[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 63 points 3 weeks ago

An SEO specialist walks into a bar, saloon, watering hole, place to get drinks, neighborhood bar, dive bar, best mixed drinks, beer on tap...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 52 points 2 months ago

If you're OOTL, it's a reference to the Republican posting about being a black nazi on a porn site https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mark-robinson-black-nazi-porn-forum-1235107129/

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 57 points 2 months ago

this was always bound to happen as we expand our presence in space.

Yes and no


from a different article:

Radiation associated with Starlink satellites was detected at observing frequencies between 110 and 188 MHz, which is well below the 10.7- 12.7 GHz radio frequencies used for the downlink communication signals.

(The original article said 5M radiation, which should be around 60MHz.)

So Starlink is emitting RF in spectrum where they shouldn't, which is avoidable, but takes effort.

My guess, and I could be wrong, is that this could be related to something other than the radio(s), such as switching power supplies finding opportunistic structures from which to radiate.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 59 points 2 months ago

An incidental exchange of earwax with your (romantic/sexual/life) partner is


how do I put this?


not particularly noteworthy for a lot of folks...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 57 points 2 months ago

California has optional mail ballots for everyone. Can't imagine voting without it


I can fill out my ballot at my leisure, researching measures when I have time. No need to remember anything or make a cheat sheet for election day. And no standing in line.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 51 points 3 months ago

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 57 points 4 months ago

Apparently an unpopular take, but wouldn't the world (or at least, this country...) be a better place if the folks who became cops were the type of people who were also considering being a librarian?

Basically it seems like the ACAB mindset is in part self-fulfilling: "cops are bastards , I'm not a bastard, therefore I won't be a cop." Ok, so now some bastard who is less qualified than you becomes a cop, with no competition from you.

I get that the institution of policing in this country is deeply flawed; but is what we're currently doing really working?

Maybe a progressive, grass roots "infiltration" of the police is doomed to fail, I dunno. But I'm not sure we'll ever find out.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 60 points 4 months ago

In an undergrad electronics lab class, the TA suggested I put the function generator leads on my tongue, and play with the parameters. Obviously I know what an applied DC voltage "tastes" like, but he suggested AC, sweeping the frequency. Sure enough, above a certain frequency (want to say 10s to 100s of Hz?), I couldn't feel it at all.

Fun stuff.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 55 points 5 months ago

My company did it the right way


they gave us the day off.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 53 points 6 months ago

Minimum wage shouldn't be a dollar amount, it should be a living amount defined in a reasonable and realistic way. (Probably should be region dependent, too?)

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 62 points 8 months ago

Not to be that guy...but there are no WireGuard servers or clients, only peers. Some setups "look" like clients, some "look" like servers, but it's peers all the way down.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 53 points 9 months ago

Possibly because a zip code implies you live in the US instead of your own sovereign state.

Or something...probably giving these folks too much credit here...

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