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
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@thor I cant speak to your language. But as someone who is particularly aweful at learning new languages I can say of all the languages I ever attempted the non-dead language I found the easiest would be German.
That said of all languages I am best at latin, and even that not anywhere near great... I think it being a deadlanguage no one is alive to correct my bad pronunciation either :)
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Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade
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Unique challenge of Geocoding in India
https://thebangaloreguy.com/problem-of-geocoding-non-standardised-addresses-in-india-an-nlp-problem/
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@freemo I'm French and live in the US. I've been sticking to SI units for almost the 20 years that I've been here. I know what's good and won't let it go.
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Sci Mastodon: I have positions open for Postdoctoral Research Associates. Training and research is available in structural mass spectrometry of both proteins and carbohydrates. Experience in MS and/or biochemistry useful. More information and apply at: https://careers.olemiss.edu/job/University-Postdoctoral-Research-Associate-MS-38677/1081191700/
@freemo @LouisIngenthron @admitsWrongIfProven A fully legalized drug trade would generate wealth and improve the standard of living, even for those with problems.
When compared to Smart Device manufacturers and their corruption of government. A legal drug trade is morally superior.
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Cheese burgers and houses **are** wealth... Based on your wording you are confusing "wealth" (things that have utility and value) and money..
If you have profit alone, then you just are moving money around.. you arent generating wealth (or money)... in order to generate wealth you must increase the overall number of things in society with utility... So yes what i said already was in line with what your saying, you just are using wealth in the way of "collecting wealth" which is not the same as "generating wealth".
> The people who actually create those things should be the wealthy in a just society, not the people who were born to it.
Agreed, like the people who sacraficed decades to create the idea, get funding, investing in the building, getting the money to pay people to do the labour, etc... yes the owners who risk everything and actually create the wealth are the people who should be wealthy.
@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"
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
