Why does it matter if someone chooses to wear a mask or not? Maybe it’s a great excuse to avoid facial recognition software.

Sunglasses are better for that. The idiots trying to ban masks aren’t trying to fight crime, they just want to normalize spreading illness.

I wear a respirator whenever I’m in an indoor public space like a store, and I also don’t spend more time in those spaces than I have to. I go into the store and get what I need, but I generally don’t linger around browsing stuff. That means I probably buy less stuff, which is good for my wallet as well. But politicians hate that. They want us out there spending. That’s why they are trying to play down covid risks. So they hate mask and respirator usage since it reminds others that the virus is still out there.

You ought to wear a respirator (N95) rather than a mask (those baggy blue procedure masks). Respirators help keep you from getting sick.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/the-people-who-plan-on-wearing-masks-forever.html

I’m still wearing mine and we are in a covid surge right now. We can talk again if there are a few consecutive months with no significant spread. That might in fact be never.

I remember a movie about one being found on the moon.

GOIP appears to be a network to GSM gateway, however GSM is dead in an awful lot of places these days. And SMS marketing should die ;). But, it seems like this functionality (if you don’t want to use something like Twilio) could be implemented as a phone app, rather than requiring a special piece of hardware.

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I wouldn’t bother with the Fiverr thing but interesting personal projects and FOSS contributions are both good. Sizeable FOSS projects mean you’re working with other people which brings both benefits and challenges, and more closely resembles the “job” world. You could also look for actual paying work (not gig work like Fiverr, that is crap) if you have the time for it (summer job might be possible). Look at the monthly “Who is hiring” thread (first weekday of each month) on news.ycombinator.com, look on craigslist, etc.

Getting involved in FOSS is pretty simple. Find a project with a list of open tasks or an issue tracker, find something that interests you, say you are interested in working on that task, and start contributing patches. Usually if the project is not a high-visibility one with a lot of contributors already, it will welcome any help it can get. Lots of such projects have Freenode IRC channels where you can chat with the other devs in real time. I’m less comfortable with the ones that use Discord, but that’s just me.

Biden’s appointment advisers might have known something that Wikipedia didn’t. They do vet and interview the person at some length, to avoid surprises. Tldr, Wikipedia is useless for this.

No idea about the Freemasons but we do talk about you on the alternate lemmy.world server port… oh wait I wasn’t supposed to mention that.

You might not remember that the original Macintosh had 128KB. That’s KB with a K.

In a way that is less terrifying than a smaller imbalance could be. Like if your neighbor is a cop or maybe a municipal judge in your town, they can really mess with you. But a SCOTUS justice–what are they going to do? Grant emergency cert to your opponent from some Internet debate? Good luck with that, Alito. I’m just me but it doesn’t sound like much to worry about.

There is at least one, in a building lobby near here. Not exactly a public place though.

Look at https://futel.net/ for a guerrilla effort to install free ones in various places.

It is very hard to do that accurately. Fitness watches use accelerometers to detect body movement, pulse measurement etc. and still aren’t great. Real monitoring uses a lot more instruments including EEG. If you think you might need that, ask your Dr about a sleep study.

Named after astronomer Vera C. Rubin (1928-2016), I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

There is also an observatory under construction in Chile named after her.

Ah thanks. I stopped reading when I saw the light being reviewed wasn’t anduril. I really don’t care much about non-anduril lights without other unusual features.

Could they possibly do an anduril version of the Sofirn SC13? Or revive the LT1 Mini? Either would be nice.

Plain text or org mode file.

Make anduril version plz

“According to a 2019 tax return that extends through the organization’s fiscal year ending in June 2020, Planned Parenthood Federation of America paid more than $3.3 million to Raytheon Foreground Security for “IT Services.” Raytheon Foreground Security is a subsidiary of RTX, one of the world’s largest defense companies. According to Crunchbase, Raytheon Foreground Security provides cyber security services, including security engineering, assessment, customized security training, and advanced incident response and forensics services.”

Granted that industry is mostly grift, but it doesn’t sound directly military.

This is in the Texas House of Representatives (Houston).

Lots of niche forums are like what you say. Wider interest platforms like Lemmy try to be everything for everyone, so have to be more bland. In the further reaches of the net you can still make fun of Javascript as much as you want and no one will yell at you.