What Are You Doing Right Now
-
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
How Texas has their own, unregulated power company that has a near monopoly over the area is what has me confused.
ERCOT is a publicly traded company with share holders, right? How did it manage this?
They are a nonprofit arm of the state legislature.
-
We are now getting power from Mexico. Because Texas shares power with MX but not the US.
-
-
@scottalanmiller I don't think you need to take the ice to a boil to melt it....
-
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
How Texas has their own, unregulated power company that has a near monopoly over the area is what has me confused.
ERCOT is a publicly traded company with share holders, right? How did it manage this?
'Merica. That's how.
Yup, a bunch of dumb assholes saying "Nah!! Hold my beer"
-
Securing my Snipe server
Ran a nessus scan to see what it said, came up with a few things. Like i wasn't running SSL,
Also TLS 1.0 is enabled - but i can't seem to work out how to disable at the moment
-
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Securing my Snipe server
Ran a nessus scan to see what it said, came up with a few things. Like i wasn't running SSL,
Also TLS 1.0 is enabled - but i can't seem to work out how to disable at the momentWhat OS?
-
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What OS?
Fedora 32
Also trying to get SSL on cockpit, did snipe fine. -
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What OS?
Fedora 32
Also trying to get SSL on cockpit, did snipe fine.On the plus side, Fedora 33 apparently is/has disabled weak default cryptographic protocols https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StrongCryptoSettings2
-
Just heard that Rush Limbaugh has perished.
-
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just heard that Rush Limbaugh has perished.
He looked like he was going to die at any minute the way he screamed and raved at people from his studio.
-
Resetting some access points before heading home. Only got half of my to-do list done today.
-
saw a report on the cold weather you're having up there. it doesn't look very pleasant, hope you're all doing ok.
-
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
saw a report on the cold weather you're having up there. it doesn't look very pleasant, hope you're all doing ok.
In Ohio it's just another winter day for us. Texas and other southern states are just not prepared for this sort of weather, because it really doesn't make sense for them when this sort of thing happens so infrequently.
@siringo How's your summer going?
-
All Hands company meeting today, working with our EVP of HR in Austin getting her on cellular Internet for Teams. Teams is actually very responsive on a very low bandwith connection kind of surprised!
-
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Ohio it's just another winter day for us. Texas and other southern states are just not prepared for this sort of weather, because it really doesn't make sense for them when this sort of thing happens so infrequently.
While I agree us Northern states system's are prepared for this kind of cold weather it still sucks! For people in the Southern states like Texas its completely unacceptable that the infrastructure isn't prepared for this sort of an weather issue.
Texas in particular was warned and suggested to winterize their infrastructure but for whatever the reasoning they didn't.
-
We have power! And water! And now I have coffee and my office is warming up so that I can go sit at my desk for the first time in many days.
-
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Ohio it's just another winter day for us. Texas and other southern states are just not prepared for this sort of weather, because it really doesn't make sense for them when this sort of thing happens so infrequently.
While I agree us Northern states system's are prepared for this kind of cold weather it still sucks! For people in the Southern states like Texas its completely unacceptable that the infrastructure isn't prepared for this sort of an weather issue.
Texas in particular was warned and suggested to winterize their infrastructure but for whatever the reasoning they didn't.
Yeah, and the commission is trying to make excuses like they shouldn't have to be prepared for this or that it wouldn't be worth it.
-
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
saw a report on the cold weather you're having up there. it doesn't look very pleasant, hope you're all doing ok.
In Ohio it's just another winter day for us. Texas and other southern states are just not prepared for this sort of weather, because it really doesn't make sense for them when this sort of thing happens so infrequently.
@siringo How's your summer going?
It's not THAT infrequent, that's the thing. Every apartment building uses that excuse, but this is like the fifth time we've had an event that causes buildings to get destroyed by not being built correctly. That's every two to three years!
WHile this cold snap was severe, it's not THAT severe. It's only the fourth worst in 150 years, very far from a record. It's bad, but not unexpected. And with climate change, that weather will be more dynamic and severe is expected. So this is absolutely anything but a surprise.
-
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Ohio it's just another winter day for us. Texas and other southern states are just not prepared for this sort of weather, because it really doesn't make sense for them when this sort of thing happens so infrequently.
While I agree us Northern states system's are prepared for this kind of cold weather it still sucks! For people in the Southern states like Texas its completely unacceptable that the infrastructure isn't prepared for this sort of an weather issue.
Texas in particular was warned and suggested to winterize their infrastructure but for whatever the reasoning they didn't.
Yeah, and the commission is trying to make excuses like they shouldn't have to be prepared for this or that it wouldn't be worth it.
It was mentioned on the news this morning that ERCOT was specific formed and the grid kept separated so that Texas did not have to meet certain Federal power regulations. Some of which would have likely prevent much of this cluster fuck.
