@boscoandpeck @tek

I might be mistaken, but ham and meshtastic doesn't seem to be either/or. The venn diagram of ham radio operators and meshtastic operators has a huge intersection. The good news is that it's a very cheap system to experiment with. Rokland sells complete radios and radio kits for pretty cheap. So don't let my challenges dissuade you.

@infopowerbroker

Thanks! I'll give that a shot!

@tek

I want to like #meshtastic but it has proven extremely ineffective in Alexandria VA. I have to walk a half-mile from my home and up a bridge to have any chance of being heard and relayed by anything, even when I use an aftermarket antenna. I hope it would work a little bit better in a regional comms/power outage because more people would probably be firing up their devices and joining the local mesh.

Also, I have to force-stop and restart the Android app most of the time whenever I lose and want to reestablish bluetooth connectivity with my T-Echo radio, and the radio itself seems to unpredictably hang and require a manual reboot every few days.

It'll probably just live in a drawer until/unless there's some sort of outage.

@phooky @futurebird @zkamvar

I believe you mean:

sudo ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_GIVE_ME_ALL_YOUR_CANDY

Via https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/

@dangoodin

My impression is that Discord is more replaceable than Twitter because you really only have to move one relatively self-contained community at a time rather than the whole freakin' world, and it is a lot easier for each community's leader to say "meet me at [Zulip|Discourse|DeltaChat|Slack|etc.]" than it is to get every noteworthy Twitter account to migrate.

@briankrebs

Unfortunately, my impression is that previous restrictions on searches of reporters was based more on norms and mutable internal DOJ policies than anything based in law. There are no shield laws at the federal level. Grand juries presented with requests from federal prosecutors for warrants to search reporters supported by probable cause might be hard-pressed to deny them.

Given the current threat model, reporters are going to have to up their game when it comes to protecting their sources, and consider very carefully how far they're willing to go to protect those sources if served with court orders. Because unfortunately no one is coming to protect them.

@alexwild

Victim-blaming also sucks given that a hell of a lot of us are already putting in the work. It might not make global news, but we're participating in historically large protests across the country and resisting anti-immigrant pogroms with every legal tool at our disposal.

Unfortunately, structural defects in our democracy (i.e., disenfranchisement of US citizens in DC and Puerto Rico, voter suppression, gerrymandering, the electoral college, and the structure and makeup of the senate), the Republican capture of all three branches of the federal government, and decades of power transfer to a strong executive have left us with few options until the next elections.

@overholt

I'm a young-ish Gen-Xer and found the same last year when I asked my doc for titer tests on a hunch. I wanted to make sure I could get fully vaccinated before RFK Jr. screwed things up too much.

The reason this is an issue is that up until roughly the 1990s, the childhood MMR vaccine in the US was a single dose. That seemed to be fine, but an outbreak in 1989 revealed that the single dose was inadequate. They subsequently changed the protocol to two doses for children, but never urged older generations to go back for a booster. This hadn't been a serious issue until recently, when coddling of anti-vaxxers destroyed herd immunity and created the conditions for the regional outbreaks we're dealing with now.

@vkc

I'm old enough to remember this behavior dating back to at least CDE on traditional Unix systems like Solaris in the mid-90s, if not earlier. It was a great feature then.

BUT...

That was back when mice looked like this! They had a literal middle mouse button. This design predated the scroll wheel, which was added much later, and merged in as an extremely awkward and unreliable middle mouse button in some cases. The old behaviors make no sense anymore, at least not as default behaviors for most users with modern mice.