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Guerrilla Wi-Fi Comes to New York – The New York Times

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‘Welcome to the Mesh, Brother’: Guerrilla Wi-Fi Comes to New York – The New York Times

Mr. Heredia is a 19-year-old volunteer with NYC Mesh, a nonprofit community Wi-Fi initiative, and he was there to install a router that would bring inexpensive Wi-Fi to the building. Mr. Cambridge’s family said they had become fed up with the take-it-or-leave-it pricing for spotty service that internet providers seem to get away with in this part of Brooklyn.

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Mr. Heredia crouched to affix the router to a plumbing vent, positioning it so the Wi-Fi signal could avoid the tree down the block. An app on his phone beeped to indicate the strength of the connection. Higher in pitch and more rapid was good. Mr. Cambridge whipped out his phone to search for NYC Mesh among the available networks. “It just came up!”

Resistance Dimmers

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Believe it or not they had noisy, hot resistance dimmers back when I was in elementary school on the stage. They were original - from the 1930s, still in use 50 years later! They aren't that bad but at 50% dim of a 500 watt load they discard nearly 200 watts of heat per channel. At lower or brighter dimming they aren't nearly as inefficient. Very crude technology but reliable as witnessed by the fact they were still using 1930s technology in the 1990s.

NPR

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A New Ransomware Attack Hits Hundreds Of U.S. Companies : NPR

The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack, said John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs. He said the criminals targeted a software supplier called Kaseya, using its network-management package as a conduit to spread the ransomware through cloud-service providers. Other researchers agreed with Hammond's assessment.

A decided to drop the hotspot and unlimited data for my phone

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A decided to drop the hotspot and unlimited data for my phone … 🤳

Lately I’ve been spending too much time watching Youtube videos and playing on the Internet, when I should be spending more time reading and doing other activities. With the pandemic over, and myself returning to work more days a week, I really don’t need Internet at home and when I need Internet for work I can either go into the office or walk down to the library and use it there.

Truth be told it’s not a big savings — $6 a month now, maybe $11 a month should the teaser rate expire, which appears to be happening in next month, but that adds up over the course of a year — I’d rather invest the $132 and get closer to owning my own land then spend it on “convenient” home internet or video streaming. I am already cutting everything close to the bone, because my budget is always broken, and I actually prefer the walk down to the library or the park when I need the Internet for work or updating the blog.