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- Comment on JS8Mail: Offline-first radio mail over JS8Call 1 week ago:
No idea I haven’t used any of those modes myself. Someday. js8call.com might have info, or look on the ham sites.
- Comment on JS8Mail: Offline-first radio mail over JS8Call 1 week ago:
JS8CALL is great. I can’t believe how much technical brilliance went into FT8 only for it to be deployed in such a stupid mode. JS8CALL actually puts the brilliance to use.
Email over JS8CALL with all the stuff you mention seems a bit heavyweight because of JS8CALL’s slow speed (around 1 character per second). Something very simple would suffice, like SMS, or SMS with an email gateway. Anyway it should be relatively realtime.
I’ll put looking at your github on my infinite todo list but anyway I’m glad JS8CALL is getting attention.
- Comment on Appeals Court Declines to Intervene in California Ballot Lawsuit (Gift Article) 1 week ago:
Save click: this is Trump suing to block counting ballots from about 20,000 people who the admin says may be attempting to vote illegally. The 9th circuit decided 2-1 against issuing the block because the matter hasn’t yet been adjudicated by a lower court. They said try lower court first, then come back if necessary. Nothing to do with whether the suit had any merit, though they signalled skepticism.
- Comment on Mamdani’s Surprisingly Persuasive Solution to a World on Fire 5 weeks ago:
A few days before the leaders of the world streamed into the cavernous, marble-lined General Assembly Hall to deliver their speeches on the grave crises convulsing our combustible world, Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered his own, somewhat surprising solution to the problem of rising authoritarianism: filling potholes.
“If politics cannot deliver on the block where you live, why would you trust it to deliver anywhere?” Mamdani asked a gathering of mayors from big cities across the world, explaining his obsession with potholes, more than 200,000 of which have been filled across the city since he took office. “If you are making a New Yorker’s life a little smoother, so too you are making their journey to believe in government’s ability to deliver for them.”
- Comment on Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. 5 weeks ago:
You won’t believe #4.
- Comment on Connecticut Official Flees to Greece Before Bribery Sentencing, Lawyer Says 1 month ago:
This guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosta_Diamantis
- Comment on Convicted of Theft, an Ex-Prime Minister Is Set to Swap Prison for Mansion 1 month ago:
Malaysia, according to the link url.
- Comment on The 10 P.M. Dinner Is a Spanish Tradition. Are People Giving It Up? 2 months ago:
Not gonna deal with the paywall but I expect 10pm dinner is a consequence of the late afternoon siesta which is necessary because in Spain it’s traditionally (before air conditioning and indoor work) been too hot to work at that time of day. As global heating makes it even hotter maybe even more activity will move to nighttime, and then that will also get too hot.
- Comment on Angry Ohio Voters Could Turn Their State Purple Again (Gift Article) 2 months ago:
Tldr: previous color was red.
- Comment on Iran’s New Leader Is More Open to Pursuing a Nuclear Weapon, U.S. Intelligence Says 3 months ago:
Maybe blowing up the old leader wasn’t such a great idea, do you think?
- Comment on Trump’s Kiss of Death 3 months ago:
NYT link doesn’t work for me but found the article here: dnyuz. com/2026/07/21/trumps-kiss-of-death/
Article kind of misses the point imho.
- Comment on Three World Leaders. Three Incredibly Bad Decisions. 3 months ago:
Friedman. The 3 leaders are Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu, who have “blundered into dead-end wars”.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 3 months ago:
Maybe you should avoid posting in public forums if you don’t like the responses.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 3 months ago:
As is usual in a public discussion, the thread including my post isn’t entirely about you.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 3 months ago:
No they got rid men-only tournaments in the 1980s. Women can enter “men’s” (now called open) tournaments now, just not the other way around. Women’s tournaments exists because open tournaments are still almost entirely male events and male chessplayers are just like any other males. So they want to encourage women to play chess by giving them a way to stay away from us while they play. It’s understandable imho.
US Chess (the US federation) allows trans players in women’s tournaments with the rule that you can only transition once (details: new.uschess.org/…/us-chess-transgender-policy.pdf ). I think that FIDE (the international federation) that doesn’t allow MTF in women’s events. The biggest chess country is still Russia and so Russia has a big influence on FIDE policy and the FIDE president (Arkady Dvorkovich) is from there. So you can’t really blame this one on Trump if you have a problem with it. Maybe talk to Putin.
- Comment on Five Words That Changed America 4 months ago:
Yeah it goes into that.
- Comment on Five Words That Changed America 4 months ago:
Spoiler: “All men are created equal”, from the US declaration of independence.
- Comment on Texas Politician Said He Sabotaged Release of US hostages to defeat Carter’s Re-election 5 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Ben_Barnes_(Texas_politician)#…
NYT article is from March 13 so not news.
- Comment on ICE Agents Barred From Wearing Masks in New York Under State Budget Deal 5 months ago:
Sounds like they took that into account. They don’t stop the feds from wearing masks, but they withhold local agency cooperation from those who do.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 7 months ago:
I thought part of the legend was that his parents were killed but they had arranged for him to be cared for and educated, probably at a level that the average orphan can’t get anywhere near. Plus there’s all that physical training that he has to do all the time. Like in this story he (at one point) beats the crap out of Harry Potter even though Potter is an Auror with tons of magical combat tricks. I’m unfamiliar with Rorschach so can’t compare.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 7 months ago:
Batman has to be free from the need for a real job, plus be able to run the Batcave research infrastructure that developed the Batmobile and all that. Plus keep Alfred on staff and in on the secret, plus stay with his backstory of Thomas and Martha Wayne being murdered.
Spider-man isn’t rich. If you want a non-rich superhero, you might check him him out.
Or heck, I’m old enough to remember Reid Fleming, the World’s Toughest Milkman.
- Comment on Is 71° F (21° C) the ideal weather to wear shorts? 7 months ago:
It depends on you, of course. You won’t freeze though, especially if you are walking around.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 7 months ago:
I’ve seen a few of them, don’t know what the last one was. The studios will keep milking the character as long as there’s money in it, so it doesn’t matter what we think. It can play out in any number of ways–use your own imagination. But there could be clones or reincarnations of Bond, or maybe some period pieces like Bond in WW2 (he was in the Navy before he was in the Secret Service), or whatever.
I read most of the Fleming novels and of the movies I saw, I liked the ones that stayed reasonably close to the books, plus the wacky 1967 Casino Royale with Peter Sellers. But I’m not a movie buff and haven’t seen the more recent ones.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 7 months ago:
It’s close to certain. We actually did a calculation in HS physics class, “how many atoms of Cleopatra are in each of us?”. This is similar but multiply by many thousands.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 7 months ago:
Not giving Trump any benefit it’s about someone (even a bad person) using the options they have available. People here love saying gotcha but in this instance it’s illogical.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 7 months ago:
Shrug, I’m not a fan of Trump but I still don’t see the issue there. If he got mail-in voting banned and then skirted around the ban himself somehow, that would be scammy. If he wants it banned for everyone including him, but as long as it’s available to everyone he’s gonna use it, then whatever. The thing about postmark not being good enough to authenticate voting date is just crazy though. Postmarks are used for all kinds of legal authentication and voting isn’t special that way.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 7 months ago:
I don’t think anyone is seriously opposed to absentee voting when the person doesn’t have a practical way to vote at the polls, due to being away from their district on election day, being medically unable to leave their home, or that sort of thing. They just want to curtail it to such necessary cases. Trump presumably voted from Washington DC for Florida election and that would qualify.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 7 months ago:
In my day the food was never good but it was usually reasonably edible and that’s all anyone expected from it. It’s probably worse now.
I still remember “Turkey 2-Hydroxy Tetrazzini”.
- Comment on Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots 7 months ago:
A ruling by the court’s conservative majority could invalidate state laws that allow ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive later. President Trump has called for restrictions on mail-in voting.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 7 months ago:
Hmm ok, maybe you could write up a quick summary. Yes it’s possible that I mis-read it. I thought that LP had rejected the PR. Thanks.