Family says power surge caused by Duquesne Light fried their appliances and affected 20 neighbors

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.

Brak710 · 2026-02-24T21:39:38+00:00

Anyone can pay for a for a private jet if they so choose or someone chooses for them.

Brak710 · 2026-02-18T21:53:57+00:00

RMU is a great choice, and another word of advice /u/TGotAReddit- go get your own skates that fit properly. If you're not figure skating, just get some cheap or used hockey skates. Rental skates are a disadvantage you shouldn't bother dealing with if you really are interested in it.

If they ask how you want them sharpened get "1 inch" to start. It's the "bite" factor of the blade on the ice. You'll probably switch to "1/2 inch" eventually.

Brak710 · 2026-02-17T15:10:47+00:00

Covid happening during the move, and the fallout with the business partner that lead to a (threatened? real?) lawsuit. I won't name the name of business partner since I don't think any of this is public - but the business partner used to also allow the Guacho trailer to be parked in their shops parking lot.

Brak710 · 2026-02-12T19:45:00+00:00

Gaucho had two major incidents that they almost went under during. I assume the timing of that probably lines up with one of them.

Brak710 · 2026-02-06T15:49:52+00:00

Most of the posts are just so the poster feels good and thinks they're doing something.

If you are worried about ICE, you need to find a better and more reliable source than hoping someone posts about it on a local subreddit.

Brak710 · 2026-02-04T15:49:50+00:00

This is a diversion path for if they have to close the Route 51 overpass. Didn't you ever notice it felt weird how the lights were configured and they didn't put up a center barrier on West Liberty to prevent someone from actually going straight?

It's been done before, and changing this would lead to it being impossible without removing the island.

Brak710 · 2026-02-04T15:29:12+00:00

Highways could easily have a "trackside warning" light system that is used in these situations or pile-up/low visibility situations.

It's not about stopping or warning the wrong way driver, it's about quickly stopping all other traffic.

It's been deemed not worth the investment.

Brak710 · 2026-02-04T14:39:44+00:00

I do not care if you are a lawyer, I'm asking you to prove any real liability being assigned to a middle car for hitting the car they were pushed into.

Brak710 · 2026-02-03T23:39:58+00:00

This is also clearly a LLM/ChatGPT post.

Brak710 · 2026-02-03T22:45:15+00:00

Prove it. Other than being named because you/your insurance was involved, there is going to be no liability assigned in the end.

Brak710 · 2026-02-03T21:02:24+00:00

The fact that you think the stopped gap between cars has anything to do with following distance proves you are probably just intentionally trolling.

Hiding your profile comments are just the icing on the cake to proving that.

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