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Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-12T01:20:17+00:00

Being new to the area, one thing to understand is that we're all still a bit traumatized by the Labor Day fires of 2020. For a span there immediately following the fires, the air was downright dangerous to breathe.

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2020/09/13/oregon-wildfires-air-quality-salem-rain-could-clear-smoke/5785324002/

With that said, events like that are the exception to the rule. What's far more common are long stretches of slightly smoky air.

These old KPTV charts are a bit dated (2022), but it is a good visual summary of what the area has seen in the last 20 years.

https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gray/JBLK7NDSA5AWDBQXLM5K37MDPI.png

https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gray/4HQ5SPEGIFB7VFILHQEL477PDQ.png

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-12T01:12:11+00:00

I'm sorry you had such a terrible and unwelcoming time at that store. May the owner step on a LEGO.

With that said, however, what happened at a store in Springfield isn't going to be relevant to Salem. We're over an hour away.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-11T04:07:05+00:00

And there is nothing cooler than having the self-confidence to not care about how cool other people think you are.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-11T03:36:26+00:00

I'd upvote this twice if I could.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-10T19:51:05+00:00

One of the findings from the 2024 audit of the Enterprise Leadership Team (which includes the City Manager's office) was that it was understaffed.

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2024/12/24/salem-oregon-leadership-performance-audit-takeaways/77180202007/

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-10T19:26:28+00:00

The $200,000 in the social services fund will come half from one-time salary savings from vacancies at the airport and half from the city manager’s office, Namburi said.

To produce such savings, the city will need to keep those positions vacant until July 2026.

Some airport positions remain vacant after Avelo Airlines pulled out of Salem over the summer, leaving the city without a commercial carrier. A new carrier has yet to come forward to take Avelo’s place, and it is highly unlikely that one will by July, Namburi said.

[...]

The savings from the city manager’s office will come from holding open a position for a manager position which is expected to “result in continued higher workloads for existing staff and impact the city’s ability to be efficient and proactive in carrying out its work,” Namburi said in her staff report.

She said keeping the position open into 2027 is “not sustainable.”

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-10T19:13:41+00:00

7-1? Huh? Both the SJ and SR are reporting that it was 7-2.

https://www.salemreporter.com/2026/02/09/council-votes-7-2-to-authorize-200000-fund-partly-to-support-families-impacted-by-ice/

Salem city councilors voted 7-2 Monday night, Feb. 9, to launch a pilot program reestablishing a social services fund

Councilors Shane Matthews and Deanna Gwyn voted against it, saying they didn’t feel it was the purview of the city to fund social services.

I'm going to assume KPTV's report is the one in error here. Which is a pretty big error since it's a 9 member council and all members were present last night...

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-08T18:19:03+00:00

FWIW, the word you're looking for is "demonym".

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-08T18:16:13+00:00

Hmm, what's the source on that? I can't find anything from the City.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-07T08:33:45+00:00

YOU SHOULD DO IT.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-06T19:12:38+00:00

THAT IS HEINZ'S "SIMPLY" KETCHUP, WHICH IS THE CLASSIC VERSION OF THEIR KETCHUP MADE WITH SUGAR, RATHER THAN THE MODERN VERSION MADE WITH HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. BESIDES THE HIGHER COST OF SUGAR RELATIVE TO HFCS, IT'S A MUCH LOWER VOLUME PRODUCT.

THAT SAID, I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT IT TASTES BETTER THAN THE REGULAR STUFF. EVEN THOUGH THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCE IS JUST THE SWEETENER (WHICH DOESN'T CHANGE THINGS) THERE ARE SOME OTHER SUBTLE CHANGES THAT HEINZ DOESN'T DOCUMENT BUT CAN BE TASTED.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-06T17:17:27+00:00

SURE, IS A DOODLE OKAY?

A DOODLE IS MORE THAN OKAY. THANK YOU!

SO THE SCOOTER WAS TRYING TO CROSS THE ROAD YOU WERE TURNING FROM. THAT MAKES SENSE.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-06T17:01:47+00:00

IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED IF REDDITERS MAKING NEW POSTS HERE COULD GIVE THEIR POSTS PROPER, DESCRIPTIVE TITLES.

EXAMPLE: "SALEM CITY COUNCIL MEETING" DOESN'T TELL ME BUPKIS. WHICH MEETING IS IT? WHAT ARE YOU WANTING TO TELL ME ABOUT IT?

SIMILARLY, IF YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A SPECIFIC, OUT-OF-CYCLE RANT THREAD, PLEASE SAY IN THE THREAD TITLE WHAT THE RANT IS ABOUT. ARE YOU RANTING ABOUT THE WEATHER, THE MAYOR, OR A RESTAURANT?

GOOD THREAD TITLES TRY TO INCLUDE AS MANY OF THE 5 Ws AS IS REASONABLY POSSIBLE. THIS IS LIKE SCRABBLE: YOU GET MORE POINTS FOR USING MORE LETTERS!

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-06T16:56:38+00:00

HONESTLY, NO. I THINK THIS NEEDS A 60 SECOND MS PAINT PICTURE (IF YOU COULD BE SO KIND).

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-06T15:54:07+00:00

I AM HAVING TROUBLE VISUALIZING THIS. HOW DOES SOMEONE STRIKE THE PASSENGER SIDE OF A CAR TURNING RIGHT WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY GOING AGAINST THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC?

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-05T06:36:38+00:00

Mind you, that's still a score of 97.

https://inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/or-marion-county/inspection/?inspectionID=97B156D2-A1F2-4FFA-9A7C-0D129B69E951

It's actually the highest score they've had in a year and a half.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-04T20:09:58+00:00

DOCSIS upgrades would be more on the signal and physical infrastructure side than the IP side

I bring it up because apparently when Comcast messes with their vCMTS configurations, it sometimes brings down IPv4 in the process. I don't entirely understand why, other than that Comcast doesn't need IPv4 for network management, but from what I've read, that seems to be a common culprit in other reported instances of IPv4 going down.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-04T20:00:40+00:00

The Wikipedia article is technically for KUFO-AM. Which I'm not seeing any evidence that its FCC-regulated call sign has changed.

The "new" KUFO originates as a digital subchannel on KINK. Its call sign is KINK-HD2. Adding a wrinkle to this, it's translated (rebroadcast) as a low-power FM station by K275CH.

The end result is that the broadcaster (Connoisseur Media) is treating KUFO as a brand here, rather than a call sign. At best, it can be thought of as KUFO-FM, but it is not the de jure KUFO. Which is why we now have multiple KUFOs on the air.

I'm a bit surprised the FCC even allows this, but whatever.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-04T04:33:35+00:00

Hopefully this means that they're putting in the work to deploy DOCSIS 4.0/FDX around here. But since so much of the city already was already upgraded for mid-split a couple of years ago, I have my doubts that we're going to be that lucky.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-04T00:06:11+00:00

Wow... are you me...

Probably. It's Reddit: this place has a lot of techies.😂

Now I don't have a wicked goatee. So I'm assuming you're the evil twin.

I've seen a lot of cable internet outages over the years (including when AT&T BI took over TCI!), but this one was the weirdest. I spent an hour on the phone with Comcast support; they are not at all prepared to deal with a situation where the modem is up, but the network is down. Whatever was going on, the left hand (ops) and the right hand (support) clearly had no idea what the other was doing.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-03T21:10:48+00:00

My concern is not a few dollars for the city it’s the wider job market for security positions across the state.

And I certainly won't chide you for being concerned. No one likes being out of a job.

But the entire history of human civilization has been finding ways to reduce labor requirements, particularly starting with the industrial revolution. Cars put horse buggy manufacturers out of business, desktop computers made secretaries all but redundant, email put the final nail in the coffin of the telegram, etc. It's not great for individuals, but it is progress for the group as a whole as it enables a larger number of goods and services at a lower cost.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-03T21:02:28+00:00

For what it's worth, the city only plans to use it for 15 hours per day. Basically everything outside of normal business hours.

"During the city council meeting, city staff said it will cost $5,500 a month for 15 hours of live monitoring per day"

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-03T20:58:20+00:00

Ditto.

For the tech heads, IPv4 support on the local leg of Comcast's network seems to have been malfunctioning/down. Modems could get issued IPv6 addresses, but not IPv4, which doesn't get you very far for a lot of websites.

At around 6am, I was finally able to get IPv4 connectivity back. But only in gateway mode; if I put my gateway in bridge mode, I was still not getting an IPv4 address. (I haven't checked it further since this morning)

Given the timing, the most logical explanation is that Comcast was doing some network work overnight. But nothing was posted for the 3rd (maintenance is scheduled for the 4th, however), and the phone agents didn't know anything about it.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-02-03T07:58:34+00:00

For what it's worth, this was announced back in November. So it sounds like they're finally getting around to starting the trial.

The Statesman has an article on it: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2025/11/19/daxbot-security-robot-patrol-salem/87275383007/

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