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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • I had to do install drawings/instructions at my last job. The number of times I just wanted to put “install according to all local codes”. I’m looking at 15 year old architectural drawings, never seen the building, don’t know shit about where anything actually is. They’re big boys and will figure it out. I was in aerospace before that and was like we did less documentation. I hate MEP.










  • Phones evolved into pocket PCs but they were and still are primarily radios. Radios that YOU personally aren’t licensed to operate, the phone manufacturer/carrier is. Open source OSs would allow users to operate those radios, which means they could develop communications using cell carrier bands without a license. Imagine meshtastic at 50x the bitrate and everybody and their grandma already has the hardware. Why would people keep paying $60/mo to have every communication recorded and given to the government?

    The current telecommunications system is the most powerful mass surveillance tool to ever exist. That’s not something that will be dismantled easily.




  • They aren’t just still out there, they’re now being made again. Not by the same company(I assume), but the same width is popular now with gen A I think. Since skinny jeans where officially labeled as “out” in 2016 and I’ve been waiting for wider jeans to get to jnco level and they did. It’s glorious and even funnier the second time around.