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by 1827163 3y ago
I think once you escape the system you don't find games or other distractions enjoyable anymore. When you're fully actualized and are capable of "going your own path", satisfaction then comes from making things and tryin
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by 1827163 3y ago
But we have things like the Raspberry Pi, which are very low cost and completely open to tinkering. Add a keyboard and clip-on display then you have a tiny but capable development machine, in a smartphone like form-factor.
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by 1827163 3y ago
Such as tracking you every moment of your waking life. How modern technology has become so evil, looking back. Nowadays every device we have is clearly spyware, from the point of view of 1999.
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by 1827163 3y ago
You could alter the video timings on the Jornada a bit, by writing to the video chip registers directly. That would slightly improve its abysmal contrast ratio.
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by 1827163 3y ago
I had one running NetBSD together with a Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA WiFi card for wardriving purposes. With the driver for the WiFi card patched to enable monitor mode. Had two different antennas, a quarter wave dipole, which I made myself, a
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by 1827163 3y ago
It would be quite a lot of fun to make such an AI operate on the CB band, supervised and in compliance with the regulations, as a joke. A bunch of hams would quite easily freak out, hearing amateur style operation complete with valid soundi
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by 1827163 3y ago
I don't really care if it's embarrassing or not. As long as my actions are entirely legal, anything pretty much goes. Encouraging people to install regulatory approved powerline networking adapters is completely legal. As it'
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by 1827163 3y ago
When you start hearing about $19,000 fines for a single incident, it's no surprise you feel like wanting to encourage people to get those nice, perfectly legal, Comtrend powerline networking adaptors. With that manufacturer being fully
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by 1827163 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrsAsnl6XGA High power ham radio has also been found to interfere with medical equipment, such an insulin pumps, apparently a ham got shut down over this. Although it's somewhat the faul
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by 1827163 3y ago
I think maybe it shouldn't be legal to operate high power amateur stations in built up areas, due to health and safety concerns? That there might be enough people out there, once they are aware of the very high power levels used by ama
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by 1827163 3y ago
This is why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorLTsOVFeE He wanted to use the Baofeng radios on license-free FRS frequencies and got so much shit for that. He very much sums up how I feel about it. As long as it's prog
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by 1827163 3y ago
There's nothing illegal about installing powerline networking adapters. Doing that to protest the absolutely outrageous fines being dished out there. And that so many radio amateurs support this kind of punishment for relatively trivia
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by 1827163 3y ago
It's been like this already, for quite some time (!), at lest here in the UK, VDSL2 to thank for that: https://rsgb.org/main/technical/emc/vdsl-interference-report... So it's already being jammed, w
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by 1827163 3y ago
Especially with social media, the anger would spread throughout society like wildfire.
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by 1827163 3y ago
And mental health issues resulting from the soul-crushing school system itself. From boredom in the classroom, and from grading and testing of students. It's a prison environment that children are compelled to attend.
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by 1827163 3y ago
Well, yes because I don't want to be involved in things that are so authoritarian in nature, with draconian punishments enforced by the government for what amounts to being stupid. I want to be involved with hobbies where you can be mo
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by 1827163 3y ago
Even better if some product came onto the market, that used wideband powerline communications for its functioning, and practically everyone's got one. I think some electric car chargers might do so in the future. That would not go down
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by 1827163 3y ago
Lobster fishing is usually a large scale operation run by a business. Yes the fines are appropriate for a business, they wouldn't be for an individual though. If an individual was to be fined excessively over a handful of lobsters, the
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by 1827163 3y ago
Makes you want to use powerline Ethernet for everything, which happens to stomp on the HF radio bands. Perfectly legal to install and use, a nice replacement for all those trailing cables. Yes, civil disobedience is how these draconian rule
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by 1827163 3y ago
Of course they are, but fining someone $24,000 for behaving rudely, even repeatedly, on the radio is far far worse. And so many amateur radio enthusiasts support these absolutely draconian punishments, which is damaging the reputation of th
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by 1827163 3y ago
Yes, and those drivers licenses are obviously because cars are dangerous machines that can cause severe harm to someone if they are driven improperly. And the legal system surrounding it has penalties which are usually proportionate to the
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by 1827163 3y ago
For playing music 5 years ago, that is still disproportionate, no emergency frequencies were disrupted, in any of his activities. Did he cause any quantifiable harm here? Did the harm he cause ever justify that degree of punishment? My stan
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by 1827163 3y ago
Absolutely ridiculous. That makes me want nothing to do with the hobby, period. These hams are behaving like animals with a dominance hierarchy. With "newbs" and status in that hierarchy based on license class / callsign. And
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by 1827163 3y ago
I don't think such a huge fine is justified, how about confiscating his equipment, and banning him from using radio equipment capable of transmitting on amateur frequencies for a period of time? It didn't cause any harm to emergen
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by 1827163 3y ago
You mean those Predator drones used in the early 2000s that had a standard DVB-S uplink for the video feed, which were unencrypted back then? I think the video feed was IP encapsulated, inside DVB-MPE, but am not 100% sure about it? Update,
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by 1827163 3y ago
And in those early days many cable providers didn't even implement the Baseline Privacy Interface, so you could sniff the entire neighborhood's downstream traffic with a modified modem or possibly even a DVB-C capable TV card. The
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by 1827163 3y ago
From the article: “This is not what ought to happen in a free country.” What do you expect from a country that's been a police state for the last 23 years or so. With the introduction of the RIP Act in 2000, which compels those with en
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by 1827163 3y ago
And I guess that satellite feed was Cidera/SkyCache? I have fond memories stumbling across that while scanning transponders on the Sirius satellite at 5 degress East back then. No encryption whatsoever and it didn't take long to r
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by 1827163 3y ago
Yes, it's insane, it's the rise of sexual authoritarianism or even fascism. We scare the whole population into fearing that there's predators everywhere, and punish people for minor transgressions or trifles, ruining their li
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by 1827163 3y ago
I don't trust the data, even if it comes from academia, as it's very likely to have a pro-feminist bias. I need to know the methodology used, and also other sources of data to cross check it against. The bias in the coverage of th

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