Mastodawn

Raise your hand if you ever inadvertently caused a 2+ hour outage (which was impossible to fix in a deterministic manner) due to DNS misconfiguration. #itwasdns

KD7DMP-Jeremiah Oct 4

djohngo Oct 4

LifeProTip for people with ADHD that are doing home projects: Never put the tool down. You won't find it again.

KD7DMP-Jeremiah Aug 29, 2025

A2_Canada Aug 29, 2025

This is Master Trader, a commercially-released game published by Argon Games in 1981 for the Apple II and the TRS-80. The game is essentially non-existent, with one mention in a 1982 issue of Ares magazine. It has now been imaged after 44 years.

KD7DMP-Jeremiah Jun 9, 2025

JP Jun 9, 2025

digging around in my 2K Marin-era (2008-ish) archives and came across this outstanding error message, props to whatever IT(?) person decided to phrase a simple seat license conflict as "Human Combat Required":

KD7DMP-Jeremiah May 16, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation May 16, 2025

If broadcasters have cool new features the public will enjoy, they don’t need to the FCC to force us to adopt them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-must-reject-broadcast-drm

The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves

President Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves. The FCC is quietly...

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KD7DMP-Jeremiah Jan 25, 2025

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GovTrack.us Jan 25, 2025

Senators voting for Hegseth represent just 45 percent of the U.S. population. This is unprecedented, other than Trump's first-term nominees.

We said it in 2017: The ability for a minority of the country to confirm nominees, and that they did so for the country's top military appointee, calls into question the legitimacy of the system of the Senate's Advice and Consent.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/s15

On the Nomination PN11-7: Peter Hegseth, of Tennessee, to be … -- Senate Vote #15 -- Jan. 24, 2025

Senate Vote #15 in 2025, in the United States Congress.

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KD7DMP-Jeremiah Jan 22, 2025

@ety now that is some old school big iron! Reminds of the big old Cisco core switches I use to work on at the Paging company/call center I was a network admin for.

KD7DMP-Jeremiah Jan 22, 2025

GovTrack.us Jan 22, 2025

56 bills were introduced in Congress yesterday. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse#sort=-introduced_date 🏛️

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Search bills and resolutions in the United States Congress.

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KD7DMP-Jeremiah Jan 19, 2025

Ok, I'm done with the whiplash of all the BS going on.
So to make up for all the #TikTok stuff I posted, here are some lovely screenshots from #EliteDangerousOdyssey I took.