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😂 "Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire" https://fuelarc.com/evs/tesla-owners-are-installing-diy-rip-cords-to-avoid-being-trapped-in-their-vehicles-in-case-of-fire/ #tesla #automobiles #accidents

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I didn't think LLMs would simulate an "instinct for self-preservation" so soon. I got so interested I read the actual report by Anthropic: "4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then […]

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#courts #housejudiciarycommittee #HouseJudiciary This should be the biggest new story in the country. The "Big Beautiful Bill" contains a provision effectively stripping courts of their ability to hold federal officials in Contempt of Court. Retroactively. Page 116, Section 70303 […]

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Took me a while to figure out how to use the Morse Walker interface, but used it tonight for a while to drill morse code POTA activation. After some practice, I even tried a pile-up. (Of... two calling stations! 🤣) I feel bad about asking for repeats in a QSO with a real person when I just […]

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👀 "Buried [in the GOP budget], Section 43201(c) describes a 10-year moratorium on state-level enforcement of 'any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems.'" www.theregister.com/2025/05/20/t...

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Good on Signal! https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/ Not only are they doing the right thing, they’re publishing a clear, forceful, and occasionally amusing write-up on how and why: For Example: <quote>“Take a screenshot every few seconds” legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a […]

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Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription. Two reasons. 1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book […]

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New FDA guidance limits COVID boosters to 65+ and "high risk" people. I'll spare commentary and focus on practicality: way more people are high risk than we realize, and pharmacists still aren't supposed to ask you for evidence that you're high risk. And indeed they didn't ask when I got my […]

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The Fetch whole conversation threads is a massive improvement to the Mastodon experience. Now that it's deployed here on Maker Forums Social, I no longer have to "open in original site" when I want to see what is happening for a post. So glad I deployed it! I did set […]

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#HamRadio - Just looking at Ed's Antennas and saw this announcement: Updated May 2, 2025 Due to Trump Tariffs our distributors in China have stop shipping us materials to build our antennas. They supply the RG174 extension cables and some of the adapters. We have about 30 days in parts […]

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Trump seems to think that turning an existing production 747-800 into an AF1 plane is simply a matter of changing the seating layout and the paint scheme. \ The AF1 747s are built with vastly different communications and avionics so they can serve as secure flying command posts during […]

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I am reliably informed by Google Shield that my site krebsonsecurity.com on Monday was the target of the biggest DDoS attack Google has ever had to deal with, clocking in at ~6.3 Tbps. This not quite a record; apparently, an attack Cloudflare had to deal with in April is the largest known DDoS […]

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I have a Sol-Ark inverter, and Deye bricking (non-Sol-Ark) inverters remotely has made me strongly consider physically removing the dongle that was supplied with the unit, now that I have tested that Solar Assistant can manage it effectively. The telemetry from the supplied dongle is opaque, so […]

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Making Polio Great Again https://journa.host/@w7voa/114506940096739671 #health #politics

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😬 AP: U.S. health regulators announced plans Tuesday to phase out fluoride-containing supplements sometimes used to strengthen children’s teeth https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/fda-and-rfk-jr-aim-to-remove-fluoride-supplements-used-to-protect-kids-teeth #darkages #flouride #publichealth […]

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I think this is the correct way to read today’s tariff news. (And all of the bluff and bluster yet to come.) China Called Trump’s Bluff - The Atlantic #politics #tariffs https://archive.ph/Pcvmm

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I learned so much from Rose on Twitter, back in the before times. This just breaks my heart to learn that she was fired from NASA after everything she's been through […]

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

The sporadic, no-big-deal "coverage" of Trump world's unprecedented (in U.S. history) corruption is, sadly, exactly what I expected from a press that routinely ends up normalizing extremist criminals. Journalism's failure is far, far more than a business issue. It's also a collapse of standards.

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US Travel Advisory to Venezuela suggest US citizens not go there "due to the high risk of wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure." (what other country does that sound like 🤔 ) […]

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And now we see that humans haven't changed much since the citizens of Troy accepted the gift of a horse.

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Today I learned there is a vaccine for the cancer that killed my mom in development. In a stage 1 trial, it cured the cancer for people with Stage III and IV cancer. That made me tear up for what might have been. Then I learned that legislators in some states are trying to ban RNA vaccines […]

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I'm pondering options for #3DPrinting thread-forming ribs after reading @rahix's excellent 3DPrinting design rules. One of the problems with CNC Kitchen's self-forming threads is that Thomas Sanladerer didn't describe any dimensions for the ribs he […] [Original post on social.makerforums.info]

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A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers. This is corruption. Always call it out.

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This gave me great joy this evening! ☺ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that Jimmy Carter felt he needed to sell his peanut farm when he became president, in order to avoid even the appearance of any conflicts of interest.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Maker Forums user Brian Creekmore reported another kind of adhesive that works for joining timing belt to make loops with an arbitrary number of teeth: composite urethane. #diy #3DPrinting #making https://forum.makerforums.info/t/making-custom-length-timing-belt-loops/82469/16?u=mcdanlj

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The third party version of Signal the White House has been using has been hacked, and Signal messages from devices stolen (as they were being sent to the supplier) https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

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My wife's grandfather owned a drill press vice that she ultimately inherited from her father. It had lost its handle, and the threads on the handle end of the lead screw were chowdered from someone using vice grips on them. It was missing a jaw screw and had the wrong screws in the moveable jaw […]

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RFK Jr. has just decided to take $500 million from the HHS budget and hand it to two of his buddies to develop a universal vaccine. At this time, there is precious little scientific evidence to support this project. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cov...

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Ah, I was wondering what kind of aggressively user-hostile things Bambu had done lately. Don't. Buy. Bambu. Seriously. https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/6726

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Today I deleted and blocked a forum spammer whose email address started with "seo" Props for honesty, I suppose? Most of the spammers try to astroturf one way or another, like the floods of #Monport #laserCutter spam I delete and then Monport sanctimoniously claim oh no they would _never_ do a […]

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Julia Parsons, who worked on deciphering German Enigma traffic as a US Navy cryptologist in WW II, has died at the age of 104. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/julia-parsons-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.P_-G.KhlNj7GIVjhR&smid=url-share

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I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true "If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times […]

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

- Mass deportations without trials - Extrajudicial imprisonment in foreign concentration camps. - National registry of autistic people, who are declared "nonproductive" - Arrests of judges History is rhyming pretty hard right now.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I find that my history as an instrument-rated pilot is inhibiting me as a #HamRadio operator. I learned to use no extra words on frequency, so now I don't have anything to say on a rag chew. I carefully learned official phonetics, and now I'm immersed in kilowatt radio sugar Japan etc and I have […]

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

I celebrated #InternationalMarconiDay with my first ever successful #POTA activation. My wife sat next to me and studied the material to upgrade her license to Extra, and chipped in to help when I flubbed call signs, making this a joint effort. Did this activation SSB instead of CW because I'm […]

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Y'all, xkcd is not pulling punches in today's comic: PhD Timeline https://xkcd.com/3081/

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Tonight I made a "capacity hat" for my ultra-portable Elecraft AX1 HF #HamRadio antenna. I found a video by LY2H Linas where he made one based on an alligator clip to make the same antenna resonant on 20m to use with an IC-705. I remembered that I […] [Original post on social.makerforums.info]

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I am very often proud of my Minnesotan heritage. But sometimes I get a reminder that Minnesota has its share of idiots too. Today is one of those days. https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/22/mn-republicans-introduce-vaccine-criminalization-bill-drafted-by-florida-hypnotist/

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I switched Morsle to hard mode. It still asks "Too easy? Head over to settings and try Hard Mode for your next game." 🤔

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Today I celebrated #WorldAmateurRadioDay by going to Raven Rock State Park, US-2751, and playing radio with my new-to-me KX3. Five contacts doesn't count as a successful activation by #POTA rules, but it counts as a success for me anyway. Making _any_ […] [Original post on social.makerforums.info]

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Bloomberg: US Weather Analysis for 21 States Goes Dark After Funding Lapse "...eather analysis tools used by a wide array of businesses and government entities across the US have gone dark after funding for long-running regional climate hubs lapsed. The websites for three US National Oceanic […]

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