The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.

In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.

Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.

Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.

Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.

Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.

The word you’re looking for is “curmudgeon”.

What I was actually trying to do is encourage a discourse that furthered society, rather than rehash a trope such as the one found at the source of this thread.

I’m not confident that this will actually eventuate here, but I’m hopeful that someone will pleasantly surprise me.

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Not sure if the Linux NTFS driver supports read-write access. If it does, you should be able to remount it as rw. If not, there are rescue disks around that do have rw NTFS support.

You could just delete the entire partition and recreate it. You’d need to unmount it before you do.

• open source software that pays for contributions
• privacy laws that protect people against corporations
• living wage
• end of sexism and mysoginy
• global democracy

Boot from a livecd and figure out what is going on.

I’ve been to the Elecraft website multiple times, but their ordering process puts me off every time. They show all these different packages, but you don’t seem to be able to add or remove individual items, like, I really don’t want a hat for example, or a kilowatt amplifier, but want all the other bits.

Their naming conventions also do my head in.

I’ve played with a K3 at a local club, but it often needed repairs, no idea if this was due to equipment or user error.

K2 looks interesting.

Yup, I can see this on Safari when outside a community.

I note that none of the three ARRL links actually load for me.

Do you get output if you use that exact tail command without the grep pipe?

Ah, I was in the Amateur Radio community when I looked. When I get back to my desk I’ll check.

Threats interesting. I don’t see that on Safari on my Mac.

Hiya, not sure how to see the side bar in a web browser, which reminds me, my account seems to be randomly logged out.

As it happens, every person is an influencer, regardless of followers (…) or content.

The people who are influenced, or said differently, the sphere of influence is dependant on random factors like content going viral when it unexpectedly gets liked and reposted by others.

If you’re asking what size of influence generates income, the answer depends on who is paying.

I have to say, the information contained in this article raises significant concerns about the operation of the ARRL.

There are at least three legal ways to do this. CB radio, ISM frequencies and amateur radio. I say legal because the radio spectrum is heavily regulated because every transmitter affects everyone else to more or lesser extent.

You can buy CB or ISM band radios and get started.

Amateur radio is a better option in my opinion. There are many more frequencies to experiment with, people who can help and people to talk to.

Amateur licensing is different in each country, but an introductory licence is often no more than a weekend course and exam. I know of nine year olds who have done this. It’s not hard. No Morse code required either.

With such a licence in hand you can use things like JS8Call, CODEC2, Olivia, WSPR and hundreds of other protocols to communicate using just a radio and a computer.

Disclaimer: I’m a licensed amateur in Australia and have been since 2010. I hold an introductory licence, here it’s called a Foundation licence, and have been having an absolute blast with all that I can do.

If you have specific questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

Yes

I read that you’re manually tagging them, so your process can be whatever you want to do.

For example, you can leave the images in their current folder structure and create a separate folder structure with symbolic links to an image, so in the character folder would be symbolic links to all the images like that. They also don’t have to be unique, an image can be in multiple categories.

Alternatively you can use a spreadsheet and generate lists there.

Finally there are plenty of photo album applications that allow you to tag images.

Gender reassignment surgery?

Excellent! Added to my Amateur Radio operating locations list.

Edit: Hmm. Need some extensive swimming skills, otherwise the ship will be extremely noisy.

I suppose we could sail there…

I often wonder how such an approach actually happens. One person sends the other a message via Tinder?