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Service monitor?


A Communications service monitor is a tool for servicing radios. Until recently, most large organizations used VHF/UHF FM radio for communications on dedicated channels. A service monitor is a tool that can usually absorb the full output power of these radios while measuring power, frequency, distortion, etc. They can also generate a variety of signals for aligning receivers.

Most of the older, affordable models go from almost DC to 1 Ghz. I've got an IFR 2947a, which goes up to 1.05 Ghz.

Here's an example from ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/168770412399

Here's a specification sheet for the one I have, a pdf

https://www.testmart.com/webdata/mfr_pdfs/aerofl/2947a.pdf


Heh, those are a lot shinier than the Cushman my father used when he serviced mobile/handheld police/fire transceivers 20-30 years ago :P


imbecile!


- I have to change batteries of zigbee devices maybe every three years or so

- how often do you have to change your cameras' batteries, or are you accepting ugly wiring for powering from mains?

- how many cameras do you have installed to cover your home?

- IP cameras are flaky, too

- constantly sending images of one's private space to a cloud LLM is Orwellian

- are you polling your LLM minutewise "Did the cat vomit on the floor"?


PoE cameras solve all of the cameras problems. Just drag a cable, it's one time bother and if you're clever it won't be any uglier than camera itself


> how often do you have to change your cameras' batteries, or are you accepting ugly wiring for powering from mains

Meh (a) I want security and cat-monitoring cameras anyway (b) I'm willing to take the effort to install cameras neatly since they're capable of serving as 100 different sensors

> constantly sending images of one's private space to a cloud LLM is Orwellian

I agree. I have a local server with a GPU. The security side of things records to a local NVR. Nothing goes to the cloud.

> IP cameras are flaky, too

haven't had nearly as many problems here

> are you polling your LLM minutewise "Did the cat vomit on the floor"?

Kind of, but it only re-polls if the camera detected motion, and then every 15 minutes as a catch-all.


agreed it's Orwellian. fortunately, open-weight VLMs you can run on a Mac mini or a strix Halo are more than adequate for this task.


blaming the victim


Added to the fact that, if I recall correctly, according to US law it's a breach even if the data is publicly available but unintentionally.

Refer: Weev AT&T


Which is mad, really.


It seems pretty fundamental concept in most modern civilizations. Pick pocketing and purse snatching is illegal despite the property being publicly accessible. We do need reliable courts to determine intent.


That's not really the same, though. If a website has content publicly available, that you should "take", how can a bot determine what it means to publish and what it accidentally published?


Yes, how can a bot determine that? Humans make a judgement call and take responsibility. And maybe a judge makes a judgement if it was a crime or a mistake.


Absolutely.

It is, however, a glowing beacon of an example of law being designed to maintain the status quo and/or protect companies at the expense of individuals.

As someone else said, welcome to late stage capitalism.


I don't see why, and I've no idea what "late stage capitalism" is, other than people like to repeat the phrase.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism#Later_modern_u...

Essentially the emergent properties of extended concentration of power and wealth.


That definition doesn't hold up, though, as Socialism, monarchy, and theocracy all actually combine wealth and power into the top-level institution. So that definition is far too broad.

Also, capitalism is the only one that puts power with the government and money in the hands of a market, which means it's one of the only systems that that definition doesn't apply to.


It is a phrase which implies that capitalism is about to collapse any minute, and that Karl Marx told us so. Marxists have been saying we're in late stage capitalism for nearly 150 years now.


And when the victim doesn't do reasonable actions to safeguard, yes, they are also partially responsible.

If I hooked up a whole server infrastructure, made it possible to remote in to anything as root, no firewalls, no WAF, and security was an afterthought, I would still be responsible for bad actions not becoming with standard and acceptable security.

Even if the hackers shouldnt be hacking, I still did it wrong. I'm still partially responsible.


Not yet, as they haven't given details out. If they were not following standard security practices, then absolutely.


The government is not the victim, the public are. The government is responsible for protecting the public from attackers. Asking the government to do their job is not blaming the victim.


Also https://radicle.dev/guides/protocol#transport-encryption--pr...

"Transport Encryption & Privacy: Connections between peers in the Radicle network are encrypted using a Noise protocol handshake. [...] After the handshake phase is completed, all data exchanged between peers is fully encrypted and benefits from strong forward secrecy, ensuring secure and private communications across the network."


good luck auditing all transitive dependencies


A Severe Misalignment of AI in human-centered Mathematics


didn't find a single audio file; only links to unaffiliated YouTube videos which want me to watch ads first.

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”


I feel that quote more likely is pointed at "music appreciation" as a written work, versus understanding the theory. I know a few musicians who are happy to use terminology from theory, "I love to write songs with diminished and sustained chords".

This seems like a great resource to me, a classically trained pianist who is now playing different types of music.


There are several music samples in there...

Example: https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/DiatonicChordsInMaj...


skill issue.


how many babies are there smoking and drinking alcohol?


Babies are around second hand smoke and it was relatively common for very young children to be given cigarettes to curb appetite if no food was available.

I'm not sure if that happened here but these are a few reasons you might see an impact on children.


It was common to give young children cigarettes? Source?


Prior to 1970? Almost all of them. Or enough to be statistically significant.


In many parts of Europe prior to 1970, it was very common for children to be given watered down wine.


The cool ones? You ever see the old Joe Camel ads?


It used to be common to give babies a tiny amount of brandy to sooth them. Second hand smoke is a thing.


Holy bad faith argument


second hand smoke


In the womb.


> contain between 4 and 12 letters

PAX

https://www.ikea.com/de/en/cat/pax-system-19086/


Is also a Swedish word, though slang, the imperative form of paxa which basically means the same as "dibs!" If I know my english colloquialisms correctly.


PAX has been around since 1992 so probably predates any "rules"


The exception that proves the rule :)

It reminds some system - they didn’t allow “other” category for sorting features, but someone came with “999” :)


Clue to their DB setup?


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