Bet the police department statement was written by A.I. 🤣

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Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

Apparently this makes your browser grow a pair and force the page to use those beautiful old typewriter fonts. Reverts to normal after refresh ☹️ const style = document.createElement('style'); style.innerHTML = '* { font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace !important; }'; document.head.appendChild(style);

I feel like ChatGPT is trying to impress me with its knowledge instead of helping me. Goal: when someone transmits on their radio tuned to say 123.4567 MHz using a CTCSS tone of 156.7, the other radio receives the transmission and passes it on to an internet-connected device where I can hear it on my laptop, phone, etc. My thought was an HT > patch cable > old Android running Zello app should be able to do this. ChatGPT says I need to connect an SDR dongle to a Pi then run a bunch of code I don't understand. More code if you need it to auto-run at reboot or only rebroadcast the audio instead of constantly streaming the silence too, plus even more code to only rebroadcast transmissions that have the CTCSS tone. Why does ChatGPT have an aversion to recommending anything with a GUI?

He brings up an interesting point about some members of Congress being unable to do their job on a congressman's salary. Have you ever run across a rusty old tool that was used in an ancient technology? I don't know, something like porcelain or glass insulators for residential electrical wiring? That's basically how I view the US government. A creation for a time when the fastest mode of communication was a letter-carrier on a horse. And it's funny how they talk out of both sides of their mouth. On the one hand, they want us to believe they're such great experts at digital security that we have no reason to fear our sensitive chats and emails being leaked through a government-mandated backdoor. Meanwhile, members of Congress have to ignore pollution caused by air travel, and keep flying between their district and DC because there's no confidence in this same government's capacity to facilitate secure, digital, remote-voting on legislation. "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." View quoted note →

Are newer machines not able to use the powdered detergent that ships in a cardboard box? 🤨 View quoted note →

Elkton family races against time to find living liver donor to save father’s life

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Elkton family races against time to find living liver donor to save father’s life

An Elkton family is in a desperate race against the clock and they’re turning to the community for help.

Today was the first day it was cool enough to let the Nano 3s run non-stop.

Land of the free, my ass!

Strong words from a man whose app still requires a cell phone number. View quoted note →

Fack. Ghost browser used to have this option. "Currently, no mainstream Android browser officially supports a permanently visible address bar during scrolling. The auto-hiding behavior is standard across the platform for usability and screen optimization."

What would you do if you had a bottomless pot of money? "Spy on everybody!" - Uncle Sam, apparently... View article →

I don't know who at @Alby made the executive decision to change the mascot from a lovable bee to a silhouette resembling the gang of violent squatters who attempted to murder me last week for trying to mow my lawn. Not cool, bro. 🤣

Steve's commentary on #v4v music at the end of this rewind episode got me thinking more about the 'no genres' challenge. Not sure such a thing is even feasible in v4v since there's no central authority to set and enforce the categorizations. Who would decide, the artist, the playback app? Seems like v4v music shows are the only viable solution to find music of a specific genre since the show host's split of the boosts gives them a financial incentive to stay faithful to the specific genres they promote. Problem with that is there don't seem to be all that many v4v music shows, and even fewer dedicated to a specific genre. Another need is v4v music apps with the playback features of legacy apps. Artist, Album, Genre (even if it's just listener-designated), Year, EQ settings, etc. Most of the apps I've tried so far - both for music and podcasts - feel kind of like the listener experience has to take a back seat to the v4v stuff.

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Bought one of those $45 SDR dongles that's supposed to turn a computer into a police scanner. Four hours with ChatGPT and I managed to turn my laptop into a $5 FM radio. Long enough USB cable and the dongle could probably serve as a coffee mug warmer. 🤣

I swear some days it's easier than not to believe we're all just 1s and 0s on a circuit board.

Probably should have tried installing this SDR dongle on the laptop before trying it on the RPi. VNC Viewer just adds to the aggravation and apparently there isn't a single micro-HDMI adapter for sale within a 100 miles of me.

If this nose hair clipper ate hair like it eats AA batteries, I'd look like Voldemort right now 🤬

> 20K sats today

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This may be good advice for V4V musicians and podcasters with fairly tame content but for those whose content is likely to get them suspended or shadow banned by big tech platforms, I'm not so sure. Watching what happened to Gab from 2016 to 2020 (especially after one of their "users" shot up a synagogue in PA) made me question just how resilient and censorship-resistant it is to run your own website. Particularly troubling was the fact that it all happened during the administration of a supposedly free speech-friendly President. My takeaway from being on Gab in those early years is that everybody's a 1A-supporter until they get a knock on the door from some bureaucrat or regulator, or their big tech account becomes the target of a coordinated shaming campaign by a deep-pocketed NGO. This is why I'm hopeful for nostr. Sure there's still a reliance on domain names but it seems like the attack surface is a little more spread out. View quoted note →