It is! High density altitude results in lower engine horsepower.

There’s a difference between encryption and encoding, and that difference is intent.

Encoding is the process of imparting a digital message onto the radio carrier. A simple example is Morse code; transmitted by keying a continuous wave on and off in pre-determined patterns of long and short pulses with long and short gaps between. Frequency shift keying and bodot code are the encoding scheme behind RTTY, etc. Hams are permitted to experiment with novel encoding schemes, and have invented a few, PSK31 comes to mind, a phase shift keying standard designed to use commonly available PC sound cards as a modem.

Encryption is the process of obscuring the message for all but the intended recipient. There is one specific case the law calls out when this is permissible in Amateur radio service, and that’s control signals of Amateur radio satellites. A novel encoding scheme, like making up your own alphabet instead of the standard Morse one, or ciphers of any kind that are intended to make the message secret, is illegal.

It’s not uncommon to hear encrypted communiques on the ham bands; I’ve picked them up myself. You want a fun rabbit hole to fall down, look up numbers stations. Some serious cold war james bond bullshit.

I don’t believe it is legal to send a PGP encrypted message over the air (on ham radio, go ahead and send it over Wi-Fi, you can encrypt the shit out of that) even if you’ve posted your private key on your website. What would even be the point of that? tilts head It might be legal to send a PGP signed message over ham radio; if I understand correctly that’s basically a checksum that can guarantee the sender’s possession of a private key.

Get into ham radio if you like radios, that’s pretty much the only topic you’ll find on the air.

It’s illegal to transmit music, it’s illegal to transmit anything encrypted unless you’re controlling a satellite, it’s illegal to transmit anything for commercial purposes, and it’s actually illegal to transmit anything on a regular basis that could reasonably be communicated some other way.

I’ve been asking Google Gemini weird and stupid trivia questions just to burn the world down faster.

I mean, does anyone actually communicate on the ham bands? HF is for contesting and contesting only, 2 meters is for “checking in and out” on ragchew nets, 70cm is 2m again except half the range, 220 is hipster 2 meter, and I’ve never been given a reason to even think about 33cm and above. You’re more likely to find discussion about Icom vs Yaesu’s incompatible 2 meter digital things than high UHF.

Most actual communication is illegal on the ham bands one way or another so…I haven’t renewed my license.

My next thought would be to find a use for the heat; colocate the data center with some other facility that needs massive quantities of heat. I remember something about a spa that heated its pools with computers (I think mining bitcoin, but still). I’ve also been curious if heat pumps could get hot enough to bake bread at industrial scales. Pump heat out of a data center and into a bigass bread oven?

The “scam” seemed to be “Look, a woman. Give us money.” Like, it was so obviously a scam that I started wondering what was really going on.

What do datacenters need large volumes of running water for? Can they not do a continuous loop? It’s for cooling computers, right? That can’t be done with a closed loop of water?

As others have said, an alert if the tank is full would be legitimately useful, for a model that doesn’t have a drain line.

First out of sixty-five.

Yeah, we’re gonna blow the shit out of the sky.

In the words of Dr. Glaucomflecken, “Yeah, so Fourth of July weekend is when the general public decides to dabble in explosives.”

We are united because no individual state in the union has the capacity to become the world’s largest economy or sole superpower. Together we managed it.

Can incubators not be made out of PET? why not accept and recycle the whole bottle?

Do like Japan with ammunition. You have to turn in your spent cases to buy more.

I’m used to taking care of a cat with fur. Izzy gets weekly brushings to help reduce hairballs and otherwise she does a good job washing herself.

So what’s high viz jacket florescent yellow?

Well get a cat with fur next time like a normal person.

I’m being flippant, I don’t really have anything against sphinx cats. I don’t really want to own one because my furry cat is enough of a struggle to keep warm, but I would like to meet a sphinx some day.

Do they need therapy? Or do they need a world they can actually fucking live in?

It’s not like either one is available to them.

It’s on the docket, It may be winter before I get around to it.