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Karen the Paranoid Android. “I think you ought to know I’m feeling very litigious.”

“‘Can I manage a vending machine?’ Can I manage a vending machine? Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they’re asking me to manage a vending machine. Life. Don’t talk to me about life.”

Welp. That’s that for that.

I mean, Thalassophobia wouldn’t be a terrible name for a video game.

Actually I like that one.

You know that cute thing vets do when they come out to the waiting room and call the cat’s name?

They won’t do that if you name your cat “Shithead”.

Well on some popular image board like one of the hundreds of cat subs on Reddit, how do you identify a “listener” who is looking for a particular user to upload a picture of an orange cat? Thousands of people will view that post perfectly innocently.

How does that guy still have a job?

Frankly there are probably a lot of people who need to see their retirements go away and they need to spend their golden years in the mines. They need to have their elderly assholes penised apart for voting for this shit for decades.

No I think it’s going to have to involve large numbers of perforated colons. Consequences should be physical.

Who said we’re paying to house prisoners? The US constitution permits enslaving convicted felons. They’re all going to the mines. They will WORK or be mutilated.

I don’t, I have no stock portfolio at all. You’re probably right there’s a lot of bullshit that goes on in the financial world that I would put a pretty swift end to. Hell, “money market” bank accounts and such are probably somehow attached to the stock market.

If I understand correctly, a mutual fund is basically a bunch of people invest in a bunch of stocks managed by a professional stock guesser such that it’s almost certainly going to do at least kind of okay. Yeah I’d either outright end that practice or heap a LOT of liability on the stock guesser and a bit on the members.

You invested in a mutual fund, and one of the 60 stocks in the portfolio was Locktheon, and Locktheon just released a chemical weapon killing an entire small town? Your stock broker is now a slave of the state and will die in the mines, you and everyone else who is a member of that mutual fund owe 1000 hours community service each. We’re going to have a highway system so clean you can eat off it.

I’ve got a better idea: Make stockholders criminally liable and eligible for prison/execution for the crimes committed by the companies they invest in.

Oh, PharmaCorp knowingly put a medication in to production that causes baby’s brains to catch fire? Every single investor in PharmaCorp is gonna serve three consecutive life sentences in Rapesburg-Asspain penitentiary.

Wipe out a few generations of the upper class by getting a couple mass first degree murder convictions to stick and the problem will sort itself out.

Oh the legal system is pretty good at deciding intent, I mean what’s the difference between manslaughter and murder?

Thing is, it’s not like there’s radio police that are going to pull you over for encrypting. Other hams might turn you in if you’re being annoying. If you send an encrypted email over Hamlink once, or say something like “Beefy Burrito this is Enchilada, the tamales are in the basket” on 33cm once, probably nobody’s gonna notice.

There’s only ~3.7MHz worth of bandwith on the HF bands, another 4MHz on 6m. There’s a lot of attention on the bands that propagate. If you want to secretly communicate with people, use Reddit, or the Fediverse.

You know r/kitty? One of a trillion cat subreddits that had a gimmick that the only written word allowed was “kitty.” All post titles and comments had to consist only of “Kitty.” Arrange with the leaders of the other terrorist cells you’re working for that if u/chudmuffin posts a picture of an orange cat, we attack at dawn, and if he posts a picture of a grey cat, lay low they’re onto us.

Encryption is legal and standard on the internet, where there’s many orders of magnitude more traffic than on the ham bands. I can’t send an encrypted email over Hamlink with a license, but I can host a Tor site without one.

Flatpak isn’t without its problems, but both front end and back end are open, and one can host his own flatpak repo. Canonical keeps Snap’s back end proprietary, so it is not possible to host your own Snap repo. Canonical being Canonical.

It is my understanding that Snap was at one point intended to be a package manager for their embedded OS, which was more locked down. Then they started pushing it to all flavors of Ubuntu.

Explain to me why, on Ubuntu systems, sudo apt install firefox installs the Snap version? Clem over at Linux Mint asked the same question, which is why Mint ships with Flatpak and not Snap support out of the box, and Mint…I’m going to get the details wrong here, either Firefox themselves packaged the APT version, or the Mint crew did, or both at various times.

It is! High density altitude results in lower engine horsepower.

Flatpak’s back end is open source, Snap isn’t. That’s ugly.

There’s a difference between encryption and encoding, and that difference is intent.

Encoding is the process of imparting a digital message onto the radio carrier. A simple example is Morse code; transmitted by keying a continuous wave on and off in pre-determined patterns of long and short pulses with long and short gaps between. Frequency shift keying and bodot code are the encoding scheme behind RTTY, etc. Hams are permitted to experiment with novel encoding schemes, and have invented a few, PSK31 comes to mind, a phase shift keying standard designed to use commonly available PC sound cards as a modem.

Encryption is the process of obscuring the message for all but the intended recipient. There is one specific case the law calls out when this is permissible in Amateur radio service, and that’s control signals of Amateur radio satellites. A novel encoding scheme, like making up your own alphabet instead of the standard Morse one, or ciphers of any kind that are intended to make the message secret, is illegal.

It’s not uncommon to hear encrypted communiques on the ham bands; I’ve picked them up myself. You want a fun rabbit hole to fall down, look up numbers stations. Some serious cold war james bond bullshit.

I don’t believe it is legal to send a PGP encrypted message over the air (on ham radio, go ahead and send it over Wi-Fi, you can encrypt the shit out of that) even if you’ve posted your private key on your website. What would even be the point of that? tilts head It might be legal to send a PGP signed message over ham radio; if I understand correctly that’s basically a checksum that can guarantee the sender’s possession of a private key.

I’m not sure I’d classify any phone I’ve had as visually appealing.

My S10e has that white bluepink back they put on them, but it’s spent its entire life in a silicone case.

I liked my LG EnV2. It might not have been an amazing looking thing but damn I liked the way it felt to use.

Oh I fucking hated ringback tones. What a goddamn terrible idea.