Buelldozer
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- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 1 week ago:
You do still have to pass the General Exam but on his personal page he said that he did both the General and Amateur Extra at the same testing session so I counted them as one…but he did in fact have to pass two.
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 1 week ago:
Everyone in the Amateur Radio community knows that the FCC is fed up with people using frequencies that they don’t have legal access to and as a result they’ve been issuing increasingly harsh penalties over the past few years.
As for whether he was “doing it in good faith”, well, I question that. The guy was trying to get firefighters to protect his radio repeater site and one of the repeaters located there was for his own business. He had a personal financial interest in getting a fire team over there.
I’m an Amateur Radio operator myself and I have limited sympathy for the situation this guy put himself in. The proper course of action was to leave the wildfire area and come back when it was over, not keep making illegal radio transmissions trying to get firefighters to come over and save his property.
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 1 week ago:
He wasn’t told not to, either!
First and most importantly Mr Frawley holds an “Amateur Extra” license from the FCC. That license class VERY CLEARLY doesn’t allow the license holder to transmit on 151.145 MHz. A person literally has to pass a proctored exam proving that they know this and on that part of the exam there are no trick questions.
Second and equally critical to your comment the fire operations section chief left the scene of the fire, drove to the airstrip and told Frawley to cease operations on the frequency. He got personally and directly told to STFU and obey the law, taking a section chief away from an active firezone.
The guy isn’t some n00b; he’s been licensed for a long time and well knew that what he was doing wasn’t allowed.
Looking at the guys profile page and the article it seems clear that he did this because there were two radio repeaters under threat from the fire, one Amateur VHF and the other his own business band repeater. He had a personal financial interest in trying to get firefighting efforts redirected to protect his property.
Everyone in the Amateur community knows that the FCC will rain breaks on you for doing stuff like this so as an Amateur myself I have very limited sympathy for the predicament that this idiot put himself in.
- Comment on Hacking Rooftop Solar Is a Way to Break Europe’s Power Grid 5 weeks ago:
How do you have a SmartGrid if the nodes aren’t able to communicate with each other or log data?
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 5 weeks ago:
YouTube…that reminds of a conversation I had here on Lemmy a few months. The subject of right wing political content on YouTube came up and I had the same “I don’t encounter that” comment that I just made in regards to Mastadon.
After a bit of back and forth I realized that I don’t engage with political content of any type on YT so the algorithm doesn’t push it at me. It seems that YT, and probably other Social Media algorithms, don’t do a good job of classifying political content as to its lean. So once you start engaging with political content of any kind the algorithm starts suggesting all kinds of it.
I don’t know if that explains it completely but there has to be some reason(s) why some of us don’t see this stuff while other people see it all the time and that’s the best idea I’ve come up with.
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 5 weeks ago:
I apologize for misreading your post.
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 5 weeks ago:
Like you I’m confused at the continual cries of racism on Mastadon. I’ve been on there for months and never seen it. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist but I’m confused as to how it is “full of racists/white supremacists” but I never bump into them or see it.
I don’t want to doubt anyone’s experience but I’m at a loss to explain why my experience is so different from other peoples.
- Comment on How Chinese insiders exploit the country's national surveillance state for their own benefit 1 month ago:
This is one reason Western nations ripped out Chinese 5G network appliances a couple years ago.
They were supposed to but as of mid-2024 some 40% of them hadn’t yet done so.
I haven’t seen it discussed but I do wonder if this is at the root of the Telco hack the US experienced / is still experiencing.
- Comment on Drift!! 1 month ago:
That’s simple enough, create a process where CO2 is removed from the air and turned into oil. The chemistry of the individual steps is already known and achievable, the hard part is the energy input required to make it work.
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 1 month ago:
Two days ago BlueSky was adding more users in an hour than Mastodon was per week.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
God created us to be clever, surely that includes using logic and science to learn about the world.
The argument can be made that since God created humanity in their image that we’re all just fledgling gods with the big difference being our lack of immortality. We’re just not long lived enough as individuals to reach God’s level of power and insight. We are who God created us to be, logic and science included so If we don’t kill ourselves off we may eventually reach a collective godhood, or something akin to it, as a species.
I’m not saying I believe that argument, I’m just pointing out that it’s there because it supports your point.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
You have to be extremely willfully ignorant to think the earth is only 4,000 years old.
The Bible itself makes it obvious that the 4,000 year old thing is a lie.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
So even if you’re working strictly from the bible, how the hell do you get 4000 years?
You can’t. The “Young Earth” people are morons.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
Even the original wording could be read as eon instead of day.
Most people don’t know that the Hebrew word “yom” (day) can be and is used to denote wildly different lengths of time.
If anyone is interested you can read a fine destruction of the stupid “Young Earth” argument at the link I provided.
The “Young Earth” people, both Christian and Jew, are trying to shoe horn something into the Bible that doesn’t fit and doesn’t need to exist. It’s nothing more than a desperate attempt to hold onto an old, wrong headed, and man-made theory.
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 3 months ago:
I didn’t know about Canada and after thinking about it for a minute the United States does something similar for the States with .gov. Many, if not all, States have their own subdomain such as wyo.gov, montana.gov, and nebraska.gov.
Honestly it’s always seemed wrong and somewhat confusing that non-country specific TLDs, such as .gov, are dedicated to the United States.
- Comment on Life saving hurricane info locked behind a paywall 3 months ago:
What data does this app have that isn’t freely available somewhere else?
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 3 months ago:
I’m assuming .io just stands for Indian Ocean in this case
British Indian Ocean Territory, it was just shortened to .io so it would fit into the naming scheme.
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 3 months ago:
That’s a great question and the answer can be found in the wikipedia entry for the .uk domain.
In a nutshell the volunteer “Naming Committee” setup back in 1985 established a rule that that entities needed to register into specific subdomains based on entity type such as .co, where the .co part stood for “Company”. They did this to make managing registrations easier and to provide an “at a glance” way to see what kind of website you were visiting (commercial, government, charity, etc). The “Naming Committee” was extremely strict about ensuring that domains were registered to a specific entity and in the correct subdomain.
By the mid-90s the volunteer “Naming Committee” was entirely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of domains being registered so that volunteer group was replaced by Nominet UK. Nominet didn’t open the .uk TLD to registration until 2014 and by then the subdomain thing (.co.uk) was so embedded into the United Kingdom’s internet structure that it had become tradition and NOT using was confusing to many people.
You can find a list of the subdomains managed by Nominet here.
tl;dr .uk absolutely exists in the UK, it’s just used differently than almost anywhere else in the world.
- Comment on The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer] 3 months ago:
<facepalm>
Dammit! Why did I mistype that?
Obviously it should be RHPS. Sigh.
- Comment on The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer] 3 months ago:
If you ever decide you want to see it please for the love of Tim Curry don’t watch it on TV.
The only way to experience RHCP is at a theater, movie or stage, with a floor show. Without the floor show you will not get what makes RHCP an adored Cult Classic. Seriously, the floor show is what makes (or breaks) the RHCP experience.
If you walk into the show and you’re not surrounded by people in costumes spouting weird lines, or if you don’t see them in the aisles within the first 90 seconds of the show starting then you may as well get up and leave.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 4 months ago:
We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.
The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why the Democrats never talk about it?
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 4 months ago:
It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement,
One of the few things that both Democrats and Republicans work together on is making sure that there are no viable third parties.
- Comment on So sick! 4 months ago:
My opinion on this is that they’re already getting money from ads
Are they? With so many people, especially here on Lemmy, willing to go hard to adblock plus a steadfast refusal to pay for YT Premium I’d guess that most smaller YT Content Creators are getting very little ad revenue. Without Merch sales and Patreon how are they supposed to get any money to support themselves?
I understand your point about being a walking billboard and I feel the same way but these days it just feels like no one wants to contribute in any way to help support small time creators.
- Comment on is it possible to be married and still feel lonely? 5 months ago:
What are some of these connections men need out of a marriage?
Basically the same things that women need out of a marriage. A peer group, a purpose, and friend groups to share interests with.
Unfortunately many, if not most, people simply don’t know how to go about it. They throw themselves into their work and whatever of their time is leftover gets dedicated to family. The interests and friends that they had prior to marriage and kids are left behind and those sacrifices leave them feeling alone and unfulfilled. They also don’t understand WHY they feel that way when to the best of their understanding they’re doing everything right!
Marriage isn’t, except in exceedingly rare instances, a “one stop shop” where your partner somehow magically fulfills your every need. That’s straight up Disney Movie bullshit.
People, regardless of gender identity, absolutely REQUIRE relationships outside of their marriage.
- Comment on Vince Vaughn on Why His R-Rated Comedies Aren’t Made Anymore: “People in Charge Don’t Want to Get Fired” 5 months ago:
I think you are taking my comment as combative when it isn’t. I personally enjoyed those movies! There’s little debate though that they are generally crass…I mean c’mon…Leslie Nelson driving on the highway in front of the two nuclear reactors that are sticking up and looking like boobs… (as a singular example).
You don’t want to offend anyone…
You…don’t know me…like at all.
- Comment on Vince Vaughn on Why His R-Rated Comedies Aren’t Made Anymore: “People in Charge Don’t Want to Get Fired” 5 months ago:
Older comedies are often a bit dated, but were good back then, even without belittling. Look at Old School, Anchorman, Stranger than Fiction, everything Leslie Nielsen did, Big Lebowski.
You my friend have an obvious taste for comedies that fall into the definition of “crass”. You listed some GREAT comedies but they are chock-a-block with humor that is juvenile, sexist, lean into gender / racial stereotypes and are generally considered “problematic” today. The last of these I can think of is “Tropic Thunder”.
This is what Vince is talking about; our culture has changed and Hollywood no longer wants to invest in Crass Comedies. Mostly because they don’t do well at the Box Office anymore and they can bring a LOT of negative attention.
- Comment on How do sport shooter bring their gear to international events ? 5 months ago:
When I protested and gave them the handout of their own procedures, the guy said “you can give me the key, or you don’t get on your flight.”
They did that to me once, I told the Agent that I was happy to tag along back to the case and open it for them. The Agent took me the back way through the service halls to their area where I opened my case and they did their inspection, then they brought me back to the gate through the service halls.
The agent wasn’t happy about it but I stayed cool with 'em and they made it work.
- Comment on moshing kitties 5 months ago:
This is from the old Mosh Girl meme.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 6 months ago:
I was watching this earlier and got about halfway through before the power went out. I spent the next 90 minutes before it came back on trying to imagine a style of these that would look good on the south side of my house.
I didn’t come up with anything that my wife would let me install so I guess I’m going to stick with my plan of automated shades or drapes.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 6 months ago:
All 3 dish washer videos.