ultracrepidarianSo I pay for WordPress to host this blog. Money well spent at 48/year. I also run a private blog. The WordPress iOS app as well as their new Jetpack app both refuse to log into the self hosted instance.
Why? I’m guessing fuck you, pay me. The BlogPost app kind of works but I need to work on its image uploading.
Had to rant. Guessing there are lots of others in this predicament.
Well, Twitter blocked my client app Tweetbot and I’ve finally setup Mastodon. At a friends’ recommendation I’ve created @pfhubbard@hachyderm.io (Mastodon) and am finding the people that I used to read/follow.
What a goddamn catastrophe.
WordPress mobile will throw errors about missing XML-RPC functionality if your PHP installation is missing the ‘dom’ library.
Took a while, that did.
apt install php-dom
The reactionary world view is based fundamentally on the idea that the past was much better than the present, because people were happier. And why were they happier? Because they knew their place in an unquestioned and unquestionable social hierarchy that gave their lives meaning and structure, and that specific kind of happiness is much more valuable than the shallower kind of happiness provided by general anesthesia and plentiful food and central air conditioning and the Internet and what have you.
That’s what every reactionary believes in his bones. That’s what fuels contemporary American fascism and contemporary American evangelical Christianity and right wing Catholicism (but I repeat myself).
— Read on www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/06/was-the-past-better-or-worse-than-the-present
upptime
— Read on simonwillison.net/2022/May/26/upptime/
Setup one for me – check it out at https://GitHub.com/phubbard/upptime
fopdoodle – Wiktionary
— Read on en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fopdoodle
Word of the day. Apply liberally.
I’m a long time customer and former employee, with an MSEE and ham radio license. I play with SDR for fun – I’m no pro but I’m familiar with radio and cellular. My bonafides explained, this post explains the problem, what I tried and why you lost me today as a customer.
A few months ago we started to have problems. Calls are fine, but data is super slow and my battery was being murdered. With my iPhone 11 Pro, a bit under two years old and 83% battery health, requires two to three charges per day something is wrong.
Second symptom: it works fine out of the home area, very approximately the 92122 zip code. As you can see from the screenshots on Nextdoor, others have the same problems. As the meme says, “I am not a crank.”
I called service and tried to explain. They sent me a new SIM, we reset networks and nothing helped. I wasn’t able to explain that the issue wasn’t me and that others were affected.
So today we’re all onto “Consumer Cellular”. Good price, stellar service so far, and instead of 12mbps I got
So Verizon, I think you’ve got a problem. Could be too many subscribers for the base station, failed antenna lobe, I can’t tell. Apple and the carriers have blocked key diagnostics like SNR so all I can do is speculate. You could sort it out with a test if your mobile coverage and I hope you do. It’s a pity to see the stellar reputation of Verizon Wireless being lost.
Update 12/1/2021 – I reached out to VerizonSupport on Twitter and they are promising to investigate. I spoke to a couple of different reps, one of whom said there was a known outage in the area.
I gravitate towards aggregated measurements. I use words like ‘gravitate’ and ‘aggregated’ when I do it. Sometimes the complaining has been loud, and then someone writes about me in the newspapers…
— Read on jamesheathers.medium.com/the-invisible-plague-c092ab1f7771
Found via http://toolsandtoys.net/editorials/sunday-evening-link-list-august-1st-2021/ , the MadeHow site is an encyclopedia of, well, how it’s made.
And ‘it’ seems quite comprehensive. I read a bit and was impressed. No videos, alas, and no animated GIFs either, but good diagrams and no ads. Worth a bookmark.
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