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I think you misunderstand. The comment you reply to I think acknowledges that there are problems with nuclear project management - they're saying that with that in mind, let's figure out how to do it better, to make nuclear projects less risky, more reproducible, and subsequently more commercially attractive.

There is a lot of utility in 1 to 1 links, but you don't need encryption to do that, while adding it does encourage it at the expense of other modes.

As for commercial activity, the whole point of the amateur spectrum is specifically to carve out portions of the spectrum protected from commercial interests! I agree that commercial, and also unlicensed use of radio is important, but leave commerce out of the tiny portion (and it really is small) part of the spectrum that's specifically regulated to be free of commercial interference.

The pros have to bid at auction to tie up bandwidth with encrypted comms that cannot benefit or be used by others.

If people want encryption, they are welcome to use the ISM bands where it is allowed, or get licenses for the commercial areas of the spectrum.

But amateur radio is a public commons for those who have the interest in getting licensed, and encrypted comms being normalised damages that, making it less accessible to others and discouraging interaction between enthusiasts.

I fear that with encryption allowed, amateur radio will become a collection of competing 1-to-1 links and hidden commercial activity taking advantage of the cheap spectrum at everyone else's expense.

You talk about retrojustification, but in many parts of the world this has long been written into law, for example in the UK's Wireless Telegraphy act:

1(1) The Licensee shall ensure that the Radio Equipment is only used:

a) for the purpose of self-training in radio communications, including conducting technical investigations; and

b) as a leisure activity and not for commercial purposes of any kind

As for it being "good" not to have privacy, it's really not about having privacy or not, but respecting the situation that there are different tools for different needs. If you need to speak to your spouse, there are tools to speak to them privately! Amateur radio isn't the only option, and it isn't the best.

The problem is that encrypted comms tie up spectrum space without giving anything back. Now, I don't ragchew, I think it's incredibly boring and unnecessarily toxic chat given most of the personalities and topics involved, but at least anyone can choose to drop in/out of that as needed.

What I'm more interested in is radio as a sport, where I can climb mountains and operate from them, pushing myself and engaging in that competitive activity with others. It's hard to do that if everyone has decided to start using the 2m band as their private internet link because it goes further than WiFi.

My concern is that the moment you implement encryption you've opened a race to the bottom in people abusing the license for purposes outside the license. Even if you know who it is, you don't know what they're doing.

The temptation to use up the limited spectrum for reasons outside the spirit of the license will undoubtedly be taken by some, we know how bad it can be already when you can clearly identify it.

Why? Amateur radio is supposed to be an open spectrum for people to communicate and experiment on, not provide services on.

If you need to privately communicate, use the ISM bands, don't consume the amateur experimentation bands.

I'm talking about the top level comments, that is to say, comments posted directly in reply to the post itself. At the time, of the six comments, 1 was the author, and two were his colleagues who created accounts <5 mins before the post was created.

Isn't it strange that 3 accounts were created moments before the post and then all happened to make their first and only comments on this post, each with strongly positive responses and not disclosing any link to the project?

A further account has been created since then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chucklarrieu

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=botcanics

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bcalderwood

I do understand that HN has voter ring detection which seeks to cluster groups of users who engage strongly in cooperative voting, but the accounts here are probably too new to establish a pattern strong enough to call a voting ring already.

This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here.

I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.

What a silly mistake for short term domestic gain.

The ruling party (the Torys) in England are haemorrhaging support and seats because they've overseen a disastrous decade of mismanagement. It's well understood in the UK that this is a last ditch attempt to try and shore up political support ahead of a wipeout in elections next year.

However, in doing so they will set back the UK renewables industry 5 years, undermine our green credibility, and continue to negatively disrupt the market with constant u-turns on policy leading to lack of confidence and ability to forward plan for government set timelines.

And this isn't just a political thing: the public will suffer as the drop in electric car sales will lead to hesitancy on rolling our more charging infrastructure, meaning that electric vehicles are less viable. At the same time, our air remains more polluted for longer, and prices for petrol and electric charging remain higher.

All to try and reduce pain to the political class.

Is that where you at at present? Full-time or just visiting?

>I'm increasingly of the opinion that the permanent seats are stupid and shouldn't be so

>a whole bunch of reasons why the permanent seats aren't representative

You're spot on that they aren't representative of the world's interests, but that's because this isn't what the security council is really for.

Taught in geopolitical terms, the UN is the latest iteration of a number of bodies that seek to protect a small alliance's interests in the long term.

The UN was founded by the winners of WWII, in the brief moment of time they could credibly claim that they represented the broader world's interests. Since then, the WWII allies - US/UK/France/Russia/China - have maintained their disproportionate positions to protect their own interests.

The Security council exists for them - it is the only body that can pass legally binding resolutions, it gatekeeps access to the general assembly, and those 5 golden keyholders can individually veto any other UN action.

These kind of bodies (UN, League of Nations, Peace of Westphalia) etc are often couched in ideals and often do have sub-bodies who do excellent work, as the UN does, but in reality, at the highest levels, are actually consider the spoils of war: the right to dictate your position as a lasting member of extraterritorial governance and protect your doctrinal and national interests.

That's exactly what gatekeeper means: entities that control access to something (in this case financial capital on terms suitable to buy property, but equally it can be social capital to access in-group acceptance, etc).

This control of access to resources is where the name comes from, and its broader use (rather than the highly specific social use we see online) is recently exemplified in the EUs Digital Markets Bill describing large search providers (like google) and social media (facebook) as gatekeepers.

Sure, but on the other hand, he was bald.

I would consider that a strong indication at least that the authors aren't talking completely out their asses.

Yes, you cannot use your ham/amateur radio license for that.

Amateur radio is supposed to be firmly in the realm of community building to improve the appreciation of the radio spectrum, and to encourage amateurs to explore, experiment, and innovate in the field.

Using it simply as a "service" (ie, as a private data link to carry TLS when you're trying to browse without using starbucks wifi) isn't supporting these goals, and can be used to obscure misuse (for example commercial use) of the band when they should be applying for a commercial license.

I'm not saying that it's right, but I can explain why they feel this.

If you strongly and sincerely believe that you have some key knowledge on skin disease, say you were the first person to discover a working sunblock to prevent cancer, would you not go and try to get people to use it? If you realised the value of seatbelts before anyone else, would you not start a world-wide campaign to improve road safety?

Christians are like this. They don't view missionary work as "trying to embiggen the Church", they view it as going out to save people lives, in this realm and the next, since they sincerely believe the way to do this is with a relationship with God.

That's true for _this_ polyhedron, but it's useful and more clear to demonstrate the technique with a simple example and allow the mind to then explore what else could be modelled this way than to blow someone away with complexity that they miss the point.

This is far more about SDFs than it is about the polyhedron.

I'm not sure how many years you have been bridging in but with recent developments like Matrix logging all chats (including a second bot after the first one was banned) it sounds like too little too late.

Sadly, I think Matrix's bridge onto Libera might soon be curtailed - they've not been good neighbors for some time and it's eroding the usability of IRC for IRC natives. https://libera.chat/news/matrix-irc-bridge-updates

Probably Massdrop?

China's Belt and Road Initiative suggests that they view the under-developed Middle East and African nations to be the next in line, the same as the US viewed China as a source of cheap labour.

The party has been making deep investments into the regions and is developing significant political and social capital at the same time that the West is retreating from them, cutting foreign aid, etc.

That's true, but it was 2.5 years ago they added that statement: https://github.com/betagouv/publicodes/commit/59fa78f6bcbc02...

It's not good enough, because there are instances where the project might die but they decide not to.

For example, if they are acquired and shuttered (like when fitbit bought and closed Pebble), if legal says they can't, or if the money needed to open source it after the fact is not available because they went bust and already owe creditors (you might need money to do a license review to ensure that releasing the code doesn't violate any third party licenses in software the project depends on).

D. DeVault running the forge, not the mint

The regulators permit something akin to kickdown. While the cars will limit you under gentle/steady state driving, if you floor the accelerator to avoid an accident, the limiters will disengage:

3.6.1.4. It shall be possible for the driver to override the SCF intervention by performing a positive action, for example by pressing the accelerator control harder or deeper.

from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:...

The CD the software is sold on. It's like the old "why did I pay you $100 to turn a valve?"

You're not paying for the CD, the valve turning, etc, you're paying off the time built for the expertise and background engineering.

Good, freenode is dead. Amen.

I'm sure it doesn't help that the current owner of freenode is notoriously litigious.

There's a bunch of signed (and dedicated sign language) programming on FreeView, but usually late at night. It's worth looking them up on iPlayer/4oD etc and watching them if you're not around at the right times.

They're obviously pitched at the level of fluent signers who use these as their primary way to use the TV, but I do find that between the audio, subs and thematic information, a lot can be picked up from the signer. English-with-subs is known to work well for foreigners learning English, and I expect English-and-signed might be good for BSL.

Where about are you based? I joined the bsl soc at uni and later did a level 1 course, so my level is rudimentary, but if you're in the west mids it might be good to practice.

While they are surely morally bankrupt and abhorrent, they aren't "war crimes of the highest order". Let's not dilute and devalue what war crimes are for internet punchiness when they are happening even today.

War crimes are when you break the rules of war. America mistreating its own population does not amount to war crimes.

We should really expect better from someone who's about page says they are an interface designer, though.

the freenode irc network disappeared overnight, but everyone just updated their links to point at libera.chat instead, which has almost all of the same projects, active users, etc.

It was essentially just an infrastructure change, which is the nice thing about open protocols and server implementations. Libera has 40k users and over 1000 foss projects that were on freenode.

the freenode userbase and community is alive and well, just under a new link