Posts from @seattlea

My Actifit Report Card: October 22 2026

seattlea — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:08:15 GMT

Actifit seems to be only partially functional today hopefully it is at least going to let me post today, so I will not write much in case it doesn't work.
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22/10/2026

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Walking,Daily Activity

My Actifit Report Card: October 21 2026

seattlea — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:42:51 GMT

Never a dull day, today the big news was that Artificial Intelligence discovered a few major security vulnerabilities in PHP that has been around for about ten years.

About eighty percent of websites use PHP technology, fortunately we don't use it other than on a few little brochure websites that we run on WordPress, but we went on a search of everything that might have PHP.

Since I went to downtown Seattle today I had a nice and long lunchtime workout in our office gym and together with walking to and from the train and a visit to Fred Myers I got some really nice steps today.
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21/10/2026

21866

Walking,Daily Activity,Weight Lifting

My Actifit Report Card: October 20 2026

seattlea — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:35:51 GMT

Went to the Whidbey Island today to meet with a vendor and to do some landscaping. Landscaping turned out to be quite a bit more work than I have anticipated.

I also managed to get some sauna and that felt really good. Tomorrow is back to downtown Seattle office and I am hopping to visit the gym in our office building during the lunch hour.
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20/10/2026

14354

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My Actifit Report Card: October 19 2026

seattlea — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:03:48 GMT

Going back to the island tomorrow morning after dropping off our daughter at school. Will be doing some landscaping then a sauna and meeting with some vendors as well.

Will also mow the lawn and make sure that everything is in a working order before our next visit. And the day after tomorrow I am going to my brother in law for dental cleaning that I usually do every six months or so.

Today I managed to get to ten thousand steps thanks to a nice walk with my wife after work.

My Hive Power keeps growing nicely and I just made it over fifty six thousand staked Hive. I am currently ranked at number 409 by staked Hive. That is pretty high considering I made it into the top five hundred not that long ago.

I am sure that I will be in top four hundred in a week or two. I wonder how long it will be before I am in a top one hundred.

I don't think that I have ever been ranked as high on the list of token holders or shareholders. If Hive ever goes anywhere those in the top five hunder Hive holders should be really well rewarded.

My Splinterlands SPS holdings are also doing really well, I am closing in on one million SPS staked and should get there by the end of the year despite significantly reduced modern ranked SPS earnings since the modern league brackets came out.

Stocks had a nice recovery today and I was just thinking that Artificial Intelligence related stock like chipmakers are starting to look attractive. I think that Artificial Intelligence is the biggest change, but it seems like the stocks are really expensive.

Not sure that they are going to have a real correction anytime soon though. It is possible that they will keep going up...
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19/10/2026

10248

Walking,Daily Activity

The Classic Bella Ratajowlski vs Eternal Tofu Revisited.

seattlea — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:26:06 GMT

Introduction

Today I would like to share a recent battle against @tarazkp that features a classic showdown between the two strong archons Bella Ratajowlski and Eternal Tofu.

This battle features a bit different lineup with Taraz bringing three Escalation lineup monsters that make this a totally different battle compared to those in the past.

The Strategy

My strategy was to survive the early rounds, eliminate the biggest threats, and win through attrition. Although I lost my main damage dealer, Venka the Vile, to Kobold of Burden’s Reprisal ability, Thunderous Herald’s Execute ability allowed me to eliminate the dangerous Shiraza and her damage-halving attacks. After taking down Grimbardun Smith, my team was wearing down Kobold of Burden while self heal was keeping Mystic Mudbinder alive. Once Kobold finally fell in round seven, victory was practically secured. It was a satisfying win that showed how smart ability combinations and classic Bella Ratajowlski can overcome a stronger opponent that put up a more modern lineup!

The Battle

Link to the Battle

In the first round my damage dealers were able to take care of the Moribund Arrowbait and get pretty good damage against Grimbardun Smith unfortunately Grimbardun Smith is likely to get healed by Taraz's Meriput Magician.

Unfortunately in the round two due to the Reprisal ability from Kobold of Burden I lost my main damage dealer Venka the Vile. We did manage to take out the Grimbardun Smith. But at the start of round three things are actually not looking good for me with three monsters remaining on the field compared to Tarazes four monsters and due to his speed advantage Shiraza is going to hit my Mystic Mudbinder and half his magic damage before my Mudbinder has a chance to strike.

As predicted Shiraza halved my Mudbinder magic damage, but fortunately thanks to Thunderous Heralds Execute ability I was able to get rid of the always pesky Shiraza and her halving strikes for good in this match. At the start of round four things are starting to look up for our team.

Round four was basically an exchange of blows with Taraz and I managed to reduce his Cobold's health from twenty to twelve at the start of round Five, but my team is also going down in health with both Mudbinder and Herald getting their health readuced.

After round five you can see that my Mudbinder health is starting to stabilize while Cobold and Herald are still going down:

We see the same tendency in round six, but the trend is now clear, we will be able to get rid of Cobold faster than our Heralds is going to fall:

Finally in round seven we were able to get rid of Cobold and now it is only a matter of the time before our win.

And finally in round nine we get our victory:

It is a sweet win with sixty ranking points being awarded for the win here as Tarazkp is almost 1,360 points higher in ranking than me at this time. His ranking is no accident as his deck is better than mine and most of our meetings my teams get defeated, but not this time!

Conclusion

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My Actifit Report Card: October 18 2026

seattlea — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT

The weekend is over and it is back to work tomorrow. Today I worked some more on front and back yard.

Tomorrow I should do a real workout again

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18/10/2026

16158

Walking,Daily Activity

My Actifit Report Card: October 17 2026

seattlea — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:07:18 GMT

Today I went to Costco and worked on our backyard. We also went for a walk around our neighborhood with my wife.

Somehow the steps just added up today. Tomorrow I am hopping to work on our front yard. I am quite sore from the workout yesterday so no weight lifting today, maybe get back into some workout tomorrow.
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17/10/2026

14378

Walking,Daily Activity

Modern Champion Bracket Season Review

seattlea — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:59:03 GMT

Season 192 Splinterlands Report for @seattlea

📖 Introduction

Well this is the first Splinterlands Season report that I have done since the new Modern Brackets were introduced. I picked Champion Division because I was regularly in the top fifty in Modern Champion prior to the new Modern Brackets introduction.

So what is my take so far? I know I shouldn't judge by the first season as it was a real grind to get up from the very bottom and get to the more reasonable brackets and rating. But I must say the feeling was not great so far. It felt like the same tough grind against professional Splinterlands players (aka scholars) and really tough bots once I got into Division 3.

I did stay at the third division through the whole season as I came within one win from advancing to second division and the would fall back. My SPS earnings also suffered as I had to grind up from zero rating, hopefully this season it will not be as bad.

Feel free to leave a comment, upvote, or share if you find this useful!

⚔️ Battle Results

Format	League	Battles	Wins	Win%	Rating	Rank
Modern	Diamond	455	257	56.5%	3200	#69

Lets compare my performance to the last season without brackets:

Format	League	Battles	Wins	Win%	Rating	Rank
Modern	Champion I	472	243	51.5%	4300	#100

Above you see my current season and my previous season. As you can see my previous season didn't go as well as usual and after three season in the Modern Top 50 I barely made it into the Leaderboard in Modern Champion last season.

If you look at my performance I only made it into league 3 in the Modern Champion bracket, but despite that I made it into the Modern Champion leaderboard at a position 69. My win rate also improved from 51.5% to 56.5% but that was clearly helped by the lower level bots at the start of the season.

💰 Earnings

SPS

earn	type	cost
5,148.325	Validate Block	-
3,333	Modern Ranked	-
1,452.354	Staking Rewards	-
321.737	Brawl	-
255.300	Validator Rewards	-
77.389	Modern	-
-	Stake Tokens	10,018.464

The one place where the difference was really clear is Modern Ranked SPS earnings, not only you didn't see any SPS from your wins until the end of the season, the amount of SPS dropped from 6,214.461 SPS tokens to 3,333 SPS tokens as you can see from the tables above and below.

Basically I was able to earn about half the SPS of what I did last season in Modern.

SPS

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My Actifit Report Card: October 16 2026

seattlea — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:27:42 GMT

Another day full of work, I am glad that this week is over and I also managed a really good weight lifting and body weight workout.

I did six sets of ten pull ups twenty push-ups and fifty kettle bell swings with a fifty two pound kettle bell with walking in between. I also added four sets of fifty jumping jacks as well as three sets of barbell press with two hundred twenty five pounds for ten reps. I also did two sets of burpees and some dumbell biceps curls and triceps extensions as well as shoulder press.

This was definitely a very good weight lifting workout. Tomorrow I am probably going to feel it, but I needed to make up for a very sedentary week.

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16/10/2026

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Walking,Daily Activity,Weight Lifting

Witness Update: Upgraded to 1.28.8 - October 16, 2026

seattlea — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:45:51 GMT

Introduction

In this update I am sharing the good news that I have updated my witness and my backup witness to the newest version 1.28.8 as well as looking at the state of Hive Witnesses as of October 2026. To assist me with this task I am going to look at my Witness Dashboard that I have built and at a few other tools.

Upgrade to Witness Software v1.28.8

First of all the good news: I have upgraded both of my witness machines to Hive Witness Software Version 1.28.8. This was a very easy task and here is what it entails:

1. Update Hive software version from 1.28.7 to 1.28.8 in your .env file:

2. Download witness snapshot that can be found at: https://gtg.openhive.network/get/snapshot/exchange/ and update it in your .env file:

In the screenshot above I have --load-snapshot= line commented out because the witness is already running on 1.28.8 so before you replay from the snapshot you want to uncomment that line with 1.28.8 snapshot and comment out the ARGUMENTS="" line. Then you can start replay and in my case replay from the snapshot took less than 5 minutes before my witness was online with 1.28.8.

That's it!

So Why are so Many Witnesses are Still on the old Software?

Lets take a look at the top 20 (Consensus witnesses)

What we see in the screenshot above is that 8 out of 20 top Hive witnesses are still on the old software. I was in a real bind at work with my performance review coming up and major upgrades to our production systems, so I didn't rush to upgrade it and I am not a Consensus witness, but I still upgraded a few days ago and almost half of our top nodes are still behind. That is two weeks after the 1.28.8 release...

So what about the next twenty backup witnesses? Well the situation there is really bad. Only 4 out of 20 witnesses in top forty have updated their witnesses to the latest software and some are still on 1.28.3 which is a very vulnerable version to an issue that 1.28.7 was built to fix.

Also a previously top 20 Consensus witness emrebeyler has disabled his witness and started a total power down. He lost some votes, but even as a disabled witness he is still at number 25. We also have jesta at number 28 that is also disabled since Hard Fork 28 but still has stakeholders voting for this node... Then there is anyx also previously top twenty witness that is still at a 41 position and has a lot of Hive voting for this node to produce block misses which are over ten thousand misses now... I guess this is the limitation of Hive Witness voting system.

The next twenty is where I belong at number 49 and five out of twenty have already updated to the latest version. There is a node at 42nd position that is missing blocks which is vsc.network that should be disabled, it has never updated from 1.28.3 either. And we have at 58 another disabled node with quite a bit of Hive Power voting for the node.

We also see the same pattern of many nodes on the vulnerable and outdated software here. Majority is running 1.28.3. So to sum it up top 60 Hive Witnesses cannot even make simple timely software updates and stay on vulnerable Witness software for months after the fix was released. So why are so many of the Hive witnesses are still on the old software? To me the answer is simple, majority of Hive witnesses are not paying attention, it is basically set it up once and keep collecting Hive inflation that is targeted towards Witness earnings. And that brings us to the next part.

What are Those Black Piggy Signs Next to Witnesses?

Well those black piggy signs is a sign that witness is powering down their staked Hive. Most witnesses are always powering down, so this is one of the sources of the Hive inflation. 12 out of the top 20 witnesses are powering down their Hive right now... So much for having faith in long term value of Hive...

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