Notices by Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org), page 7

@bthall Where is it located? You may be missing something about cost of living or perhaps an overheated housing market.

@lnxw48a1 @lnxw48a1 The US reaction to GDPR hasn't been good. I don't think the EU expected so many US sites to essentially blockade Europe.

@lnxw48a1 Something that can be sewn into a football with solar panels on the ball that you can toss into trees would be perfect. It would make that sort of network infinitely easier to deploy plus give small protection against birds, lizards, and bugs. The hip term now is "fog computing" but reality shows we need throwable nodes occasionally with suction grips on the bottom.

Could you imagine losing a bunch of footballs in trees across PR bearing #SBC payloads with Wi-Fi?

And for those of us that missed checking in to the @SDF Amateur Radio Club Sunday Night Net, aNONradio.net has a copy of the traffic audio from tonight available here: https://archives.anonradio.net/201902110000_sdfarc.mp3

#net #ham #radio #echolink

Maybe, just maybe, I'll remember to actually check in to net next Sunday. MYCROFT! Set a reminder!

@lnxw48a1 S.24 was presented to the President today to either veto or sign. It becomes law in ten days (excluding Sundays) without his signature as long as Congress is still in. We've almost got the back pay issue covered, it seems.

Raspberry Pi Receives Official Touchscreen Support With Linux 4.21

https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2019/01/07/raspberry-pi-receives-official-touchscreen-support-with-linux-4-21/

One year of legal pot sales and California doesn’t have the bustling industry it expected. Here’s why - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-marijuana-year-anniversary-review-20181227-story.html

Facebook locks National Weather Service out of dozens of accounts https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facebook-locks-national-weather-service-out-of-dozens-of-accounts

NWS has its own national radio network. Pick up a little radio to tune in for weather updates rather than relying on the unstable House of Zuckerberg.

Winter storm knocks out power to 380,000 in U.S. Southeast

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-weather/winter-storm-knocks-out-power-to-380000-in-u-s-southeast-idUSKBN1O80KS?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

"Fascism is forever descending on the United States but it somehow always lands on Europe" -- Glenn Harlan Reynolds