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by grendelt 2y ago
(Just ham not HAM)
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by grendelt 2y ago
Right. Those are covered under "Part 15" as unlicensed devices. They cannot interfere with other services and must accept any interference.
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by grendelt 2y ago
> the Notices require each property owner to respond within ten days with evidence that the property owner is no longer permitting pirate radio broadcasting to occur on its property. So, like, post a sign "no pirate radio broadcasti
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by grendelt 2y ago
Another reminder we still don't have an overarching, comprehensive data privacy law for US citizens ala GDPR.
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by grendelt 2y ago
That one was so good. I was completely ignorant of the topic before that episode aired.
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by grendelt 3y ago
Quite a few of those drew an eye-roll from me. https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/banned-censored-bluey... A couple of them I can understand (like being safe, not showing kids to slide on a wet tile floor), some I
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by grendelt 3y ago
The book is great - so, so cool seeing the layer upon layer of logic (and abstractions) that build up.
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by grendelt 3y ago
"Move fast and break things", right?
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by grendelt 3y ago
Galveston, Texas still has some of these. My friend lived in one for several years before the real estate market (and new job in Houston) forced their hand.
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by grendelt 3y ago
Oh, so this is QUIK and not QUIC.
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by grendelt 3y ago
Years ago I made a couple of SoftRock receivers for the 20m and 40m CW bands and put them on a couple of Raspberry Pis. I got WebSDR to run on it and it's kinda become a thing now. https://n5dux.com/ham/raspberry
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by grendelt 3y ago
It's literally a "cereal grain". It's found alongside the sugar pops, bran flakes, and cheertios on grocery aisles. YOU might not think it's an alternative, but it very much is a cereal.
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by grendelt 3y ago
In the example given in the story, the kid was flying from JAX to NYC with a connection in CLT (one of the larger AA hubs). In that case, AA probably priced the flight to NYC lower in order to compete with some rate that United or Delta was
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by grendelt 3y ago
The airlines can get all worked up about it, but there's no way they can stop it. (At most they can see a passenger doesn't make their connection the majority of the time and impose a penalty fee after so-many missed connections;
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by grendelt 3y ago
Johnny Castaway was great too. And then later on Folding@Home was an interesting screensaver.
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by grendelt 3y ago
Darn right. Lithium mod was my favorite. The grappling hook and runes made for some incredibly fun LAN parties!
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by grendelt 3y ago
Lost my grandfathers WW2 records. All I know is that he was in the 7th ID in the Aleutians and S.Pacific. Really wish there was some other form of those records.
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by grendelt 3y ago
I'm sure there's a business opportunity here. Some snake-oil "gas filter".
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by grendelt 3y ago
I came here to ask if there's an "old.discuit.net" style. I never adopted new reddit and when I see it, I know I've been signed out. Old reddit is the only "clean" UI in my book.
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by grendelt 3y ago
They just need to send in Tom Hanks to walk around and call for him.
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by grendelt 3y ago
I wonder too how statute of limitations would play into such a "timeless warrant". What if a crime was committed, digital evidence exists, but the statute of limitations passes before investigators can access the evidence? How wou
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by grendelt 4y ago
Sounds like a weird maxim of commercial real estate.
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by grendelt 4y ago
" HTTP over DNS over HTTPS "
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by grendelt 4y ago
SIM swapping and spoofing is a thing.
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by grendelt 4y ago
While limiting, if you're in a world city with huge population density you can still reach a lot of people. Suppose you live in a high rise, you can reach all the people in the buildings across from you, in the cafe down below, offices
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by grendelt 4y ago
> So regulate and ban the technology, then. When has that ever worked? What banned technology is conceived of but not developed because some government entity said not to? I think the "if we don't, then others will" is par
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by grendelt 4y ago
To use Doctorow's term: the "enshittification" of Apple Podcasrs
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by grendelt 4y ago
Except... > Mobile-native filmmaker Mike deGruy– who dived on “Titanic” with director James Cameron and for his BBC series “The Blue Planet”– took a look at the vessel in 2010 saying at the time that “a person would have to be crazy to g
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by grendelt 4y ago
That's the part of the story that kills the fun.
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by grendelt 4y ago
I wanted one of those so bad. I opted for the Diamond Rio CD Player (SP250) I loved that thing. That was an exciting time in tech because prices were falling into the affordable range for a lot of portable/mobile tech. (It was clunky a

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