yeetsfromhellL2

Do you have a write up somewhere? Building that stuff from scratch sounds like a hell of a project. I've toyed with the idea, but the technical barrier and responsibility is a steep obstacle that I'm not 100℅ ready to commit to at the moment. My community (and my property) are all perfect candidates for this though, and I have the time and money for it if I decide to commit.

Out of curiosity, if you don't mind divulging, what general area was it operating? Alaska?

From what I remember reading when I dug into it, there's a group (or groups) dedicated solely to helping people get their permit for this. The FCC does not make it easy by any means, but when you know all the invisible hoops to jump through it can be done.

Something I've been kind of playing with the idea of is setting up an Low Power FM[1] station to reach my local community. Since around 2000 the FCC has let people get licenses for a non-commercial 1-100W FM radio station. Some of these have some really interesting formats; one lets listeners call in and leave a voicemail describing their dreams. If it's interesting, they'll air it.

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

People in solitary confinement start having hallucinations, it's actually very common. After a summer in the woods with nobody but cows for company you might have similar effects

Sending kids into the woods for a summer by themselves to watch over livestock is a cool idea though, I wish I could have experienced something like that.

It can be difficult to disprove residency, especially if you can say you travel a lot for your work. I've uh...heard of people that are residents of Nevada for tax purposes. They have a tiny furnished apartment and their car is registered there, and they're registered to vote there, but let's say they aren't home very often.

I tried finding a decent text editor for android a little while ago and was not successful. FOSS git on iPad doesn't exist. SSH on either is very limited to say the least. An effective terminal is a pipe dream. Crapple and Scroogle have successfully turned the smartphone into a revenue generating device for themselves, and it's also a device our lives basically revolve around. I'd love to run a GNU/Linux (as opposed to Android/Linux) on my mobile device. The only thing I'd have to gripe about is a hardware keyboard.

If they work in a firm that's all taken care of.

This is more of a thought experiment, but would also serve as a decent backup in case of natural disaster, house burning down, etc. As for safety deposit boxes, those can be closed out for nonpayment, bank branches will shut down, etc. Not the best hands off long term solution. An attorney will let you know if there's an issue because it's their ass on the line if they don't.

The system I'd trust most is to have 2 attorneys given sealed envelopes with instructions to give them to your wife on your death. One attorney is given an envelope with the passwords to your accounts (or to your password manager) encrypted with a one time pad. The other attorney is given an envelope with the key to it. Each envelope includes instructions to decrypt. If you're giving her a password to a password manager, make sure she has access to the latest password archive and the software to open it.

Tedious, yes. But fairly reliable and you don't have to place any trust in your attorneys at all, unless they find out who their counterpart is and start working together (very unlikely). If this system wouldn't work for you, you've probably got bigger problems than having to worry about your wife getting into your email after you die.

You could audio book it, there's only a couple of diagrams in it, none of which are strictly necessary, and the book itself is fairly engaging. It's more about imparting general principles than giving you a flowchart or checklist for studying.

I bought it on a whim after somebody mentioned it and was very pleasantly surprised. Ahrens makes a convincing case for use of the zettlekasten, but the book is mostly about how to acquire understanding of something. You could read it without having any interest in making a zettlekasten and still get a lot out of it.

Having read about zettlekasten online I thought they were one thing, but after having read this I feel that I have a deeper understanding of them, and how to approach using them. The goal isn't necessarily to archive all your knowledge, it's to facilitate insights and new ideas. In a way, having your knowledge and ideas cross referenced is just a nice side effect. Prior to reading this, I would have taken an approach that would have just been a database of things I learned, which takes a lot of time to create and doesn't do much for you in the end.

It's a short, easy read at around 150 (small) pages and the author keeps it pretty interesting. I plan on rereading it pretty soon.

edit: I forgot to add that a lot of the book goes over study methodsmost people are taught growing up, and why they don't really work that well. I thought this was pretty interesting as well.

I like this. I'm diving into the zettlekasten thing after reading How to Take Smart Notes, and stopping to think about how I write so that it's as simple and clear as possible, while still being informative enough for my future self is what flexes my head muscle the most. This complements it nicely.

If we go back to 19th/20th century tech it'll be a problem because all the resources which are easy to extract have already been got. Much of the resource extraction done today is only possible because modern technology enables it. We may not ever be able to get back to where we're at now if we have a setback like that.

I came in here to say as much. I even had a railroad spike I found from a (pre-?) Civil War era railroad line when I was 13 or 14, but my mom threw it away at the time because it was "junk".

The fear and reputation of the Russian military/nuclear program/spying apparatus has often done more damage historically than the effectiveness of those programs. For example, because the CIA couldn't find evidence for the nukes and infra for deployment which they thought that Russia possessed (or could possess), they began to think the silos were just very cleverly disguised as mundane structures like farm silos, church architecture (IIRC), etc. Apparently they spent a lot of resources going down that rabbithole before realizing Russia simply wasn't that capable. Or how everyone was potentially a Soviet spy or secret communist; it got to the point that you could ruin a career just by suggesting it. This fear did more damage to the average American than any spies did.

That's what I like about it, it feels like a natural continuation from the original.

I'm still not sure how SIGIL only got a 2019 runner up. A 5th Episode of the original DOOM, made by John Romero, which was completely awesome, kicked ass and had a soundtrack by Buckethead? I fail to see how any of the competitors could have matched it.

Yeah but your friend probably isn't as good of a writer as Huxley.

>What's the current state of the art of embossing printers? Does this sound feasible?

No idea, I've just seen a few posts on slashdot and reddit over the years with blind users having enough fun to make it worthwhile.

Apparently there's been some talk among the nethack devs to make it more accessible, but their dev pace is glacial.

Might be an interesting side project to make a roguelike for blind users.

GNU stow worked fine for me...

Don't forget nethack! The interface makes it playable with a screen reader.

>day-to-day grey craft of anyone trying to carve out a dignified existence in dystopian surveillance societies

Seems like it's getting darker every day.

Yeah but all that sequestered carbon is now in the atmosphere with your 'offset' emissions while everything still looks good on paper.

The bad faith characteristics sound like some parents I know talking to their kids.

Serious question I have about carbon offests with respect to forestry. If you pay me money to not cut my trees and they all burn up in a fire, do you lose your carbon credits, and if so, do I owe you a refund?

It's a recursive, selective acronym

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              CH
             CHI
            CHIN
           CHINC
          CHINCH
         CHINCHI
        CHINCHIL
       CHINCHILL
  ==> CHINCHILLA
      HINCHILLA
      INCHILLA
      NCHILLA
      CHILLA
      HILLA
      ILLA
      LLA
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I certainly haven't used it that much, but I never felt like the connection quality was a huge concern for a usable DE. It's something like 30 years old now isn't it?

I've done X forwarding over slow wifi and it worked great. OP isn't editing video.

Maybe I'm more set in my ways now, but I feel like distro hopping is largely a thing of the past. There used to be a ton of small distros with their own communities but they've pretty much disappeared. I don't know if it's the decline of the web forums as they used to be (which killed the small communities), or if people realized these were mostly just Debian/Fedora derivatives with a cool Openbox theme and some preinstalled packages, or if everyone just migrated to Arch.

To me, Crunchbang was the last of the fun distros.

>I am wondering whether to make a full-commitment life switch to BSD.

I tried NetBSD for a small project a while ago and was very pleasantly surprised. The documentation was great and everything worked as advertised. I've spent more time trying to figure out a single package on Linux than I did getting up and running on NetBSD for the first time.