The org I work for won't allow agpl packages or code to be used or deployed. It's too much of a risk.

I built a theremin in the early 80s for a school project. Had to get the local library to obtain books and other printed resources on it so I could make one. Sadly no pictures survive, and the device itself is long gone. Didn't think to document it at the time, beyond the hand in materials for the project. I was 14. I have wondered about getting a modern one though. They're so cool.

very easy to block and filter to your tastes.

As far as I know you can deliberately choose who you follow (like on Twitter) and which algorithm you use to compose your feed (unlike Twitter). It gives me more power to decide what is important to me and what isn't. How is that not an improvement?

I used to use 128Kbps bonded ISDN at home through BT Home Highway and an ISP called Red Hot Ant who had fixed price unmetered internet access.

And I accessed the heck out of that connection (until the ISP went bust, wonder why?), and was very much a Q3A LPB during that time.

then half the time for us it will not hear the announcement, so we say 'alexa announce' again, and it announces "ALEXA ANNOUNCE" all over the house.

This is what’s happening to us.

Same, announcements are kind of flaky. My usual command is "Alexa, announce <whatever to announce>" - half the time she asks what I want to announce, 20% of the time she announces "announce", 30% of the time it works as expected.

If i'm already on my phone sometimes I'll just type the announcement in the Alexa app instead.

Same exact thing, now we know that we have to say the full announcement the second time we trigger Alexa.

my credentials aren't mine if I can't securely back them up and secure them in a platform independent way.

That attack on KeepassXC is despicable.

If you own the device the credits are stored on then they are yours.

This very much falls into the same box as “not your keys, not your crypto”: if you’re forced to trust someone else to manage the keys for you then they have them - necessarily, in order to permit “transfer” (under this scheme, not everything) to another party - in plaintext, while you’re not allowed to “for your own good”, then you’ve lost it all.

They can: 1. Impersonate you, gaining access to anything your keys unlock 1.a. Impersonate you, claiming to be you in a violation of “key use enables non-repudiation” 2. Deny you the ability to use your keys 2.a. Change any of your keys, locking you out of things 3. Deny you the ability to transfer your keys to anyone they “don’t like” 3. Provide your keys to anyone else, e.g. “with a court order” 3.a. Anyone “benefitting” under (3) can then do (1(a)) …and surely more Bad Things.

Every single time “passkeys” seems to like “okay, maybe”… some fucktards pull another one of these.

Then I go, “okay, ssh keys, PIV, or whatever else is Just Fine, and these people who are either state agents, idiots, or power hungry idiots working to advance total control over humans with lack of freedom and no way back can go die, or as an alternative be sentenced to serious computer-things-reeducation”. …and I kinda mean it. There are certain things you just don’t come back from, as a society, etc. and I just won’t support it. You only get one chance not to.

I went to first school (3 tier system, first, middle, high) in the 1970s and we played conkers in the school yard in the 1970s, and into the mid 80s in middle school too. By the time I reached high school they'd been banned.

I see parents and children collecting horse chestnuts in the local market square and arboretum still today though, and it brings back fond memories of rapped knuckles and entanglement "clingy-niner's" or "clinchies" in some games, depending who you were playing with.

That's a colossal number of tapes. The few I found that had been stored in boxes since the 80s had mould on them, hopefully the collection doesn't have mould.