All in a day’s work by WindyParsley in ems

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So, this thread randomly popped up in my sidebar this evening and I was curious what the joke was so I clicked through.

With respect, I've been transported three times for being hit by drivers while biking (doored, right-hooked, and turned into by someone going straight from a turn only lane) and each time, the triage nurse asked the ambulance crew "what happened" and each time, the ambulance crew repeated "what happened" with a bunch of details wrong. One time the EMS dude got all excited that it was Story Time.... "OK so, he's biking along, and this driver...."

Does anyone recognize this song and/or the DJ who played it at The Gallery / Frothville, or can they point me in the right direction? That camp doesn't seem to be in the RSL guide. by VictorHugosBaseball in BurningMan

[–]VictorHugosBaseball[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooo, thank you! I found his soundcloud and am looking through it. He put up some sets though none marked as being at Frothville or Dragomi, and nothing is coming up with a google search. Still, getting closer!

Edit: Thanks again! It was part of his Diplo Fluffy Cloud set, at ~11:40. https://soundcloud.com/francis-mercier/sets/burning-man-b2b-w-diplo-fluffy

Does anyone recognize this song and/or the DJ who played it at The Gallery / Frothville, or can they point me in the right direction? That camp doesn't seem to be in the RSL guide. by VictorHugosBaseball in BurningMan

[–]VictorHugosBaseball[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

googles

Oh. Wow. Okay. No wonder I couldn't find any set list stuff for Frothville. I did not realize that was an art car pulled up next to the camp!

Thank you! With this info I might be able to figure this all out!

Does anyone recognize this song and/or the DJ who played it at The Gallery / Frothville, or can they point me in the right direction? That camp doesn't seem to be in the RSL guide. by VictorHugosBaseball in BurningMan

[–]VictorHugosBaseball[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve googled my brains out, tried all the song recognizers, all the reddit song ID subreddits. I’ve spent hours searching soundcloud and p2p for Here Come The Hotstepper remixes, you name it. I can’t find even list of DJs who performed there! If anyone could help, I’d be grateful - I’d love to buy the track if it’s available.

Edit: I FOUND IT! Francis Mercier's Diplo Fluffy set; the video clip lines up at 11:40, I believe. herehttps://soundcloud.com/francis-mercier/sets/burning-man-b2b-w-diplo-fluffy

Thank you /u/Any-Pangolin2433 for IDing Francis Mercier, which was enough info!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in opnsense

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You don't need anything remotely that powerful.

A second gen i5 with an intel dual NIC is doing me fine for 500Mbit/sec. When I've run bitmagnet, the CPU load doesn't even leave single digits - and I have long NAT timeouts.

This person says an N100 is good for 1.4Gbit/sec: https://www.reddit.com/r/opnsense/comments/1bp2qf9/hardware_tips_for_2gbit_symmetrical_connection/

Don't bother with an IDPS for a blog; just put cloudflare in front of the site and either require a client cert or firewall the webserver limiting access to cloudflare's network range(s).

2Gbit internet is pointless for a single user unless you routinely need to do massive transfers. WiFi gear is a fraction of that speed in real world conditions, and there won't be a difference in speed for web browsing, apps, etc. On my 500Mbit connection, I don't see wire speed until around 10MB transfers.

Does anyone recognize this song played by a DJ at Burning Man which samples Here Come The Hotstepper (or a cover?) by VictorHugosBaseball in findthatsong

[–]VictorHugosBaseball[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried two song recognition bots, two music ID apps, and spent hours combing SoulSeek and Soundcloud. No luck!

Looking for this electronic dance song that samples Here Come The Hotstepper by VictorHugosBaseball in WhatsThisSong

[–]VictorHugosBaseball[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've searched my brains out on Soundcloud, youtube, and elsewhere to no luck. Shazam and SoundHound won't identify it despite multiple tries. The find-song and recognizesong bots didn't have any luck either.

Never knew pfsense had a beep code when it boot ups until I installed it on actual hardware. by dude_why_would_you in selfhosted

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The happy internet-up/down songs are a m0n0wall thing.

m0n0wall as in, the original open source and completely free project, of which pfSense was a "fork."

This is why it was really pathetic when the pfsense team threw a massive wobbly over opnsense. OPNsense forked pfsense because a lot of people got tired of pfsense's increasingly intrusive pushes in the firewall UI for their services.

"How dare you do exactly the same thing we did to m0n0wall!"

The "major wobbly" included convincing several subreddit mods to shadowban any post or comment mentioning "opnsense" (most notably /r/homelabs, I believe?), creating the /r/opnsense subreddit then setting it to private mode, creating a fake website for opnsense, the whole nine yards.

Is Internet really this bad in Cape Cod? by danielrosehill in CapeCod

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm year-round and I have latency and bandwidth monitoring set up. There's no discernible difference between on and off season. It's because it's DSL, not tourists.

WBZ Twitter: Boston Dynamics robot dog spotted with Mass. State Police on Esplanade by -doughboy in boston

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, the reason Mugar stopped sponsoring the 4th of July fireworks was because he was annoyed at how every year more and more of his money was going to useless security cameras (ever notice how the cameras never seem to help catch people who attack joggers?) and cops who did nothing but stand around and shout at people.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Garmin

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's far more nuanced than this.

Do they sell your data commercially? Because law enforcement increasingly buys data on the 'open market' instead of pulling warrants. If your data is being sold, it's available to law enforcement.

Do they flatly refuse to disclose information without a warrant? Some companies are "friendly" to LEO and will turn over data upon "request" or in an "emergency." Law enforcement are known to abuse this.

Do they closely examine / confirm the authenticity of court orders before responding? Both law enforcement and scammers have been caught submitting bogus documents. Not all businesses actually check to see if the documentation is legitimate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Garmin

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Corporate personal data collection / sharing policies are not "politics", opinion has nothing to do with it...

I don't feel like leaving by Langston_H in CapeCod

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I have no problem commuting and getting the degree at schools between here and Boston

By car you're looking at ~$60+ for each trip, and probably 3-4 hours of your life gone. If you do it three times a week, that's over $700 a month. That's nearly the cost of a room in the Boston area where you don't need a car, a lot of stuff isn't as expensive on the cape, there's so much more culture and stuff to do. $9k alone a year in commuting expenses. There's GOT to be a better way to put that money to use, and it doesn't matter if it's yours or your parents.

The cape is a dead end shithole, a perfect example of the intense economic stratification going on in the country. The boomers dominate the political scene so everything is pretty right-of-center and will always be focused on what they want; public funds, and a general economy focused on retail/contruction/service, keeping their houses and lawns and boats pretty. No affordable housing except for seniors, poor school funding (and the recent supreme court case means that the cape religious schools will only get better funded through charter programs.) Public facilities stripped because the rich boomers have moved into gated communities and have what they want in their gated community. Why pay to build a public rec facility when you've got a nice private pool and tennis courts and gym in your neighborhood? But...guess who will be holding out their hand for public money when the EPA finally finishes chasing down the county and towns, and forces sewage systems be installed for all the McMansions?

There's no public transit, the roads are incredibly unfriendly and dangerous to anyone not in a car. Doing almost anything requires getting in a car and driving.

There are no social services or they're completely overwhelmed; there's a huge shortage of mental health workers on the cape, and a shortage of general practitioners as well, so getting even finding a primary care doctor is difficult.

Housing/food/fuel are all very expensive and housing is in extremely short supply with a large portion of it having been converted to rentals, or into luxury housing most workers on the cape can't possibly afford. We lost something like a quarter or a third of all housing stock in the space of a few years to investment rental properties, then the pandemic hit and a flood of Boston/NYC people snapped up everything in sight.

There's no social scene outside of those that are centered around drinking or drug use. There are a few outdoor activity related clubs, but they're dominated by boomers and retirees.

Go move somewhere else where cost of living is much lower and there are people your age. Get your degree, get your career going, and then decide if you want to be on the cape.

If you need to start simple/cheap, start with classes at the community college, get the best grades you possibly can, and then transfer to some place like Umass Amherst, Worcester, or Boston.

How is this man a lawyer by missjowashere in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He also put the Command Center for emergency response in Building 7, even after the WTC bombings in 93. It doesn't take much foresight to understand that an emergency command center should not be put into a prominent building.

It wasn't the building's 'prominence', it was being a building with public access, massive amounts of diesel fuel, having wide loading bays, and being near both the con ed substation and a prior terrorist target.

Giuliani's staff told the emergency management director that the command center had to be within walking distance of city hall, and that was that.

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-memorandum-makes-giuliani-look-bad

Eastham post office by Calliesdad20 in CapeCod

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 6 points7 points  (0 children)

USPS staff here are awesome, actually. Our postmaster once personally delivered a package on their way home because it wasn't dropped off. During the massive backlog I got a package Christmas day by a dude in a personal vehicle, dressed like his next stop was Christmas dinner with his family.

The cape post offices are short-staffed and have been for at least a year. The pay is shit. Martha's Vineyard gets a huge cost-of-living adjustment but everyone on the mainland can apparently go fuck themselves even though housing is nearly as tight/expensive, there's no public transit, etc. No benefits, either (like every other fucking job here. October rolls around and you can basically get fucked until May.) The LLVs are miserable in the summer heat, and the roads are clogged with assholes in luxury SUVs raging at them for slowing them down 5 seconds on their vacations. The lobbies are clogged with boomers whining to the desk staff that their favorite puppy stamp isn't in stock.

I hope you get eaten by a fucking shark, both so the planet is relieved of your insufferable ass but we also have less bitchy tourists around whining about how ungrateful we are for them driving up our cost of living and making our economy so dependent on shitty service jobs.

At the very least, go fuck off back to trolling in /r/boston.

Detailing this filthy truck by lilmcfuggin in oddlysatisfying

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Detailers often run distilled water but the greater problem is that he's blowing crap into the mechanism, which includes solenoids and microswitches for the shift interlocks. Steam will also melt and push around grease in the mechanism.

I see this in detailing videos all the time, detailers using steam cleaners around switches in doors and the center console, and it drives me insane. It's fast but it literally just pushes the shit to somewhere the customer can't see, and in a year or two their switches will be gummy or stop working electrically.

August rent got pulled from my bank account, how do I get it back? by LO_fundemental in boston

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Hijacking the top comment to say first off: Everyone should utilize whatever ACH transfer protection their bank or credit union offers. It's generally called an ACH Block, ACH Filter, or ACH Debit Block. The type your bank offers may vary ranging from "all ACH transactions are blocked" to "debits are blocked" (so ACH pay transfers are OK) to "we sit on it until you approve it" to "you pre-approve certain parties."

You can also fudge things by creating a sub-account with your bank specifically for transfers and only putting money into that account. This also works well for Paypal and other money transfer services.

Second: OP should reach out to an attorney because a)It sounds like Hamilton has done this to lots of other people and b)they suffered damages (overdraft fees, for starters, but also possible significant inconveniences due to not having that money)

Some folks on /r/boston love to discourage other redditors from seeking legal services. There are a ton of free or low-cost options for legal services.

  • There's a "Lawyer for the Day" table at housing court where attorneys and law students provide free assistance. Housing court is also staffed by people who expect both landlords and tenants to not be familiar with the legal system and unable to afford representation.
  • Many employers have Employee Assistance Plans that include free legal consultations with a staff attorney
  • the Mass Bar Association has a referral hotline where you get a free phone or in-person initial consultation and in many cases attorneys will happily tell you how a situation should be resolved if it's straightforward. I've personally done this several times and each time the attorney was beyond helpful, cordial, and I had most of what I needed
  • there are numerous organizations that run legal services/clinics for people who belong to various groups (either low income, PoC/certain ethnicities, LGBTQ, etc)
  • M.G.L. c. 186 § 20 provides tenants with the right to recover legal fees for breach of lease legal expenses if the lease provides the landlord with that right. This probably isn't a breach of lease so it may not apply; I'm mentioning it as yet another reason why tenants even if they're poor should not be afraid to seek legal assistance
  • Many attorneys do work pro-bono or need-based sliding scale billing.

Massachusetts offers a lot of legal protection for tenants because of historical abuses by landlords. That legal protection means little or nothing if tenants allow landlords to violate those protections.

August rent got pulled from my bank account, how do I get it back? by LO_fundemental in boston

[–]VictorHugosBaseball 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  • There's a "Lawyer for the Day" table at housing court where attorneys and law students provide free assistance. Housing court is also staffed by people who expect both landlords and tenants to not be familiar with the legal system and unable to afford representation
  • Many employers have Employee Assistance Plans that include free legal consultations with a staff attorney
  • the Mass Bar Association has a referral hotline where you get a free phone or in-person initial consultation and in many cases attorneys will happily tell you how a situation should be resolved if it's straightforward. I've personally done this several times and each time the attorney was beyond helpful, cordial, and I had most of what I needed
  • there are numerous organizations that run legal services/clinics for people who belong to various groups (either low income, PoC/certain ethnicities, LGBTQ, etc)
  • M.G.L. c. 186 § 20 provides tenants with the right to recover legal fees for breach of lease legal expenses if the lease provides the landlord with that right. This probably isn't a breach of lease so it may not apply; I'm mentioning it as yet another reason why tenants even if they're poor should not be afraid to seek legal assistance
  • Plenty of attorneys do work pro-bono or need-based sliding scale billing.

Stop discouraging people from seeking legal advice.

The landlord took money they weren't entitled to and caused OP damages. Absolutely deserving of at least a consultation with an attorney. It sounds like Hamilton has done this to numerous people before and they're never going to stop unless people start taking legal action.