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So, just a follow up. According to matt, we got around $2,000 USD right now in the PBC overnight, and there are still more payments processing. I paid the Linode bill this morning. So, funding problem: solved. We should be set for the foreseeable future as far as money goes!
Seriously guys, you stepped up, and I am thankful. Since I'm here, a quick update on what's going on: Right now, we're mostly just waiting for paperwork to go through as far as handing the site to a newly-created, not-for-profit. It's slow work and I'm not directly involved, but I've seen that there has been a fair number of articles on the subject so I'm pretty happy that everyone is aware of what's going on.
I could write more, but I think I'm going to keep this short and sweet for now. Once I have a final total, I'll post it.
- N
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by acid andy on Thursday March 07 2024, @12:41PM (5 children)
I was feeling like crap this morning, physically and mentally. Thinking it's really hard to do anything of much positive significance.
This story and your comment made me feel much, much better. Thank you for all that you do and to all the rest of the staff and community. You're all awesome! :)
Welcome to Edgeways. Words should apply in advance as spaces are highly limite—
(Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Thursday March 07 2024, @01:13PM
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2024, @01:15PM (2 children)
Another two cents worth, I woke up to (electric) power failure, more common in my specific neighborhood (a few dozen houses) than the surrounding area. No storm or other obvious reason, I think we're due for an equipment upgrade from our utility. We never get much info on how long it will take to fix, so I spent the last hour or so wondering if I should jury rig the AC inverter to the car again. It's big enough to keep the fridge running and power up the gas boiler (house heat -- it's about freezing temp outside this morning).
Anyway, once power came back on, the "modem" and routers came back up and then I saw this SN article and post. Feeling a lot better now!
(Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Thursday March 07 2024, @07:33PM (1 child)
My dad was an electrical lineman. He said most wintertime outages are from squirrels crawling inside transformers to get warm and electrocute themselves.
Impeach Donald Saruman and his sidekick Elon Sauron
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2024, @09:44PM
Could be, but all the squirrels in the neighborhood seem to be in my back yard this year. It was a clear sunny morning when the power went out and the squirrels were running all around the yard.
We used to have a hawk and recently I've seen another, so we may be on the cusp of a small rodent population crash.
(Score: 3, Touché) by turgid on Thursday March 07 2024, @10:13PM
Chin up, old bean!
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].