Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Trifecta of outage trifectas.

In the last week, my city was among the municipalities hit by three separate outages of Internet, mobile data, and voice services.

One was caused by equipment failure, one was caused by idiot construction workers digging up a fiber cable, and one was caused by copper thieves too stupid to realize fiber conduits don't have copper.

I am not a happy computer fairy.

SpaceX needs its license suspended or revoked.

The only way they're getting anyone to Mars is by blowing up Earth. Even then, their ignorance-fueled design decisions will probably result in the landing vehicle performing an "unscheduled lithobraking maneuver."

Futurism, "Debris Rains Down on Protected Wildlife After Starship Explosion": https://futurism.com/wildlife-starship-explosion

San Antonio Express-News, "Lingle: SpaceX launch elevates environmental risks at Boca Chica": https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/article/lingle-spacex-launch-elevates-environmental-17911357.php

Phrases of the week:

1. "Rapid Unscheduled Excavation" of the space launch structure.

2. "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" of the space launch vehicle.

Elon is:

* a sociopath who cares less about the public than a Superman villain,
* an arrogant dick who cares less about the environment than a Captain Planet villain, and
* a rank idiot who knows less rocket science than a typical KSP player,

and I'll never understand why anyone thinks he's any kind of good.

Of course, it didn't work.

The thing is, it never worked, & the non-DSL ISP they switched to me from never bothered to troubleshoot past the router's Internet port or otherwise make sure their customer could actually use the Internet service they were paying for.

I did, & I now have another happy customer. But this network mess today drained me.

Things you don't expect to see when setting up a new customer's high-speed Internet service:

A long-forgotten & disconnected DSL modem at the end of 100s of feet of ethernet cable, next building over, still turned on, & still handing out its own DHCP leases to nowhere on the new wifi.

Space Karen has always been a fucking idiot.

Ars Technica: "Musk admits NPR isn't state-affiliated after asking questions he could have googled": https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/musk-admits-npr-isnt-state-affiliated-after-asking-questions-he-could-have-googled/

LB's movie/show idea reminded me of "Black Jack," Osamu Tezuka's manga serial about a surgeon who lost his license for performing a life-saving surgery his contemporaries refused, and who went underground to keep doing so, often refusing to burden his patients with crippling medical debt.

The #Windows10 Media Creation Tool has been around and regularly updated for almost 8 years, and it *still* requires you to log in to a full-on Administrator account, just to download and save an image to a USB flash drive.

No, not "Run As Administrator." That's not enough. "Run As Administrator" in a Standard User account still quits with the message, "To use this tool, you must be signed in to Windows using an administrator account."