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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> We're already not far off of that being a serious concern even on non-crazy builds. Show me an example of a “non-crazy” build that’s over 1,200W, let alone over 1,500W. I’m genuinely curious.
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
I had one for a long time that wasn’t immediately obvious, but if you got it you got it: IMAYHOO I later added a ‘Did you Yahoo!?’ license plate frame and more people seemed to get it (and not think phrases like ‘I may hoo?’).
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
Considering NSO Group is specifically mentioned by name multiple times in Apple’s press release announcing Lockdown Mode, I’d say you’re right… > Lockdown Mode offers an extreme, optional level of security for the very few users who, bec
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> targets human rights defenders, journalists, and dissidents It’s literally spelled out as one of the target audiences in Apple’s press release announcing the feature.
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
The Wikipedia article is wrong. I have a recording of Craig Fugate telling the Waffle House postulate in November 2009 during the inaugural Random Hacks of Kindness event at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA. Edit to add link: https:&#x
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> I had a GEO satphone myself (Thuraya which is really cheap for airtime in Europe) before but as I hike through the mountains it's very hard to get a line of sight. So I didn't deem it useful enough for emergency. Yeah, the iS
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
Want to know another great safety measure that only costs you around $100 w/ no monthly fee? Pick up a handheld ham radio. When you enter areas with rangers, stop and ask the emergency frequency they use. Best to get a HAM license to b
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> While I guess hours response is an outlier in clear sky conditions It definitely is an outlier, maybe partially due to conditions (I wasn’t there, just was someone who received the other party’s messages way late), but that’s the point
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Do I have to be the angry parent with the shotgun or are Apple going to make an honest woman out of Globalstar and just buy them. So the way to make an “honest woman” is to force somebody “to marry her at gunpoint” you say? The previou
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Where did I mention only sub 6GHz? When you mentioned 4G in the same statement. The highest I’ve ever seen for a LTE tower in the US (I’ve been in 49 states and checked via field test equipment in multiple areas of each state, yes, I’m
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> The vast majority of people using Slack don't care, though. The vast majority of people using Slack aren’t the decision makers if they use Slack or not. How often do employees complain about the tools they are forced to use, yet t
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> into electricity with zero waste > I don’t mean to be rude, but to say this without qualification is essentially baseless ignorance or lying. Your own words can be used back at you. (Not agreeing with GP, but your zeal in rebuttal f
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> It's a bit slow to get a message out, but at least you can send a message. Tell that to a someone I know who had a broken leg and not only was the location way off, it took multiple hours to send. He was around a half mile of a we
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> A single cell tower with 5G/4G is not far off doing that, per sector. Assuming you mean LTE when you say 4G, the per sector bandwidth is customarily an order of magnitude less than 20gbps. Even in the case of 5G, with sub-6Ghz any
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> I have a Garmin InReach with a 1 inch antenna and it works fine Your definition of the word “fine” is apparently rather generous. Be in an actual emergency situation and the InReach is down right frustrating as hell, but “better than n
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
Guess I need to eat crow... Will be interesting to see how precise you must have your phone pointing towards the satellite.
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> I think they've grown, but it was a one-man company for a long time. Say what? From day one it wasn’t a one-man company, they had multiple founders from the beginning.
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
I miss the days when Fry’s was good… :(
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Target So I’m not finding the news article at the moment on counterfeit electronics goods re: Target, but there’s been a couple I remember. here’s one on makeup that I found searching though: https://www.allure.com/stor
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
Yep, any place that has garden supplies generally has it. That’s where I got it when I was a kid anyway, as that was years before Amazon’s existence.
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> where I currently live Not surprised by your story, but still curious where you live? In the US, you can buy it in bulk quantity on Amazon. Mixing it with sugar was a ton of fun when I was a kid, smoke bombs that could totally white ou
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Sure, amazon does make it easy to return them, but going to a real store avoids it all-together. Genuine question, what store is this that: 1) has inventory in store of items like this 2) doesn’t also ever have fake merchandise on thei
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
Inmarsat, Iridium, Thuraya, and Globalstar primarily use L-band. The early PCS allocations and a few later allocations (1900, 1800, 1700) are also L-band, but there’s good reason not to use them for this, they are already heavily in use all
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> There are already devices sold for hikers etc that operate like this (simple SOS text messaging etc) and sat tracking of vehicles and trucks. Yep, I’ve owned a ton of them over the years. My first was the FollowMeSpot device coming up
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> There are Iridium-based two-way messengers on the market without an externally visible antenna. I currently own a couple and have owned a bunch of other devices in this category. Have you ever looked at a tear down of one of those devi
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> I'm curious do you work environment require you to have multiple sat phones? No, I’m just a tech geek who had to be emergency airlifted from 11,000ft off a mountain straight to an emergency room. I happened to have an Iridium phon
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
Iridium flies at about 450mi above the ground, SpaceX/Starlink does a bit lower around 350mi. Both are still a VERY long way to transmit a gigahertz signal, especially unless you are standing in a wide open area with no obstructions of
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
As someone who owns most of the common satellite phones and data devices available today and sees the antennas on each, I’m sorry, still calling bullshit on this, just like every previous year this rumor came out.
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
> And my question still stands: who has numbers or data that show that those 14kb pages perform better in regard to the commercial metrics than heavier pages ? And I mean in the field data, not a synthetic test. A trivial search will fin
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by jsjohnst 4y ago
Ok, now I know you’re just trolling. Enjoy and goodbye!

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