Nearing the last of the #meshcore reports:
- no repeats but direct replies in Jasper (sorry I didn’t see and reply in time @HUTT-6BD)
- saw contacts but no messages going through Kelowna (while sleeping)
- repeats but no response in Chilliwack; unrelated chatter from 8 hops away!
Probably one more check-in, in Abbotsford if I’m near my radio when we pass through, and we already know there’s a big mesh in Vancouver.
I was going to post about how great of a place this is for reading, but frankly as far as the reading goes, it’s terrible. Constantly looking up to gasp at the scenery.
There’s an interesting (and unfortunate; I’ve been on some late VIA trains but never this late) cascading/compounding problem when a train misses its schedule and the rest of its required sidings and yields snowball.
Delays + engine trouble yesterday even led to our engineers timing out today.
The hospitality staff has been incredible, but I can tell they’re trying to figure out how to juggle mealtimes around crew changes.
Glad I’m flexible on the Vancouver end.
Halfway through the scheduled trip time, we are still in Winnipeg. We’ve been here for 4 hours so far. We had no power or water for an hour or so while they switched out our engines.
VIA’s tracker shows 12 1/2 hours late.
I don’t actually have any real reason to hate Winnipeg, but this song feels appropriate at this point. https://youtu.be/YdxzNy-apdY
Not quite even to Manitoba yet. Ontario is huge. (And running almost 10h late now.)
Home for the next 97+ hours. Toronto to Vancouver. Excited to see the parts of #Canada I’ve only ever flown over.
Hey look, it’s Lake Ontario!
You probably saw this coming, but the obvious conclusion here is that 100% of Fediverse users measure wrong. https://scoat.es/@sean/117282170353249576
Are you a Fediverse user who measures wrong?
Yikes… #swift .org does a 302 to a 302 to a 404 on 404.html.
This is NOT how you do HTTP, friends.
❯ curl -sLIXGET https://download.swift.org/swift-6.4-release/xcode/swift-6.4-RELEASE/swift-6.4-RELEASE-osx.pkg | egrep 'HTTP|Location'
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: https://swift.org/404.html
HTTP/1.1 302 Redirect
Location: https://www.swift.org/404.html
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
(and also `swiftly self-update` is broken because it gets that incorrect URL somehow; at least for me)
I sincerely hope the “Fix the Wayback Machine!" folks are also the “Here's my monthly donation!" folks. https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117275710069576084
I must not upgrade major macOS version before offline train trip.
I must not upgrade major macOS version before offline train trip.
I must not upgrade major macOS version before offline train trip.
I must not upgrade major macOS version before offline train trip.
I must not upgrade major macOS version before offline train trip.
I must not upgrade major macOS version before offline train trip.
I must not upgrade major macOS version before offline train trip.
After far more than a decade of using CloudFormation as my primary infrastructure automation tool, I’ve been working with Terraform/OpenTofu, lately.
I'm having a really hard time with the horizontal alignment of `=` everywhere. I consider any indenting after the first non-space character of a line of code to be an amateur move. It messes with your diffs and requires a lot of “I changed one line and now I need to change a lot of lines to get them to look pretty" maintenance.
Is it just me?
I don't remember this Laboratory-Chic æesthetic to these Apple event videos in the past…
The risk of unintentionally accepting a position with a company that is [about to show the world that they are] fascist is a real concern over here, during my job search…
Late last night (so I'm taking the liberty of reposting it when people are more likely to be awake), I finished up the first version of a silly little nerd-snipe project: a mini display board for #YULBBS.
https://scoat.es/@sean/117239154383737412
There weren't many planes at 12:15AM. There are more today. Fun toy.
@Migueldeicaza got me good, today.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W / RP2350 + 64*64 LED panel. Embedded #Swift.
Here’s AC432 setting up for landing at YUL.
Project: https://seancoates.com/blogs/yulbbs
( mini output: telnet yulbbs.via.sc 12323 )
#YULBBS https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/117236627660966146
The cashier at a beer store I used to visit always asked every person in line for ID. In addition to looking at it, they would scan everyone's card at the register, which would beep an affirmatively-toned “this person is old enough.”
Seemed weird then, but now I know it was certainly a covert customer database, pretending to just be helping the cashier. I have no way of knowing where that data landed.
Forced online age verification—especially without good privacy laws—is even worse than this.
