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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Honest question, are there any reasons why a private citizen performing this sort of thing would be legally less of a problem than the state?

From a philosphical perspective I'm all for catching mail thieves. But I would get a little twitchy hearing that the police are mailing tracking devices. And I would be more or less ok with a private citizen helping to "catch the bad guy" with their security camera, but I do not want police surveillance cameras on my street, thank you very much.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What's really neat linguistically is that "helicopter" isn't a compound of "heli" and "copter," but rather "helico" (as in helix, helical) and "pter" (as in pterodactyl).

"Rebracketing" is when this happens (i.e., the split in the word is moved in colloquial language).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Does the stock necessarily get liquidated for these sorts of transactions though?

Obviously if I owe the bank $100, they will want that in cash, not in $SPY or whatever. But for the Twitter levels of debt could stock just be transferred without being sold first? (Not a rhetorical question, I don't know how this works.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Where does $25M come from? ~260 work days in a year, and using the full 18k each way, is a little under $10M: $18,000×2×260 = $9,360,000

Still a ridiculous transportation bill, of course...

Edit: I think you increased the 18k by a factor of two instead of decreased, and used all 360 days instead of weekdays: $18,000×2×2×360 =$25.92M

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Any chance you have a DMZ set up on your router?

On your router, are there any settings specific to any host (other than the server maybe)? For example, a static IP or a port forwarded rule.

Do you have a VPN on the phones? Can you traceroute from your phone to the server and post that? (I like PingTools for Android.) You should have 1 hop (you -> server, nothing in between).

Can you verify that you are on the same wifi including same wifi channel? Phone on 5GHz but Linux box on 2.4GHz, for example.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Some mobile clients make it easy to accidentally downvote. I sometimes see that I accidentally downvoted a comment from time to time.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

PingTools has been useful for me (though I mostly just use it for iperf).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 3 months ago

Anybody want a peanut?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 3 months ago

People need to stop buying the thinnest thing

Yeah, I think one of the problems is that thin is a familiar and commonly reported spec for a display. If MTTF were reported


and it should be!


then I think the problem would sort itself out.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Would a Buddhist bluff at poker?

(They say yes, bluffing in poker is fine, but false shit talking/"you should fold because my hand is so much better trust me!" is perhaps to be avoided.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago

I have an old Nexus 6P, spiritually the Pixel 0.

Replaced the battery at some point, and it's now entered service as the toddler's entertainment on airplanes.

It's old and slow, but the screen still looks really good.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

Maybe not a warrant, and IANAL, but government agencies aren't necessarily at liberty to share information amongst themselves. For instance, IRS needs a court order to share returns with law enforcement (IRC Section 6103(i)(1)).

But yeah...this seems like maybe not a super great solution...

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