I'm not sure if it is a result of a security update on my part or what, but it has become increasingly difficult to gain access to the BBS. Obviously when the SSL certificate expired last year it became harder, but I had to jump through some extra hoops this time. Just wanted to make sure you were aware.

Holy crap first Neal Adam and now George Perez, all my silver age comic heroes are taking the big sleep this year!

Worst timeline.

I could use help with my SSL certs on Citadel. I am not a SSL expert - and it has proven difficult to manage. I was not even aware that my self-signed cert had expired. 

Can you describe more detail on what your difficulties are? I'm connected right now from across the pond without any issues. 

The problems I have are with getting machine name to match cert name and with the um... shit, I wish I knew the language better... the "multipart" cert - where the cert is a "*.sanitarium.com" resolution... Which is now required, I guess? There is no easy place to really learn certs - and it varies from application to application what is required and how you set it up - so.... there isn't a "one size fits all Citadel SSL setup howto". You've got to get the basic grasp of SSL/TLS and then figure out how it applies to the particular web based app you're trying to host - and with self-signed Certs - it is always going to be "broke" anyhow. It really seems like the kind of security that works AGAINST accessibility - on purpose. 

It is also available on HTTP, and Telnet and SSH - so if you're having trouble with an HTTPS connection - maybe SEE if the issues persist with those methods. 

Fri May 06 2022 23:19:14 MST from thanatos

I'm not sure if it is a result of a security update on my part or what, but it has become increasingly difficult to gain access to the BBS. Obviously when the SSL certificate expired last year it became harder, but I had to jump through some extra hoops this time. Just wanted to make sure you were aware.

Glad to have you back, PD. I sent you a text. Let me know if it didn't show up since you were in the ethereal plane for a while. 

Looks like my posts aren't saving. I've seen this before with Citadel. It registers it as an empty message. 

I'm just now getting back. I did see your text in Italy - forgot to follow up. I will soon. Still getting everything sorted after the long trip. The day we got back, Angelina left the next morning for Chicago, got my daughter, flew back, then the day after that, left for L.A. for a week. 

And she was gone on business for a week BEFORE the trip to Europe. So she hasn't been at home for more than a day for 4 weeks. 

Got the keys to my new apartment yesterday, slept on the floor in my new bedroom last night on blankets and pillows.  This is the first apartment I found myself and signed the papers for myself and nobody is helping me be here, it's all on my own.  I have a place, a car, a job.  I'm finally a real adult.  Feels good man.

Now maybe I can finally generate some progeny.

Congratulations and well done!

Sun May 22 2022 09:20:39 MST from TheDave

Got the keys to my new apartment yesterday, slept on the floor in my new bedroom last night on blankets and pillows.  This is the first apartment I found myself and signed the papers for myself and nobody is helping me be here, it's all on my own.  I have a place, a car, a job.  I'm finally a real adult.  Feels good man.

Now maybe I can finally generate some progeny.

PD, you hit the nail on the head with your discussion of SSL cert issues. Getting them into non-standard apps can be a bitch and a half.

Yeah. I've always hated dealing with SSL. I learn how to do it, I get pretty good at it, then I don't have to think about it for a while, then I have to relearn everything the next time I need to reissue a Cert, and 6 times out of 10 everything has completely changed. 

Been in my new apartment for just over a week now, without real internet until Saturday.  My good computer is still at the old house and my decade-old laptop is my only functional computer at the new place, but all my bathroom stuff is there and I have no bed so I'm sleeping on the floor on a little bed I made which is just a folded quilt for a mattress and 2 pillows.  It already feels more like home than the old house ever did.  Being able to choose where I put my shit makes a huge difference.

I suppose I understand why your generation is so generally bitter about the lack of opportunity the economy and coming of age during real troubled times has created for it. 

Because a lot of times, when I try to describe *why* it is important the people have their *stuff* - including their own *place* for their stuff - and that once you've gotten that together - it is very security-threatening to have anyone else suggest they are entitled to *any* of your stuff, or any of the space where you put that stuff. Living with room-mates - or even a spouse and children - any kind of *collective* - is an imposition on your ability to put your stuff anyplace in your space anytime YOU want. 

I just saw that Comedy Central comedian - forget his name - the Jewish dude - saying that George Carlin's "Space for your Stuff" skit was a critique about American consumerism. It may well have been - it may have been Carlin contemptuously sneering at American's and our desire for bigger spaces so we can fill them with more stuff. But it can also be read more subversively - as a justification to the question, "Why would Elon Musk need all those billions of dollars? Why shouldn't we just take some of that from him and redistribute it to people with less?" 

Because - Elon's billions come with LOTS of stuff. So does Bezos's wealth. The little bit of agency and independence that you've gained by not having a room mate - by having a space all your own that you can fill with your stuff any way you want - the more money you get, the more stuff you get, the more space you need, and no one wants to give up any of that up. 

I mean - you got the car, and the car gives you independence on deciding where you want to go and when. You got the apartment, and that is really the same thing. You figured out how to get the money to get the stuff - and mostly it gives you security in your independence and agency. 

At my level, I've got this fancy setup with automated backups to a separate device, with hotbackup machines already set up so if the main thing goes down I can easily bring the thing back up. It is *expensive* - and requires space - so that I can extend my agency and independence beyond my walls to ensure that my VOICE isn't at the beck and call of someone else's *stuff*. MORE agency. More security in my independence. 

This is why I don't trust collectivism. It is why I don't trust anarchism, too - though - especially when it gets into the idea that you can't own a SPACE. Property rights are important. Right now you rent, and even if you own there are things like imminent domain. But morally - we should recognize and affirm that your space is your own - it is safe from unreasonable search and seizure. It is *your* space, it is private, you've earned it, and society should, collectively, defend your reasonable rights to this - because someday collectively we may all face the threat of having that taken away. 

Unfortunately - this is where we often fall down as a society. 

Mon May 30 2022 13:37:22 MST from TheDave

Been in my new apartment for just over a week now, without real internet until Saturday.  My good computer is still at the old house and my decade-old laptop is my only functional computer at the new place, but all my bathroom stuff is there and I have no bed so I'm sleeping on the floor on a little bed I made which is just a folded quilt for a mattress and 2 pillows.  It already feels more like home than the old house ever did.  Being able to choose where I put my shit makes a huge difference.

I'll have to give them a try. If you are around Chandler - try Rosa's Burritos. They're fairly cheap, under $5 each. I recommend the breakfast chorizo, add beans and cheese. 

The picadillo ground beef is excellent, too. Mostly it is in the tortillas. They're scratch made on site - and it shows. 

Thu Jun 02 2022 15:15:20 MST from phigan

I'm replying to a super old post here, but it's worth noting that Los Favoritos has some pretty amazing breakfast burritos.
:)

Home made bread, chips, salsa, nan...what have you are so often the key to a really good local food joint.

Without a doubt. This is really In-N-Out's and Chick-Fil-A's secret. Great buns. 

Sun Jun 12 2022 15:42:50 MST from thanatos

Home made bread, chips, salsa, nan...what have you are so often the key to a really good local food joint.

Wed Jun 15 2022 12:19:04 MST from ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>

Without a doubt. This is really In-N-Out's and Chick-Fil-A's secret. Great buns. 

 

See, I thought that was *YOUR* secret feature. LOL.

HAH! 

I have been told it was on a couple of occasions. ;) 

Once when I was a 105 pound punk kid at JFK by a black girl who was at least 6' and probably pushing 180 pounds. :D 

Sat Jun 18 2022 10:31:06 MST from thanatos

 

Wed Jun 15 2022 12:19:04 MST from ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>

Without a doubt. This is really In-N-Out's and Chick-Fil-A's secret. Great buns. 

 

See, I thought that was *YOUR* secret feature. LOL.

 

There is a room called Comics and Comix. Looks like someone made it by mistake? I must have missed it in the AIDE room scroll. What was going on there? 

It was awesome. I took my giant American diesel dinosaur-bone burning full sized heavy duty truck, hooked up a house on wheels full of alcohol and guns behind it, and drove up into the mountains to a pristine alpine campground on an Indian Reservation - where I met a group of other people doing the same thing. We drove out into a meadow, creating huge ruts with our tires, and circled our travel trailers and RVs like a wagon train, and sat in the middle and talked about all kinds of right wing things that would trigger the fuck outta you, fished the lake for trout and crawfish, had huge bonfires, and got drunk while celebrating our global cultural, social, economic and military dominance over the entire world! 

The women prepared the meals and cleaned up the messes and the men played with loud things that explode and pollute! 

Because it is "camping"... there were no black people. I don't think I saw one the entire weekend. Lots of brown people, but they were mostly on the other side of the counter going, "Hello, how can I help you today?" 

It is awesome being rich, white and male in America! Happy 4th of July! 

Mon Jul 04 2022 23:26:19 MST from paulie420

fuck every single one of you.
happy fourth of july, racist- horrible amerikkka.