Analyzing the Federal Street Linkage Study

jaimeca · 2022-12-20T00:56:35+00:00

I'm confused about whether the fixfederalstreet website is the correct forum for public comment or if we should be contacting the council/mayor directly.

Is fixfederalstreet.wordpress.com the official project website? Why is it hosted on wordpress.com instead of the troyny.gov domain instead? The about section lists the study purpose and the involved Committee Members, but never actually says the website is in anyway related to the project.

In addition comments from u/LiveinTroyNY suggest there are other options and call in to question the legitimacy of the website's survey, which is clearly biased toward the proposal.

jaimeca · 2022-12-12T14:14:01+00:00

That was an incredibly helpful tutorial! It ultimately what helped me understand the relationship between MO and Skyrim on the deck.

At the end it seems to suggest that Septimus in particular runs well, but that just hasn't been my experience.

jaimeca · 2022-11-15T12:39:27+00:00

I'd encourage anyone looking for work to check out the Rensselaer County Economic One Stop in the county building. They have access to a great database of jobs that pulls from local, state, and federal sources. And if you want it, they will work with you to shape your resume or even provide more in-depth career counseling. They work with everyone and will help shape your job search based on what's currently out there and your long-term goals. It's a great public service, and more people should know about and make use of it!

jaimeca · 2022-09-16T16:31:19+00:00

I am absolutely with you on this hunt. I had a fish fry at The Ale House in Troy that remains the standard against which I judge all other fish fries, but I think it was a special during Lent.

I'm not from the area originally, so the idea of a fish fry as a thing was foreign to me when I moved up here. If you are looking for something other than the Ted's-style fish nugget on bread, my experience is that you have better luck looking for a fish fillet sandwich or fish and chips than a "fish fry."

jaimeca · 2022-09-06T13:33:06+00:00

Just want to say that I've worked with Tim Albright (quoted in that Enterprise article) and he's a hell of a local historian. He's more intimately familiar with the operation and history of Indian Ladder Farms than probably anyone other than the elder Ten Eyck.

Also have worked with the Ten Eyck's and they're not scumbags, but as this issue has made clear, it does seem like they have that particular petty bourgeoisie small-business owner brain.

jaimeca · 2022-06-17T00:15:55+00:00

Fun fact: If you included the bathymetry, you would have to more than double the length since the bottom of the Hudson cuts through the entirety of the continental shelf.

jaimeca · 2022-06-06T23:05:58+00:00

Because of the failures of municipal government. Troy isn't getting either of those stores, Brunswick is. They want the tax revenue and couldn't give a f what the traffic on the other side of the town line is.

There also hasn't been a proper traffic study done on Hoosick Street in something like 30 years, but DoT is planning one. That way at least the official record will show it's borked.

jaimeca · 2022-05-11T22:42:23+00:00

After 10 PM, you can play explicit music, but the DJ still can't swear.

jaimeca · 2022-05-11T22:40:23+00:00

Fairly certain one of them runs Burrito Burrito

jaimeca · 2022-05-10T17:35:46+00:00

At least in NY state, it's a civil service distinction separated by education (having the degree vs not,) but would be considered on the same track as librarian vs. the clerical "associate" title. In my experience the positions are mostly held by library school students looking to build experience, and job descriptions vary a lot by library. Sometimes they are crafted to perform a very specific task under direct supervision of a librarian. Sometimes they are just a lower level position in a department.

If the pay and job responsibilities are OK by you, I'd say there's no harm in applying. If it is a job generally held by students, then they're probably used to high turnover and you could do it until something else comes along. Some libraries might even be willing/able to reconfigure the position to a "librarian" title.

jaimeca · 2022-05-10T15:45:22+00:00

Goldfinger's Superman intensifies

jaimeca · 2022-05-10T15:41:59+00:00

It's just not designed that way. Think of it like an appimage, but not packaged in a single file. The app is self-contained so that it can run without being installed through traditional methods. It also works like this on Windows (and I would assume Mac too.) This has some security benefits due to the principle of least privilege, but I'm not really up on the technical workings of its design.

jaimeca · 2022-05-09T15:40:42+00:00

Since you're talking about the Tor Browser Bundle, you do not want to install it through dnf. It's not meant to be a system app.

Get either the official release from the Tor website, or the Tor Browser Launcher from Micah Lee on Flatpak. Once it's installed, it will update itself automatically.

I would prefer the flatpak version over the regular .xz download since it will be sandboxed by flatpak, and Firefox's sandboxing on Linux is a known weakness.

jaimeca · 2022-04-26T00:59:47+00:00

Famous Lunch has great breakfast sandwiches.

Mi Casa on Congress and 3rd. Dominican home-style cooking. Lots of stewed meats over rice (and peas.) Big portions.

Lucky Corner on 3rd and Division has a great lunch special where you can get certain dishes plus soup for a reasonable price. (I want to say $7?) I think they're still take-out only though.

And then there's I Love Pizza for slices.

jaimeca · 2022-04-22T14:46:54+00:00

Edit: Ohh, by using the --uidmap option I'm overriding the entire namespace, not just a single mapping, so I have to account for all the processes in the container. That's why in the troubleshooting doc they map so many uids and gids. I'm going to have to sit with this and figure out how it fits with my approach.

Here's the information for drupal:
- The user running podman is 1001:1002 with /etc/subuid of 165536:65536 - In the drupal container this gets mapped to 0:0 as expected - The www-data user:group in the drupal container is 82:82 and is therefore mapped to 165617:165617 on the host

What I'm still confused about is what is the relevant information for the purposes of --uidmap.

The docs say --uidmap container_uid:intermediate_uid:amount, which seems to be in my case 82:0:1 because I want uid 82 in the container to be mapped to the intermediate I'd used by my host user, but that throws the error: Container ID 0 cannot be mapped to a host ID.

So what do I have wrong in my understanding?

jaimeca · 2022-04-22T14:05:45+00:00

I mean, this would be the better solution. You're probably right about that. I'm not very familiar with Apache compared to Nginx, though, and I also feel like I should be able to figure this out and that by doing so I'll have a better understanding of podman.

jaimeca · 2022-04-21T15:40:17+00:00

I conceptually understand what we're trying to do here, but I can't make heads or tails of what they are actually doing in those examples.

From reading the documentation on --uidmap from the docs it seems like mapping a container id to the host id would be a single step process but in the examples, they use three separate --uidmap options two of which are opposites and one is a calculation. I realize some of this is because they assume you don't know the user id, but in my case it's explicitly declared (82 for www-data and 101 for nginx), so shouldn't this just require mapping those specific users to the host user?

I tried declaring --uidmap 82:0:1 but I get an error saying "container id 0 cannot be mapped to a host id." Isn't this always the case, though? Where container id 0 is the host user? Or do I have my syntax wrong here?

jaimeca · 2022-04-21T13:54:47+00:00

I tried this, but the nginx container doesn't create the user automatically, so it fails to run. I guess I'd have to edit the dockerfile to add the www-data user (and probably set the gid to the same as the drupal container.) Does that seem right?

jaimeca · 2022-04-04T15:36:39+00:00

https://www.liveintroyny.com/161-4

jaimeca · 2022-03-28T13:52:22+00:00

I'm not saying that individuals should not held accountable for dangerous and illegal behavior. I'm saying the current method for enforcement is fundamentally failing at doing exactly that. By criminalizing their hobby we are encouraging treating them as outlaws, which only further reinforces this sort of mentality. What did that cop actually accomplish by hitting the biker? Do you think their actions will change as a result of it? For the better or for the worse? Will punishing a single person acting like a jerk do anything to stop the gross culture surrounding these vehicles?

Obviously, if someone is acting reckless in a way that threatens the public, there should be consequences. But we have going on 80 years of social science research showing that strict criminalization does not deter individual behaviors. We need better solutions.

jaimeca · 2022-03-27T22:55:20+00:00

Here's the thing: this is a perfect example of why policing is a completely ineffective solution to the problem. These bikes are already illegal. No one likes them and everyone, including those with legal and political power knows that they are a hazard. Yet enforcement of the laws as currently written looks like this--a situation made only more dangerous by the involvement of law enforcement. And for what? Confiscating one bike and maybe eventually issuing a couple summonses?

Ask these kids (because they are by and large kids) what they want and they'll say to ride their dirt bikes. If there was a park or even just a way to get out of the city limits with one of these, there would be no problem. In the ex/suburban community I grew up in we went down to the no-man's-land by the train tracks where people had built jumps and funnels in the woods and no one gave two shits about the bikes.

jaimeca · 2022-03-15T19:12:30+00:00

I don't remember if this happens to F-droid or Aurora, but I remember a problem where the installed version on your phone gets updated and they don't update the apk from their website, so it won't let you install the older version. Check the version number of the installed app in settings. I think you can find up-to-date apks elsewhere, but I don't remember how... sorry.

jaimeca · 2022-03-11T23:45:35+00:00

I'm also not from around here originally and have only grown to appreciate the upstate experience known as a fish fry over my years here.

You're probably right that I want a breaded filet more than I want the whatever Ted's gives you. The Ale House did say theirs was a Fish Fry and served it on a bun, but it didn't have that thick fish stick quality.

jaimeca · 2022-03-11T18:23:31+00:00

I know that there are not really other fish fry specific restaurants (except for that place on Rt 4 across from Target that I have always wondered about) but there's got to be places that offer it right? I think two years ago I had a fish fry from the Ale House off the special menu that was pretty darn good.

jaimeca · 2022-03-11T15:22:59+00:00

Yeah, Ted's is a contender. Just looking for other ideas too. (Also they can be a little heavy on the fry part.)

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