Lost in the woods, I had already tried 146.52 from a couple of the hill tops. A local would be a better way to go, if possible. But honestly, knowing that the MMSN was still going to be out there for another six hours was all the reassurance I needed to stave off panic.
Category: Irony
Rude Awakening
In the wee dark hours this morning, the recliner decided it’d had just about enough of my bullshit, and dumped me like Graham Norton’s Big Red Chair. And I didn’t even get to tell a story.
Sexism In The Age Of Cholera… or is it Covid?
Anytime I’m going to be within 10 feet of people other than my wife, I wear a 3m 8210 N95 mask. It has two real straps that go around my head, holding it tightly to my face all the way around. Does it mess up my hair? Sure. I don’t fucking care. I need to not get Covid-19, so STFU.
The ARRL And What They Think Of As Political
Would it not be considerate to be intentionally inclusive of people who are different from ourselves? Would it not be friendly to be welcoming and supportive of people who don’t happen to share our political or religious beliefs?
Celebratory Meals and Traditional Habits
I’d heard the joking term “meat sweats” many times over the decades. But friend, I’m hear to tell you, the meat sweats are a real thing. As I was taking off my sleep shirt this morning, I swear that thing smelled like gravy, and I tossed it in the laundry pile with conviction.
An Object Lesson On Correction
Friends, I’m telling you, it’s OK to not know a thing. Ignorance is the default condition; stupidity is a choice.
Be curious. Be humble. Be correctable. And be brave enough to push back on both sides of Social Media Toxicity.
Amateur Philosophy Of Evil
“‘Evil’ is a pretty strong word.” dad said, solemnly. Mind you, dad’s been in the Swedish Baptist RWNJ Evangelical Cult since his conception, and he ain’t budging.
I Get That Nets Don’t Own The Freq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36W0t1iXp-4
K8MRD wants you to think that if you’re doing POTA, and some other station informs you that you’re causing QRM on the Maritime Mobile Service Net, that the Net should move ‘cuz you were there first.
Saw a funny toot about two things that “techbros” apparently say. One the one hand: #SelfDrivingCars are inevitable.
On the other hand: Select all squares with traffic lights.
That spawned a lively discussion of techbro-bashers which was equally entertaining. But here’s the thing: the central point of the OP was about hypocrisy, or at least being self-contradictory.
Well, these very same techbro-bashers, if asked about being dismissive of disabled people, who wish to live independent lives to the extent feasible, would OF COURSE speak up on the side of the disabled. Or elderly. Or whatever.
Pretty decent overlap of these same folks reminding anyone who will listen that #CovidIsNotOver (and it very much is not, and is a much bigger threat to elderly, etc.).
Huge overlap of these same folks decrying how much we must do to address the #ClimateCrisis.
Yes – there are growing pains of every technological advance. It’s easy to say that “X lives are too many” to lose in order to achieve Y. But this may be a case where failing to achieve Y will inevitably cost X-times-1000 lives.
Infrastructure will need to change. Pretty much everywhere. Stroads will need to not exist, and other similar changes. But in order to EVENTUALLY drastically reduce the deaths from vehicular accidents, and from the Climate Crisis, and from Pandemics, electric self-driving cars will be necessary. As will masking/vaccines requirements of everybody. As will a robust passenger high speed rail system (on which vaccinations/masks are 100% required, including it covering your fucking nose, you dim pricks).
But it will be a bumpy, expensive journey to get there, in part because the future’s very proponents are also its loudest opponents… and are also assholes in a way they have not yet objectively appreciated.
I opened a ticket with their help system 6/15/23 8:02 AM with the following:
Xfinity internet had been dropping 2-4x/day briefly the past couple weeks. Then yesterday morning, it was out first thing, and this time the outage really was on their outage map. Outage ended on time, and everything came back online except my Cisco SPA525G with three lines (voip.ms, hamsoverip, hamshackhotline).
I have had to MANUALLY edit some things in the web UI for each of voip.ms and hamsoverip, and they both came back to working.
I need to MANUALLY edit whatever’s wrong with hamshackhotline, but because you guys do this auto-magical provisioning script thing, I’m unable to find plain instructions/screenshots of what fields need to say what. I don’t even know what my SIP account’s password is. If I’d ever been told, it’d be in my 1Password – it is not. Was only ever known by someone on your crew who did stuff remotely.
Where can I get the details necessary to MANUALLY re-configure SPA525G for HsH 11079?
This was their response…
Bill Lewis posted 6/15/23 8:32 AM
Hello Kelvin D. Olson,
As requested, here is your password: a3869(obfuscatedBitsForReasons)5903b728
Please be advised that because you will now be modifying settings in your endpoint, you are now transitioning from “Full Service Support” to “Self Service Support”. This basically means that it might be possible for you to accidentally change a setting in your phone and disrupt your service with us.
Because we won’t know what you changed, there will be no way for us to effectively help you.
If you find your phone in a condition where it does not operate as it should anymore, you will be required to perform a full factory reset on your phone, and then perform a re-provision to restore your phone to the settings we recommend for optimal performance.
Regards,
Closed by Bill Lewis with status of Closed 6/15/23 8:32 AM
Kelvin D. Olson posted 6/15/23 8:44 AM
Well… aren’t you just awful?
Please close my account.
So… these guys work from the assumption that if you’re getting a VOIP phone, you’re getting it to do one and only one thing. They have you point your VOIP phone at an automated provisioning script which wipes out anything ELSE you’ve got going on that phone. When you instead sign up with HamsOverIP.com, you get access to a Wiki wherein the left menu contains…
Configuration Guides
..Endpoints
….Hard Phones
……Cisco
……..Cisco 525g
…and there you find step-by-step instructions, and screenshots of all the settings on the web UI for the phone.
NIGHT AND DAY DIFFERENT from giving me the password (one of MANY things I needed to know), closing the issue, telling me there’s “no way for us to effectively help you.” Uhm, fuck you, I can show you a great example of a way to effectively help me. You’re just an Alpha Hotel and a LID, Bill.