You can read long-form thoughts at notes.pault.ag/tpl/ where I tried to capture as much as I could into one place.

This is on my blog but I was just the one to put keyboard to markdown here. I am exactly one of many. I hope this represents our thoughts well. It definitely represents mine.

We know we can't scale this. We can't even get all our friends on the LAN. I don't know how long that will take -- nevermind letting anyone outside that group in.

However -- this is my call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Have fun with computers.

We’ve grown our own culture and fads - around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each other’s counters.

There’s a 3-node IRC network, exotic hardware to gawk at, LAN only email, and even a SIP phone network of redphones.

We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.

In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together.

The idea is simple - fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things.

It depends, maybe! Most direct grid tied setups have inverters that only work when they are connected to a utility grid, and shut down in the absence of one (to solve the same problem of power heading out onto a deactivated grid). Other (usually older) setups have an ATS to disconnect.

Probably have to install some sort of automated transfer switch/“nanogrid” controller, which disconnects the house from the grid during outages so your power doesn’t travel back onto the grid and electrocute line workers. In our Enphase setup, it’s what they call a “system controller”

archive.liveatc.net/ktrk/KTRK-ZO...

“DELTA 2229, We've got a left engine failure, declaring an emergency at this time"

has anyone checked those inflatable rats for a union bug

scab-manufactured inflatable animals are a spreading threat

The high-banked turn immediately after the explosion-like sound, completed while the entire plane was rattling and shaking, was intense.

I calmed down quite a bit once we were aimed back at the airfield, since we relatively high already and another engine failure would leave time for a landing

I win the nearly lotto-like odds:
“CFM56 engines are some of the most reliable aircraft engines in use today. […]
It also has an in-flight shutdown (IFSD) rate of 0.003, which is one incident every 333,333 flight hours.”