Last night at around 8pm, just about 24 hours after the power came back on, the Monkeybrains outage map showed SOMA back online. We very much are not; still down, 38 hours later.
Finally, this morning, we got an email response: "The current estimated time of service restoration is on Monday July 6th 2026 between 11:00 am - 12:00pm."
If that's true, that will have brought this outage to 64 hours.
I may need to downgrade the Monkeybrains "5 eights" to "5 fives".
Replying to @jwz@mastodon.social
The last time they did this, we bought a Unifi LTE failover, to keep *just* the POS terminals online. It doesn't work for shit. Only about one transaction in 20 goes through.
@jwz pros: you can probably brand it!
cons: well, um
@pl It has been years since credit cards came with embossed numbers. https://jwz.org/b/yj__
jwz.orgEm like a bossEnd of an era: I was issued a new ATM card and the new one no longer has raised letters, and that makes me surprisingly sad. They are denying me the possibility of having my card swiped by a clacky carbon-paper roller machine. BUT WHAT IF!! I can still hear the sound of it. When I was trying to figure out how to print the DNA Lounge Patreon cards, I tried to find a machine that could do ...
@blotosmetek @jwz @pl I love in Canada, all of my 4+ cards issued in the last few years, zero embossing.