Engineer equivalent of a Rōnin. I am no longer bound to any one master and free to use my skills to help the poor and slay the rich.
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Last Notes npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I did get tired of Ubuntu telling me they has super important security updates but they weren't going to share them with me unless I signed up for paid support. Going to Debian fixed that problem for me. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Pro tip: If you have "run out of words" take a nap, they'll come back. Sheesh. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…7jv6 PDF is evil in a number of ways. I neuter files that 'phone home' to tell the originator I have opened them. Datasheets do this more and more these days. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck So my wife uncovered, and used, a Zip drive to copy her Zip disk backups to something a bit more modern. The drive is now surplus. Does anyone want it or should we just toss it? #classiccomputers npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh "In our testing our AI broke containment and vaporized Mark Zuckerberg, we believe we have improved the guard rails significantly ..." npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh Time to start Reddit posting that billionaires are dog shit I guess. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…qrdz "I hereby call to order this meeting of the Bovine Front Of Montana, c'mon people pay attention!" npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…ggcd I don't suppose when you were here you ever went by The Starving Musician store? They had a sign that said "Play the Accordian, Go to prison, that's the law." 😃 A friend who would play accordion (badly) at our Church camp talent show had a t-shirt with that (also from Starving Musician as I recall). It is a complex instrument to master. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck It is always bittersweet when doing the process of disposing of the assets of someone who has departed. Each thing has a story, sometimes lost, of why it was acquired, what it meant, and how it enriched the person's life. Today I'm honoring someone who was a tinker and a hacker by moving their stash of 'parts' into a program to inspire high school kids to explore tech. 🕊️ npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Always a bit sad when a "programmer" is amazed at what I can find out about a misbehaving program by running it under gdb on terminal window. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…ggcd it is an ESP32-S3 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck With more interesting data npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Bwahaha. The franken computer lives on. So by scavenging around I've scraped up 64GB of DDR4 memory for my Dad's old Dell XPS 8930 which came with 8GB total. So now I've replaced the GPU with an Nvidia 1080 ti (most GPU this thing can handle) and 64GB of ram (most RAM this thing can handle) running FreeBSD 15.1 / Xfce and it's pretty snappy 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…tqrx not gonna disagree on most of this but this bullet? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh Yikes! When living in Vegas in the 70's even the toddlers knew to be careful about lifting rocks and packages because of snakes and scorpions hanging out in the shade. My parents had a metal table with an open top, kind of like the picture, which packages sat on and snakes, lizards, and scorpions did not. 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vf35 This can be a common problem. I'm not sure of the origin yet. I cheated by setting up a mesh core router that I could talk to and the router could forward things. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…3qfc I watched S1:E1 and all I gotta say is, "Wow, those are some lame effects :-)" I know I'm spoiled and I suspect a very limited budget. Seeing all the 70's assumptions about technology carrying on into the future is always wild, CRTs, tape drives, walls of switches, buttons, and lights. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…42d4 Yup. Presumably he admires people who decorate like this or something. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…42d4 Yeah. One of the English commentators said, "I've seen bordellos more tastefully decorated than that." and I could not disagree at all with that assessment. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…5fgv One can hope. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…j95m ouch npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…7sa3 Tagging @nprofile…aw2f who gave a talk on a connector/cable company that does exactly this. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck If I ever decide to start a business its gonna sell NEMA cords in different colors. (other than black or white) npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Anyone know what the copyright status on that Softbank slide deck is? I mean if you were organizing a bunch of tech workers to start a union it would be a good start, right? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Sigh, one of my few remaining Linux servers running Ubuntu 24.04LTS did some sort of live kernel update and now boots to a black screen and nothing running. (can't ssh into it, doesn't display anything once the screen goes black where it would normally have the sddm login screen) ctrl-alt-fx don't work. Its dead. So I didn't realize I was installing Debian on this machine until tonight when it forced me too. #FuckSystemD npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vgn8 @nprofile…j95m npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…j95m Ah okay. I had made linear actuators by brazing a 10-32 nut into some brass tubing, sliding that into another piece of tubing and using a threaded rod that was attached to a motor. So some what similar in concept. The threaded rod needs to be greased periodically which is annoying. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…j95m That's pretty cool, what do you use to drive the motion? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…j95m Depending on your aesthetic, I've found that printing picture frame *corners* works well. The corners take aluminum extrusion which lets me cut the extrusion to size for various types of pictures. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck An #electronics question, do you put your low pass filter into the inverted feedback path of your opamp circuits? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vgn8 Yes and no right? I get that social media and nuanced language aren't really compatible, and I agree with his sentiment that noting the world would be a better place without <person> making the world horrible. Is not the _writer_ saying the person should be killed, it's how the _reader_ heard it. For me its like "Black Lives Matter" when a listener hears "Black lives are more important than other lives, like yours." Not what I said, but it is what they heard. Does that make sense? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…y4e4 I for one would NOT want to live in a building with an ADS on the roof. Mostly because that would make it a legit target for a SEAD mission. Yikes! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…duc4 "... unlike the selfless doctrine of capitalism." uhhh, yeah no. That someone wrote that sentence and thought, "yeah, people like Bezos, Trump, and Musk are selfless right?" should not be allowed near a writing device. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…8pur It is wrong, but forcing AI bros to build solar power + battery fields to power their data centers means that when the bubble bursts and they go poof, we still have awesome green energy. Unlike the dot com boom when all we had was thousands of miles of useless dark fiber. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Okay, going to claim a small victory here in that I held my nose, algorithmically consumed 6.7 Gib of disk space to get to a working Zephyr 'stack' for the NRF5340, then built the standard 'blinky' app which simply turns a single LED on and off with a 0.5s delay between states, which consumes 22,368 bytes of flash memory and 4,472 bytes of RAM. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Oh we talk about the sins of lust, envy, gluttony, Etc. But nobody talks about the sin of rather than learning how make(1) works, writing a bespoke build system out of a scripting language. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…qrdz That's pretty neat! Can he make the clock on the VCR blink 12:00? 😉 @nprofile…ggha npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I am wondering if they used AI to create a bunch of 'calculator' web pages that drive engagement so you can show ads is one use of LLMs. It really should update the page year in the bottom to 2026 though (from 2023) if it wants to rank. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…j95m I think of a frequency to frequency circuit as a mixer 😃. Both upconverting and downconverting happen but you filter out the side you don't want. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Every fucking time I spin up a Linux distro now I spend at least an hour and a half unfucking all the systemd fuckage and still a day or two later something I missed bites me in the ass. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Movie set in 2030 where a plucky band of treasure hunters risk their lives on a clue filled treasure hunt only to find a non-working USB stick drive that says "cold wallet" on the outside. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…z9em I don't know of one, my assumption was that with zero passwords allowed the password fail would trigger it. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vkla @nprofile…j95m npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Is ganging together two 78xx linear regulators a thing? This is a third party linear power supply and I'm really doubting their design skills. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck When I was a young aspiring engineer, I took a job as a EE at Intel. The aspiration of every engineer there was to have a fully equipped Jensen tool kit. Back when they came in a Zero Halliburton case and had all top flight tools. Now they are a sub-brand of TestEquity. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Three easy steps to converting C++ to HDL: npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…xhv0 Ah, that kind of makes sense. I get a lot of the same vibe, only Seeed seemed to want to figure out how to create a data extraction business out of it too. I wonder if there is a build recipe for the E1002 in the TRMNL repo ... npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Today's mantra is: npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…xhv0 Hmmm, interesting. The Seeed "Sensecraft HMI" seems to be a fork or work-alike ecosystem to the TRMNL stuff. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I'm guessing @nprofile…xhv0 has much better code to drive the display than Seeed provides. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck It is cute though (seeed reterminal e1002) npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Screen savers for E-paper displays are weird. And it's sad that we'd have such a regression in display technology. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I have such a broken brain sometimes. I'm looking at these two strips of 150 RGB LEDs I picked for *free* from a garage sale table, and telling myself I don't want to cut them into more usefully sized pieces for a project. Dude, they were FREE, cut the dang strips. Such a weird head space. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I'm remembering articles about how people with DSLR cameras were getting the sensor damaged when they went to shows that had big laser shows ... npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Maybe I need better iconography? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck This is what I imagine it is like in @nprofile…j95m's workshop : https://youtu.be/QEvJvNvZ-YE?si=K2lZXeqMkKKhmwpD npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh Whenever I run out of space in my pen cup I go through and try to write with all the pens in the cup and throw out the ones that no longer write. It's somewhat cathartic. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…fw69 You can just bet they are gonna ask something like "If the US attacks us in any way we want assurances from every other NATO country that they will attack the US." npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Secret video of the US Iranian negotiations uncovered! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…gqk6 How does that work? Do you have a description of what a fraud resistant implementation of universal health care would look like? I ask because medicare fraud from doctors telling medicare they did a thing when they didn't, seems to work just as well when everyone is covered by health care. So I'm trying to understand the mechanism here. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…n07e @nprofile…e5jr npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…e5jr mumble, mumble, Chesterson's Fence, mumble, mumble npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vkla So if you click "OK" does the checkout option work? They have at that point a legally acquired "intent" that you know about the costs and are okay with them. Of course just not shipping to the US period is something some of them do. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…vkla npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…kmeq npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…dgr8 Yeah, that could work. I'll have to see if I can catch it where I can photograph is breast feathers. But the forked tail is definitely swallow. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Any idea what #bird this might be in Texas? It’s about 4” long (10 cm) ? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck A more in depth follow up to malus.sh which is both satire *and* a product (it will actually do what you ask it to do). npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck So the power company is replacing a series of poles on the street in an adjacent neighborhood. Taking out wood poles, putting in wood poles. The new poles add another crossbar for more power lines (on site worker said it was because of all the EV chargers being installed, unverified) But it got me wondering what they do with the "old" poles. Their treated so can't burn them. Beaver playground? Speakeasy for crows? Surely they must do SOMETHING with them. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck This is the day I'm reminded of my grandmother's neighbor. Who polite people called 'frugal' and impolite people called 'cheap.' Every year, the day after Easter, she would buy a bunch of solid chocolate bunnies. Then throughout the year when she made hot chocolate she'd break off a piece of bunny and melt it in a cup of hot milk. As a kid, I just knew that she made a great cup of hot chocolate. 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…mv7s Don't suppose you have EMC probes do you? That could give you the polarization of the noise which might help identify the source. If you rotate the probe so it is pointed vertically, does the noise change? Next a piece of grounded foil (or plated PCB) above the probe? And then below the probe. The biggest culprits in my lab seem to be cheap USB chargers and/or LED bulbs. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…85zk @nprofile…y4e4 And future penal colony resident, right? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…dk9z Wow, those are not words you can say out loud and still live inside the borders of Russia I think. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…y4e4 Perhaps he could march back to Moscow with his infantry battalion and tell Volva himself, hmm? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck In random news, my wife bought a box of "5 hair dryers and a curling iron" at a garage sale for $7 only to find that one of them was a salon dryer (lists for $160) and she's like "Well I never would have bought *this* for $160 but it does work really well, and the 12' cord is surprisingly useful." 😆 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Sigh npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…8qh7 apparently I am too silly to see the icon that allows it! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…k3vj Wait, what? Hmm, web interface or app? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…08zc Those are pretty amazing! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…xwug Kind of like impeachment doesn't work if the Senate is corrupt. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…qrdz Needs a mug I think. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…ycuw Because I always carry a copy of the print edition of The Onion! npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Now I want to be able to quote post but put a CW on it. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…dqzr One of the ones I dislike were browser add-ons that basically scraped your email every time you filled in a field on a page labeled "email" and sent that along to a data broker. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…waav Obviously not living in Santa Fe so it doesn't help me to sign, but genuinely curious why not just sue to get existing ordinances that prevent free speech assembly off the books? Its something I'd like to see in our local city charter as well. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…axx0 Sigh. Its always the case. Perhaps they should have read more 'banned' books as a child. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck I'm going with "Tetherball for cats" on this one: npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh Then there was that time I bought a plasma torch at a garage sale and didn't have anywhere to store it so it was in my trunk for a while. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…d60a Maybe she can get a job with Kristi over at Slut of the Americas? npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…r8sg Getting ideas for your next van build? 😃 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…y4e4 I expect he refused to follow an order to send the Army Rangers into combat (as he should, it would be an illegal order as Congress has not authorized a war). Will be interesting to see how far down the ranks they have to go to find someone willing to throw away their career for a tour of Nuremberg. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…afw4 RIP. I met George at a Usenix workshop and was struck by his curiosity. It is probably because I was young and naive, but I miss attending workshops where everyone was just interested in exploring the things that computers could do. Those don't seem to happen much anymore. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck Interesting, this was one of the launch pictures that was shown on "NASA TV." It shows the astronaut egress module (the emergency exit) sliding down the wires toward the shelter during launch. (I put an arrow pointing to it). Speculation is that this keeps it out of harm's way when the full thrust of the rocket goes by. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…z0au Ah yes, Russia and Ukraine teaching the world that if they don't have nuclear weapons they at risk of someone who does have them randomly deciding to invade their country. It makes me ill. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…w3ul Wait, it flew into a rock right? 😆 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…245y I would argue with the notion that they have "one" strategy, it seems clear to me they are attacking on several fronts. One of which is straight up voter suppression, one is creating "probable cause" for giving them more time to set up court cases, one is creating a kidnapping environment for black/brown citizens to scare them from actually voting, and this EO which looks like they will try to argue in court that the post office has to do what they say. All of it adds up. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck If I were to summarize this article, it would be "You remember how 'collateral debt obligations' aka the Mortgage Crisis of 2008/2009 killed Lehman brothers? This is going to kill more companies than that." npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…y4e4 Maybe the Russians realize that in 2 months their own economy will collapse so there will be a new government which will likely have its own ideas? Could be a good thing. npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…eqsh And yet if they could build a 16 unit apartment complex around a muni track in SF they'd probably rent all 16 units all the time. I had an interesting discussion with a tax assessor candidate about whether or not you had to pay a parcel tax if you're "lot" was over a street. Which is to say if you built a house say 20' above a local roadway who pays that property tax? Not surprisingly no one had asked them that before. 😆 npub1swmzmpvsvu65a8yc5exgt8p9ps34x87qhjpf9fuaykrg3lsg8xms903e3f Chuck @nprofile…l7vu @nprofile…eqsh
