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I don’t know if you remember but we met at cfgmgmtcamp in 2016.

https://imgur.com/a/auPVRuq

We weren’t even in the same circles and this was my first good conference, but my own little company that I worked at was full of motivated hackers that were trying to wrap our heads around what you already understood.

You took my comments about on-boarding and documentation very humbly and you knew what I was really saying was: keep it up.

You sure did keep it up.

Those same team mates are here with me using TF at a different company years later, and we’re still pushing left.

Those colleagues just said “it’s art and science”

… and when the art gets ripped away from you, what you described is a natural reaction.

Still, keep it up.

Stop Flock 3 months ago

Obligatory reference to PIPEDA and GDPR.

Edit: not a low effort comment. This is something you should all read and demand the same of. I consternated on how not to call your regime moronic. It _is_ moronic that you don’t have these basic protections and we keep having to listen to you all whine about that.

I’ve been wondering this for a while and maybe someone has a clue.

Based on the very “bursty” nature of LoRA, how much does an adversary need to spend to radiolocate it? What’s the threat model there?

As someone who takes this seriously I’m only working jobs where your ass will get fired immediately for clicking that link in the clearly dumb email.

If leadership won’t bring the same rigour of safety culture - which is mandated by legislation - to security? Don’t bother, just move on.

Silicon Valley didn’t ruin the internet on its own; it just magnified a culture of deregulation and quick profit that has shaped U.S. policy for decades.

It’s worth asking what might have happened if the web had started somewhere else, in a place that treated it as a public utility instead of a private marketplace.

Would we still have ended up with the same mess of ads, data collection, and walled gardens?

Maybe America’s real contribution to the web wasn’t technology at all, but the story that innovation excuses everything.

I recommend reading Mark Carney’s writings before taking Doctorow’s stuff at face value.

Article leans heavily towards American social norms which are so far from global norms because it treats the U.S. model of dating (apps, atomized urban life, and market logic) as universal, ignoring that in much of the world relationships still form through family, community, or social context rather than algorithmic matchmaking. It’s a very “Silicon Valley is the world” kind of framing.

For example a lot of communities in Canada just don’t work like this. Highly incompatible with this kind of social network, mostly due to the pre existing real social fabric.

And: shout out to Max and Chris because they really got it with OKC in the beginning, which this article doesn’t seem to say anything about other than just to name drop.

Between 2006 and 2012 I was in DCs. I didn’t live there but I had to visit at stupid o’clock too often.

It’s not a hospitable place.

I would have loved it if cooling was quieter and less extreme.

The reason interfaces are on the back is that’s the intake side. So, bring a sweater.

Or just go to the other side of the rack to warm your hands back up.

Regulatory status

The use of rBGH is approved in the United States. However, many grocery store chains don’t carry milk from cows treated with rBGH. A United States Department of Agriculture survey conducted in 2014 found that fewer than 1 in 6 cows (15%) were being injected with rBGH.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/reco...

The correct answer is zero. It’s the difference between opt out and opt in. I don’t and can’t shop at your supermarket.

See the top comment on this thread. It’s not nonsensical. It’s refuting the spirit of the conversation so far.

As for pesticides US vs Canada: Chlorpyrifos Neonicotinoids Ractopamine

All being phased out or banned up north. And much more restricted in EU/Internationally. While US use seems to me to be rampant.

Japanese rice costs more _because it is better_. And especially because it’s known by laypersons to be better. If any of the commenters here had any authority because perhaps they could claim they’ve spent a bunch of time in Japan like I have? I’d respect that.

And indeed, we Canadians are subject to politics about our supply management on dairy and poultry. It’s not just there to protect business. It’s there to protect health as far as my contemporaries are concerned.

Oh thank you for showing up. I reckoned you’d probably see a referrer in your logs or something and clue in on this!

Ever have any crazy RF interference stories on your personal gear up there!? I heard from someone that their camera LCD went wild. Tape was fine though.

And, also, those BNC connectors on the combiner… are they spicy?