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I'd be more free with putting it in my Github, HN Profile, Reddit, and other places if it didn't fully dox me.
One factor that I bring up whenever the “ham radio is dying” discussion happen is the FCC public database and safety/doxxing, specifically for marginalized communities such as Trans individuals and Black folks. It, itself, is creating a safety concern in modern society for people that may want to join the hobby but fear doxxing and harassment.
If I give out my call sign on the Internet (or on the air) you now know my real name, address, and every past address I’ve ever used. So let’s say I registers as Bob Smith at 123 Fake St 4 years ago, and now I go by Susan Smith at 456 Example Blvd you’d know all that information with a simple lookup.
The only real semi-workaround is when someone first licenses (and you probably don’t know this at first) is to use a PO Box, otherwise any address change will be on record.
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A tenant in a single unit/house will easily drop the price by 10% or more from my experience trying to buy a single family home in SoCal in 2016.
As well, who can afford to rent these units? The mortgage/break-even point for for a $8mil value would be $37,825 a month.
A 24pk of Rx Renal cat food went from 5.8oz to 5.1oz[1]. I buy two packs at a time and what used to cost $113.76 is now $114.72 Effectively they're charging me an extra buck to keep 33.6oz (5.7 old-cans / 6.5 new-cans) of cat food from me.
[1] https://www.chewy.com/royal-canin-veterinary-diet-renal/dp/2...
Though, After using Ruckus in Corp/Enterprise they've sold me on how capable their APs are, it's real deal high density stuff.
Eg, if the wait time is long for my group in the US/UK/Wherever, can I book a flight to UAE or Cuba to get a vaccine at the airport?
A comparable high-brightness 1080p display is about the same price [1], but uses a lot more electricity and from my experience with them, they have definite lifespan (2-4yrs, despite the 100k hours light lifetime claim) if they're running 24/7.
I'm at a livestreaming service / production company that uses Vimeo as our primary.
An outage like this when (as an example) "Procter & Gamble" is giving their yearly sales conference via a livestream due to COVID (instead of a large corporate event at a convention center) can cause a company to loose them as a client.
LA Public Library as an example: https://www.lapl.org/books-emedia/e-media
If I give out my call sign on the Internet (or on the air) you now know my real name, address, and every past address I’ve ever used. So let’s say I registers as Bob Smith at 123 Fake St 4 years ago, and now I go by Susan Smith at 456 Example Blvd you’d know all that information with a simple lookup.
The only real semi-workaround is when someone first licenses (and you probably don’t know this at first) is to use a PO Box, otherwise any address change will be on record.
Previously, in the 1980’s, yes I could see a Taxi/Plumber/etc using amateur radio equipment as a cheaper workaround for their business, but now it’s so much cheaper (and better) to use cellular or, if you really needed business radios they aren’t crazy expensive as they once were.
It's a common attack on public goods: Amtrak & USPS, but would never be asked of the Military or FEMA.
As a southern Californian, I can attest to this. It's pathetic that our bars have last call at 2am (effectively many close at 1:30a).
There's been push after push to get last-call to 4am like it is in NY but they never go anywhere in the state legislature.
Van Halen, at the time, were doing the largest stadium stage show ever. Most tours were 2 semi-trucks of speakers and lighting, VH were ~10+. Due to the never before done scale of the show rigging weight limits are critical. Not following it could lead to a stage collapse.
VH put the brown M&M’s in the middle of the weight requirement rider. This way the production crew could easily see if the local producer actually read the rider by seeing a bowl of brown M&M’s.
For myself, late 30’s IT profesional, I’ve found the European Twitter scene of Satnogs, Amateur TV, QO-100, and microwave comms much more interesting than anything that’s come out of the LF OMs in the states. Hell, I saw a French person create a high speed VHF/UHF system that’s technically illegal in the US due to regulations/encryption.
What I have seen from Reddit is there’s a lot of “listener” trans operators and one huge roadblock is the FCC open database of full names and addresses, past and present. Even myself, I almost never give out my call sign online since it has my government name and home addresses, even If I’ve updated to a PO Box it still has historical info. I can only imagine what it’s like for a LGBTQ person in the Midwest calling CQ and being deadnamed, or worse in return.
In my ideal world Amateur Radio would be packed to the gills by people of all stripes using it as free communication for ad-hoc cell phone networks, free WiFi/internet, and DIY wireless systems. I know there’s limitations but politically I want it to become available and free for everyone against the oppression of paying for communications.