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Oct 2024
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258: Some Real MacGyver #$@!%

Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith
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Brad's back from Western North Carolina, so it's time for a casual debriefing on being out there for two and a half weeks dealing with the Hurricane Helene aftermath, with a focus on all sorts of technical subjects like portable lighting strategies, acquiring and hooking up a generator in a hurry, making sense of the wiring layouts in older houses, remote work with almost no connectivity, dehumidifying and remediating a flooded basement, and, yes, some of the sillier computing artifacts that emerged in the course of the cleanup.

The links for emergency and offline maps we mentioned that were sent in by a listener:

http://cellmapper.net/

https://atlas.eia.gov/apps/all-energy-infrastructure-and-resources/explore

https://organicmaps.app/

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