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Hope it doesn't break automatically since dealers are expensive.

The category is NTN: Non-Terrestrial Networks.

406 PLB's - monitored by satellite - Garmin InReach Explorer+ looks alright and doesn't need a special factory battery replacement. 121.5 ELTs - requiring sar aircraft proximity - …

No, it was just corporate MDM managed to prevent it. :)

and Dick Tracy. We haven't arrived at full tricorder yet though.

Regan didn't understand social services or mental healthcare, and so eliminated them.

Millennial... zzz...

That's how my apt door smart lock works. There's no keyway to pick or bump. It's a momentary clutch operated electrically that grabs the bolt mechanism. If you want to force your w…

Why when they can use denial, cognitive dissonance, and red herrings?

Haha. That's a low bar. I want "frustrating and tormenting crooks to no end."

$10 for 1 L of Smart Water. Is it wise?

It's not magic. Most reputable locksmiths possess roughly these skills to nondestructively open locks for customers. Heck, with the $15k programmer setup, I can make you an infinit…

That's a chicken-little argument of false equivocation. There is often to always a level of security sufficient to make forced entry too costly.

37/80 + 14KS. It's a tight fit, heavy, and expensive but they work.

A friend of mine got his $5k bike stolen in the middle of downtown Mountain View in plain sight. If you don't use something like an ABUS 37/80 + 14KS, your shit is going to get jac…

Good luck, naïve foreigner: I don't think you realize or appreciate how violent and unsafe most of Oakland is. You're likely to be robbed at gun- or knife-point by multiple assaila…

Obsession with news (gossip) is usually a sign of procrastination.

Where immutable infrastructure isn't possible, asynchronous configuration management with file and package watching, auto-sharding changes, and auto-retrying binary downloading dev…

Those who can't tend to hurl negativity and sabotage at those who do. Or people who are too dumb or lazy to try language X or approach Y (minus fads) tend to reiterate how wonderfu…

When consultants suggest a "new" fad, they're all about charging money to help businesses adopt that fad to avoid FOMO. Predictably, there will be a new fad next year and the year …

sed, grep, and find are radically different on macOS (4.4BSD + early FreeBSD + many hacks since).

Where does asdf hide bats? I don't see the source of it. Austin maybe?

We've know about P-waves for at least 60+ years. The "early warning" ability is dependent on the speed of light exceeding the propagation delay of physical motion. In case anyone w…

There was a USGS project floated around 2012 to use 1k-100k smartphones and their accelerometers to identifying precursor events and gather higher-resolution when analyzed together…