hey, if you enjoy the #USCSB safety videos, the current administration is putting them on the chopping block with a reported $0 allocated for FY2025 and appropriating their emergency fund for the costs of shutting down the USCSB agency.

they put out a video in an attempt to justify themselves, but if you're in the US then please call and/or write to your congresspeople and ask them to back the CSB. their budget is miniscule for the impact they have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7h5BOZ2Hk

Ugh. The AI "community" here in the west is an cursed melding of self-destructive capitalists, ex NFT and crypto grifters, arrogant tech bros, get-rich-quick scammers, "laziness is a virtue" pushers and AI god cultists.

The commonality seems to be a hatred of people.

Installing a new GPU gets more challenging over time. 🤣

More and more web sites are just becoming completely unusable.

I don't want to be forced to buy a new computer, and I will not run Chrome with all its spyware, and FireFox is pushing AI garbage, etc.

Fewer and fewer good options.

Microsoft just broke GitHub completely on my browser. It's been almost unusably slow for the last year, but now it no longer renders completely, and is using some new feature that just throws errors:

"Duplicate parameter not allowed in function with destructuring parameters"

Technology hates me today:

Hours fighting with a buggy drawing program.

Go to wake up another computer from sleep, but somehow it powered itself off for no apparent reason. Upon restarting it, it no longer will fill the screen and the display preferences won't let me fix it.

My joystick is no longer recognized by the operating system.

@whitequark @4censord oh while we're on this subject, avoid FedEx right now if you can. they're tacking on >£100 disimbursement fees and hoping people think they're tariffs that they have to pay. they have no legal basis for the fee and you can just say "I have no contract with you and didn't ask you to pay the customs fees for me, I'm not paying that" but it's a whole headache.

(EDIT: although if it's DDP - duty paid at checkout with JLC - then you don't need to worry too much about it)

And it worked!

The model number for the cable is CAB-10GSFP-P1M-30

I think it is safe to get rid of my GPIB to Modbus adapter.

same plastic part, two uses

@HopelessDemigod

Nice!

@HopelessDemigod

They have a policy that no one is allowed to take thing dropped off.

I purchased a third DAC cable to try to connect my HP switch at 10G. Hopefully this one works...

I walked over to the local recycling centre to drop off some e-waste, and people were leaving Mac laptops that are newer then the one I have, and iPhones newer then the one I have! Yikes.

Of course, I have an Phone 6, and my Mac laptop is over ten years old, so this is more of a reflection on me then on anything else...

@helpsterTee Nice. Here you can complain for years about high intensity RFI causing device interference and wiping out whole sections of ham bands without any response at all.

So much RFI these days. :(

@helpsterTee I should go back with a second cell phone and see it it happens to both of them.

@helpsterTee Dropped down to one bar, 3G instead of 4G that I usually get.

@helpsterTee I wish I could have broken out Wireshark and seen exactly what was going on, but I think the store would get a little unsettled if I go back with a tethered laptop and started doing packet traces.

I think I may have stumbled across an ISMI catcher for the first time today at a mall in Vancouver. Signal suddenly drops down very low, and when it comes back up, Google and other HTTPS sites get redirected to a "connection timed out" web page with no certificate. Walk a little further, and everything is back to normal, walk back, same thing.

The sad thing is that I just got a really good offer to buy some very nice networking equipment, but I need less stuff right now, not more.