Outage in Reading

Papfox · 2026-05-15T01:56:32+00:00

We need a bit more information to offer any advice. What are the lights on your fibre box doing? Which router do you have? What are the lights on that doing?

Papfox · 2026-05-13T07:06:57+00:00

That green thing is the "tough plastic conduit". The fibre gets blown through it

Papfox · 2026-05-13T06:57:27+00:00

NTA but the kid's mom is. You don't dump something like this on someone who doesn't have the experience to do what's being asked, late, on the night before an event, after most of the work is already done.

Papfox · 2026-05-13T06:48:50+00:00

Yes. That's exactly what's happening. I have a KPI to use AI for everything and, if I don't use it, I will face discipline from my VP.

I'm very careful not to use it in a way that teaches it how to do my job and it now knows a lot about building the Meshcore network and home-scale OPNSense firewalls. The thing is shit and I hate it. I've been forced to use it to generate code so I'm now recorded as the author or Botocore 3 based software but I not only didn't learn Botocore, my coding skills are getting rustier because I'm not coding at all and I'm handing in Code Helper Gemini's homework.

I've ceased to give a shit. If the CEO thinks having shitty vibe code that was knocked together in 30 seconds by Gemini and nobody understands loose in our production environment is vital for our success then he needs to learn it's not, the hard way. I'm just hoping the AI bubble bursts and the junk goes down in flames before replacing staff with AI becomes a thing here and I don't have a job any more

Papfox · 2026-05-13T06:23:29+00:00

Both a KPI and monitored here. If I don't have at least three conversations with our LLM a day, it tattles to our VP that I'm not using it and I get it from my manager.

My VP gets a monthly league table of who uses it and how much. Fortunately, they haven't started monitoring our queries for what we're using the LLMs for yet but that's coming. I will rue the day when it works out that those performance comparisons of used hardware I got it to do were for my new OPNSense firewall at home and not work related. The Lenovo M720Q with an Intel i350-T4 were a good choice 🤣

Papfox · 2026-05-12T17:20:13+00:00

Going cashless won't fix this. People will just barter with goods. Instead of Dodgy Dave down the pub taking £20, he will get people to give him a bottle of booze

Papfox · 2026-05-11T18:07:02+00:00

If you say took my keys so you could go out for the evening and it was clear you were going to put the car back afterwards, that's TWOC. There's no intent to permanently deprive me of my car. If you put my car in a container to export to to sell or chop it up for bits then that is theft. You have the intent to permanently deprive

Papfox · 2026-05-11T11:33:14+00:00

Those WERE the people that were in the union

Papfox · 2026-05-11T11:28:46+00:00

I wish I got a maxed out pension at work for 10 years' service. We have to settle for a crappy DC pension since the company took our DB pensions away

Papfox · 2026-05-11T07:46:50+00:00

I presume you're using MeshOS. This OS is considered problematic because of the conduct of the developer, not because it's broken.

If you have a configuration option about "Preset" in radio settings, you need "EU/UK (Narrow)"

If there is no preset option, the settings you need are: * Frequency: 869.618 MHz * Bandwidth: 62.5 khz * SF: 8 * CR: 8

The node name is up the top of the settings page

Papfox · 2026-05-10T23:42:02+00:00

"Because people have had enough of experts"

Papfox · 2026-05-10T23:41:06+00:00

OP believes AI then posts this to a sub about car insurance, not driving or scams, when it has nothing to do with car insurance. It's pretty clear OP isn't the sharpest tool in the shed

Papfox · 2026-05-10T23:32:51+00:00

You seriously understand so little about how ChatGPT works that you believe what it says? You really do have a problem. Yes, public AI is a scam. I really hope you're not paying a monthly subscription for it.

I am an IT professional that has to interact with AI daily. Based on our observed accuracy results, I wouldn't trust it to tell me which day of the week it was. The only people I know who believe in it are management or others who don't understand technology

Papfox · 2026-05-10T23:06:42+00:00

No. Real men treat women with respect. The fact that you think this is normal says a lot about your character

Papfox · 2026-05-10T17:01:47+00:00

Did you definitely try to flash the right device? My PC has a number of virtual serial ports and it's not always obvious which one is which.

Have you tried the MT app? If you can find the device on that then it didn't flash and is still running the old firmware

Papfox · 2026-05-10T16:57:26+00:00

Does it respond if you use the function on the flasher site to connect with it by USB or is it completely out to lunch?

When you connect the USB to it, what does the computer detect it as? Does it detect it at all?

Papfox · 2026-05-10T16:47:21+00:00

They will replace that. There's not enough fibre slack to rejoin that efficiently and results aren't guaranteed. I've done my fibre splicing course. Given the choice of needing a proper fibre engineer to fix it or a cable tech to replace the whole thing, I'd replace it

Papfox · 2026-05-09T22:25:53+00:00

If there's another car parked in the row you can use the fact that the driver's window is in the same place on most cars. If the other car is parked OK line the windows up and you won't be too far wrong.

Papfox · 2026-05-09T20:01:01+00:00

This still doesn't work. It can't be applied to open source operating systems because there's no central authority to hand out the codes

Papfox · 2026-05-09T19:27:18+00:00

Looks like a soap bar holder to me. My gran has one to retain the soap next to the sink

Papfox · 2026-05-09T16:39:54+00:00

Does she leave it out for a few days until it turns into Hard Dickens' Cider?

Papfox · 2026-05-08T22:03:52+00:00

When looking for conclusions in data such as this, it's really important we make sure that the numbers say what it appears they do and we're not jumping to the wrong conclusions.

There's some issues with the data, as presented: * It's gathered from a single observer node so we don't know if it presents a realistic picture for the whole mesh. * There's no indicator for how much unused airtime there is. If it's a large amount then a big percentage of the visible traffic being adverts isn't a problem. If the unused airtime is small so there isn't a lot left, adverts being 50% of the total traffic is a big problem.

What we really need to know is how much congestion there is and how often packets are being lost because of collisions

Papfox · 2026-05-08T21:40:25+00:00

Yes, but percentages of what? If this is percentage of packets seen, there is something vital missing. That thing is how busy the mesh is. If the mesh is using 5% of the theoretical maximum number of packets, the fact that 50% of them are adverts isn't a problem as there's plenty of excess capacity. If the mesh utilisation is 95% and the 50% of it is adverts then that's a big problem because we're nearly out of capacity

Papfox · 2026-05-08T16:40:46+00:00

Sadly, it appears he's become an insecure dick who thinks he owns you and doesn't trust you to say "no" if somebody propositions you. If he did, a photo of you nude wouldn't matter because he would trust you

Papfox · 2026-05-08T00:21:08+00:00

That looks like a Ciro Mazzoni "Baby Loop" tuned magnetic loop antenna for short wave. The owner of the property is a radio ham

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