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by uabstraction 9y ago
This is correct. You do not need a license to possess any ham equipment - including equipment that is capable of transmitting. All ham communications are explicitly public, and there is nothing wrong with listening in. You only need a lic
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Second on the FT-60. These things have a remarkable amount of functionality built into them, are built like tanks, and can access their full range of features without a programming cable and PC. They can also receive a very wide range of
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Solid advice. As a recently licensed ham, I could tell you without a doubt that if I pulled my radio out of the box and tried to figure out what the hell to do with it in the midst of an emergency, the only thing I would accomplish is wast
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by uabstraction 9y ago
RT played the long game, and has done a surprisingly good job of gaining a following in fringe viewers throughout the US. Anecdotally, I participated pretty heavily in the first couple weeks of the Occupy Wall Street protests in Manhattan.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Everyone has different needs. If you are a journalist building up a story against powerful adversaries, then you absolutely find a VPN provider in an impartial jurisdiction. If you are just trying to hide your browsing habits from your no
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Spreading misinformation on political news through comment sections and social media has become a rampant problem. Most news sites with a discussion feature are so full of toxic and misleading comments that some form of moderation is neces
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by uabstraction 10y ago
While the traditional media has been asleep at the wheel for a long time now, I find myself incredibly worried at this juncture. Social media prevails over traditional media if - and only if - the system is not being abused. Unfortunately
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by uabstraction 10y ago
I've found myself doing the same thing. I am not changing my configuration for your website to get past a nag screen. If it doesn't work, I'll go somewhere else. There are very few pieces of information on the Internet tha
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by uabstraction 10y ago
"it's irresponsible to call defending borders racist when there are other reasonable and less incendiary explanations." I haven't heard one single reasonable explanation for why the US taxpayers should put $15 BILLION (b
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Or if you want to use one account stored in your vault from a location you don't want associated with your other service memberships?
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by uabstraction 10y ago
While this would be awesome (and progress is underway), what GTK+ needs even more than additional language bindings is documentation and literature. I considered Rust for my current project, but passed it on due to the frontier nature of t
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by uabstraction 10y ago
The UI is almost the same.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Yeah, one distribution tried this a few years back, got grilled to a char by the community for it, and swiftly trashed the idea. This is nothing like Microsoft turning Windows into one giant dark pattern and trying to convince the world th
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Not your parent, but here's my take. For remote usage, tmux doesn't provide much beyond vanity over screen, and is less likely to be installed on a shared host. Locally, I generally get by with &, bg, fg, and Ctrl-Z if I abs
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by uabstraction 10y ago
"Don't have good designer-friendly tooling (because the programmers were busy scratching other needs first). That definitely narrows a lot of designer input to designers that also can code." This is essentially the case with
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by uabstraction 10y ago
FWIW, I work in a machine shop with many CNC machine HMIs running on Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000. Somehow, beyond all expectations, they just keep on working.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
There are plans to support 3rd party identification (such as an E-Mail address or a phone number) and use that as a basis for looking up users across the network, but I don't think it is currently useable. Account migration was brough
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by uabstraction 10y ago
I'm going to nitpick and suggest that you almost certainly meant 8 _bytes_.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Homebrew is a children's toy compared to APT or Portage. There's no argument about general polish or calendar apps in particular though. It's a trade off. You can have rough edges but community control and 100+ backup plans
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Yeah. It's no big deal. Santa will be coming by real soon with new shiny USB Type C toys to replace our obsolete ones. It's a good thing Santa can write blank checks.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
This may be the best thing about Arch. Their crowd-sourced documentation model covers a lot of corner cases and unique configuration that many other distributions cathedral model documentation lack. The wiki format also helps it keep up w
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by uabstraction 10y ago
I personally view Arch as a "poor man's Gentoo." It's a rolling release, which is great considering the never-finished state of free software. Many projects have different release schedules, which means that stable dist
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by uabstraction 10y ago
I don't have anything particularly negative to say about the competition, but if you're looking for a completely free and open infrastructure to build on, I don't think anything (besides IRC, but IRC has it's own problem
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by uabstraction 10y ago
This is just PR speak to cover for the false dichotomy that you must accept new features (and regressively slower OS upgrades) to receive security updates - or be vulnerable. In reality, Apple could easily back-port security fixes. They a
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by uabstraction 10y ago
1 star App developer insisted upon a review, so they got one.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
"Smartphones and tablets have really lowered the barrier to entry for modern (high-tech) life." This is true - however these devices have also completely taken away our computational freedom as well. In fact, I'd argue that
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Woah now, the average citizen shouldn't be subject to digital cavity searches either!
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Imagine if the Founding Fathers decided to forgo western civilization and go live in the woods as nomadic hunter gatherers instead of standing up to British oppression... Or if all the blacks just listened to Marcus Garvey and went back to
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by uabstraction 10y ago
This mindset is exactly what is destroying democracy around the world.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Well, yes... But it's probably being used to troubleshoot a bottleneck in postgres being triggered by a higher level language application.

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