Anyone else using #zen internet, specifically via #OpenReach FTTP, having problems accessing hosts on #janet / #jisc networks this morning?
Traceroutes are failing for me around lag-0.bng1.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk and lag-4.p2.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk
NB. my "internet" seems fine, it's just stuff on Jisc/JANET I can't access
Jermaine Jackson is seriously underrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kZnkucMCs
Outgoing Treasury Secretary #Janet #Yellen is announcing that she's planning to take "#extraordinary #measures" to save the U.S. economy beginning on January 21
— the day after Donald Trump will officially begin his second term in office.
Politico reported Friday that Yellen made the announcement in a letter to congressional leaders
The letter comes as the United States prepares to reach the 
statutory limit on borrowing
-- which Yellen wrote last month would happen between January 14 and January 23.
She warned in that letter that the Department of the Treasury would need to take "extraordinary measures" in order to avoid a debt default, should Congress fail to raise the debt ceiling before then.
In her latest letter, Yellen said she would begin taking those "extraordinary measures" next Tuesday,
which will reportedly include 
tapping into federal retirement funds that aren't immediately needed to pay out benefits to retired postal workers and other federal employees.
She also plans to temporarily
suspend investments into those funds in order to keep the U.S. current on its debt service obligations.
"The period of time that extraordinary measures may last is subject to considerable uncertainty,
including the challenges of forecasting the payments and receipts of the U.S. Government months into the future,"
she wrote in her January 17 letter to Congress
JANET heading back to Groom and pretty late too #JANET #groomlake #area51 #topsecret #AvGeek https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a3685d,a4207f
JANET!!!!!!!!!! (3's Company reference) That's a lot of Janet.
2 coming back from Tonopah to KLAS
1 going to Groom (Area 51)
1 Groom to KLAS
1 Groom to USAF Plant 42 aka Palmdale
#Janet #Janetairline #Area51 #TTR #palmdale #AvGeek
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2b320,a3685d,a2ec0c,abf0fd,ac96df
JANET!!! Janet Airlines taxing behind our King Air. I actually get to see a fair number of JANET planes as the Atlantic Terminal at Las Vegas is right next to theirs #JANET #B737 #Area51 #GroomLake #milair #shadowy #aviationphotography #planespotting #haveglass #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #justanothernonexistentterminal
Stuff To Read: OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t – IEEE Spectrum
If you were a geek and online in (not least) UK academia in the 1980s and early 1990s, you were probably not using TCP/IP except on the local LAN of the Computer Science department. This was because people who sat on committees and who were therefore very Clever™ had decided what your network should be like, viz: a horrible glorified phone network where other prefabricated computer services would TellYouWhatYouNeedToKnow™.
This is the story of that network:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt
Aside: one of the more interesting things about this design was that it shared later architectural aspects with Tor Onion Networking – viz: The Dark Net – e.g. Circuit-Switching, probably for equally architectural reasons.
Well, whatever, #introduction:
94. I mess with computers as my main activity and daily job. Jack of all trades, master of none: for now, ended as an engine developer at Remedy Entertainment, but used to do quite various things, like Unix and network administration, web and backend programming etc.
56. The daily job serves the main purpose to let my three cats have a better life.
40. Native bilingual in UA/RU, more or less fluent in EN, slowly learning FI, can read PL. Here, however, I'm gonna use English mostly, but feel free to react in all stated languages.
34. The most highlighted hobbies: movies (almost any genre), books (fantasy and sci-fi), boardgames, video games, audio recording and sound design, custom mechanical keyboards, roguelikes, font design, UI/UX.
58. As of movies, I collect blu-ray disks. Partially because it's the only legal and reliable way to keep the stuff I paid for with me, partially because I love behind the scenes stuff way too much.
77. I can't eat spicy food.
38. For those who cares, the name is Nikita, pronounces are he/him (_I_ don't care how exactly do you refer me, however).
Searchable tags because why not: #programming #coding #gamedev #cpp #janet #networks #movies #fantasy #rpg #keyboards #mechboards #audio #sounddesign #ui #ux #fonts #roguelike #roguelikedev #boardgames
(wonder how many people will read this, but, welp)
Janet is the best comedy show character ever. Fight me.
#Lisp(s) are the only programming environments that enable a prototype-to-production development cycle for non-trivial projects in a way that is predictable.
Perfection.
The Tennessee Expulsion Is a Glimpse of the Future
Clearly, expelling two members of the Tennessee legislature was an explosive move and temporarily leaves their constituents no representation, at least until a special election is held.
In fact, the state party is already raising money for the members to win back their seats.
Meanwhile, there’s another story playing out 600 miles to the north that highlights another, potentially even more consequential use of hard-ball legislative power.
While liberals were celebrating the election Tuesday of a #Wisconsin #Supreme #Court #justice who will tip the court to the left, voters in the state’s 8th senatorial district were sending #Republican #Dan #Knodl to Madison.
That gives the GOP a Senate #supermajority and with it, the power to remove key officials through #impeachment — including judges.
In late March, Knodl said he would “#certainly #consider” impeaching #Janet #Protasiewicz, the new state Supreme Court justice, though he was talking about her role as a county judge.
Would Wisconsin Republicans impeach a justice simply because they don’t like the court’s rulings? Well, there is nothing hypothetical about how the state’s GOP legislature has used its power against other branches of government
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/06/tennessee-expulsion-future-democrats-00090911
