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New comment by M4rkJW in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"

M4rkJW — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:08:34 +0000

You can legally transmit for any emergency, regardless of licensing status. The emergency definition is purposefully left ambiguous so as to apply to many situations. Lost in the woods? Go ahead, transmit; the FCC isn't going to knock on your door if you live. Every HAM should know this already.

New comment by M4rkJW in "Framework supporting far-right racists?"

M4rkJW — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:36:56 +0000

I'm in agreement. This is a good response. Too bad it's getting voted down.

New comment by M4rkJW in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

M4rkJW — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:11:02 +0000

It's quite fortuitous Discord never went down this path you've outlined. "Concord" is now a term synonymous with abject and astounding failure. "Unity" is also taken and fraught with negative associations. "Harmony" might be free.

New comment by M4rkJW in "LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector"

M4rkJW — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:21:55 +0000

Neat stuff! I have a ton of 8mm and some 16mm film to archive, perhaps this is a good first step towards an open-source film scanner.

New comment by M4rkJW in "MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0"

M4rkJW — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:36:52 +0000

True, though "dudes who were never in danger of being gruntled" made it pretty clear who he was targeting.

New comment by M4rkJW in "The withering dream of a cheap American electric car"

M4rkJW — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:33:10 +0000

I drive home from Virginia to Florida in a single day, typically with one stop at the Florence, SC Buc-ee's. That's nearly 600 miles (in a gas RAV4). I do this a couple times a year and it takes about 9 hours, less if there's no cops.

New comment by M4rkJW in "The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community"

M4rkJW — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:11:05 +0000

What—or who—made the streets terrifying?

New comment by M4rkJW in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"

M4rkJW — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:56:46 +0000

American politics.

New comment by M4rkJW in "Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)"

M4rkJW — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:33:51 +0000

Definitely looks like one and now I really want to know why.

New comment by M4rkJW in "Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets"

M4rkJW — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:18:51 +0000

"It’s well known that people are getting news from sources like short-form video, topical newsletters, social media, and curated podcasts, and many are avoiding the news entirely. In line with those trends, just 2% of queries on Google Search are news-related. Nevertheless, we want to continue making targeted contributions to the news ecosystem to help news publishers navigate this inflection point."

Google acknowledges they had a part to play in causing the collapse of journalism but has no solutions to offer.

People aren't consuming news, and when they do they choose the least accurate, most entertaining sources for it. Newspapers and local broadcasters are suffering because the public has lost the will or the capacity to focus. When will we start seeing white box Surgeon General warnings on Tiktok and Youtube that remind the user prolonged exposure can cause serious mental health issues? [1] Where's the DARE school-visit campaigns to remind kids that broadcast news is free over the air and their parents are chumps for paying streaming services' subscription fees?

[1]: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/23/surgeon-general-is...

New comment by M4rkJW in "FDO's conduct enforcement actions regarding Vaxry"

M4rkJW — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:20:49 +0000

It's here too, judging by votes on this comment.

New comment by M4rkJW in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

M4rkJW — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:55:06 +0000

The MBAs trying to keep old media afloat are held hostage by shareholders who don't even watch the product. The general public has become increasingly less willing to spend any amount of time (eyes on ads) or money (subscriptions) on broadcast and print journalism. A whole generation of consumers has grown up on ad-free content and cannot fathom how the business model worked so well, pre-AdSense. Even if they can comprehend broadcast and print business models, they refuse to participate and then complain about the rising cost of subscription services; services that are now experimenting with reintroducing advertisements.

Journalists are in a boat that Youtube, Facebook Marketplace/Craigslist and Google search plowed into. Until consumer habits change, the sinking continues.