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   Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:50 JST Matthew Garrett

   On the off-chance anyone was especially invested in our plumbing travails last year, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that everything worked on the first attempt this time round - the couplers we used to connect the intake pipes made it easy to disconnect stuff over winter and remain leakless now stuff is hooked up again, the pump had not exploded from freezing, and we apparently successfully emptied all the plumbing this time because there are no burst pipes

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:39 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @mjg59 I've run WiFi on 900MHz before at DEFCON, but that required special hardware - I assume the LTE stuff does too?

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:42 JST Matthew Garrett

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     Also need to replace a 30A circuit with a 50A one and stick in a tankless water heater because using electricity to keep a big tank of water hot is something that England might think makes sense but fuck that noise, and then I think the water project is complete and I can concentrate on setting up a wireless ISP instead (seriously did you know you can just… run LTE in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands and nobody can tell you not to?)

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:45 JST Matthew Garrett

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     This year we're trying to reconstruct the rather more straightforward solution of a spring-fed cistern, but that's on the opposite side of a river and we need to get a pipe across the ravine (we share the water rights with three other cabins - all the infrastructure on our side of the river is fine, the stuff on the other side burned down in the Caldor fire back in 2021, so we need a new cistern and pipe and then just plug that into the stuff on this side and suddenly everyone has water)

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:47 JST Matthew Garrett

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     The pump monitoring stuff I set up (basically a z-wave switch that reports current draw to Home Assistant) seems to work perfectly! When operating correctly the pump draws current in a relatively narrow band, so I have an automation to turn it off if the draw is outside the expected range (which might indicate that all the water has fallen out), and also gives an indication of whether there's a leak anywhere (if the pump is turning on without any water being used, that's a bad sign)

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:57:04 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @mjg59 helium as in the weird cryptocurrency thing?

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:57:05 JST Matthew Garrett

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc yeah you need an LTE base station but it turns out that Helium made these cheap and easily available