Justin Williams

Hacker, Coder, Geek

[Justin Williams @Jaywalker]

Their annoying commercials on Hulu on endless repeat have guaranteed that no matter the price, I'll never use @LibertyMutual

[cemaxecuter @cemaxecuter]

Meshtastic-Sniffer: full ISM band, all 9 presets, 1024 channels concurrent, 26z Msps on a b205mini. Commits pushed. Now to finally get a video together..

https://t.co/uHcAureREE

[Alain K1FM @k1fm]

HF Packet in a browser tab. No install, no drivers, no SDR.

Plug your Icom into USB, open Chrome, you're on the air:
→ https://t.co/mmasi9SaYg

Also: Digital Voice (RADE), SSB, CW decode, FT8. All in the same tab.

[Justin Williams @Jaywalker]

@LundukeJournal Yeah, try typing ls -l on it.. Its terrible for Linux work. Used it for far too long lol

[comma @comma_ai]

Who needs systemd?

Next release, comma four boots 2x faster, with just 250 lines of bash replacing systemd.

[Justin Williams @Jaywalker]

They always have to do these pranks in liberal areas or non-free countries, otherwise they have guns pulled on them more often than not

[Johnny B. Good @Cat5SMASHICANE]

This prank is literally next level. Im not sure how they were able to pull it off in an elevator but it worked as good as it gets. Poor mask wearing woman will never be the same. 🤣🤣👻

[Just Posting Ls @MomsPostingLs]

New Wealth Hack just Dropped

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

The XLibre page on the Arch Linux Wiki has been deleted, with the following reason given:

“The Xlibre project goes against [Arch Linux Code of Conduct] and should not be listed on ArchWiki.”

The deletion appears to have been done by Alad Wenter, an Arch package maintainer and Wiki Administrator.

https://t.co/P1kO1JVrhP

[K3RRR @K3TripleR]

Tired of the low data rate on the old-styled tradditional packet radio? Here comes the NEW PACKET RADIO by French Ham F4HDK. NPR-70 means new packet radio over 70cm band. The NPR-70 is a open source project posted on HACKADAY.

The modem’s protocol is designed by F4HDK, without any encryption, which meets the regulations by amateur radio laws. Meanwhile, the modem has a built-in radio transceiver with 500mW RF power output, so there is no additional external radio needed for transmitting and receiving radio signals. You may add a RF power amplifier to boost the 500mW. The configuration of the modem could be done from a PC via telnet or USB-serial Terminal, no additional softwares needed.

Now authorized by the original author F4HDK, https://t.co/XuCiU6BXqZ is proud to produce the NPR-70 modem kit for https://t.co/bs1fINV6OL can either buy an assembled unit or buy a true kit which needs to be soldered and assembled by yourself.

https://t.co/IYqYJXApkO

[Justin Williams @Jaywalker]

@DylanSi44004586 @AlfinCodes No, but they haven't stated clearly that they will not be doing it. Artix has.

[Justin Williams @Jaywalker]

@LexnLin https://t.co/5DwUrYE6XS - currently not working with the official client https://t.co/jNAkuwyYq3

[Tim Hwang @timhwang]

Psalm 34:1 - "I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth."

We investigate whether injecting biblical Psalms into a large language model's system prompt produces measurable changes in performance on standardized ethical reasoning benchmarks.

[Justin Williams @Jaywalker]

@elonmusk Tesla Minivan ETA wen? I hate SUVs and crossovers, they're ugly. Build something better than the Sienna please, I know you can! #minivan #slidingdoors

[Justin Williams @Jaywalker]

@TheOnlyFronk @elonmusk You can also get a @comma_ai in loads of vehicles. Not exactly FSD, but pretty close! I make interstate trips with mine all the time and barely have to interact with the vehicle at all

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Okay, time to explain guns to our new friends.

Every day, when I leave the house, I attach a holstered handgun to my belt, under my shirt or coat.

I would no more leave the house without a gun than I would walk around outdoors without shoes.

Is it because I "need" a gun?

No.

I live in rural Tennessee, which is state in the American south. It's very safe here. The dangerous parts of America are big cities where the local government is leftist, and they shelter illegal migrant from the third world, and won't send violent criminals to prison. Places like Chicago and New York City.

Yet, any time I leave the house, I put on a gun, knowing that I will probably never have to use it, and if I do, it will probably be on an aggressive stray dog, not a human.

So why do I do it?

Why do many other people who live around me do it?

Why do we do this so much that carrying a gun is considered totally normal? If someone spotted it, it would not even arouse a comment, much less any fear.

In fact, it is legal to carry a gun openly here, without covering it up. Covering it up is just considered polite.

So.... why?

Well, try thinking of an English nobleman, during the reign of Elizabeth the First. When he dressed to go ride to court, he would hang a slender fencing sword, called a rapier or smallsword, from his belt.

He didn't expect to be attacked.

He didn't even expect to fight a duel. And if he was challenged to a duel, he wouldn't need his sword right then. He would meet his challenger later at an agreed-upon place and time.

No, he wore his sword because it was an expression of who he was. He was a gentleman, a person of status, with the legal privilege of carrying a sword.

By carrying a sword, he asserted his rights and prerogatives as a nobleman.

In Japan, you had the same sort of thing happening. The samurai, members of the bushi class, wore the two swords not because they expected to be attacked at any moment, but because the two swords were an essential part of who he was.

So, in these two cases, weapons were carried by noblemen as an assertion of status. They had the right to do so, and they did so in order to assert, exercise, and retain the right.

Americans carry guns because every American citizen is a nobleman.

When we fought the British for our independence, that war began on April 19th, 1775, when British troops, fearing American rebelliousness, marched out from Boston to confiscate guns from people living in the surrounding countryside.

Our ancestors did not submit to this. We shot them instead, and they fled back to Boston with their tails between their legs, to cower under the cover of the guns from the warship HMS Sommerset.

Thus began several years of war.

And when we won that war, we made a country where no government, and no man, would ever be allowed to disarm the people.

No agent of the government may say to us, "I may have a gun, and you may not."

Because to say that is to say "I am a nobleman, and you are a peasant. I am a master, and you are a slave."

We are not peasants here. We are all noblemen. That is the most basic principle of what it means to be an American.

I can be impoverished, so I can to be so poor that I live in a van down by the river. But however reduced my circumstances, as an American, I still have the rights and freedoms of a nobleman, of a daimyo, because that is the basic founding idea of the nation we forged on that day.

If you come to America to visit, if you walk among us, you will pass many people carrying guns. You will not notice this. You will not see them. You will witness no violence. Everything will be normal. But the guns will be there.

Because that is who we are.

We don't carry guns to be violent. We don't wish to be rude, or to intimidate people. We keep our guns covered up.

But they are the deepest, most essential part of what it means to be American.

[Dodge This Security @shotgunner101]

Translation, Ubuntu wants law enforcement and hackers to access your files freely. All in the name of "security". 🤪

Anyone who thinks this isn't coordinated is insane.....

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

“Liberated systemd” is a systemd fork which removes the recently added Age Verification supporting functionality.

This is exactly how Open Source is supposed to work.

Don’t like the direction a project is going? Fork it!

https://t.co/tnqVRqRitd

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Will FreeDOS implement Age Verification to comply with new laws?

Short answer: No. And FreeDOS may be forced to restrict access in areas with such laws.

I reached out to Jim Hall, the founder of FreeDOS (the popular, GPL licensed MS-DOS compatible system), to ask what he thought.

After discussing it, their team decided that, while laws like California AB-1043 are written in such a way that they apply to all Operating Systems, including FreeDOS…

“The consensus is there's no way for DOS (any DOS) to meet [California law] AB-1043 because no DOS has the mechanisms to do that. I know some Linux distributions are discussing the option of putting a notice on their website  to the effect of "if you live in California, you should not use this because of AB-1043." That sucks, but that's also a path we've talked about too, mainly because we don't have a Foundation to cover us, we're just a group of volunteer developers.”