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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • As soon as Constantine saw the bag, he knew that he had wasted his time. The bag was flat, and no blood seeped from it. It clearly didn’t contain the prisoner’s head.

    But the expression on Phrantzes’s face wasn’t one of disappointment. Rather, he looked distracted, confused, as though he was walking while dreaming.

    “She hasn’t retrieved what we wanted, has she?” the emperor asked.

    Phrantzes took the bag from Helena, placed it on the emperor’s desk, and opened it. He stared at the emperor as though he was looking at a ghost. “She almost did.”

    The emperor looked inside the bag. Something grayish and soft was nestled on the bottom, like old mutton suet. Phrantzes moved the candelabra closer.

    “It’s the brain of that Anatolian.”

    “She cut open his skull?” Constantine glanced at Helena. She trembled in her cloak like a frightened mouse.

    “No, the corpse of the prisoner appeared intact. I had twenty men observe him, five men per watch, keeping him in their sight from different angles. The guards at the cellar door were also on extra alert; not even a mosquito could have entered the space.” Phrantzes paused, as though stricken by his own memories.

    The emperor nodded at him to continue.

    “Two hours after she left, the prisoner went into sudden convulsions and fell down dead. Among the observers at the scene were an experienced Greek doctor and veterans of many battles—none could recall anyone dying in this particular manner. An hour later, she returned and showed them this bag. The Greek doctor then cut open the corpse’s skull. It was empty.”











  • Pihole is like a network wide ad/telemetry block and unbound is a recursive dns server, so rather than using cloud flare or Google to connect to a web address, it can cache or save those sites after you connect to them once with the help of one of those external parties that you visit and help to make the connection without broadcasting to other companies that you’re trying to connect to that site.

    I’d say that’s it in a nutshell but I’m sure someone more technical will tell me why I’m wrong







  • “The agreement resolves a False Claims Act lawsuit and has no admission of wrongdoing or liability,” Kaiser’s statement says. “We chose to settle to avoid the delay, uncertainty, and cost of prolonged litigation.”

    Kaiser’s statement added that other health insurers and providers have faced similar scrutiny over the ways they have billed Medicare.

    “The Kaiser Permanente case was not about the quality of care our members received. It involved a dispute about how to interpret the Medicare risk adjustment program’s documentation requirements,” the health plan’s statement said.