crews are out digging fiber today.

[heckinteagan@infosec.exchange]

@da_667 @bretthaines I'm on gig att for 90/mo

[cjust@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w @da_667

[kajer@infosec.exchange]

@cjust @cR0w @da_667 oh hai, the blinky and shiny ones are way more fun

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

@kajer @cjust @da_667 I was about to tag you and deleted it. Glad you saw the backhoe signal anyway.

[kajer@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w @cjust @da_667

I'm just happy I fixed this whoopsie so I can continue my hunt for fiber in my neighborhood.

Custom Hydraulic hoses are not cheap. Hose protection is cheap, I should probably look in to that.

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

@kajer @cjust @da_667 Oh hey, I have some digging work for you to do. My address is 2001 Sixth Avenue in Seattle. Think you can start digging out front and I'll meet you there?

[kajer@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w @cjust @da_667 I trust you'll pay when the job is done, no problem!

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

@kajer @cjust @da_667 Yep. I'm good for it.

[kajer@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w @cjust @da_667

I assume you represent SEA10, so no need for a contract

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@cjust @cR0w @da_667

Frontier is putting fiber in around here, and I swear this describes their guys to a tee. Any time in the past few months I've heard someone local complain about an outage (be it internet or water), the answer to, "Oh, is Frontier working in your area?" has been, "Yes."

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@EdCates @cjust @cR0w we had a six hour long Comcast outage last night. and these dudes had already started work in the area. However the outage did coincide with a massive thunderstorm that rolled through the area, so I'm not sure who was to blame, but six hours was the longest internet outage I've had here in years.

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@cjust @cR0w @da_667 This was my friend's neighborhood back in October.

Frontier was here!

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@EdCates @cjust @cR0w hahaha holy fuck. I'm sorry

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@da_667 @cjust @cR0w

Six hours is long even for Comcast.

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@da_667 @cjust @cR0w I kept repeating, "Turn around, don't drown!" to myself as I drove through there. Good test for the seals on the car doors, I guess.

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w @da_667

Down under in the communist #Australia, we have a "Dial before you dig" phone line funded by the utilities. It's a phone line and a computer with GIS utility layers. We also have heavy fines for ripping utilities because we live in an oppressive communist dictatorship where people are not free.

This is probably way too backward for an advanced state like Naziland.

[huronbikes@cyberplace.social]

@EdCates @da_667 @cjust @cR0w On one hand it would be nice to not have overhead services from an aesthetic perspective. On the other hand, it's much harder for the telecoms people to royally fuck up water/gas lines when their shit is suspended in the air.

Friend of mine works for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and likes to recount the story of when AT&T struck one of their large pipes full of pressurized shit in the middle of a major intersection.

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

@huronbikes @EdCates @da_667 @cjust I've had to respond to those before. Busted force mains are no fun at all.

[huronbikes@cyberplace.social]

@cR0w @EdCates @da_667 @cjust yeah, I can imagine. I believe the phrasing my friend used to describe this was "erupting geyser of shit"

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@huronbikes @cR0w @da_667 @cjust

...which can also be used to describe any public statement by Sam Altman.