To get my ham radio license, I have to give the government a mailing address that will be publicly accessible.
On the one hand, I definitely don't like the idea of my home address being searchable/scrapeable/more accessible to the federal government.
On the other, I don't really want to spend $120/yr on a PO box.
#amateurradio or #hamradio folks, any clever recommendations?
I'm temporarily working from an air-conditioned office due to the heat wave from hell, so I'm using my laptop (which I've barely touched in a year).
Thanks to Navidrome, I can stream my music library from my server and rock out. And I can brag about it here on my social network.
Self-hosting is so rad.
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Police are on track to get more military hardware under Biden than they did under Trump:
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Just so ya'll know, Disney sent a bunch of take down notices to every shop on etsy that has the words "Thor, Loki, Odin, Heimdall, or Frigga" in the listing title, tags, or description. They're literally trying to copyright Norse Gods, incase you didn't know how evil they were.
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The point has been made repeatedly, but I still cannot get over how "there is a market for labor, sometimes market conditions change, and companies actually have to participate in that market" is being covered like some crisis that requires desperate and unorthodox measures.
Hell yeah.
BREAKING: New York Senate becomes first legislative body in the United States to pass right to repair legislation. Incredible win for people who have been fighting for this for years
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This is, to the letter, one of the motivating "passions" of fascism.
The Q bullshit is a violent fascist movement and we're watching it grow in real time.
There isn't a single narrative. Multiple threads come together in the Quilt. What appears to tie them together is a fear that they have "lost" their country to a nefarious outside force. Sometimes it's Communists. Sometimes it's the Deep State. Sometimes it's a satanic cabal. 3/
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Let's talk about why cryptocurrency is the single factor that created the ransomware plague that is ravaging our healthcare system and public infrastructure. (1/) 🧵
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the AP is just asking for bad faith actors to scroll through 1000s of reporter tweets to find & report bias. they are making this up as they go along.
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I'm currently in the middle of about eight different books and all I want to do is start about that many more.
I need to finish reading some books.
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Yesterday's crafting project: finally assembling my #piecepack! I did some serious redesigning this week, and sat down yesterday with my long #themagnusarchives backlog and put it all together.
I plan to release the files and create a version for sale on The Game Crafter soon.
I started a 3D print last night and woke up to find it had warped a little bit on the bottom. Not enough to ruin the print, but enough to be noticeably bothersome.
I rather wish it had been ruined, so I would feel justified in scrapping the whole thing and starting again. But since it's technically usable as-is, the real waste would be discarding a usable print because it doesn't look perfect.
Damn. 😔
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I want to note, on top of the queerphobia and sexual puritanism here, that these photos are obviously paparazzi bullshit taken from distance with a telephoto lens. This is 100% punishing private behavior among consenting adults purely because someone violated their privacy.
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Okay, here we go. This is boring but I guess I'm doing it.This story of Eric Carle and his publisher "fighting bitterly over the stomachache scene" in The Very Hungry Caterpillar is fake. Eric Carle never said this, the interview is a parody, it was an April Fools joke. 1/?
One example: Anti-homeless architecture isn't just about "cleaning up the streets," or whatever: it's a constant reminder to labor that if you don't keep coming back to work, there is no place, there is no rest, for you here.
If you're not willing to kill the senate filibuster to properly investigate an armed insurrection against the U.S. Capitol and secure the basic right to vote in elections, you are favoring the made-up procedural rules of a democracy over the actual fucking democracy itself.
The DNC chair leaving to join a union-busting law firm is a little on the nose
obsessed with this guy who just uploads videos of him playing classic rock riffs while his birb freestyles vocals
FYI in Britain this is already a thing that exists and you have to pay them to investigate you before you can get your birth certificate changedhttps://twitter.com/bilericoproject/status/1397984866210299904
Democrats control the executive and legislature of history's mightiest empire and have a majority of the public at their back.They need to do something about this instead of asking for permission to cut the noose around their own necks.
New:A MAGA-obsessed, AR-15-centric religious sect has bought a sprawling compound in Texas, which it hopes will be a safe haven to "patriots" from what they believe is an imminent "deep state" war. The property was listed at just under $1 million.
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SCOOP: We have everything that happened at Citizen when it put a bounty on an innocent man's head. Internal comms before, during, and after. Some of the wildest behavior I have ever seen in my entire life:
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you utter buffoons
you useless shitgarglers
NEWS:A new analysis of 2020 circulating among Dems finds that House Ds spent huge sums on ads touting bipartisanship while the GOP spent massively on tarring Dems as socialists.
The study shows Ds badly need to improve in prosecuting GOP radicalization:
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STRATEGY MEMO: @LeaderMcConnell is reported to be begging Republican Senators, asking them for a personal favor, which is voting against the January 6th commission. What conceivable reason could there be for the Senate Minority Leader to vote against finding out every detail 1/
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Joe Manchin said, “I’m not ready to destroy our government,” by investigating...the people who tried to destroy our government.
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Truly stunning how much the GOP passes unpopular and inhumane legislation while consolidating its frightful base of the super-rich and Nazis, whereas Dems sacrifice popular and necessary legislation on the altar of bipartisanship while alienating its base of the US majorityhttps://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1397909264635682816
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you would stop negotiating and pass it without them
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in reply to Spencer • •Zoot Allures
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in reply to Zoot Allures • •Yeah, I'm just thinking it through here. The government having my address concerns me a lot less than having an open database where anyone could easily pull up my address. When I get my call sign, I won't want to advertise it so long as my home address is on my license.
Of course, like everyone is rightly quick to point out, I'm not an interesting person, so the likelihood anyone would want to look up my address is pretty slim. But I want to be thoughtful, aware, and intentional about that regardless.
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in reply to Spencer • •Olaf (gone to dapor.net)
in reply to Spencer • • •I'm tempted to say "1060 West Addison Street"... They really publish your address in the US? I've never seen that done anywhere else...
As for a solution... I'd say find a friend who is not a radio amateur, preferably with a business and use that address. On the surface that looks like Wrigley Field and your friend can always deny being involved, but you still get the mail.
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in reply to Olaf (gone to dapor.net) • •They do. The FCC License Search allows you to look up license-holders based on a wide array of criteria (including simply your call sign), and the address you've registered with your license is visible there.
Your idea of using a friend's address seems like a decent strategy. My read of the regulations says that isn't even forbidden—you just have to be able to receive communications from the governing body at the address you give.
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in reply to Spencer • •Not to me, as some HAM gear is expensive...and having your friends house broken into looking to steal that gear isn't good....and if it ever comes down to it(which I seriously doubt) having the feds knock your friends door down and terrorize his/her family in the middle of the night doesn't sound like much fun either.....
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in reply to Spencer • •But the application you sign is an official government document, and I don't know about whether or not giving a bogus address is falsifying an official government document....
I'm not saying you're right, and I'm not saying you're wrong....I am saying "I don't know"
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in reply to Zoot Allures • •I appreciate your concern, but on this one, I am quite confident giving an address that is not one's place of residence is legal. From the FCC webpage with information on their universal licensing system, which the Amateur Radio Service uses:
I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but on this specific point, that seems pretty clear. The FCC asserts that they're not asking for your specific place of residence (PO boxes are okay), but an address where you can be reached.
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in reply to Spencer • • •As I understand it, it doesn't have to be where you live, but it does have to be an address where you can be contacted. People who live on RVs and boats have ways around this too.
Though, before you go too far down the rabbit-hole trying to avoid this, consider whether or not your home address is already public record...
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in reply to abortretryfail • •Yeah, that's my understanding as well. I may look to see if a friend or family member doesn't mind being my mailbox for this.
This is a fair point, and, like I said above, I'm wary of expanding that surface cavalierly. My address is in public records—I know because I get a lot of mortgage junk mail—but not all public records are equally accessible. Some are accessible via request to the governing agency, whereas some (like radio licensee records) are available just via an open web form.
Wary doesn't necessarily mean I won't do it, I just want to think it through, y'know?
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in reply to Spencer • • •Get over it.