SeTec Astronomy @SetecAstronomy@hackers.town

Just found a whole batch of Hackers.town people languishing in my Follow queue.

Locals should drop me a line when following so I can approve. Not currently accepting outside follows.

#Reintroductions? But I never did #Introductions...

I'm a weird guy who decided to base his profile on the movie Sneakers. I love technology, probably more than is healthy. My interests tend to revolve in a cycle but in the spirit of hackers.town I try to keep it to infosec and general internet nerdery.

I live with a migraine 24/7 so don't be surprised to see the occasional related toot.

Fun STA Fact #4 (collect them all!): A Canadian goose once attempted to carjack me.

turns out Stellardone is available to download for free as well:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Stellardrone%22

'Matrix 4' Officially a Go With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/19/08/20/2230218/matrix-4-officially-a-go-with-keanu-reeves-carrie-anne-moss

#WeAreNameless

Phantogram - You Don't Get Me High Anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXqNGvyMMJI

CW: Strobes

#np #MentalJukebox

Nothing is fun
Not like before
You don't get me high anymore

I really haven't the slightest what I'm doing when it comes to Blender, so I'm rather pleased with this. It only took an entire day.

Just discovered that Dreamstate Logic has a bunch of tracks available for download:

http://www.dreamstatelogic.com/downloads.html

The Etherpad, and other services should be back up. #WeAreNameless , Joeys, and anyone else ought to be able to access it just as soon as the DNS propagates.

Took me a while to physically locate the RasPi running my internal DNS. I had SSH'd in and shut it down when the power went out, but apparently the UPS in that room never got shut off. Couldn't figure out where it was to sort out why it wasn't coming back up. I guess a network diagram should go on the to do list.

Power's back on. Ahead of schedule even. I'm a little concerned that the whole sky flashed when it came on. Glitch in the matrix I guess.

I'm going to wait a bit and make sure it stays on before I go through the trouble of firing up all the UPSes and the server.

New ETA is 0330 UTC.

So glad the window fan I built is USB powered. Hooked it up to a portable battery pack for some minor summer relief.

Internet outage in Setec land. Possibly related to nearby power outage with service return ETA of 0200 UTC. Or it could be a coincidence in which case it's not likely to get sorted until tomorrow.

Aaaand there goes my power. Fun. Gonna be a toasty night.

This means the etherpad is down, among other things. Sorry #WeAreNameless and Joeys. Tis the season.

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKbwR7WXN4

#np #MentalJukebox

This was in my head when I woke up this morning.

Me talking to dad recently: they must have done something to the cable modem because I haven't been able to get to the web interface in months.

Me trying to troubleshoot it today:

**checks subnet mask**

"This vehicle observes speed limits"

Hey Frank, did you see that speed limit?

Sure did, Bob. It didn't seem to be doing much though.

"Per building manager: please do not flush anything other than toilet tissue."

**Carefully puts poo in trash**

Trying to sort out some stuff on my system, I see an SSH session for my user `username@notty`. Wait. I've got no boxen named `notty`

*PANIC MODE* Hackers! Must be hackers! SLAG THE SERVER!

Wait. No. "No TTY"

That's me logged into the local console.

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Carry on. The sky is not falling.

Wait. When did it get to be Friday again?

Anyone know of a way to surge protect XLR/balanced audio lines? Lightening strike blew out another audio mixer in as many years. Know for a fact this time all of the power was not just switched off but physically unplugged. All the evidence points to the surge coming in over the long mic input lines.

The simplest solution is of course to unplug all cables from the system when not in use, but that's something like 16 input channels, plus the mains out, and the auxs, and whatever else. It adds up fast. Plus now you're stressing the connectors and cables more and probably going to end up with a bad input or two in a few years. Cheaper than a new board, but a pain to fix when there's no patch panel and the cables were made to length.

When I was doing two-way radio we dealt with the intersection of surges and telco a bit. There were all manner of devices for providing surge protection to RS-232, T1, etc for those times you just couldn't avoid a long copper run in a lightening prone area. What I can't find is anything like that for balanced audio. Ideally at a price point that's affordable for 16+ channels.

Is this a hopeless quest, or does someone know of just such a thing?

The next best solution I can think of is a patch panel so that at least the home runs don't have the cables bent and unbent and connectors exercised on a regular basis. But what a pain undoing and redoing all those connections during the summer months... (plus the cost of acquiring or constructing such a thing, not insignificant either)

Go to website, attempt to select address for copy/paste. The whole page is some sort of fancy card thing that you swipe to the side. Can't select any text.

Why?

WHY?

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Only three scrollbars? Cmon internet, you can do better than that.

Ott - Rouge Bagel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EsMDsrPM60

#np

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