--- Log opened Mon Aug 21 00:00:47 2017 01:04 -!- TheDukh [~thedukh@2607:fcc8:ac80:d900:c43b:52c:b855:b395] has quit [] 02:50 -!- remoford1 [~remo_lapt@c-68-52-35-32.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 03:37 < aestetix> 06:50 -!- sgamgee [32c88f32@gateway/web/freenode/ip.50.200.143.50] has joined #se2600 06:54 -!- sgamgee [32c88f32@gateway/web/freenode/ip.50.200.143.50] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 07:40 < aestetix> https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1l2h4f/a_joke_i_thought_you_would_all_enjoy_after_my/ 07:40 < PigBot> Title: A joke I thought you would all enjoy after my sunday horrors. : sysadmin (at www.reddit.com) http://tinyurl.com/head2j8 08:06 <@rattle> Heard my first story of someone needing to have a VPN to get inside China in order for something "normal" to work. 08:06 <@rattle> At least there are some things we can count in working reliably.. Like the Sun. 08:12 < aestetix> except during an eclipse 08:23 <@Corydon76> Be prepared for solar arrays across the nation monitored by computer to start freaking out in about 3.5 hours 08:24 <@Corydon76> Some of the arrays will detect what's likely to be interpreted as malfunctioning panels. 08:26 <@Corydon76> Depending upon how the software is written, it could disrupt power generation from those arrays 09:13 < xray> well this is good news https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/att-loses-lawsuit-in-which-it-tried-to-thwart-google-fiber-construction/ 09:13 < PigBot> Title: AT’s attempt to stall Google Fiber construction thrown out by judge | Ars Technica (at arstechnica.com) http://tinyurl.com/ya2q38vv 09:22 <@Evilpig> that's good for nashville because at&t was hoping for a victory in louisville to strengthen their argument here 09:24 < aestetix> nice 09:24 < aestetix> AT&T has a long history of shit like that 09:25 <@Evilpig> here in nashville at&t and comcrap joined together to say fuck you to nashville and google 09:26 < xray> They've been trying that all over the country. 09:27 < xray> It is one of the reasons Google has been motivated to look into MAN wireless solutions. 09:27 < aestetix> what is a MAN 09:27 < aestetix> metro? 09:27 < xray> Wan't to stone wall the last mile? No problem we'll just skip it. 09:28 < xray> metropolitan area network 09:28 < aestetix> ok 09:29 < xray> We used one here in Atlanta to connect our downtown campus to one in north west gerogia. 09:29 < xray> Eventually replaced it with layer 2 over fiber. 09:30 < xray> This was back in the early 2000's 09:46 <@rattle> Metropolitan Area Network. 09:48 <@rattle> Typically when MAN is used, it denotes some sort of point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint network rather than a point-to-point based WAN sorta thing. 10:28 -!- TheDukh [~thedukh@2607:fcc8:ac80:d900:c43b:52c:b855:b395] has joined #se2600 10:28 < aestetix> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23270 10:28 < aestetix> enjoy 10:28 < PigBot> Title: #23270 (Allow Tor relays to be configured to block selected hidden services, including racist hate sites) – Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki (at trac.torproject.org) http://tinyurl.com/y97xdxxz 10:34 <@brimstone> huh 10:39 <@dasunt> May I ask why? 10:39 <@dasunt> Seems like a horrible idea. 10:41 < aestetix> dasunt: that is precisely how the Tor maintainers responded 10:43 -!- remoford1 [~remo_lapt@c-68-52-35-32.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 10:48 <@Evilpig> hahaha okay this is funny. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9gllsloh00lkvm2/Screenshot%202017-08-21%2010.48.06.png?dl=0 10:48 < PigBot> Title: Screenshot 2017-08-21 10.48.06.png (at www.dropbox.com) http://tinyurl.com/yasyqp2j 11:03 <@dasunt> http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/21/politics/kfile-sam-clovis-lgbt-comments/index.html 11:03 < PigBot> Title: Trump nominee Sam Clovis: 'As far as we know' homosexuality's a choice, 'logical' LGBT protections could lead to legalization of pedophilia - CNNPolitics (at www.cnn.com) http://tinyurl.com/y9fv8dx3 11:03 <@dasunt> ^- Once again, this is why I believe many homophobic conservatives are in the closet. 11:06 <@dasunt> The whole "choice" thing makes me think that he's waking up each morning and fighting his attraction to members of the same sex. 11:07 < aestetix> dasunt: I think that's probably accurate 11:07 < aestetix> I mean haven't there been super republican politicans who have been caught with gay hookers? 11:11 <@dasunt> There was Larry Craig that got caught trying to pick up men in an airport bathroom. 11:37 < K`Tetch_> there was Foley, who was screwing the boy congressional pages 11:38 < K`Tetch_> sorry, sexting, not screwing 11:39 < K`Tetch_> ... for a 10+ year period, and had been 'warned' about it before by another house republican and the house clerk 11:41 < K`Tetch_> the clerkl who succeeded that one, used to be an assistant too Hastert too 11:42 < K`Tetch_> (who was apparantly abusing high school boys 11:43 <@rattle> If you people keep pissing me off I'm going to blot out the sun. 11:43 < K`Tetch_> oh, and the clerk at the time of the foley case warned the speaker about the pages, but the speaker (hastert) did nothing 11:44 < K`Tetch_> it's not trans people they should be afraid of sexually attacking someone, it's republican men sexually assaulting boys. WE need a bathroom bill banning Republican males from bathrooms 11:45 < K`Tetch_> And the likes of gingrich, Trump, Sanford, means they can't be trusted near women either 11:45 < K`Tetch_> so I guess they'll just have to shit themselves, 11:46 <@rattle> Statistically, more sexual assaults have been committed by elected officials than transexual people. 11:47 <@rattle> No party has a clear majority. The Dems have their own Weiner's... 11:50 < K`Tetch_> only one is pushing a 'sexual assualt' narrative 11:51 < aestetix> rattle: the US could use a good flood 11:52 < aestetix> except this time there shouldn't be an ark 11:53 < K`Tetch_> but there already is, in on of those K states 11:53 < aestetix> K`Tetch_: DC could use a good hosing off 11:57 < xray> OK I have my telescope setup. The projected images about 3 inches across. 11:57 < xray> I can clearly see two groups of sun spots 11:57 < xray> clouds have obscured the view a few times 11:57 < xray> I'm hoping it stays mostly clear for the eclipse 11:57 < K`Tetch_> i need a new mount for mine 11:57 < K`Tetch_> take photos of the image 11:57 < xray> I took pictures and videos of the setup 11:58 < xray> and will take pictures of the projected image 11:58 < K`Tetch_> ok, here its starting to occlude at 1306 11:59 < K`Tetch_> 1305 in atl 11:59 < K`Tetch_> to 1601 12:00 < K`Tetch_> https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/atlanta 12:01 < PigBot> Couldn't snarf url: The read operation timed out. http://tinyurl.com/ya38uga2 12:22 <@Evilpig> apparently I missed a memo and today is "bring your kids to work day" 12:31 < aestetix> sigh 12:31 < aestetix> we don't get it at all in germany :( 12:33 <@oddball> And I've just been told that I don't know about Antifa because I've never been to a meeting/rally. I've never been to a KKK rally either, but I'm pretty sure I know all I need to know about them. 12:37 <@Evilpig> Free robes for the first 50 that show up? 12:50 < aestetix> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15065742 12:50 < PigBot> Title: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services | Hacker News (at news.ycombinator.com) http://tinyurl.com/y9lyjhgs 13:53 <@oddball> Ok, glad I witnessed the eclipse. That was cool. 13:54 < TheDukh> honestly one of the most beautiful things I've ever witnessed 13:54 < TheDukh> now just to wait for people to deny science tomorrow 13:55 <@oddball> And, having witnessed it, I can definitely see why cultures thought that there was something seriously mystical going on. 13:58 <@Evilpig> https://goo.gl/photos/fphQsDdWNcQQJzRm8 13:58 < PigBot> Evilpig: That URL appears to have no HTML title within the first 30480 bytes. 13:58 <@Evilpig> I was taking a panoramic shot of the roof and all the dumbasses up there while it was going dark 13:59 <@oddball> There's at least one dumbass not in the picture. :p 14:00 <@Evilpig> he was taking pictures of the rest 14:01 <@Evilpig> there was a tent and a grill up there.... 14:01 <@Evilpig> a grill! 14:08 < K`Tetch_> didn't get very dark here (could barely look at the sun bare-eyed 14:10 < K`Tetch_> 96% made for weird lighting 14:10 < K`Tetch_> very... flat 14:10 < xray> got lots of pictures 14:10 < xray> could see sun spots 14:10 < xray> will post to a web site 14:10 < K`Tetch_> nice 14:11 < K`Tetch_> I had focus problems using the filter, and using my shadow box, I had exposure issues 14:13 < K`Tetch_> my eldest got to see totality 14:17 < TheDukh> We had totality in KY 14:17 < TheDukh> it was.. wow. 14:17 < TheDukh> kids got to see it. They asked when they would get to see it again. I said prolly never in your lifetimes 14:18 <@oddball> Nah. They'll get another chance in... 20 or 30 years. 14:27 < xray> 8/8/2024 in US https://www.recode.net/2017/8/21/16179314/watch-next-total-us-solar-eclipse-april-8-2024 14:27 < PigBot> Title: The next U.S. total solar eclipse is only 2,422 days away - Recodeclockmenumore-arrow (at www.recode.net) http://tinyurl.com/yaf749ek 14:36 -!- scam [~sicsscam@24.154.71.208] has joined #se2600 14:37 -!- sicsscam [~sicsscam@24.154.71.208] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 15:32 <@dasunt> It was cloudy up in MN. Got to see part of a partial eclipse. 15:33 <@dasunt> There's an annular eclipse up in Canada in a few years that may pass over a part of a wilderness area I want to canoe. That would be a cool vacation. 16:21 <@Dagmar> I couldn't help but hear that choral hit from Heroes at 1:27 18:38 -!- opticron [~opticron@75.76.59.35] has joined #se2600 18:38 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o opticron] by ChanServ 20:07 -!- TheDukh [~thedukh@2607:fcc8:ac80:d900:c43b:52c:b855:b395] has quit [] 20:40 -!- TheDukh [~thedukh@2607:fcc8:ac80:d900:3cb3:9aee:9333:d322] has joined #se2600 23:24 -!- TheDukh [~thedukh@2607:fcc8:ac80:d900:3cb3:9aee:9333:d322] has quit [] --- Log closed Tue Aug 22 00:00:49 2017