chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
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Mine is not. But look, good, bad or indifferent, ya gotta embrace it.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d agoLord Byron’s Cutie Mark would obviously be a bottle of laudanum
Wow. So at least for me the e-mail links are broken. And it doesn't seem KUAR AR NPR affiliate has a presence here. But, I'm just so tired of journalists being corporate mouthpieces. Amir Mahmoud said in a 27 July piece on Flock: "These are cameras that read and log the...
Just wondering how many other people have uttered the phrase "holy fuck look at that thyratron"
The most horrifying of my HV experiments was the Jacob's ladder I built....that made three foot streamers.
1. There are LOTS of blatantly anti-Catholic Chick tracts - I remember seeing these as a kid in Georgia in the mid-90s, and my parents were atheists/agnostics. 2. If you don’t know what a Chick tract is, you may be very sheltered from the reality of how insane most American evangelicals are.
The Hotdog Pope@hotdogpope.bsky.social · 3w agoI think that many people don't understand that Evangelicals consider Catholicism to be essentially a pagan religion.
Learning more about PCB layout and what to consider when designing boards? Rick Hartley has some good information from a long career working with high frequency signals:
Design for Better Signal Integrity by Rick Hartley | Sierra Circuits
Rick Hartley explains PCB stack-up, grounding, and impedance control techniques for better signal integrity in your design.
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@defcon.bsky.social Short Story Contest Winners! 1st place- Root Access to Yourself by bak3n3k0 2nd place - The Architecture of Choice by Itolis People’s choice - My Badge Has Agency by FX Read them on the forums: forum.defcon.org/node/255899
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The entries are in for the Def Con Short Story Contest! Check out all the submissions below, listed in no particular order. Judging is underway and we'll be announcing results soon. Honestly, it's bee...
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Re the HV stuff going around hackerdom. So many HV stories. I have no idea how many times I've been hit by ignition coils. Also got hit by a backlight inverter that some idiot moved and that was not fun. The "violet wand" machine in my possession was bought new by a great grandparent...
t's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes! Working on a project to have done in time for @defcon.bsky.social, it's going to be close. Also 201-2 with a walking foot is a beast! Show me what you got!
My Monday morning video for tomorrow is one that many people have been waiting a little while to see go up on YouTube... youtu.be/WV-ftU0zxCo ...this is the famous Violet Wand workshop that I gave with Kiwi and @visual-lies.bsky.social at @cackalackycon.bsky.social back in May. Enjoy! 👍😁👍⚡
A little light in the darkness. Four children with terminal brain cancer saved by new cell therapy | New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/2533...
Four children with terminal brain cancer saved by new cell therapy | New Scientist
An experimental immunotherapy has beaten aggressive brain tumours in a handful of children, and a personalised version is now being tested on more patients
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China spends its money building the future. The US just funnels it into the pockets of billionaires.
Chris Meder@evcurvefuturist.com · last mo.Across Gobi Desert, autonomous tracked robots are transporting & installing solar panels with minimal human intervention, doubling installation efficiency. The energy transition isn't just about building more solar. It's increasingly about automating the process of building the whole infrastructure.
This NDA bullshit with public officials and public dollars has to stop.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4w agoIn a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.
Steven Spielberg doesn’t want you to know this. There, I said it.
Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 4w agoTHREAD: Today (and tomorrow) in 1947, newspapers in Roswell, New Mexico, featured sensational front-page headlines about the “capture” of a flying saucer by officials at Roswell Army Airfield, spawning a widespread, persistent, and completely false belief that an alien spacecraft had crashed there.
SIGINT #56392 from PROWLER (COSMIC TOP SECRET) 1. Anti-Sustainability 2. Subsonic Distortion Hospital
California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System For over 19 months, cops across the Golden State continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.
California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System
For over 19 months, cops across the state continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.
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Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.
I’ll save you a click: all the tips are just variations on staying the fuck away from me
NPR@npr.org · last mo.Experts share guidance on how to prevent common summertime health risks, such as drowning, fire accidents and heat exhaustion.
Then there was that time I worked in a lab doing VDT -- Very Destructive Testing
Russian TOR-M2 air defence system in Zaporizhzhia Oblast struck by the Birds of Magyar unit.
The @apnews.com story notes EFF has published a guide on the various types of surveillance towers in use along the southern border, designed to help local residents. Want a copy?
EFF Zine: Surveillance Technology at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Learn how to spot surveillance with this guide to border security technology. The guide is 35-pages and contains over 40 illustrations to help folks living in, interested in, and serving border commun...
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Say what you will about the Fyre Festival, at least it didn’t completely humiliate an entire nation on its 250th birthday.
Trump's State Fair Is A Massive Failure
And they’re pretending it’s not.
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