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by imroot 5y ago
I'm not going to say that it doesn't happen, but, honestly, most of the folks who I've met in my journey with Amateur radio are folks who are truly excited about RF and who want to share their knowledge in the hobby to others
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by imroot 5y ago
FEDRAMP compliance isn’t cheap, and it’s not really something startups have the wherewithal of handling until they are a midsized company.
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by imroot 5y ago
https://towardsdatascience.com/black-box-attacks-on-perceptu... I mean, who's to say that my hash is actually what they think it is... ...and if it's not uploaded to iCloud for someone to manually review what the
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by imroot 5y ago
Redhat: This one was for you. From the moment I applied through a recruiter until I got an offer letter was about 13 months. In that time, I had already started my new job -- I didn't actually take the role at RedHat, but, I was able
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by imroot 5y ago
Cincy PD disables alerts for ShotSpotter on the 4th of July and disables it during baseball/football games downtown because the pyro from the games causes false alarms.
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by imroot 5y ago
BestBuy's been doing this since 2010: https://retailgeek.com/best-buy-deploys-qr-codes-to-enhance-... This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
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by imroot 5y ago
The only high risk areas are where you start, and where you finish, because those are known positions. Everything else can be variable....and nobody is any the wiser, because the only thing that's really different is that the trucks h
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by imroot 5y ago
I think it's LEADS: Law Enforcement Agencies Data System In Ohio, it's operated by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. I know that Chicago has their own LEADS implementation. Wouldn't surprise me if NYC has their own. As a pawn s
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by imroot 5y ago
I did the same thing -- wardialed the free-to-dial extensions in the small town that I grew up in. The next day, someone from the gas company knocked on my parents door because apparently my war-dialer (who worked during the day when I was
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by imroot 5y ago
My biggest complaint about the ReMarkable is the lack of any meaningful business management tools -- I love using it, but, I need to be able to limit sharing, specify a specific SMTP service to use for sharing pdf files, remotely wipe a dev
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by imroot 5y ago
They hired the staff/volunteers from the original reddit gift exchange app to work on integrating it into reddit core, then (assuming here), laid them off and killed the project.
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by imroot 5y ago
I thought this was up in Troy Township (Wood County), not in Troy (the city, in Miami county).
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by imroot 5y ago
There is a standard for the various road conditions that are out there -- the MUTCD ("Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices") -- and there's a fairly large chapter on temporary lane closure/construction zones. This s
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by imroot 5y ago
I've had similar experiences, though, not with FBI, with DHS at DEFCON, to the point where I've been handed DHS business cards prior to hopping on flights out of Las Vegas on my way home, and them calling me on my personal (non-wo
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by imroot 6y ago
I carry both a reMarkable and a Rocketbook with me -- the e-ink tablet makes taking notes super easy, but, the rocketbook is great for sketching and coming up with arch drawings and the like. I can quickly turn the RocketBook sketches into
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by imroot 6y ago
Except in Kentucky (in a motor vehicle), unless you're a ham: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id... When I chatted with a SRO about this when programming the schools radios a few yea
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by imroot 6y ago
I use taskwarrior and time warrior for keeping track of my tasks and the amount of time that I’m doing, and have task warrior set up so that it’s the first thing I see when I log into my home server. I do use khal and sync it with my google
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by imroot 6y ago
I'm a Radio Astronomy Enthusiast. I was at Big Ear the weekend before it was tore down, and it was what really prompted me to get into Radio Astronomy. It's what prompted me to visit Arecibo in the late 90's -- there wasn&#x
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by imroot 6y ago
"We have incurred net losses in each year since inception, and we may not be able to achieve profitability." At least they're honest about it!
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by imroot 6y ago
Most gift card companies are set up in Utah, where the gift card laws are much more lenient.
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by imroot 6y ago
The original slingboxes (Circa 2008/2009) ran locally, and could be exposed on your networks if you did the setup. In 2013/2014, they changed the way that it was handled. I have 4 Slingboxes -- one in Miami, one in Kentucky, one i
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by imroot 6y ago
The first time my mom flew out of LEX, she saw the "big ass fan" in the airport terminal and was so thrilled with the name and how she felt the fan working she bought one for her patio. I've heard that they're a really g
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by imroot 6y ago
I use weeslack for my Slack integration, and still live just about 100% in the terminal.
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by imroot 6y ago
This "one guy," if you will, is responsible for a majority of the ansible galaxy modules that are out there. Far from a bad actor just utilizing CPU time for pet projects, Jeff's code is probably in use in a large majority of
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by imroot 6y ago
The Serverless revolution has stalled...because it takes a long time for that service to start up, as it's so infrequently used. I'll see myself out.
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by imroot 6y ago
I interviewed at an online proctor company, and I discovered that the build of chrome that they used tracked my eyes, tracked my mouse movements, and tracked my searches as I sat in their conference room and took some bullshit personality t
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by imroot 6y ago
I remember using WordPerfect on VAX/VMS (on a decterm, no less), and I recall them having some flavor of Unix based binary, but, I can't find references to either out there anymore.
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by imroot 6y ago
The travel industry (esp the airlines) are moving to puzzle piece style integrations -- I know that Hilton Uses Sabre for incoming GDS reservations, but, uses salesforce internally for managing a lot of the guest interactions (including boo
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by imroot 6y ago
I built something like this, but, only for commercials, using RTL-SDR dongles and intel NUC's. I never did figure out a way to monetize it, but, the thought was to that if you were pepsi, you could be alerted for coke's new commer
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by imroot 6y ago
One of the things I picked up from HN a few months ago was bettering my remote setup -- I picked up a HDMI capture card for my mirrorless camera, and bought a few lights to brighten up my office, and then I purchased a cardioid microphone a

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