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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s illegal to transmit music

    True, for obvious reasons

    it’s illegal to transmit anything encrypted unless you’re controlling a satellite

    True, it helps to ensure nothing illegal is going on and enforce keeping commercial interests out. It’s a self regulating space, one of the only cases I know of that tends to work due to there being no monetary interests allowed. The point is to communicate information, not hide it.

    it’s illegal to transmit anything for commercial purposes.

    True, the whole point is to keep commercial interests out. That’s what “amateur” means.

    illegal to transmit anything on a regular basis that could reasonably be communicated some other way.

    False. This is for something like a non-profit wanting to use radios for their operations, they should be steered toward another service like gmrs, FRS, murs, etc. instead of amateur radio.


  • Yes, the guardian app allows you to send encrypted messages through their app to their journalists. 100,000 people check the news, one person is whistleblowing. That one person’s messaging traffic is mixed in with the regular news data, so it’s not possible to tell which of those 100,000 people are the source. Signal messages travel through their servers, so anyone inspecting packets can see who is sending messages through signal, just not what the messages contain. Thats a big red arrow pointing to only people sending encrypted messages. With this implementation, those people are mixed in with everyone else just reading news or even just having the app on their device.







  • Shouldn’t be too bad. It’ll take a while, but you grab an example you have now in word, tweak it until it works in libreoffice and you’re done. The biggest issue I’ve had was constant transitions between the two. If you just move to one it’s a rough start moving, but once you’re there you just edit as always. Word isn’t even that great at keeping it’s own formatting, so it won’t be anything new except for learning a new program. it might get difficult once you get to links and embedding, I haven’t tried that in libreoffice so I can’t speak to whether it’s harder or not.

    Beyond that, you should be pdf-ing any finalized documents anyway.


  • Same. I’ve always added Ubuntu to my list of “where to start Linux” with a suggestion to move on once you get comfortable with how Linux works, but I think I’ll be removing it completely from my recommendations.

    I was mostly annoyed at the constant ads for their support in my server every time I logged in, so I moved over to Debian on that. Desktop was changed later on to fedora/opensuse for some reason.