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Phil Landmeier

Spectrum Internet service in West Virginia sucks. They sucked 18 years ago when it was Time-Warner and they still suck.

During the 2010s I was on Frontier DSL. It was fine but I needed more speed and I knew more would never come because I was at the maximum distance from the CO. They were even nice enough to hook up two line cards in parallel and four wires to give me good service. No complaints given the technology of the time.

In 2019 I decided to switch to Spectrum and got their fastest service, 40 Mbps. For a couple of years it was okay. Then they switched me up to 80 Mbps at no increase in cost. Great. It actually delivered 65 to 75. No complaints.

Then, about 18 months ago, the service started to degrade. It got slower, but more importantly it began to have service interruptions. It would just stop for 1 to 2 minutes with no throughput. Then start up again until the next interruption. I thought maybe it was my setup here. Rebooting the router didn't seem to have any effect on the interruptions.

Recently I was speaking with a friend here who lives about ten blocks away, also on Spectrum, and she said "Spectrum service is terrible. I have security cameras and there are 1 to 2 minute long gaps where there's nothing. Terrible." Then I knew it wasn't just me.

So now I'm looking at Frontier again. In the meantime, Frontier has been going full speed installing fiber. They installed fiber in my neighborhood about six months ago. My workplace, which is 3 blocks away, has been looking for a better solution. Their DSL is getting worse and worse and when it's out, the credit card machine doesn't work. Not okay. It's a huge headache. So they decided to try Frontier fiber. I thought okay, this is a good test of whether I'll get fiber at my home.

So far it's been solid at work. Not only that, I finally gave it a test tonight. Oh, my goodness, it's quick. They went for the cheapest, slowest service. Yet I did a 265 megabyte download in 5.3 seconds tonight. That's scary fast. I like it. I think I'm going to do it.

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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Getting back into ham radio, in case there is an apocalypse

Check out my page for beginners. Lots of good information and links if you’re interested in getting your toes wet 🤗

#hamradio #amateurradio #baofeng #arrl #fcc
neurodoctor.com/2024/11/17/ham

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Marcos Dione

This is an experiment. Please boost.

mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

Rage Against the Surveillance State 🛒

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Madeleine Morris

When I was little, I had a friend named Maria del Pilar. She had caught polio and had to wear a full steel body brace to keep her spine upright so her lungs wouldn't collapse. She loved Federico Garcia Lorca. She was a probing and creative reader who taught me so much about Spanish literature.

She killed herself at the age of 23, unable to stand living with the pain of her destroyed skeletal system.

That's who I think of when people try to sanewash RFK Jr.

I am seized by a bottomless rage.

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Richard Stallman

stallman.org/glossary.html#wre
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The wrecker has emboldened misogynists to provocatively shout their contempt for women and demand for power over them. Some of them will act this out violently. We must expect to see an increase in rape.

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

💬 "In a resolution adopted on Thursday, the EU Parliament calls for more targeted sanctions against russia’s ʼshadow fleet‘ which allows the country to export crude oil and petroleum products despite the price cap

Stressing that the impact of existing sanctions and the financial and military support to #Ukraine will continue to be undermined as long as the EU imports russian fossil fuels, MEPs urge the EU, its member states to ban all imports of russian fossil fuels including #LNG"

- B4Ukraine

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.

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Lauren Weinstein

House Republicans plotting ways to throw Dr. Fauci in prison.

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Abandoned America

Posting something like "I sure am glad I don't live in the US because I don't have to worry about x, y, and z happening" has the same energy as saying to someone whose loved one just died, "I sure am glad MY loved ones haven't died because if they did here are the things I'd be sad and upset about."

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DecodïngTrolls

What is your baseline estimate for the population of Ruschia? 83m is the last reliable figure we have from the last reliable census. Ruschia’s emphasis on forcibly transferring 700,000 Ukrainian children into Ruschia suggests its personnel problems are a lot greater than most commentators understand

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

Don't be deceived. RFK doesn't care about corporate greed. He only attacks the pharma industry because he wants to make it easier to hawk dubious supplements and products from a wellness industry that is already worth trillions and is regulated far less than vaccines and drugs.

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Dr. Jack Brown :verified:

We must not wait until the other side brings a rocket launcher to our chess match, before we recognize both the rules and the 'game' have changed.

We *must* think and act waaay outside the box.

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Elon Musk's Jet

Took off from West Palm Beach, Florida, United States.

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Jim Sullivan

@lovelylovely It is this and the fact that abortion rights won and Trump won in several states that makes me wonder if Putin managed to steal a win for the orange shit stain. Also, isn't it weird that there is no further mention of those assassination attempts? It's almost like they never happened. Wondering if those were all staged. It does seem weird that we know that both Musk and Trump were in on going convos with Putin and for what purpose? All of this stinks imo.

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Karl Auerbach

Is an effort being organized to pack the DC Metro with non-inauguration going riders starting at opening hour on January 20? And is a simultaneous effort being organized to park a car in every available parking space in every lot near the DC Mall?

Perhaps the attendance at the inauguration can be reduced to near zero.

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Carsten Franke

@Urban_Hermit @Daojoan eggs are only used for flu vaccine, since the flu also can infect chickens. The COVID vaccine was made via biochemical reaction, building a mRNA molecule.
The egg shortage during COVID was due to bird flu outbreaks and higher demand and supply chain interruptions

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Renee DiResta

~One year ago today I got profiled on Infowars for my work ruling the media as the head of a robust PsyOp Alliance.

I hope that its new owners quickly get on profiling me again. (Cc: @theonion )

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Joshua Holland

The takes about 2024 that I agree with or that validate my priors are also bullshit.

#Trump won on disinformation validated by horserace journalism that treats facts as points of controversy.

He won on an imaginary depression, an imaginary crime wave and imaginary hordes of undocumented immigrants pouring over the border.

It wasn't Gaza or Dems using pronouns or refusing to say "illegal aliens" or Harris reaching out to Republicans or any of the rest.
#media #disinformation #election2024

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Karl Auerbach

Finally.

theguardian.com/media/2024/nov

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