Cadende [they/them] @ Cadende @hexbear.net Posts 2Comments 41Joined 3 yr. ago
hey this was posted in the middle of the night my time so didn't see it but sending supportive vibes
If it makes you feel any better the US was like that about even gay people let alone trans as little as like 20 something years ago, and as bad as things are rn its still generally, socially, a lot better than that. It can improve in your lifetime, and it can improve by finding a different social circle, even if it may be very difficult to safely do so :/
yeah, I'm not buying the whole nuclear bullshit story,. Getting USD into the economy is probably useful for them on a wide enough level though, for getting around sanctions or whatever. If anything the guy at my work is probably doing the same "scam" (not really a scam just circumventing immigration and labor law a little to make a US salary while being from elsewhere...) just from a different country of origin, not DPRK. Of course if a good opportunity arises I suppose having ins in US companies computer systems provides some espionage opportunities but for the most part it'd be pointless.
Its just a high tech version of workers from mexico coming to the US to work and sending money home tbh.
Posting Mao and Reagan back to back
https://xcancel.com/SpoxCHN_MaoNing/status/1910211617201213447#m
I was going to say it's pretty ironic that a privacy focused provider would be based in the UK what with their laws lately, but apparently email providers are exempted from the bill I was thinking of (no general carveout though, they name emails, SMS and MMS specifically. If you want to create a new protocol that does the same thing as email, or as SMS, its regulated as social media for some reason...)
Either way self hosting takes care of that problem. Neat!
show some pretty serious crimes (hit and run, assault...)
both misdemeanors, not necessarily as bad as they sound. someone (perhaps an angry neighbor who doesn't like that you're parked on their street living in your car) reporting that you hit them on their bike would cover both of those charges for example. But agreed that its very doxxy.
well the screenshots show some other charges, and I don't think sleeping in your car on its own is explicitly illegal in portland. But really none of that changes the bail equation :( fucking pigs haul people in and throw away the key for the absolute worst reasons all the time, usually no good reason at all like drug paraphernalia or resisting their harassment in any way.
I hope someone can get her out soon. At least they don't have bail bondsmen there. Some random scumbag deciding whether people get out of jail or not just by evaluating the cut of your jib for the person doing the bailing out is the dumbest of all possible systems.
My work has received a lot of job applications and emails that feel like they're sent by AI in the past year or two, who then frequently cancel at the last minute or even after the interview should have started, claiming either an unavoidable conflict or technical difficulties with joining the call. And one guy we hired... Nowadays I'm not so sure but originally I thought he was at least overseas if not part of an outright scheme like this, he had a very bad internet connection that couldn't hardly handle video and terrible audio on top of it, despite supposedly being in socal.
I didn't say shit because I'm not a narc but if I am working with a team of north korean agents just using this guy as a front... I just hope I get to meet them some day
Bit of trivia but I think I know why the 4 digit pin thing existed! It's an out-of-the-box feature on freeRADIUS, I ran across it in a pfsense environment in the past. I thought it was neat (esp. in the absence of passwords, this was primary auth with public keys and then 2fa on top) but ultimately too convoluted for most users
Well China does hold a lot of treasuries. There's speculation (though nothing substantive so probably just cope?) that they are selling them off
TONY STARK JOHN CARMACK was able to build this IN A CAVE ON A 386, with SCRAPS 4MB of RAM!!
Alternate version:
TONY STARK TARN ADAMS was able to build this IN A CAVE on a PENTIUM with SCRAPS Windows 98!!!
I wish these people were serious. Like, not giving up at the first sign of police repression type of serious. Because goofy or not, we do need a militant response to fascism and that requires bodies.
They aren't serious, at least not the vast vast majority, but I do think its worth doing education/recruitment over pointing and laughing, because they're sorta on the right track they just have no concept of how fucked things already were, how they're likely to get much worse, and that their beloved liberal institutions won't save them. If I knew these people I'd probably be trying to get them to read about past liberation struggles (genuine ones not privileged cosplayers) to get an idea of how the state responds to this stuff and what practical, concrete resistance can look like.
edit to add: being cringe is better than doing nothing. At least she's talking to like minded people and making connections.
I literally clicked and went "oh it's this guy?? god damn it" he's a notorious shithead
ad blockers, people, I'm begging you
on the mobile app? I don't have that
idk what you're using for last week view but it seems to be around 20% for big router nodes in the heart of the city here atm
so that's 3/4 that you're saying to avoid because you personally have deemed their moderation policies objectively inferior (and judging by 1 and 2 you probably think the same about hexbear?)
sounds like they're just instances you politically disagree with, one of which does happen to also be massive. I'm not saying redditors should come to those 4 instances, they mostly shouldn't (grad and hexbear don't want most of them, .ml has been trying to not be "the default instance" since forever, and world is a shithole and already massive/centralizing), but your choice of list was transparently more political than it was about centralization, why not just be honest about that?
Or are you going to pull the "moderation policies are (or should be) objective and apolitical" canard?
maybe, in the future, if meshtastic takes off/just doesn't die out. But if you're complaining about the community being too small then clearly your area isn't at that point yet, right?
My city is still not maxing out LongFast even with the very robust local infrastructure
wait so you switched off of LongFast, the channel where all the organic community is because it's the default and has enough range to tackle decent distances, and are now posting about how empty it is as if MediumSlow is representative of meshtastic as a whole?
I can get hundreds of nodes in my city on LongFast, there's a robust community mesh, but if I switched to MediumSlow I'd also get zero peers, because nobody uses it rn. Non-standard channels are only useful if you get organized (my local mesh has talked about switching over to a different channel as a group), or are using it for personal use with your immediate crew and have your own router nodes if necessary
Do people use this for any real application?
as far as I can tell in the hobbyist circles near me, no or rarely (things like communicating while hiking or camping are discussed but mostly in the hypothetical it seeeeems like). It's treated like ham radio where I'm at, where it could theoretically be useful in an emergency but until there's a major disaster to test it it's just nerds pinging eachother just to see what they can do. amateur radio is actually useful though, not sure how meshtastic will fare.
It seems like there are more practical uses for people in certain circumstances outside of the city though. I've seen homesteads and farms pop up as little remote clusters on some of the online maps, and people talk about having a home base station on a tower or the roof and then they can communicate with eachother from out in the fields (tends to be pretty flat so the range is better). Still hard to know how well used it is in those scenarios
Personally I like the idea and would actually use it for local chit-chat with friends family and fellow nerds, but the reliability of message delivery even when you're both connected to the mesh pretty well, seemed poor. I heard the newest firmware releases were supposed to improve message routing (not just using flood routing for all messages all the time) but I haven't tried them yet. Even with how big the mesh near me is, all the meta chat seems to be happening on discord not on the mesh itself