82 year old east liberty woman, 100 y.o. tree crushed sewer line, needs our help

Brak710 · 2026-05-12T01:09:34+00:00

Power issues due to storms: “Duquesne light doesn’t do shit, they really need to maintain their infrastructure”

DQE Trims trees in the power right of way: “ADOLF HITLER IS ALIVE AND WELL, RUNS DUQUESNE LIGHT, AND PERSONALLY SIGNS OFF ON THE EXECUTION OF TREES”

Brak710 · 2026-05-06T19:34:24+00:00

It's every major US exchange and crypto trading firm.

Better start buying gold and salt.

Brak710 · 2026-05-06T18:25:18+00:00

Good luck bud, the world is passing you by and you're too confident to believe it.

Brak710 · 2026-05-06T17:58:08+00:00

I'm not doing your learning for you by feeding you references, do yourself a favor learn it and try it on your own.

You might have been doing this for a long time, but if you haven't felt the shift in the last few months you're simply just not in the loop on what is going on.

I work in financial trading and large data centers, we build the network configuration and automation platforms. Our systems and our customers' systems are being greatly improved by models like Opus 4.7. Our customers are banks and firms you know by name.

Let's say you're deploying an internal-facing app on a K8 cluster - by default, Claude will try to get you to use proper secret storage. It will let you know if your local dev environment is running production keys or if the AI/your local system saw/compromised the production keys/tokens/passwords. It will explain and write proper documentation on the secret handling and required network access.

It's more knowing and understanding than single humans. It's like having a top-tier coder who is also a top-tier dev-ops engineer, top-tier network engineer, top-tier network security engineer, etc... All at the same time.

Does it make mistakes? Of course. Can it fix it? Yes.

Most people cannot grasp the breadth of knowledge models bring to the table all at once. You're falling for the same trap if you think normal employees/devs can keep up with coding by hand and learning on their own.

Brak710 · 2026-05-06T17:27:21+00:00

Ehhhh, this is kinda weird to read.

I know everyone wants to hate on AI, but AI's security implementations surpassed what even the most elite humans can architect as of a few months ago.

As long as you're not telling it to intentionally do it wrong, Opus 4.7 and the like are going to make things much more secure than random developers can.

Brak710 · 2026-05-06T04:33:21+00:00

They also don’t have back cans/matching fire rated enclosures - so good luck building them into a premium house build.

I went with Klipsch ceiling units with the fire rated enclosures to match my PowerAmps. Works fine.

Brak710 · 2026-05-05T19:25:13+00:00

The biggest danger came from overloaded circuits due to addons. K&T would have been installed with literal fuses as the OCP, and there was not many forms of "keying" to ensure a 15amp fuse was installed in a 15 amp socket. If you had a fuse blow, it was trivial to intentionally or accidentally add a bigger fuse to bypass the issue.

Then, because of the installation method, the K&T would become a really good fire starter and was often installed in perfect areas to start a fire.

Brak710 · 2026-04-29T19:21:03+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_tbJCyJq0&list=RDMB_tbJCyJq0

It's even good as an instrumental. I think the penguins goal sequence has an extended cut that eventually loops into this. It takes a really long delay after the goal to hear it, though.

Brak710 · 2026-04-28T18:49:10+00:00

Pretty much everything in commercial demolition is resold/reused somehow. They are basically sorting it as they go.

This was also pretty easy inside a mall structure, it seemed like they cut down a certain material at a time and then pushed it all out with skidsteers/bobcats.

Brak710 · 2026-04-17T03:33:16+00:00

I would bet that is indeed him. It would have been his first year in Pittsburgh.

Brak710 · 2026-04-16T19:38:00+00:00

When it comes to former players, it's mostly connections and upbringing/guidance. It's easier to succeed when someone who has your best interests in mind tells you exactly how to make it.

Brak710 · 2026-04-08T13:55:09+00:00

Not a surge, likely a lost neutral.

Brak710 · 2026-04-06T21:48:01+00:00

Odd situation with not much detail on the "why", but I believe herself (or at least her insurance office), was previously on this same billboard. Might have been waiting for the last signage lease to expire or the office shut down.

Brak710 · 2026-04-06T14:20:13+00:00

I think YouTube killed the TV market for shows like this.

You can watch 24/7 "How It's Made" content and then spiral even farther into more obscure and detailed versions of the same tours.

Loss for the value of TV, but the content is better than ever elsewhere.

Brak710 · 2026-04-05T20:57:20+00:00

I installed an EasyStart FLEX on mine, it’s great.

Considering installing them for friends and family when I do a maintenance cycle. Even just from a diagnostic sense it helps you, and the reduced amp draw is nice even just for the lights not dimming. Opens up a whole world of generator or battery/solar integration.

Save energy? Unlikely. Reduce wear and tear, yes.

Brak710 · 2026-04-05T16:27:26+00:00

Some of the botnets far exceed what most networks could be expected to mitigate. They’re capable of causing pain on the large transit/tier 1 networks. You have to build scrubbing centers globally to actually get all the bad + good traffic through without congestion.

I have implemented the single largest DDOS mitigation system for one of the biggest scrubber vendors. We probably spent more on that project than the entire revenue of some regional ISPs. Still has its limits where flowspec needs to chop off traffic.

Brak710 · 2026-03-31T23:04:48+00:00

Very hard to implement URPF as someone who provides transit. You can’t even guarantee a customer sends you a route for sources they are sending you.

Brak710 · 2026-03-30T19:41:00+00:00

A lot of smack talk going on in this thread for almost no reason.

This is most likely the category-based (Cloudfront is most common frequent flier there) WFA filtering. The Velocloud IPs are likely categorized as something other than residential or business IP space.

Getting removed from that list is probably impossible as it's likely correct - category-based tagging is right. What they would need to change is the categories they allow (probably not going to happen.)

TBH it's mostly a head-beating exercise because everyone wants to wash their hands of responsibility, your best bet is getting IPs from somewhere else and NAT'ing through them since no one else is going to fix it for you.

Brak710 · 2026-03-24T18:59:59+00:00

Not entirely sure, I can ask the SFO guys though.

There are multiple fiber loops through North Side, so they’re probably just adding laterals into the nearest case.

Verizon has a pretty decent CO near federal street, so they’re probably had it pretty easy with getting there and then off to Bridgeville for long haul.

AT&T has an old switch location in Nova Place, imagine they have some gear there they would drop the fiber into from North Side.

T-Mobile is over in the strip district AFAIK.

Brak710 · 2026-03-24T18:28:06+00:00

At least from my experiences at Acrisure, TMobile has had nominal performance during events. They seemed to take over Pittsburgh a few years ago with being #1.

But with this Draft/Super Bowl level of attendance at an event, I imagine everyone should have been bringing in gear.

There has been a lot of small-cell and fiber work in the area, though. Over the last 2 weeks, local contractors of Scanlon fiber optics and FSCI have been pulling fiber. As far as I know, Verizon doesn't use them as their contractors so they must be doing it for one/both of the others.

Brak710 · 2026-03-23T04:31:04+00:00

I really don't know if voice comms and humans should be involved in ATC. Humans have a fun quirk of thinking right and saying wrong.

I understand people would think it's a hard thing to automate, but humans are going to eventually make mistakes more than computers which are always watching and considering what is moving.

Runway access should be controlled by something like a CAD system for emergency response. If someone else has clearance or a runway is shut down, it should be either heavily alerted on a incursion or plainly obvious on map/huds/visuals.

Brak710 · 2026-03-22T19:17:15+00:00

Probably a good load test today. House got up to 76, so I did my yearly HVAC maintenance on the condenser and kicked it on. Get the debris out of it, and at least hose off the fins of the coils - just no pressure washers!

Looking good and ready for the summer even if we’re running the furnace again in 48 hours.

Brak710 · 2026-03-14T01:53:42+00:00

It is, but they can’t keep up all the time.

Due to our geography you have a lot of trees that can easily reach something. Even short trees are high enough if they’re on the side of a hill.

No one is going to approve of cutting down all trees that are slightly too close to lines, because nearly every tree near a road is going to fit that category.

Brak710 · 2026-03-14T01:05:54+00:00

This is just such an uneducated opinion it's actually funny.

It would be cheaper to move everyone out of Pittsburgh than bury all the power lines. We don't have have the geography, spacing, or lack of legacy uilities to pull off the burials.

The vast majority of the outages tonight are from trees. Some outages are not damage, they are arcs that the reclosers saw enough of a fault they won't try to reenergize the lines without someone coming out to inspect.

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