My fellow #hamradio peeps: please don't be the jerks who are berating unlicensed folks asking for help with severe weather events. In the US, part97 is pretty clear that if it's an emergency, all bets are off. Same with part47, part 95, etc.
Help others, and after they're safe, put out an offering to help them learn the hobby.
Tl;Dr : don't be jerks.
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Apple’s decision to put satellite connections in iPhones is already saving lives, and as Hurricane Milton threatens Florida, now is the time for every US iPhone user to learn how the system works.
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I appreciate the smaller indie developers, particularly in the Apple world, who specialise in a certain field and do it well, and take pride in being accessible. Rogue Amoeba is one. Their audio products are one of the best advertisements for Mac. Agile Tortoise is another, with the fabulous Drafts app. And another is Flexibits, who make the Fantastical Calendar app. This is a sound investment for management of the several calendars I keep. And they care a lot about #accessibility.
I use their Openings and proposals feature regularly in my professional life. Now they have added RSVP. Here’s the explanation from their blog. If you’ve not checked out Fantastical yet, I did a demo on Living Blindfully and they have plenty of videos and help guides. I highly recommend it.
How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain: theverge.com/2024/10/8/2426544…
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Tons of people listening to the radio traffic now in Florida... Feeds still running.
Increasingly, a lot of autonomous projects aren't setting up websites or doing any form of reporting on their organizing efforts on counter-info websites beyond posting on social media.
A lot of projects also aren't posting even email info - moving all communication onto platforms like Meta and Instagram.
It's becoming harder and harder to follow the work of some efforts or get updates - especially when platforms like Facebook and Instagram require you to have an account to see most content on the site.
One of the good things about Mastodon is that you can always log onto our feed and read updates - regardless of if you are on the platform or not.
This brings up all sorts of questions: from accessibility, to the legal and surveillance implications, and also what kind of movement do we want to build, one on our own terms - or the algorithm.
A few days ago I read this piece by @davidgerard about Eric Schmidt, formerly of Google, calling for burning all fossil fuels and letting climate change run without restraint for the sake of "AI" - pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/06/eri…
On the first reading, I missed how Schmidt apparently has a new military contracting venture called "Istari".
Yet another person who managed to read Tolkien's legendarium and completely misunderstand everything in it.
Shots fired at office of man who owns Old Montreal buildings that were sites of fatal fires
I hear you loud and clear Nobel Prize, you don't want to be left off of the AI hype train.
Next will be a Nobel peace prize for "AI safety."
Don't they supposedly wait for decades before seeing the impact, like new drugs that were created or something like that, before awarding Nobel Prizes?
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
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I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 15 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
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