. (Experian and Transunion do not have this problem.)
Another comment is that it would be better for consumers if the law just required sending a credit report every year instead of every 365 days.
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Friday, December 4, 2020
circuitpython example with text
Now with some text as well (and I grant this python code to the public domain as well.)
import time
import board
import displayio
import digitalio
import vectorio
import gamepadshift
import terminalio
BUTTON_LEFT = 128
BUTTON_UP = 64
BUTTON_DOWN = 32
BUTTON_RIGHT = 16
BUTTON_SELECT = 8
BUTTON_START = 4
BUTTON_A = 2
BUTTON_B = 1
print('About to begin.')
for i in range(3,0,-1):
print(i)
time.sleep(0.2)
circle = vectorio.Circle(10)
circle2 = vectorio.Circle(6)
display = board.DISPLAY
palette = displayio.Palette(2)
palette[0] = 0x000000
palette[1] = 0xFFFFFF
palette.make_transparent(0)
def get_char_tile(c, x, y):
g = terminalio.FONT.get_glyph(ord(c))
tile = displayio.TileGrid(g.bitmap, pixel_shader=palette, tile_width=g.width, tile_height=g.height, default_tile=g.tile_index, x=x, y=y)
return tile
def get_string_group(s, x, y):
text_w, text_h = terminalio.FONT.get_bounding_box()
group = displayio.Group(max_size=len(s))
for i, c in enumerate(s):
group.append(get_char_tile(c, x+text_w*i, y))
return group
palette2 = displayio.Palette(2)
palette2[0] = 0xFF0000
palette2[1] = 0x0000FF
palette2.make_transparent(0)
vect = vectorio.VectorShape(shape=circle, pixel_shader=palette)
vect2 = vectorio.VectorShape(shape=circle2, pixel_shader=palette2, x=5, y=-5)
s = get_string_group("Hey World!",15,0)
vect3 = vectorio.VectorShape(shape=vectorio.Rectangle(2, 10), pixel_shader=palette2)
move_group = displayio.Group()
move_group.append(vect)
move_group.append(vect2)
group = displayio.Group()
group.append(move_group)
group.append(s)
group.append(vect3)
display.show(group)
#display.show(group2)
group.x = 20
group.y = 20
pad = gamepadshift.GamePadShift(digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.BUTTON_CLOCK),
digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.BUTTON_OUT),
digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.BUTTON_LATCH))
button = 0
while button != BUTTON_START:
button = pad.get_pressed()
if button & BUTTON_UP == BUTTON_UP:
move_group.y += -1
if button & BUTTON_DOWN == BUTTON_DOWN:
move_group.y += 1
if button & BUTTON_LEFT == BUTTON_LEFT:
move_group.x += -1
if button & BUTTON_RIGHT == BUTTON_RIGHT:
move_group.x += 1
time.sleep(0.01)
move_group.x %= display.width
move_group.y %= display.height
Simple pybadge circuitpython code example
I just got a pybadge, and I was trying to find an example that used the display but only used the core libraries. I couldn't find one, so here it is. I grant this code to the public domain.
import time
import board
import displayio
import digitalio
import vectorio
import gamepadshift
BUTTON_LEFT = 128
BUTTON_UP = 64
BUTTON_DOWN = 32
BUTTON_RIGHT = 16
BUTTON_SELECT = 8
BUTTON_START = 4
BUTTON_A = 2
BUTTON_B = 1
print('About to begin.')
for i in range(3,0,-1):
print(i)
time.sleep(0.2)
circle = vectorio.Circle(10)
circle2 = vectorio.Circle(6)
palette = displayio.Palette(2)
palette[0] = 0x000000
palette[1] = 0xFFFFFF
palette.make_transparent(0)
palette2 = displayio.Palette(2)
palette2[0] = 0xFF0000
palette2[1] = 0x0000FF
palette2.make_transparent(0)
vect = vectorio.VectorShape(shape=circle, pixel_shader=palette)
vect2 = vectorio.VectorShape(shape=circle2, pixel_shader=palette2, x=5, y=-5)
group = displayio.Group()
group.append(vect)
group.append(vect2)
display = board.DISPLAY
display.show(group)
group.x = 20
group.y = 20
pad = gamepadshift.GamePadShift(digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.BUTTON_CLOCK),
digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.BUTTON_OUT),
digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.BUTTON_LATCH))
button = 0
while button != BUTTON_START:
button = pad.get_pressed()
if button == BUTTON_UP:
group.y += -1
elif button == BUTTON_DOWN:
group.y += 1
elif button == BUTTON_LEFT:
group.x += -1
elif button == BUTTON_RIGHT:
group.x += 1
time.sleep(0.01)
group.x %= display.width
group.y %= display.height
Sunday, November 8, 2020
How Trump Changed America
"Seeking to understand rather than be understood requires a suppression of ego that takes practice. Lots of us are out of practice."
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-trump-changed-america/
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Don't vote for Trump
In 2016 American voters did not know whom they were getting. Now they do. They would be voting for division and lying. They would be endorsing the trampling of norms and the shrinking of national institutions into personal fiefs. They would be ushering in climate change that threatens not only distant lands but Florida, California and America’s heartlands. They would be signalling that the champion of freedom and democracy for all should be just another big country throwing its weight around. Re-election would put a democratic seal on all the harm Mr Trump has done.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/29/why-it-has-to-be-biden
Friday, September 25, 2020
MeWe 400 bad request
I have tried to create an account at MeWe multiple times, on two different ISPs spaced months apart (June and September of 2020), on Firefox, Chromium and Safari on Fedora, Ubuntu and macOS and every single time I get a 400 Bad Request when it tries to access
https://mewe.com/api/v3/auth/register
Posting because this in not in their support page, and no one else seems to have posted about this problem.
Please don't vote for Donald Trump
I request that you do not vote for Donald Trump.
Since he became president, he has demonstrated in many ways that he is not qualified to be president.
There are three main things that President Trump has done that stand out in my mind.
The first was after Mueller testified in congress about Russian attempts to influence the US 2016 elections. On July 24, 2019, Mueller said "Over the course of my career, I’ve seen a number of challenges to our democracy. The Russian government’s effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious." What did Trump do after this? Did he talk to Mitch McConnell and tell him to have the senate figure out how to fix this? Did Trump talk to the State Department, the CIA, NSA or FBI on how to fix Russian influence? No, Trump called up the President of the Ukraine and told him to announce an investigation of Joe Biden. Trump's response to Mueller's warning about foreign interference was to try and create more foreign interference. (Note: Even if you say or can prove that Mueller never should have started investigating Trump's campaign, my point still stands, Trump has done very little (he did make EO 13848) about the well documented Russian interference in the 2016 election).
The second was the whole set of Trump comments on Slow Down Testing. On Saturday, June 20th, 2020 he said: "When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please!'" On June 23rd he said he doesn't kid and posted a related tweet. One of the better ways to get out of this covid-19 problem is to test as much as possible so we find the cases and we can then isolate the people with covid-19 instead of having to isolate everyone. So Trump suggested to slow down testing, and then repeated it multiple times over the next few days. In other words, Trump could not figure out how stupid slowing down testing is despite having days to think about it. Trump should have been asking to speed up testing.
The third is honesty. Trump lies. From the first day in office when he lied about the number of people attending his inauguration to saying that all of Portland is on fire and has been for decades, Trump lies. (I've been to Portland in the past few years, and the city was not burning then and while the riots have occasionally set fires, they are fairly limited, saying the whole city is ablaze was an outright lie.)
So, please do not vote for Trump.
References:
Mueller Testimony:
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/454481-read-muellers-opening-statement-about-russia-investigation
Mueller Report:
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume1.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume2.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_appendices.pdf
Whistleblower letter about July 25th phone call:
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf
EO 13848, Trump's September 12th, 2018 executive order on Foreign Interference:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/
Review of FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation:
https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf
Trump quips that he told aides to 'slow the testing down' for coronavirus:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/503758-trump-quips-that-he-told-aides-to-slow-the-testing-down-for-coronavirus
Trump: "I don't kid" on coronavirus testing:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/504060-trump-i-dont-kid-on-coronavirus-testing
Donald Trump, June 23, 2020: "Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!"
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275381670561095682
Trump on Inaugural Crowd Size:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315484-trump-defends-size-of-his-inaugural-crowd
Trump false claims that Portland is on fire and has been for decades:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/01/donald-trump/we-are-not-fire-authorities-dispute-trumps-false-c/
Trump claims the Portland on fire "or a city like Portland, where the entire city is ablaze all the time":
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-august-8-31-2020/
A more complete list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/reasons-why-donald-trump-is-unfit-to-be-president
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