@256

I remember those.

They shot PC cards across the room.

@Rusty We have a crude alert system... Motion detector to 433 MHz radio, to chime system on the wall, then a two way radio in VOX mode sitting directly in front of it, so I can hear it anywhere on the property...

So someone crossed the beam, and I went to jump in, and.... missed. This is what I get for being in a hurry.

@Rusty We've been having a really fun time up here in Canada with shipping going to shit, now imports are going to shit, and trying to get anything shipped to this location is kinda pfffbbbttt

We ordered SSTP... Canada Post went on strike... Cable got returned and we got refunded...

so we ran the cheapest wire we could find in our own supplies, on top of the snow.

Now it's summer time, CP has simply banned over time this time around on their strike BS, and ... Direct Burial is all we can get now. Dig dig dig.

@Rusty Well, there's standards...

Like, I know that if I was going to use the telephone poles, I would need SSTP ethernet cable, metal keystones, and dedicated grounding steaks at both ends...

You need waterproof "direct burial" rated UTP to run it underground, and it's much cheaper...

and then there's this place.

Digging is scary, and you never know what kind of old wiring, burned down building foundation, or mystery metal object you're going to find.

I had a telegraph insulator fall out of a tree, bounce and clock me right in the knee painfully.

I hurt my tail on a golf cart railing.

T!T

@Rusty That would have been more expensive tbh

the idea was to run power over ethernet to outdoor devices, and... line of sight doesn't carry power. There's regulations on the power runs that aren't on the data lines.

This is also the side of a mountain, and densely forested.

It was difficult enough digging through a 100 year old driveway that we didn't realise there was a cobble mortar layer still there.

@Rusty Multiple data lines... I'm trying to get Wifi to reach an entire 10 acre property so that I can smarthome the thing, including a motor gate.

- Hey little skunk, what's your fascination with playing in the dirt lately?

Oh nothing, I just buried a 250 foot conduit...

@notsobigkid I have one for you.

Arcade Legends Ultimate. You know, the arcade console that has like 300 games on it...

The new one comes with an update that blocks a bunch of homebrew, that the older consoles were purchased specifically for

This firmware isn't available for the older consoles

but if you factory reset the new console, then rename the old console firmware, you get the old console firmware.

But you gotta factory first. And then when you do updates, it never updates as high as it came. Which... actually... Good. Stuff still works this way. lol

@somafm The purpose of this bot: It is trying to make your system email out a "Successfully unsubscribed" to a number of fake addresses to lower your email credibility score with the spam detectors. This makes any emails you do send go to spam more and more as it is allowed to happen. If your system does not reply, you have nothing to worry about.

A few events that I have worked with have had this happen with their registration page.

@notsobigkid @alittleodd Now... there's a way to make this work... if you can handle larger quantities.

Sometimes an item might be $5 and shipping is $10.

But if you get 10 of them the charge is $50 and the shipping is $12.

If it's something you can resell locally, or at cons, or whatever you do with your life, then you can profit a tiny bit.

@fattykun Nice EZ bake

@Codyomega97 So does Jeep. You can get a Jeep Cherokee stroller.

@baubau Let me know if you do, I'd love to see it. I'm not an artist or I would do it myself.

@PastelFurry They do make chocolate whipped cream.

Fill your pants completely full with whipped cream. Don't worry about cleaning it up.

@baubau I'm afraid it's too late, sir! Abandon Shit! Abandon Shit!

@somafm

This reminds me of a spam message that I received once, a few years ago.

We have an event, the event has a name, and the website is the name of the event. Some other company was buying up every name it could find that was anywhere closely related to a product they sold, but their name was nowhere close to ours.

We returned the favor and asked if we could buy THEIR domain name, mentioning that we've been in business for 12 years, and are looking to expand our advertising. I did not expect them to be willing.

@256 Shout out to the biggest Spyware startup on the early internet!

KaZaA.com - August 2002
https://web.archive.org/web/20020807232035/http://www.kazaa.com/en/index.php