Everyone knows what it’s like to lose cell service. A burgeoning open source project called Meshtastic is filling the gap for when you’re in the middle of nowhere—or when disaster strikes.

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Fun fact: telling a university to cancel visas because you don’t like what they teach is fascism

Have to say I didn't realise IsExternalInit etc had any runtime impact, so this is... interesting😅 Yet another reason to use github.com/SimonCropp/P... or github.com/Sergio0694/P... instead of rolling your own!

your month your crabtino 🦀🛹

Imagine the western reaction if Iran had bombed a humanitarian aid ship trying to feed starving civilians.

Imagine if Russian forces were caught massacring medical workers in ambulances.

Imagine If China bombed an international humanitarian aid convoy in clearly marked vehicles.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Again, this would make a great addition to the #dotnet toolkit. The ability to patch NuGet packages to get unstuck while having a reasonable discussion with maintainers.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package

I was doing some research on employees 40, 50 years ago, and I thought I would use AI to do some of the deep research. I had some good results but this version of Gemini was a mess and made some clearly biased choices. Remember people, these are trained on biased information. Verify.

We went from "computers will just understand you, type what you need" to "you have to create artisanally-crafted pros to conjure your most basic needs".

*slow-clap*

they're absolutely right