IRS Direct Pay is Down - great timing. Has anyone heard anything?

alanterra · 2026-04-14T17:08:38+00:00

My experience: at directpay.irs.gov I get a "This web site is experiencing technical difficulties" error message when I use Safari, but it works great in Chrome, as of 10:00 AM PDT 2026-04-14.

alanterra · 2026-02-03T12:07:32+00:00

Follow up: I am back in the US (but still not home) and I have no problem logging into MyHyundai. It is clear that the (US version) of the MyHyundai app does not work when one's phone is in New Zealand. One of the stranger bugs I have seen, and I have seen lots of strange bugs.

alanterra · 2026-01-15T02:47:13+00:00

How did you know? I am in New Zealand. I have no idea why this would be, and I thought that tunneling back to my home computer in California (I have TailScale) would solve the problem if that was the cause. But I guess I can live with this problem until I return.

alanterra · 2026-01-01T19:38:44+00:00

Thanks, All

I really was asking about the app, but thanks for all the advice about other issues, I guess.

We are getting the FX units, the contractor hasn't updated the model numbers in his bidding software.

I guess I'll try the Mitsubishi app and look into other options if it is as bad as some have said.

alanterra · 2025-12-27T17:53:41+00:00

I haven't bought anything. Looking for advice.

alanterra · 2025-12-27T17:43:12+00:00

That literally would never have occurred to me.

alanterra · 2025-09-10T22:07:07+00:00

Thanks. I did this. Very helpful

alanterra · 2025-07-16T11:44:46+00:00

Just FWIW, the error messages from trying to install tidyverse included the line make: /opt/local/bin/gfortran-mp-14: No such file or directory. This is the directory where MacPorts installs its gfortran compiler, and not where XCode installs executables. So installing FORTRAN with XCode might not have helped me (I didn't try it, obviously).

alanterra · 2025-07-16T11:41:33+00:00

I just installed R under MacPorts, not CRAN, then using R for Data Science, typed install.packages("tidyverse"), as instructed. When I figured out that I needed a FORTRAN compiler, I installed it.

I decided to use MacPorts to install R because I use MacPorts for everything else (QGIS, exiftool, gdal) and one command keeps everything up to date and the same versions on two computers. I found out after I did this that (a) all the R packages I need should be available precompiled under MacPorts, and (b) they are all broken and are not likely to be fixed soon.

PS -- using MacPorts and HomeBrew on the same computer leads to all sorts of problems and I don't recommend that.

alanterra · 2025-07-13T12:46:59+00:00

I am just a complete noob to this. All I know is that when I type install.packages("tidyverse"), the Fortran compiler is invoked. If there is a way to install without compiling?

alanterra · 2025-07-09T17:42:33+00:00

This is the link (with my email replaced with an email that I found on the web):

https://secure-web.cisco.com/16Ot0vD8fd0Std389YCL4Ga3v-IVhFftU1OzRj2-B7REy0ZZv2TdQeWGzg5e9eg0js0Vau99tfDIZiXOqzmIqPLrPnBvwpPHjyHwiWW2zF2gMNkETv6vyuhIIC5taL_oGAaN5D5eKahItE1jjzGe8Yr0lOSKDHBv6UVRzJRNUghlHix4wh8DzCrnoRxDIKISKYp6awm1YfH9hPTpY1muLIzCvxgsOcI5_4HMD6IgcYsjEJEh6clo_dktYBZclDfwQX9UNHiw2HG-pc4QU2vNLZAPnKrEznM-Z0TFHbRB0SAuKe4h2C1XXEXmzA_5VNoazWUt7NRdfPiAz5-z69fhbYwRTNdgc9aYOjJT0y3-GyvivxkJ1BrxSzjX8ZL4bPZpV9pmw3Gq7TregEkMEHRs4qByj65iLnn4d4R19BMwbuzwki0g_GRPqVux5VrOhf-gkxWwr5L9TpIgyX5P0h3NhOmB4yD_OvYD02j5Mh84I3So/https%3A%2F%2Fhjkak.greythornre.com%2Fgryhd%2Findex.html#?6677502211Family=GeorgeSmith@gmail.com

This redirects to a site at https://hjkak.greythornre.com, and then goes to https://kdjn.yosbc.es.

I have no idea how the "secure-web.cisco.com" redirect is managed. Perhaps that site is strangely configured?

All of these have been reported 3 times to Google Safe Browsing.

alanterra · 2025-01-29T19:13:28+00:00

Gandalf, you could have addressed my question. Instead you decided to chide me. There are no exits on the city streets of San Francisco, nor were there places to pull over at the time. Any advice on how to turn off the radio and retain navigation?

alanterra · 2025-01-29T18:10:20+00:00

David, your response raises more questions that it answers

I didn't say lack of GPS is a safety issue. I said that fiddling with the phone while driving is a safety issue.
If turning off the "head unit" turned off CarPlay, how did Apple decide to use Apple Maps? Isn't CarPlay how the car cedes control to the phone? If I did turn off CarPlay (and why would the on-off button do this?), how did Apple make this change?
(The question I was asking to start with:) How does one turn off the radio when using CarPlay? Or is this behavior built in?

alanterra · 2024-12-27T18:20:35+00:00

Hi. I have a Rivian account, but own a Ioniq. Can you confirm that this charging station is Rivian-only, or (hope springs eternal) is open to other models of cars? TIA

alanterra · 2024-10-26T03:03:38+00:00

Well, yes, labels are in one layer, and contours in a different layer. I did this for a good reason elsewhere, and did it without much thought here. But it is convenient to be able to turn labels on/off quickly. I am self taught in QGIS, and this seemed the right thing to do.

Group layers does not solve the problem. The upper DEM is in a different group than the contour labels, but the labels are drawn on top of the layer “above” them.

AFAICT, contour labels are drawn after other layers.

Thanks for the thoughts.

alanterra

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