this is the grim reality that's playing out across the continent, as governments chase foolish strategies to collectivize the suffering, rather than target those who truly need protection.

to each according to their needs.

that's what the state should be developing policy around, right now.

if you weren't an anarchist before, the state's baffling response to this situation should turn you into one, now.

stay away from old people. please. for fuck's sake.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-covid-19-kills-nine-infects-34-staff-at-bobcaygeon-nursing-home/

just let me eat & shower, first.

i will be getting some more ram for the 90s laptop. 

but, for now, it's just too slow to be functional, even as a split gateway.

so, i'm going to need to work from the pc.

so, i've found a work around to this that should increase my productivity dramatically.

i did a last run through february, and found some more typos. yeah, i know. i'm ready to write that review, now.

and, once i get caught up, this time, i should be able to stay caught up.

the 90s laptop is locked down, but the restrictions on it are also apparent.

so, am i giving up on this horribly busted 7 install? i want a clean machine. maybe i can move it into a virtual machine, although....it's 64 bit, and that's a problem for me.

keeping in mind that i know the bios is probably infected, if i just completely format the boot partition and then mash a bunch of buttons, i should get the thing to boot from disc, if it can, right?

hrmmn.

let's finish what i'm doing first.

it's just that the next step is going to be very, very difficult to carry out on a machine with 256 mb of ram. i guess i get paid on tuesday. is the easiest thing to do to try to find some more ram? i've got the other machine running at 2, remember. but, i might be able to resolve that with a fresh install.

i never really got to reassembling it.

ugh. 

so, that means i'm inside for another day.

i think i have enough food to last another week, if it has to.

i really don't want to leave my computers unattended until i'm done what i'm doing and can easily reinstall if i have to.

so, i finally got the isp to escalate.

and, that means i'm going to give them a few more hours to figure it out before i rip the lines apart.

this could conceivably actually be a major breakthrough, if i can physically locate and dismantle a splitter in the line.

i've been complaining about crippling surveillance, now, since 2015 or so. before that, really. in hindsight, i was attacked almost as soon as i moved to windsor, i just didn't recognize it as such.

i've lost two laptops to what, in hindsight, seem like malicious attacks, already.

and i don't understand why this is happening.

"you only get 700 kb/s download speed?"

i don't download anything!

i'm 39 years old, and i look like i'm 23, but i think and act like i'm 84.

well, why else would the cops come in here when i'm gone and mess with my internet?

they installed something. the data suggests that whatever they installed is now producing an almost nonstop stream near the maximum data rate.

i don't have a fast internet connection. 35 gb is a lot relative to the infrastructure in place - nearing the maximum amount possible.

i have a 6 mbit/s maximum limit, which is about 750 kb/sec. in practice, i get something more like 700 on average.

the data from 2:00-8:00 is measured separately. let's say that i downloaded nonstop at 700 kb/s from 8:01 to 11:59.

then, i could have at most downloaded (700 kb/s)*(60 s/min)*(60min/hr)*16 hr = 40320000 kb.

converting this to gb means dividing by 1024^2.

that is roughly 38.5 gb.

as noted, the website claims i downloaded 35 gb. this would only be possible if somebody was streaming something almost constantly, all day.

....like a webcam, perhaps?

do you know what the usage stats are on the teksavvy website for the 28th?

35 gb downloaded.

who downloads 35 gb in 24 hours? i would need two or three months for that.

so, i'm going to have to find the splitter and dismantle it. that's ridiculous. what the hell are they even doing?

so, i'm on the 90s laptop, running firefox 24 on windows xp with 256 mb of ram. i wonder if that's upgradeable...

yes. i can take this up to 1 gb of ram,  if i can find the right kind. well, why not? it'll probably be around $5/stick at this point, if they don't pay me to take it.

hey - how much ram does your phone have?

i was able to transfer over my tabs from the 7 machine, although i can't pretend that i'll be able to stream anything on this, or really even do basic google searches. i'm really restricted to doing the precise task at hand, which is getting the blog cleaned up.

i can do basic internet tasks on the chromebook, for now.

and, i'm going to need to work out the last month by booting into the pc.

*sigh*.

they're going to get bored and leave me alone eventually, right?

to be clear: i am not uploading files anywhere right now. if i was uploading music or books anywhere, i would post the links. the only thing i'm "uploading" right now are posts to this blog.

there's no torrents or file-sharing apps running.

there's really no apparent explanation for this that i can see, right now, besides somebody fucking with my network, and no doubt from close quarters.

my landlord claims he's out of town, but i can hear and smell somebody upstairs. i think it's the stinky female, again, who i am fully aware is a police officer.

she's probably watching netflix and smoking drugs, because i'm so boring, and then uploading reports about how boring i am. like, fuck off then...

i had this on all day today, and you can see the dramatic difference in what is being sent to me v. what i'm requesting:

wan: 3076719 / 897149

lan: 1798325 / 1360694

wireless: 0/0

converting, 

wan: 4.4 gb down / 1.28 gb up

lan: 2.57 gb down / 1.95 gb up

wireless: no traffic

did i download 2.57 gb? did i upload 1.95 gb? that seems way too high, but by a smaller margin than i'm no doubt going to see in the official metrics. that tells me that i should be concerned about a hacker or virus, but i know that already. based on previous stats, if i downloaded 2.57, i would only expect to have uploaded around 0.5 or so. so, there is definitely some unexplained traffic on my router. i'm going to have to look at this when the rain clears up in the afternoon.

note, again, that 42% of the traffic directed to me was blocked or otherwise redirected by my router. that's indicative of some serious problems.

let me do some typing this morning and go from there. 

so, i napped this evening. i guess i needed some rest.

i'm going to try to get to work, now. for a bit, anyways. let's check my usage for the day, first.

this is an example of mutual aid - you help somebody when they need it, and they help you in return.

scheer is an idiot.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-china-medical-supplies-isolationism-1.5513203