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You can read long-form thoughts at notes.pault.ag/tpl/ where I tried to capture as much as I could into one place.

This is on my blog but I was just the one to put keyboard to markdown here. I am exactly one of many. I hope this represents our thoughts well. It definitely represents mine.

We know we can't scale this. We can't even get all our friends on the LAN. I don't know how long that will take -- nevermind letting anyone outside that group in.

However -- this is my call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Have fun with computers.

We’ve grown our own culture and fads - around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each other’s counters.

There’s a 3-node IRC network, exotic hardware to gawk at, LAN only email, and even a SIP phone network of redphones.

We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.

In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together.

The idea is simple - fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things.

After around 4 years, I wrote down a manifesto for a project a handful of us participate in called "The Promised LAN".

A neuronal growth cone from a bag cell neuron isolated from a giant sea slug (Aplysia californica), photographed through a microscope. Microtubules (cyan) and actin filaments (magenta) are shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Microscopy

It depends, maybe! Most direct grid tied setups have inverters that only work when they are connected to a utility grid, and shut down in the absence of one (to solve the same problem of power heading out onto a deactivated grid). Other (usually older) setups have an ATS to disconnect.

Probably have to install some sort of automated transfer switch/“nanogrid” controller, which disconnects the house from the grid during outages so your power doesn’t travel back onto the grid and electrocute line workers. In our Enphase setup, it’s what they call a “system controller”

Layer Aleph Layer Aleph: Crisis Engineering

Crisis Engineering talk by Mikey Dickerson and @weaver.bsky.social at Layer Aleph

us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/qux...

layeraleph.com

An American flag with one of the white lines made grey

THE THIN GREY LINE: RETWEET TO SUPPORT INSURANCE COMPANY CEOS SHOT IN THE LINE OF DUTY AND THE SACRIFICES THESE GREY HAIRED MEN MAKE EVERY DAY FOR THEIR COUNTRY

ABSOLUTION (2024), @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

ad rock: IT GOES LIKE THIIIIS
mca: the fourth
mike d: the FIFTH

ad rock: the minor faaaaaaalll
mca and miked: THE MAJOR LIFT

ad rock: the baffled king
mike d: COMPOSING

all three: HALLELUJAH

corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987

corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987

my friend paul wrote about complexity in software and it is a good write up

notes.pault.ag/complex-for-...

Guys, has anyone posted the YES, MADAM (Corey Yuen, 1985) final fight scene on here yet? Extremely important for the website to run properly.

my friend paul wrote about complexity in software and it is a good write up

notes.pault.ag/complex-for-...

archive.liveatc.net/ktrk/KTRK-ZO...

“DELTA 2229, We've got a left engine failure, declaring an emergency at this time"

has anyone checked those inflatable rats for a union bug

scab-manufactured inflatable animals are a spreading threat

A flight tracker map of Delta 2229 from October 24th, showing the figure-8 like shape of a plane returning to SMF to perform an emergency landing

The high-banked turn immediately after the explosion-like sound, completed while the entire plane was rattling and shaking, was intense.

I calmed down quite a bit once we were aimed back at the airfield, since we relatively high already and another engine failure would leave time for a landing

I win the nearly lotto-like odds:
“CFM56 engines are some of the most reliable aircraft engines in use today. […]
It also has an in-flight shutdown (IFSD) rate of 0.003, which is one incident every 333,333 flight hours.”

Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-900ER Forced To Return To Sacramento After Suffering Engine Issues The aircraft landed without incident, and no one aboard was injured.

simpleflying.com/delta-air-li...

the “engine issue” was a percussive failure that generated a very loud, explosive “bang” followed by airframe vibration that lasted almost until the aircraft was back on the ground

A sign, reading in all capital letters: PERSONS HAVING CURRENTLY ACTIVE DIARRHEA OR WHO HAVE HAD ACTIVE DIARRHEA WITHIN THE PREVIOUS 14 DAYS SHALL NOT BE ALLOWED TO ENTER THE POOL WATER

pouring one out for the pool diarrhea cop

a dark landscape showing a multicolored aurora over a field. there’s a river in the foreground and mountains in the distance.

aurora 💫✨
#pixelart

#pixelart

incredible artifact

I stuck worldwide hippo senasation Moo Deng into the Guild Navigator tank from David Lynch's Dune.

Guild Navigator Moo Deng

Keep Breathing An early morning shift change in a COVID-19 unit captures the compassion and the exhaustion of staff fighting to keep patients alive.

This was a pretty powerful photo series my postdoc advisor @bwjones.bsky.social photographed and Stephen Dark wrote up back in early 2021
utah-health.shorthandstories.com/keep-breathi...

very excited waiting for the first time I read an article about utility battery energy storage systems outside of trade publications where the author talks about capacity in terms of both kW and kWh

today’s not that day, but surely I’ll arrive at the better future soon!

Solnit's Paradise Built in Hell drove this home for me. It's always local people in small ephemeral networks who are the real first responders.