I create software for fun and profit. I'm an amateur urban designer (i.e. I play City Skylines and follow Strong Towns). I live in Dallas, and truly love my city. I like to read history and science fiction. I do my best to follow the teachings and example of Jesus. I once made a web based HyperCard clone.
@pabloniusmonk no mesh, I’ve got an Archer BE9300 WiFi router, and I have another wireless access point wired in at the other end of the house.
There was some config work I had to do to the AT&T thing to make it just pass through. I forget what I did. I did a lot of Reddit searches to figure it out.
@pabloniusmonk yeah, that’s no good.
FWIW, we have AT&T Fiber 1G service. I just use their “gateway” box as a pass through. I have my own router and access points. I just tested the speed to my phone: 630Mbps.
@rk I have a pdf of it somewhere. I’ll try to dig it up and share it.
What company do you use for your home internet service?
We're just about fed up with AT&T Fiber.
(Please boost for visibility.) :ivory_boost:
🛜 🌐 📶 🏡
@pabloniusmonk I’ve had AT&T Fiber for about a year now, and I’ve been satisfied with it. I switched from spectrum who charged more for worse service.
What’s been your issue?
The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
“What should be happening is if police have good reason to suspect your camera caught evidence of a crime, they should go to a judge and they should get a warrant," EFF’s Matthew Guraiglia told KDKA. https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/new-castle-police-department-security-cameras-program/
@swelljoe yeah, Spectrum’s not great. I was able to get AT&T fiber last year (finally), and that’s been much better (cheaper too). Sonic still sounds like a better deal (if real)
@swelljoe I got something in the mail from them recently. It sounds like a great service that doesn’t exist yet (in Dallas). They’re very cagey about timelines, just that they’re coming “soon”.
Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
<- new research from Cornell, supplying evidence to what many have surely known for decades
“One Riot, One Ranger is now the embodiment of that. It will also be a monument to obstinance, a dozen feet of bronze reminding everyone that powerful people often don’t want to hear what you think—and that even when they do, they don’t have to listen."
https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/03/rangers-statue-davis-texas/
Local Dallas news was able to find voters who were actively trying to locate their polling locations.
IMAGINE needing to get back to work but waiting in a possibly hours long line at the poll you've been going to a for a decade only to be told that you're at the wrong place!
The websites didn't work during the election today and even the night before diligent voters had no idea their location had changed.
#Dallas #Democracy #JasmineCrockett #votersuppression #BlackMastodon #VotingWhileBlack
Dallas has always been known for "Voting While Black" problems. For this election the Republicans changed where polling locations would be setup in predominately Black neighborhoods.
Typically they also severely under provision voters, causing many people to wait in lines for HOURS after the official close of polling.
#Dallas #Texas #BlackMastodon #votersuppression #VotingWhileBlack #JasmineCrockett #Midterms
UPDATE: The spare ticket is taken! Thx for your boosts, all.
Late notice: would anyone out here in the North Texas Fediverse like to join me tomorrow night for the George Saunders Interview at the DMA Arts & Letters Live? My wife can't go and it's a sold out event. 📚 ✨ 🎟️
https://dma.org/programs/event/arts-letters-live-george-saunders
Boosts welcome!
#Dallas #GeorgeSaunders #KrysBoyd #Vigil #Bookstodon #KERA #Texas #Books
I think this is one of those things that's stunning, in all the worst ways, and most of them aren't obvious.
Let's start with the basics: there are about 5.5 million trans Americans. This means that *nearly 10% of the entire trans population of the nation* has moved.
Just
Last
Year
@thomasfuchs is that Exact Audio Copy? That brings back memories.
Bad faith actors are trying to spin this statement about immigrants into a negative, saying it upset the Latino community. No.
The Latino community is not a monolith.
Who it upset, were the pro-ICE, pro-MAGA, anti-Latino immigration Latino community. The "I will vote, for Donald Trump🤡" crowd.
Who wasn't upset by it, were the majority of undocumented agricultural workers that work in Texas, and their families and loved ones. And yes, Crockett is up with Latino voters.
Crockett was speaking to a crowd of Black Church goers. 73% of Black people in the US disapprove of ICE raids, and support immigration and a path to documentation for the people that work in this country. This is the highest of any demographic slice, and higher support even than Latino Americans. But Crockett was talking to the 9% that are not sure, and the 16% that approve of ICE raids.
She didn't say this to campaign. Or to please those people. Or to make them feel good about their choices to harm migrant farm workers. She spoke with conviction here, because it is the right thing to do. We *are* a nation of immigrants. We *do* depend on immigrants for labor, in industries like nursing, food service, and agriculture. Immigrants *do* do so much for this country. Immigrants *do* deserve labor rights, and freedom from persecution.
I cannot tell you how much I love that the process of
"my Linux distro suddenly booted into Gnome because I didn't realize a package I installed yesterday had all of Gnome as a dependency"
is referred to at
"getting gnomed"
YES. This. So much. https://mastodon.seahousen.eu/@me/114910152468521333
