someone has made a browser extension that plays the wii shop channel music whenever you go to shopping websites
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wii-shop-channel/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wii-shop-channel-music/camjnljbmplngaalikoefoibonimfhkd
It's also probably not the work crew's fault, nor most of Comcast's. Specs and city plans can be inaccurate, underground lines can drift over time, and it's hard to get an accurate reading below concrete without, well, digging. I'm assuming they used their best judgment on this and only knew it was a problem after they struck the line.
Comcast probably had to haggle with the city to run a single line. Typically there's redundancy in these systems, so the fact there wasn't here is... a thing.
At 9PM yesterday, we lost home internet along with much of the greater Seattle area. Still out (I'm tethering over wireless). We figured it was probably a fiber cut, but not a whole lot of information was circulating about it.
Today we learned: at least three cities were disrupted by a single box in the middle of Renton:
https://washington.comcast.com/2023/01/18/service-outage-in-the-burien-kent-and-renton-areas/
Who would win: Comcast service for all of Seattle vs one shiny diggie boy.
I found this backup tape while sorting through boxes — the final resting place of Sound Bytes BBS.
Turns out I can still fire it up in DOSBox and browse through everything as a time capsule.
Though the farewell message suggests the BBS would return in summer of 1996, the world moved on quickly, and the BBS scene — as it was — disappeared just like *that*.
By the time 1996 did roll around, we were busy building our area's first dial-up ISP, and there was no turning back.
It's been a while since I did these and I still get requests for them so.. IKEA sheets are back! They're £20 and make a great gift or a fun thing for your profile! Examples here https://imgur.com/a/sa1yGhn
Comment or DM me for a slot!
Boosts very much welcomed!❤️
look look, @moon made this!!! i believe they're still open for commissions aaaa
twitter.com/MissIxis
furaffinity.net/user/moon
PSA, security disclosure: do not use Hive
Some reputable security researchers and SREs on birdsite are sharing that Hive has already had a major security breach and responded to private disclosure with public whataboutism instead of immediately patching:
* https://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1598330367374680064
Direct article link: https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/
Avoid, avoid avoid avoid with anything resembling sensitive data. This is about as big a red flag as they come.
The captain on a Star Trek show is what the show sees itself as and wants to be.
The main cast's engineer is what the show actually is.
Kirk: "I manned my way into this mess and I'll man my way out of it."
Scott: < drunk technobabble >
Picard: BEHOLD MY GRAVITAS
La Forge: "This extra suitcase is for my competence porn and also my regular porn."
Sisko: "You still have a spinal column because I want you to still have a spinal column, also I'm space Jesus, have I made myself clear?"
O'Brien: < suffers in disaster bi >
Janeway: "I came out here to make a good impression on distant aliens and do war crimes and I'm all out of good impressions."
Torres: "Goddamnit" < breaks something >
Archer: "Revenge means never having to say your[sic] sorry."
Tucker: "Aw, shucks" < removes shirt >
I loved these silly IKEA sheets people got for their characters a few years ago - if you'd like your own, @moon is still making them!
Pokémon SV mild spoilers, glitch mentions
The fact you can abuse glitches in SV now to explore everything has given me a newfound appreciation for how Nintendo accepted this when they built Breath of the Wild, and how their solution to players accessing content early was essentially "go for it". GameFreak tried to meet this half way with gating, and players have immediately overridden their decision.
This helps me appreciate why BotW just gives you the tools from the start. Maybe SV should, too.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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