Notices by `Da Elf (elfin@mstdn.social)

@feld @Lana
*GALACTIC FACE PALM*

OK, I walked right into that one. Fuck.

@Lana Bring it. Costo sells body bags, right?

@juliewebgirl

You're gonna detonate when I tell you this shit with our business accounts with T-Mobile. In case you missed it.

Also apropos to our "Fuck new phones" rants from the other day.

https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/satellite-phone-service

#FuckBezos #FuckMusk

@juliewebgirl
It's fine for Web (YouTube down) but SSH/ Mosh (70% of my day) gonna suck.

Lag? Latency.

sudo -i

s u d o _ <BackSpc> - i

Tons of fun when troubleshooting.

I'll beta test their shit (with my VPN even). Sign us (me) up.

@juliewebgirl https://www.amazon.com/Radioddity-CB-27-40-Channel-FM-Emergency/dp/B0B56KST6F

And "Breaker 1-9" means "Switch to Channel 19" which, largely, is for truckers. *Sometimes* Handy when driving.

Fucking #Printers

Sign in Washington DC of a "Don't Tread On Me" whose snake is wearing a MAGA hat and reads "Don't Read To Me".

@LeslieBurns I am also a Buddhist, and it reads like a hit list.

@jalefkowit Oh shit. I use DHL to ship whole Racks. This is not good.

@frumble @jalefkowit True that. And I've never imported a rack TO the US (thankfully).

Me too.

Introduced my mother to Calibre EBook software.

Probably won't hear from her for a while.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

#Books #EBooks #FOSS

As much as I despise LLMs (*Spits in Dirt*) this is Absolute Bullshit.

LLMs have not been around long enough to cause a cognitive decline.

1. Television.
2. Decline in quality of education.
3. My Opinion - People generally tend toward being Stupid*.

"In the UK, James Flynn himself showed that the average IQ of a 14-year-old dropped by more than two points between 1980 and 2008." I don't recall Massive LLMs being around in 2008. See how I can use *Reason*?

Television.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/19/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence

LOLOL

#Bash

Fine. I'll install it on a VM (docker can kiss my ass). Reverse proxy. And glue all four instances to it.

Pain, incoming.

@feld @juliewebgirl When? I'll assume you had to put up with Dah at some point. (Sorry about that.)

@feld @juliewebgirl *Blink Blink* I know Mad Town (father lives in Waunakee and I grew up in Rhinelander).

I want nothing to do with that noise. Unscrewing the West Toast ("best practice", lol) is more then enough.

@feld @juliewebgirl Not Wrong. That's why we call 811 (before digging).

@feld Welcome to infrastructure, Downtown in the "Home of the world's largest software company".

I have a story from years ago about building a Sat Uplink so me and @juliewebgirl favorite coffee shop and installing a Satellite Uplink so they could stay in business.

[Some twot dug through the only fiber coming into town, no Internet, no Point of Sale, no ATMs, no groceries, no homework. Because Redmond doesn't have accurate maps of under ground. I hate this entitled, janky shithole.]

@feld @juliewebgirl With my drull and a hammer I COULD fix this in about an hour, I simply choose not to.

I don't get paid for it (didn't used to be a concern of mine) and the shit installer did.

Consultant Rules: I charge 500% to Unfuck shit that could have been done correctly the first time, and I'm not inexpensive to start with.

That node is physically armored (cannot accidentally hit it with a car, say) so that's just a master class in Wrong.

19/20 installers are incompetent and lazy.