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I've got a year+ of the Ohio MARCS-IP site in Hamilton County Ohio recorded. Let me know if you need some data -- I'd be more than happy to get you the dump.

(trunk-recorder + rdio scanner).

The UI is:

https://cvgscan.iwdo.xyz for the live stuff, but, let me know if you're interested in the data -- my email is in my profile

I helped my mom do her PPP paperwork.

She submitted on the first day that US Bank allowed applications. She then spent the next 4 days going back and Forth with US Bank over her paperwork. She had a loan approval from US Bank, and then...nothing.

...until Wednesday, when she got an email saying that the funding had ran out.

My mom plans on keeping her staff employed while they work from home for as long as she can, but, she had enough money to run payroll on the 15th, and will probably not have enough money to run payroll at the end of the month -- hospitals have stopped having elective surgeries, and many of them are 60+ days behind on their bills right now.

I know that the banks were hammered with applications and there are a lot of people who are in the same situation as her. I'm hoping that when they add funding to the program, that businesses like hers (who were approved provisionally, but ran out of money) would be processed first.

I use softcover for this:

* https://github.com/softcover/softcover

One of the things that I like about Softcover is that it will also build .mobi and .epub formats, so I can give developers (via our MDM system) copies of runbooks, and then revoke those copies once they leave our employer.

Look at BoxBoat -- consulting company near DC. I know they picked up a lot of Docker Inc's PS stuff and had their own clients. They're all remote, so that helps.

Disclaimer: I did a lot of the work for marriott.com to run Microservices about 3+ years ago.

With that said, this is surprising to me: Information Protection at Marriott was one of the biggest hurdles to get the new version of their .com up and running, and the 2018 hack came from the Starwood Acquisition.

This one? There's really no good excuse for. Well, forcing employees to change their password every 30 days and keeping 12 months of password retention probably didn't help (super common to just suffix the month/year with your known password to get around that check). Either that, or it was a genuine bad actor/employee inside MI. Anything's possible, I guess.

I'd expect oil to be negative in the next few weeks -- refineries are shutting down (and can't take the oil), most of the commercial storage facilities are full, and it's gone down far enough that it's uneconomical to pull it out of the ground (most of the articles that I've read put oil above $40.00 for most wells to turn a profit, and more than $3.50/mcf).

I was in Texas and it was under $2.00/gallon before everything started getting all locked-down due to COVID-19 -- my guess is that gas there will be in the $.80-$1.00 range in the near future. Between the decreased demand due to the "Stay-At-Home" order and the excess inventory (until all of the refineries shut down), we haven't seen the bottom yet.

I had an issue with GSuite for Education that I was able to get resolved by cavitching about it on Reddit (and someone gave me the email address of a high-level GSFE Program Manager), when, we had opened about 12 different tickets over the course of a month while waiting for our accreditation to post online.

The woman never responded, but, our issues were fixed the next day.

I needed support from Google Cloud, and the only way I was able to get meaningful support was to bother the Sales guy who started to bother me once he saw the news that we had our Round C go through.

When google punts their partner program at you, they openly say that they suck at support, use partners and get support better/faster. At least they're honest about it...

Read up on the National Emergencies Act.

The federal government can do so, once the President has declared a state of emergency (which, he has).

LogRocket is reporting every date as Feb 28, 2020.

Do you sign/is VRS an option available for you? I've had good success with the Video Relay Service with Apple.

The VoA museum near the WLW Antenna does give tours on the weekend of the VoA transmitter (Voices of America) that was located near the WLW Transmitter -- sadly, it's only open on the weekends, but, it's still a really fun tour that talks about the shortwave transmission history of VoA.

During Hamfest (usually held in Xenia now that Hara Arena is gone), you can usually get a tour of the WLW transmitter site.

I've been banned for Uber for filing a security report.

Honestly, I've given the money that I spent on Uber to Lyft (and Carey car services).

It's not the end of the world.

Yup -- my apologies -- No Income tax.

Florida's upsides: No Sales Tax. If you're not looking for waterfront, housing is super affordable. Amazing place if you're single.

Florida's Downsides: Homeless are more aggressive than in SF. Florida Man. Frequently 10% sales tax in most places due to lack of income tax. Higher property taxes if you're in a really progressive area. You're swapping out earthquakes for hurricanes. A lot of "Keeping up with the Jones'" mentality here. Not a great place for tech.

I had a similar situation, but, a completely different outcome.

I had my wallet stolen on one of my work trips, and had all of my credit cards deactivated and new numbers issued. Digital Ocean's emails went to my "bulk" folder, and I missed the notifications saying that they were going to disable, then deactivate my service.

What caught my attention was one of the support guys emailing me and saying basically, "Hey, I see that you've been a customer for a long time -- we're going to give you 30 more days to fix this (and btw, you still owe us for your services so far) before we delete everything."

That support interaction -- that wasn't flagged as spam -- is literally what kept my data, and it keeps me using Digital Ocean: amazing support.

I did some work for him about 15 years ago -- helping him set up an ecommerce store with oscommerce. Really really bright guy, amazing staff that shared his values, and a quaint little office space where they'd send the books and other things out.

Really pleasant guy.

I grew up in Noble County, Ohio (next to Belmont County) and still get the weekly newspaper delivered to me via mail.

There were exactly zero write-ups of this in the local papers.

The Radio stations in the area are generally owned by one entity (AVC Communications), and there really isn't a lot on their website about it: not really surprising, because 25+ years ago they went Satellite Only and only someone in the news room from 6A-4P.

My biggest complaints about the Oil and Gas industry taking the SE Ohio area and turning it into a cash cow are two-fold: 1.) We're basically treating nature like a resource and stripping it all back to nothing (like AEP did in the 60's and 70's), and 2.) this has basically zero benefit to the locals: most of the jobs in the Oil and Gas industry are specialized and workers imported (leading to stories of welders making $140/hour in Ohio: just simply not true).

I could go on and on about growing up in the second poorest county in Ohio, but, I'll just leave it at this: not surprised that it happened but very surprised that nobody has really reported on this until now.

My building in Miami has a 24 hour dog walker that you can call or text, and if you've got an apple device, you can even facetime with your dog, and it's part of my Condo Fees. Because of that, I really have no need for Wag or Rover.

Little known (or, maybe widely known fact): The Pointer Sisters sung the Pinball Number song.

I grew up in Rural Southeastern Ohio, where PBS was the only thing that came in clearly. I vividly remember watching Sesame Street, in black and white, every day -- along with Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood and Square One -- and that's what started my love of numbers and math.

Through PBS, Jim Henson and Fred Rodgers helped shape me to who I am now -- which is why I'm so apprehensive (and honestly, quite upset) when they talk about cutting the funding to PBS.

I think this will be the third time Robinhood has to address something that happened by way of /r/wallstreetbets...

This is my homepage for my cell phone and my laptop -- immensely useful for airplane wifi and hotel wifi.

If you travel more than once a month, save yourself the frustration of believing that you have an internet connection, and switch here.

I keep on hearing a rumor about a new HTML5 based RSA/OOB: It's one of those things that I keep on hoping for when I unbox a new SuperMicro, but, I've got 12K+ of these in the field and I'm finally at a point where I can replace them with Dells.

In about 5 years, maybe I'll replace the ones I have at home (admittedly, I really should just do a blade server at home -- it'd probably be less power draw!)

I had an issue with HotelTonight last year after the hotel I was staying at ended up charging my "incidentals" credit card for the entire room+tax for the night (vs what I paid HotelTonight for).

Between HotelTonight and the actual property (a Kimpton Hotel), it was resolved in under 90 minutes.

Look -- I've had issues with Hilton, Marriott, and HotelTonight -- that just comes with the territory when you spend 200+ nights a year in hotel rooms. How they deal with the issue is what brings you back (and honestly, it's why I'm lifetime diamond at Hilton, even though I did a LOT of work for marriot.com a few years ago).

I just know that I needed to diversify what I had -- and, it was between buying a Great Clips franchise or opening up a pizza joint.

The Pawn shop was my Father-In-Law's idea, but, it requires a LOT of paperwork (including getting your FFL Type 2), a lot of regulatory stuff (retaining DL's and video on all transactions, reporting to regional fusion centers), and a lot of time (it was probably 18 months before we were profitable).

The Great Clips was just a chance thing -- Sport Clips didn't seem like it was up my alley, and it's also located in Eastern Kentucky, where not a lot of people go for $70+ haircuts. Existing owner wanted out of his franchise agreement, and I was more than happy to purchase it from him.

Eventually, I might try to market and sell the Pawn Shop's POS that I wrote for it, but, that's years down the road.

I do microlending through Lending Club, own a Pawn shop (which is managed day-to-day by someone else), and own a Great Clips (Sounds silly, but, again, managed by someone else).

Kronos (the timeclock company) still uses flash in the enterprise timeclock application that my company uses for its hourly employees.

They've told us that replacing it is "on their roadmap," but haven't told us when they plan on replacing it. (I also think that Verifone's vault for credit cards was flash based until earlier this year!)

The NHTSA has mandated backup cameras in all vehicles sold in the US as of 2018, I believe.

If you've had a liver transplant, grapefruit is on the list of things that you can never eat again -- it messes with the anti-rejection drugs that you have to take to suppress your immunological system.