See the recent research paper about recreating quantum factoring records using a dog, an abacus, and a vintage computer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937413

I'v asked a couple of network engineers that used to work at cloudflare, they said that they have a compliance department that deals with lots of specific requests related to supoenas and law enforment but have not seen bulk feeds of plaintext traffic to other entities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664

Do you mean "I want to block incoming spam email to my email addresses" or "I operate an email mailing list and I want to block bots from joining the list" ?

It really helped to write up why they don't matter now, such as "I was a child when that happened, I'm now an adult who knows how to handle that."

My brain thinks that a physical piece of paper is much more authoritative than a thought in my head and makes less effort to remember things that are documented so having twenty page booklet that I can get out if I need it seemed to help.

First friday of the month is London 2600, which is a bunch of geeks drinking and talking in the Angel pub.

I think thursday is electronic projects evening at South London Makerspace close to Herne Hill station.

There is an OWASP thing for website security and pubstandards which is webdevs and geeks drinking in a pub.

Specifically 27MHz CB radio.

People miles away can hear your conversations with your friends.

Sometimes in the daytime the radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, the noise level goes way up and local chatting range is reduced because stations from 600 miles to thousands of miles away are coming in.

In the days when it was popular trolling assholes would jam and disrupt. people up on a hill with an illegal high power amplifier talked over people.

In the 1970s and 1980s high power AM transmissions sometimes blasted out of the neighbors cheaply-made hifi or scrambled their TV picture.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...

The eleven meter wavelength means you need a reasonably large antenna for good performance.

These days it is local CB is almost dead in most places and the noise level is often high in towns due to every house having a dozen switch mode power supplies and other electronics, which really reduces the range.

Decades ago, when it was popular, it was chaotic. Some CB radios did not receive well if someone nearby was talking within a few channels of you. Meet ups at pubs sometimes turned into fist fights.

These days, in most of Europe and the UK you may sometimes hear the last few old men and crazy nitwits that still use CB radio but they are often far away and a legal 4watt radio does not get out far enough for anyone to hear you.

1) Old laptop (because it has separate volume control and loudspeakers) that once an hour plays an audio file of a voice saying "are you wearing your glasses?". Perhaps even "Time to stand up, stretch, drink some water, check the CO2 level, check you are wearing your glasses and sit with good posture" if you want to take automated nannying to the next level.

2) From a brief google it looks like computer vision can be used to detect if a person is wearing glasses. A software development project with openCV running on a raspberry pi using a webcam to detect if you are wearing your glasses. Perhaps programmed to only activate during working hours. Perhaps it could flash some red LEDs.

They paid some fines that they show no sign of caring about.

A possible disadvantage is that specifying a single ip to listen on means the http server won't listen on your LAN ip address, which you might want.

"The USA fought a war in part because they did not like the use of general writs of assistance to allow agents of the British King to search peoples houses and papers where their suspicion chanced to fall. The UK lost that war so no way!"

https://clonespy.com/features/

I find it useful for finding that I have four copies of a 50MB pdf in different folders, that kind of thing. If I want to free a few gigabytes of diskspace without too much mental effort then a scan to see what the biggest files that I have more than one copy of can work for me.

It is Windows only and closed source.

I presume it calculates a hash for every file then compares the hashes.

I would like a version that I can run on Linux and that nicely handles things like filenames with unusual characters.

I knew those tones as CCITT5 tones.

In the days of blueboxing I had a 486 laptop that I acquired because the harddrive died and booted from floppys, a DOS program called 'The Little Operator' that played tones and a photocopy of a book about telephone switching.

I would be a little worried about the possibility that the SEC would consider this to be an investment contract, thus making it a security, thus requiring it to be registered with the SEC, which will be a huge hassle involving very expensive lawyers.

I point to the case of LBRY inc, which issued tokens including rewarding people who made video content, spent a fortune fighting the SEC in court and went bankrupt.

There is the issue that the company would be forbidden to issue equity to some people such as people in sanctioned countries.

Same as all p2p systems, Retroshare has the problem of NATs and firewalls preventing two thirds of the users from directly exchanging data.