brad
@brad@posiwid.net
It bums me out that the links to almost every project listed on sites like @hackaday are to YouTube videos instead of real websites.
I know some people like watching videos but it’s a terrible format for the sort of random access reads that documentation is used for and we all know that YouTube is a terrible archival store (not to mention that the ads make the videos unwatchable).
Reading "The United Fruit Company and Early Radio Development" (Drale, 2010) with interest, about the history of the Tropical Radio and Telegraph Company - later TRT Telecommunications.
Commercial radio transmitters and shipboard equipment to support the banana trade, and then a transition over the years into the international telecommunications business.
Curious what my #infosec pals think of this.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/politics/biden-administration-bans-kaspersky-software/index.html
The article goes on to say that Kaspersky is banned from providing software to US users, which I guess is possible to enforce to a certain extent.
I'm in Shanghai right now, seamlessly using a VPN to access blocked content (including the linked article), so I'm a little skeptical.
Farmers in Bastrop, TX were hopeful when Elon Musk bought land nearby, but now he’s turning the area into “an environmentally hazardous industrial park.” Authorities won’t do anything because they’re understaffed and “intimidated by their powerful new neighbor.”
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-vs-organic-farmers-bastrop/