AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org
Toughbook fan, Mathematician and Locksmith with limited success in other areas.
Political stance is far right and far left. Proponent of First Aid Kits and PPE. Easily disheartened by big tech. Partially hinged personality and stubborn enough to not write this in the First Person.
Distrust of Psychology and a fan of satire. I love a good joke and contradict myself. Somewhat serious but easily distracted.
Joined Jan 2020
@freemo @TruthSandwich Oh you vote Libertarian too? That's all I've voted for except in local elections.
In the land of the Free we have the freedom from choice. Looking at it another way, we have quite a bit in common with The CCP. The Federalist Papers likely inspired Communism.
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Obviously I dont buy the two party nonsense... but even if i assumed it were true for a second...
If my choices are:
1) Vote Biden - Help Biden a lot, hurt Trump a lot
2) Vote Trump - Hurt Biden a lot, Help Trump a lot
3) Vote Third party - Hurt Biden a little, Help Trump a little, Help third parties show better numbers and support for future elections.
I will go with 3 every single time... It reduces how much I help either candidate (more so than a direct vote for Trump as I'm sure you will agree)... and has some positive effect on the adoption of third parties by people int he future....
#3 is the clear win for me, even in a two party system.
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Can anyone suggest a candidate other than Biden or Trump that look fairly moderate and a good choice? I have ruled out all third-party, all alternative democrats, and of course Trump... This leaves me thinking maybe one of the republican candidates are worth voting for but so far every one of those I checked out are pretty horrific too...
Is there even one candidate that is remotely a reasonable and moderate choice?
@freemo Florida Man DeSantis seems to be a stronger candidate for Red gang. He opposed the thing that failed to stop the other thing that was going around.
Essentially anyone who hated the actions taken would be highly tempted to vote for Florida Man. Unlike the Dolphins, he could be going places. There's also concealed carry without a permit in Florida now. There's medical weed too.
He seems to be pragmatic and that's what the US needs.
@thendrix It is a shame.
@thendrix There seems to be a history of shady operations. Civil Rights leaders don't just blackmail themselves, usually.
@thendrix Orders are orders and they come from up the chain. From what I've heard they just keep their heads down and try to retire.
@freemo @admin They conveniently give detailed information on modems and,I think, links to the firmware.
There's a lot that could be done. It would be lovely to have access to a laboratory to properly test and modify hardware or firmware.
Now I just enjoy FPGAs and hardware Killswitches. At least I'm safe inside my Velostat padded cell.
@freemo @admin When someone without a license transmits a frequency, that's a big deal.
When corporations use technology that interferes with an altimeter in an aircraft, that's just progress.
The FCC is a problem and part of the reason why I prefer to use physical connections for everything possible.
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> When I've landed employment, I will know how much time I'd be able to devote to such a thing.
Since this is open source if its something you want to be a part of you have no obligations. Put the time in you want, and feel free to pull back or lean into it as you feel you wish to.
> A one-stop shop for amateur radio FOSS would be great. ARFOSS? HAMFOSS?
Still brainstorming the name... My thinking is open-source in ham is really lacking, so i want to encourage that. But also the state of software is very archaic with some huge issues that are very dangerous... I dont want to point them out in public as someone might exploit it, but one software related gap I could easily exploit to take down a amateur radio service across the **entire globe** and there would be no way to stop me even if i said what the exploit was... Its stuff like this that tells me there is a huge need for FOSS communities and incubators in HAM to push people to more open standards.
> Are you thinking a separate, but public, github/svn style thing, web driven, or something else?
QOTO itself is a service basically for open-source STEM. So we provide a bunch of free stuff to help faciliatate that... It includes a GitLab instance with full Ultimate licenses for every user. I was going to use QOTO resources to host the software itself, and make this a group on that gitlab server.
That said I wouldnt be opposed to hosting our own dedicated Gitlab server... but that would cost more as it is a hefty service.
> I'm not saying no.. I'm saying yes, but it'd have to be a side-gig that I can work on after normal work hours.
This is open source, thats how it works, you commit whatever time you want day to day, no obligations other than to let the community know your availability at any time when possible if we rely on you for a deliverable thats all.
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OpenCore Legacy Patcher: "breathe new life into Macs no longer supported by Apple, allowing for the installation and usage of #macOS Big Sur and newer on machines as old as 2007"
@thor I believe she also died from not using drugs or alcohol.
@thendrix It's not a good look but it's still better than the DEA and ATF. Legality just seems to be on their side.
@freemo Perhaps we have strayed from The Prime Directive.
@freemo @garyackerman If you look under the hood of your vehicle there are likely resonance chambers in the air intake system. While the resonance chamber serves somewhat of a different purpose, they are echo chambers for certain wavelengths. The exhaust system on a vehicle also has resonance chambers.
Echo chambers aren't just extant but often modeled to target the wavelengths of sound that reaches the ears. Echo chambers are very real and many of us have likely been indoctrinated in special echo chambers so that we can do the same.
It's preposterous to deny the existence of echo chambers and furthermore I probably missed the point of the statement.
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Echo chambers are real.
@thendrix We can solve this with 3D printing and AI.
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So i spent a few hours guaranteeing 20 instances, and adding about 25 or 30 endorsements/censors/hesitations.
I love the idea and I think it has a LOT of potential.
Regardless I want to list it all here so the effected instances can be aware and if they wish respond/react. You can read my reason for endorsement of any of the below servers in the links provided.
I suppose this can also double as my #FollowFriday #FF !
Also please consider if you are an admin signing up and endorsing these and other instances as well.
**Endorsed / Garunteed**
@mdbraber - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/mastodon.nl
@louis@emacs.ch - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/emacs.ch
@fosstodon - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/fosstodon.org
@adamdavidson , @tprice504 , @e_urq , @siw - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/journa.host
@admin - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/mastodon-belgium.be
@trumpet - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/mastodon.scot
@koyu - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/kopimi.space
@FrankSonntag - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/fediscience.org
@smitty - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/mastodon.hams.social
@dansup@pixelfed.social , @dansup@mastodon.social - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/pixelfed.social
@omnipotens - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/linuxrocks.online
@nicdex - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/techhub.social
@M0YNG - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/mastodon.radio
@cgseife - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/sciencemastodon.com
@quokka - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/scicomm.xyz
@trinsec - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/trinsec.org
@noelle - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/chat.noelle.codes
@jerry - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/infosec.exchange
@thor - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/berserker.town
@aras - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/mastodon.gamedev.place
@SolSoCoG - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/ieji.de
@Vivaldi - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/social.vivaldi.net
@stux@masto.ai - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/masto.ai
@wild1145 - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/universeodon.com
@stux@mstdn.social - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/mstdn.social
@mwadmin - https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/mastodon.world
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So I found this cool new tool that looks like a very new take on the idea of a blocklist, not really sure I can even call it a block list. https://...
@thor I just know that some of the smells are amines and it's good for my brain.
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@AmpBenzScientist yea, though that is pretty common stuff for this server.. pretty sure almost everyone has good math and tech skills :)
But yea i figured in non-political stuff we would be more similar
Toughbook fan, Mathematician and Locksmith with limited success in other areas.
Political stance is far right and far left. Proponent of First Aid Kits and PPE. Easily disheartened by big tech. Partially hinged personality and stubborn enough to not write this in the First Person.
Distrust of Psychology and a fan of satire. I love a good joke and contradict myself. Somewhat serious but easily distracted.
Joined Jan 2020
