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by jquinby 4mo ago
There is an AI working group in one of the dicasteries that has produced two excellent publications: Encountering Artificial Intelligence ( https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/91230-encountering-art... ) Reclaiming Hum
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by jquinby 7mo ago
When I was in formation a couple of years ago, I showed our homiletics instructor a ChatGPT-generated homily for our assigned text. He read through it and put his head on the desk. Then he handed it back to me and said it was as good as goo
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by jquinby 1y ago
That’d be Guinea fowl, but all you’ve done is created a new problem unless you have a large area for them to range and a high tolerance for bird guano.
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by jquinby 2y ago
I use an RSPdx in my shack and it’s one of my all time favorite pieces of hardware.
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by jquinby 2y ago
Can confirm. Grew up in suburban Atlanta during the period depicted, including getting caught in the first big Freaknic blowout he describes. It’s so dead-on it made me homesick.
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by jquinby 2y ago
I used it exclusively for my graduate theology studies - all my papers, presentations, and so on. Along with Zotero, I had everything I needed. Just for fun, I did a few papers in LaTex, but I ran into a minor footnote formatting issue that
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by jquinby 3y ago
:wq! Eternal rest grant unto him. May perpetual light shine upon him.
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by jquinby 5y ago
Also an Extra. I actually delayed renewal this year, but then re-upped when I remembered that I'd been using the callsign@arrl.org email forwarded for a bunch of stuff and shelling out for one more year was easier than hunting down all
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by jquinby 7y ago
I don't do a ton of business reading, but Christensen's stuff was top-notch and always on the short-list of recommendations I'd make to others.
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by jquinby 7y ago
With a handheld radio and a Technician License, you can get on the air via local repeaters, work the VHF/UHF satellites, tinker with APRS (using something like this: http://www.mobilinkd.com/ ). $500 will get you a good
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by jquinby 7y ago
Don't forget low-cost SDR dongles - great for introducing digital signal analysis, satellite communications (wxsat, etc), ADSB aircraft tracking, HAB, and other ham-adjacent topics. This sort of thing was unimaginably expensive when I
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by jquinby 7y ago
There is indeed such a list: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/m...
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by jquinby 7y ago
Man alive I lived on that site during those years. If you don't remember or if it was before your time: people anonymously posted internal emails, layoff notices, and so on. Some of them (the Cerner "tick-tock" email comes to
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by jquinby 7y ago
Indeed, Ecclesial Latin is still the official language of the Catholic Church, inasmuch as documents like papal encyclicals are published in Latin first before translation to other languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by jquinby 7y ago
Pi3 runs piaware (aircraft tracking via rtl-sdr), pivpn, and pi-hole. Another Pi Zero runs an RF hotspot for ham radio stuff.
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by jquinby 7y ago
Nicely explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quABfe4Ev3s
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by jquinby 7y ago
What about an email from someone you know (coworker, relative) via a spoofed or compromised account?
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by jquinby 7y ago
...in Rust!
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by jquinby 7y ago
Nice. This brings back some great memories. I used to do a similar one-liner that alternated between white and black blocks, which created crossword-puzzle-like patterns. I'd sit across the room and squint at the display, hoping to see
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by jquinby 8y ago
I have to confess I dug into the comments before I realized this wasn't St. Credzero and having made a mental note go to look him up.
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by jquinby 8y ago
Related: entire self-contained 'villages' for dementia patients: https://gizmodo.com/inside-an-amazing-village-designed-just-...
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by jquinby 8y ago
Exactly so, and moreover, during a solar minimum, when HF propagation is sub-par even in OK conditions. The weak-signal stuff is what got me interested in upgrading from tech to general, and then extra. Every new thing over the decades has
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by jquinby 8y ago
True enough regarding monks. Peruse the Rule of Saint Benedict and there's plenty in there about tamping down status-seeking. Example: http://www.osb.org/rb/text/rbefjo3.html#21
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by jquinby 8y ago
Robert Cialdini talks about this in his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion."
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by jquinby 8y ago
I thought this same thing. Figuring out who/when to tarpit might be a little tricky, but here's the basic approach for a Debian system via iptables: https://sysadminblog.net/2013/08/debian-iptables-tarpit
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by jquinby 8y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this writeup as well: https://www.langner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/to-kill-a... Appendix C is my favorite part: a look at all the things that can be gleaned from television foo
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by jquinby 8y ago
They haul it up: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/200...
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by jquinby 8y ago
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications ARRL Antenna Book American Heritage Dictionary, 5th Ed. Bible/Lectionary, Breviary, and Catechism If
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by jquinby 9y ago
The author was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air awhile back - fascinating stuff for sure. https://www.npr.org/2018/01/31/582099085/journalist-details-...
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by jquinby 9y ago
I got 6 with "dig" to "dug" (though Dig ended up redirecting to "Double J Radio"): https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Double%20J%20%...

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