FWIW #HeyRosetta moved the show to Metropolis (which is what it was called before we let the giant rich companies buy everything; MTELUS now) and I got tickets this morning.

Haven’t been this excited for a show since going to their last one in St. John’s in 2017!

Yesterday, in the one-block walk through the park between VIA Rail’s VCVR station and the local public transit platform, I saw someone injecting, someone else defecating, and another group of people sharing a pipe.

I bet that was a pretty rough introduction to the city for the large number of retirees that I rode the train with from TRTO…

Arrived at VCVR. What an amazing experience. 🚂

Also, while I was mostly offline for 4+ days, my favourite band, Hey Rosetta, got back together, announced a tour, sold all of the tickets (maybe some still available in the morning), announced more shows, and sold all of those tickets, too. So… ISO #HeyRosetta tickets at Beanfield in #Montreal if anyone happens to have any spares.

Here’s an interesting part of the cross-country #meshcore experiment that I wasn’t expecting: my contacts list has been full since the GTA. I haven’t made time to prune it, and didn’t realize the importance of this.

I just received a message from “Claire in PDX”, just outside of Chilliwack. (I knew the PNW mesh was strong but I wasn’t expecting this much reach (it’s 400+km to PDX)).

But the tracing tools think the same-prefixed repeaters are the ones I captured at home and earlier on the trip!

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.

Slept through Saskatoon but saw some #Meshcore repeats at #Edmonton station.

And some friendly Public channel chatter while walking the length of the train on the platform, and getting some fresh air.

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

First #meshcore contact along the journey, in #Winnipeg.

(Edit: I mean first north/west of say… Barrie. Lots of mesh traffic in the GTA + sprawl.)

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.

#viarail #thecanadian #train

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…