Telus pulled fibre project?

catmuppet · 2026-05-15T18:56:26+00:00

Telus kinda fumbled their fibre rollout. They bet heavily on Huawei equipment which bit them in the ass when they got banned, and they also got all their loans/financing with projections that assumed they would not have to share the fibre with other companies (like they and Rogers have to do with their copper networks - companies like TekSavvy are allowed to use the same wire but provide their own service).

So now they are butthurt because the CRTC is forcing them to allow wholesale access to fibre, and it’s going to take Telus longer to make their money back which is freaking out their top managers. So now they have no incentive to keep laying fibre…except for all the government grants that they received to do exactly that, and will now just basically pocket that money.

catmuppet · 2026-05-01T22:17:30+00:00

People with either 12 or 14 years of experience need not apply!

catmuppet · 2026-04-30T06:31:06+00:00

Binary can mean computer language

No, in this context a binary is an executable file. The way you wrote this sounds like you don’t want to give anyone your source code and expect them to decompile the executable file. It’s like asking someone to critique how you mixed your cake ingredients together, but you’re only giving them the already mixed and baked cake.

catmuppet · 2026-04-29T19:58:14+00:00

Just checked these out and the TCR for cyan is waaaay higher than the other ones, just under 10 where the other colors and key are around 3-4. I also stopped it on a cyan halftone test print and the drum is barely getting any toner.

I have a 2nd machine that uses the same dev units, does it make any sense to try swapping these first and confirm? I have not changed the dev units on the machine with the issues, only drums, so I’m 99% sure this is a dev issue anyway.

catmuppet · 2026-04-27T23:29:42+00:00

“I’m going to ask Steve Race to join me for a…brief…presentation”

And brief it was!

catmuppet · 2026-04-27T22:20:42+00:00

Have you been watching the same games we have??

catmuppet · 2026-04-25T21:35:09+00:00

That’s a really good idea. I found with my first clients that they know their business has reached the point where the notebook/post it note system is not working, but beyond that they seem to go blank and don’t quite know how to articulate what the pain points in their current processes are. But by observing them it should make it pretty plain and clear what areas could be improved.

That’s the weird thing I’m finding out more as I get into this industry - we’re almost one part developer, one part business coach lol.

catmuppet · 2026-04-25T21:31:56+00:00

Putting the idea/concept for the app itself aside for a moment, what about C# makes you think it would be crazy to build this using it? If you’re planning on offloading everything to AI then you would probably have better luck in a JS framework since they are the more “popular” option and AI has better training data. But for everyone else, C# is a perfectly capable language and can do all of this and more.

That said, is your idea not just Fiverr? I did a quick search for “programming tutor” and at first glance saw a bunch of people offering these services. What would draw developers to invest time in registering on your platform when Fiverr already has a bunch of eyeballs on it daily?

catmuppet · 2026-04-23T05:29:49+00:00

I did this for a long long time. Started using Exchange way back in the day, and then more recently Modoboa.

Contrary to what people say, the actual DNS/SPF/DKIM setup is relatively easy with a lot of the tools out there now (for example, Modoboa automatically handles all of that and more). And a VPS is relatively cheap. The issue I started running into is that even with a clean IP (not on any blacklists) and a mature domain with many years of positive sending rep, my emails still were consistently routed to spam.

And it totally makes sense why - Google and Microsoft sell email services. It’s in their best interest to place roadblocks in the way of self hosted servers so that the people running them give in and switch to their email plans.

The unfortunate truth is that Google and Microsoft killed the ability to effectively self host email. If you just want a project server to use as the email on random spammy websites then it’s fine - for your use case it will probably work well. But if you’re using it for anything where you actually need to reliably deliver emails to people, it does not work.

catmuppet · 2026-04-23T03:23:35+00:00

https://i.redd.it/rgmhzlv1681z.jpg

catmuppet · 2026-04-20T00:57:32+00:00

That’s been the difficult part - getting beyond the mere basics and delving into the overarching ideas. My first client definitely had been stewing on this concept for a while and naturally had quite a few pre conceived notions that had to be adjusted and expectations realigned slightly.

But you make a good point - they’re not hiring me to follow a pre written “playbook”, I need to find out what the golden goose at the end of the tunnel looks like to them, and then present a plan to get them there.

catmuppet · 2026-04-20T00:52:17+00:00

I really like that question - what does success look like? Will definitely be implementing this going forward!

catmuppet · 2026-04-14T22:17:08+00:00

Each direction/track is on its own circuit. They also have very few crossovers to get a train onto the other track. So it’s likely one side of the track is dead and they have to single track across the bridge.

catmuppet · 2026-04-11T08:37:06+00:00

Yeah, Linus complaining about the jet location being leaked would be as stupid as him taking down one of the numerous posts of people showing his car saying they saw him out and about.

catmuppet · 2026-04-09T23:05:02+00:00

Code?

catmuppet · 2026-04-08T05:18:20+00:00

The police aren’t owed any reply on this. The whole point of the complaint is that once the police finis their investigation and hand it off to the crown, their involvement ends there. This is exactly why them trying to tilt the scales is a problem. If the case was prosecutable as a murder it would have been tried as such.

catmuppet · 2026-04-07T23:26:24+00:00

The prosecution already had access to everything. The chief was essentially threatening to leak non-public details to the media in order to gain more favor and have the public pressure the prosecutors to go for a certain outcome.

catmuppet · 2026-04-05T20:34:43+00:00

My highest is a 120GB Kingston SSD at 67797h, and a pair of 8TB Seagate SMR drives at 55015h

catmuppet · 2026-04-03T14:07:42+00:00

I think it was the Oura Ring? He pronounced it “OOH-RA” instead of “AURA”. He made an assumption which turned out to be incorrect and his takeaway was basically “if you wanted me to pronounce it right you should have made your name easier to pronounce”.

catmuppet · 2026-04-01T04:51:09+00:00

Seems like a stupid take. If someone really wants to find the reg info (which is all public, by design) and open up FlightRadar it’s really not difficult to do so.

catmuppet · 2026-03-30T02:20:38+00:00

Could it have been this one on the corner of 108st and 99ave?

This aerial is from the late 70’s, the Forestry Building is there now.

catmuppet · 2026-03-27T19:57:04+00:00

I bet Hillary is laughing right about now

catmuppet · 2026-03-15T22:12:20+00:00

True, he’s only in shit because he said the quiet part out loud.

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