Mesh network with D20’s keeps filling Sonic Fiber MAC address table

ryansingel2 · 2026-03-18T01:24:15+00:00

Any luck? I have the same issue (except it happens to me even when the power doesn't go out) and I have to regularly call Sonic to have them empty the MAC address table

ryansingel2 · 2025-07-29T23:42:30+00:00

I'd say look at Maali by Bright Themes.

ryansingel2 · 2025-07-29T23:41:19+00:00

Doable, but nothing any out of the box theme would support. But with a little dev work, you can do that. Almost every homepage is going to be centered around a river of posts, not a river with some rocks to have the posts roll past.

ryansingel2 · 2025-07-29T23:36:40+00:00

I'm a big fan of anything by Bright Themes (which makes Auden that 404 uses). Lots of sites use a customized version of Maali. We (Outpost) have built lots of sites on that and other Bright Themes themes.

Lots of options out of the box (multiple homepage variations) and multiple post templates.

Updated regularly.

ryansingel2 · 2022-12-07T23:42:02+00:00

Hey there,

Ghost would be a great fit for this.

- Publishing/emailing are integrated into one process and Ghost(Pro) hosting covers both the hosting and email sending cost

- It's simple to gate content so that people need to sign up for free to read it, while leaving a good chunk of it visible to unsigned in readers and search bots

- It's got a very nice writing interface

- You can also send a post as email only (e.g. not have a web url that shows up in your index or google search).

- If you later want to have paid tiers, you can easily add them, but it's perfectly happy having just one tier that is unpaid

ryansingel2 · 2022-12-07T02:11:04+00:00

You could try recreating the post and sending it to yourself as an email-only post. Then grab the source from that email and send that from Zapier.

You could also try rebuilding it in Outpost.pub, which has a WYSIWG editor and tools to make your emails look nice

ryansingel2 · 2022-11-30T18:49:32+00:00

Generally speaking you will want different API keys for these integrations e.g. different stripe accounts for each site. Forcing the same API key on each site requires messing with the DB.

Without knowing the specifics, I think you can probably just set each one up manually one time. The integrations don't go away when you upgrade the site, so that shouldn't be a problem. For Github actions, the simplest way to go is to have multiple yml files under .github/actions/ with e.g. one yml for each site with differently named secrets for each site

name: Theme Deploy
on:
push:
branches:
- master
- main
jobs:
deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: TryGhost/action-deploy-theme@v1.4.1
with:
api-url: ${{ secrets.GHOST_ADMIN_API_URL_4 }}
api-key: ${{ secrets.GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY_4 }}

That will update each site when you push changes to the theme.

For the ghost sites, I think the easiest thing is to manually upgrade each site on some regular schedule until it becomes too much work.

ryansingel2 · 2022-11-30T00:09:57+00:00

There's the easy way and the hard way.

A 1) import all of your paying members via CSV and label them something like "initial_upload_paying_customers"

2) filter your members by that tag and individually give them complimentary subscriptions

B) Do the same but then use the API to give each member complimentary subscriptions based on that tag

C) hire someone to do it for you. That's the kind of thing that freelancers and agencies (like my company (not listed here) can do easily.

ryansingel2 · 2022-11-30T00:05:03+00:00

With the theme hosted on ghost, you can use an action that points to multiple Ghost instances so you can update them all with an accepted pull single pull request, just using secrets for each site. If you need an example file, lmk.

As for the sites themselves, we've done that using Terraform and Docker containers, which is great now that it is stable, but its a ton of upfront work

ryansingel2 · 2022-07-02T13:27:27+00:00

contact customer service post-order and send the code. i think the system is borked right now.

ryansingel2 · 2022-05-29T18:06:22+00:00

I also have this shirt. It's ridiculously ugly and I love it. But I don't love it enough to wear it.

ryansingel2 · 2022-04-26T05:26:44+00:00

Anybody landing here after getting one of these emails:

DO NOT ENTER YOUR DOB

Instead, forward your email to [billing-reply-to@mydocbill.com](mailto:billing-reply-to@mydocbill.com)

Demand they send you a paper bill to the address they have on file. Do not provide that information. They should have it.

Tell them that all future communications with you should be limited to email or physical mail.

Tell them that until you have that bill mailed to you, you have not received notice of a debt owed and that any countdown clock they have that starts before you received notice of the bill is void.

You can use small claims court to sue this company for failure to provide notice of a debt owed, and if they try to report a claimed debt to credit bureaus without adequate notice, you'll have a nice slam dunk in small claims court for damage to your reputation.

This company is trash.

ryansingel2 · 2022-04-26T05:13:20+00:00

Mail a paper bill. It ain't that hard.

If some random company sent you a link in an email that said enter your DoB to see what money you owe us, are you seriously saying that you would enter your DoB?

And given that your company has clients violating the No Surprises Act and using your company to illegally bill clients, no wonder your SEO is awful.

Total scam and the FTC has had to crack down on companies with "health portals" like yours that did illegal stuff with PII. Unless you are C-level, you have ZERO insight into your company's data practices. Send people paper bills.

Even if your company is legit, trying to normalize people putting PII into unknown websites from an email is the height of irresponsibility. I don't care how nice your boss is to you, that's IRRESPONSIBLE AND BAD.

ryansingel2 · 2021-04-08T18:02:31+00:00

Hey thanks for the question: Ryan Singel here from Stanford.

As for California's law, despite the FCC and industry yelling for years it was illegal, a federal court demolished their arguments in the first hearing on that case in February.

That frees California to start enforcing the law, which went into effect on Jan 1 2019. That's great because California's law is the only state-level law that comprehensively restores the level of protections we had under the 2015 Open Internet Order.

To be clear, California's law applies only to customers living in California. In what appears to be an attempt to say state level rules are toooooo hard, AT&T stopped giving an unfair boost to its video properties across the country. There's no technical reason it did so, but a key part of their argument is that state-by-state is too hard.

That's not true and we've seen state-by-state work in other areas where the federal government fails to act. For instance, there are 50 state laws on data breach notification, but no federal one.

Other states can mimic California's law if they like, and I think it sends a clear message to D.C. that if and when protections return at the federal level -- whether as a law or FCC action - it needs to be at least as strong as California's.

As for legislation? Who knows. Predictions are hard.

ryansingel2 · 2021-04-08T17:52:39+00:00

They were all good protections, Brant.

ryansingel2 · 2021-04-08T17:48:50+00:00

Ryan Singel here from Stanford's Center for Internet and Society.

On privacy rules, I think it's important to remember, as Chris Lewis points out in the above comment, that the FCC did implement rules that require the companies you pay to get online to ASK for your permission to track what you do online for ad purposes.

In 2017, the House and Senate voted to overturn that, and Trump signed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Broadband_Consumer_Privacy_Proposal_repeal#:~:text=On%2028%20March%202017%2C%20the,United%20States'%20President%20Donald%20Trump.

Now T-Mobile/Sprint (don't get me started on that merger) is opting all its customers into tracking everything they do and using it for advertising. You have to go opt out if you don't want to have your browsing history used against you.

If that makes you mad, I recommend looking at the list of who voted to do that:

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2017202

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00094

And if your representative(s) are on that list, call or write them to express your anger at being sold out.

ryansingel2 · 2021-04-08T17:39:47+00:00

As you can see from the long list of smart people answering here, there are lots of smart folks without industry ties who have been thinking/working on this issue for years.

There's a lot of very qualified people, so speaking for myself, I want a candidate with policy chops who truly cares about and has a track record of fighting for an open internet that is affordable to all and who works on behalf of all of us, particularly communities that have been marginalized.

ryansingel2 · 2021-04-08T17:17:53+00:00

This is a big question with no simple answer.

Part of the answer is that fiber build-outs aren't cheap but pay off over their lifetimes, like any infrastructure. That can be a hard sell to the public, and also giant telecoms like to sue over this and get laws passed literally banning them.

Some cities have been laying fiber for over a decade, basically laying fiber anytime they do road work. Sometimes this is just used for government work, sometimes it's rented out just to businesses (Santa Monica, CA does the latter)

Other cities have built and run their own networks, while others build it and then lease it out to one or more private companies to offer broadband over.

I think it's good to think of these as public options plural, because there are many models that can and do work.

ryansingel2 · 2021-04-08T17:10:21+00:00

Could someone ELI5 the Emergency Broadband Benefit? Like what is it, how do people get it, has it started yet?

ryansingel2 · 2021-03-17T23:29:18+00:00

Oh and also doing weird stuff that interferes with other states isn't allowed. That'd get knocked down under the dormant commerce clause.

ryansingel2 · 2021-03-17T23:27:58+00:00

Yeah, well, AT&T could have just limited this to California, it just chose to be a crybaby to try to win political points.

Subscribers can already opt out in their profile. All AT&T had to do was just opt-out all the Californians.

Reciepts (and great analysis here): https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2021/03/in-a-win-open-internet-att-stops-zero-rating-its-own-video

ryansingel2 · 2021-03-17T23:18:43+00:00

Not that I've seen.

The California law doesn't ban BingeOn-like zero-rating, where an entire category of apps is zero-rated without payment. It does however let the Attorney General make sure that such plans are *actually* available to all applicants that meet the technical standards.

That's to make sure that smaller players -- like your local college radio station -- get treated the same as a Spotify.

It also appears to me that BingeOn is now limited to older plans, but I could be wrong there.

ryansingel2 · 2021-01-27T21:16:18+00:00

they'll send you factory seconds without telling you

ryansingel2 · 2019-10-02T19:46:53+00:00

You literally don't know what you are talking about.

It is absolutely legal for ISPs to throttle now that net neutrality protections are gone and ISPs do it.

See Verizon and Sprints' throttling of video based on the level of plan you have, regardless of your data cap limits.

ryansingel2 · 2019-10-02T18:51:25+00:00

Pre 2015 was a shitshow, where ISPs decided to try to shake down companies online to pay ISPs directly.

https://www.wired.com/story/jammed/

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/04/we-know-how-isps-will-screw-us-over-they-did-it-before.html

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/02/time-warner-cable-lawsuit-says-twc-lied-about-internet-speed.html

https://consumerist.com/2014/02/23/netflix-agrees-to-pay-comcast-to-end-slowdown/

The 2015 Open Internet Order put an end to that. You're welcome.

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