You can use mine.

Do you mean ARRL?

I agree their bandplan is pretty restricty, but it’s also not law. It’s more for playing nice with each other. Keep high power up here so it doesn’t wipe out the people playing with low power, digital here so they don’t get overrun by voice, etc. You wouldn’t have any idea you’re stepping on someone sending Morse if you’re on FM. So there’s reason for it.

And yeah, with line of sight radios, nobody gives two shits 20 miles from civilization in the woods.

It’s illegal to push that button until you’re licensed.

(No one will search you out if you’re not being annoying)

It’s illegal to transmit music

True, for obvious reasons

it’s illegal to transmit anything encrypted unless you’re controlling a satellite

True, it helps to ensure nothing illegal is going on and enforce keeping commercial interests out. It’s a self regulating space, one of the only cases I know of that tends to work due to there being no monetary interests allowed. The point is to communicate information, not hide it.

it’s illegal to transmit anything for commercial purposes.

True, the whole point is to keep commercial interests out. That’s what “amateur” means.

illegal to transmit anything on a regular basis that could reasonably be communicated some other way.

False. This is for something like a non-profit wanting to use radios for their operations, they should be steered toward another service like gmrs, FRS, murs, etc. instead of amateur radio.

Its incredibly useful. Kind of interesting to recognize an unhinged jackass from one thread being normal a week later.

I have a large room with clear story windows and the entire south wall is windows, in the desert. The roof extends out far enough to block the sun in the summer, but not in winter. In winter during the day it’s 90F when it’s below freezing outside. The amount of heat trapped from the sun coming in through windows is no joke.

Every officer knows they need warrants and to identify themselves and that all arrests see a judge or they get released. Any officer not doing so is committing a felony and they know that. I say anyone who assisted at any point needs to be prosecuted, following orders isn’t a defense.

Yes, the guardian app allows you to send encrypted messages through their app to their journalists. 100,000 people check the news, one person is whistleblowing. That one person’s messaging traffic is mixed in with the regular news data, so it’s not possible to tell which of those 100,000 people are the source. Signal messages travel through their servers, so anyone inspecting packets can see who is sending messages through signal, just not what the messages contain. Thats a big red arrow pointing to only people sending encrypted messages. With this implementation, those people are mixed in with everyone else just reading news or even just having the app on their device.

Wouldn’t you have to have some sort of MITM to be able to inspect that traffic?

You mean like your workplace wifi that you’re blowing the whistle at?

HP and Asus taught me that specs aren’t all that important sometimes.

Well, there’s also the protests happening in pretty much every major US city as well, so there’s a third non-fecal choice of there

Shouldn’t be too bad. It’ll take a while, but you grab an example you have now in word, tweak it until it works in libreoffice and you’re done. The biggest issue I’ve had was constant transitions between the two. If you just move to one it’s a rough start moving, but once you’re there you just edit as always. Word isn’t even that great at keeping it’s own formatting, so it won’t be anything new except for learning a new program. it might get difficult once you get to links and embedding, I haven’t tried that in libreoffice so I can’t speak to whether it’s harder or not.

Beyond that, you should be pdf-ing any finalized documents anyway.

If you’re nearish ABQ, I’ve got a pickup I’m happy to help transport with. I unfortunately don’t think I’m in the list of approved people, otherwise I’d be more than happy to take as many of those tomatoes as I could. Unfortunately I can’t get my kid to eat cauliflower to save their life, so I have limited uses for that.

If I may put on my conspiracy theory hat:

With all the DOGE-starlink-russia shit I’ve been reading about, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia has a data pipeline directly to the US government, no Musk required. I would guess it would be more of a “he might tell the US government what/how we know” which would require coming up with a new golden pipeline.

Kinda like how the Cheeto Taco unwittingly showed the world the US satellite capabilities in his first term by showing a picture. There’s a lot of information Musk could tell the US about his visits with Putin, where if he was in Russia, the US is stuck guessing what made it out and what Russia has access to.

Sounds like you’re looking for something sitting around soul music or smooth R&B

Sounds like this is a no brainer to me. I’m a step parent to a brilliant kid who’s father is a complete narcissist, and I’ll tell you this, if a parent tells you to dislike the other parent, don’t trust them without evidence. Make your own decision, and listen to the parent that let’s you make it. A caveat is that a better parent probably won’t tell you all of the bad things they’ve had to deal with, and it’s important to remember that everyone is human and makes mistakes.

It’s ok to have a relationship with both parents, and it sounds like you know which parent to trust. That doesn’t mean you need to cut your mom out of your life, you just get to have a different kind of relationship with her. I’m a fan of honesty, if either parent does something you don’t like, tell them so and ask them to stop. If they won’t, you’ve got a real good answer as to who you want to spend your time with.

🤔 I wonder if they’ll hire an American who barely dabbles in self hosting and doesn’t speak 28.35 grams of German. Or would it be 29.6 mL?

I’m just poking the bear, they’re clearly either a Russian/neocon bot, or just an idiot. But I’m seeing if they’ll actually say something besides “asking questions”. I’m curious how far the goal posts are going to be moved without any actual acknowledgement since apparently 30 honors and awards, 17 speeches to governments, 7 publications, and more that I’m not really willing to trudge through to specifically call out, don’t count as accomplishments in their mind.

Ok, how about we turn this around since you have very high standards for what you consider an accomplishment. What have you succeeded at?

Let her have her last few years of relevancy.

So what’s your opinion on Andrew Tate?