Nope.

Pilots can opt out.

Hams cannot:

If you do not want your home address to be public information when the new license is issued, an alternative address, such as a PO Box or work address, would be acceptable.

That’s the only bone the RCC will throw your way privacy-wise.

Yes. The noted popular-to-vulnerable-people hobby of flying an airplane.

Quick question (and an honest one: I genuinely don’t know): can I get the name, address, and telephone number of any aircraft pilot? 'Cause I can with ham ops.

I know the public registry has, in the past, been a barrier to entry. Nice to see that it’s still in place so only people who don’t have targets painted on their backs can enter the hobby.

Don’t follow people. Follow hashtags. It’s a much better experience.

Do you still get doxed by policy as a ham? If so, that’s going to drive off several vulnerable groups.

How is someone who was caught fooling the police who … caught them?

I’ve never been worried about AI. AI isn’t a problem because it doesn’t exist. (Hint: you can’t make an artificial version of something you can’t even define in ways that are broadly accepted.)

What I’ve always been worried about is the people pushing “AI”. They’re the source of all the trouble.

This right here. There’s waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more to theatre than acting and a lot of fulfillment can be drawn from being the base upon which the performance rests: set design and building, costuming, etc. Hell, my absolute first community theatre experience had me just turning pages for a piano player and that was itself actually kind of fun!

I worked behind the scenes in community theatre before finally stage managing a production of Twelfth Night.

It was fun—lots of fun—but it’s also a major time sink if you’re really into it.

On my Mastodon I follow … maybe a dozen people? Total?

I follow, like you said, topics in the form of hashtags. This gives me a much better feed than Xhitter or Farcebook ever did.

I frequently purge connections that have gone dead. I didn’t realize that people didn’t do this routinely.

Now compare Lemmy, a phone, or the Internet to “a machine in the likeness of a human mind”.

Dune is full of machines. It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they’re trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture, so … time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

Google’s evil was more in the background; you had to be paying attention to find it until they decided that they were powerful enough to be openly evil.

Traditional ones are more than a month’s salary for me, where the tongued ones are affordable, even on the upper end. That’s why I was a bit alarmed to hear recommendations not to go with one. 😀

LLMs don’t know anything. You’d have to have programs around the AI that look for that, and the number of things that can be done to disguise the statement so only a human can read it is uncountable.

  ##### #   #  ###   ####        ###   ####
    #   #   #   #   #             #   #    
    #   #####   #    ###          #    ### 
    #   #   #   #       #         #       #
    #   #   #  ###  ####         ###  ####
  
####  #   # #     #      #### #   #  ###  #####   
#   # #   # #     #     #     #   #   #     #  
####  #   # #     #      ###  #####   #     #  
#   # #   # #     #         # #   #   #     #  
####   ###  ##### ##### ####  #   #  ###    #  

Like here’s one. Another would be to do the above one, but instead of using # cycle through the alphabet. Or write out words with capital letters where the # is.

Or use an image file.

The stones I’m practicing with need a really sharp and solid chisel to work. And I have no idea how people get those straight, clean lines with them!

The modern version of “it is written in scripture” is “studies say”.

The modern equivalent of “I’m a flaming asshole” is to attribute negative characteristics like “alcohol problem” without evidence. (Ironically this is also anti-science, but let’s not sprain what passes for your brain too strongly here.)

Why avoid the tongue ones?

Riichi Mahjong

Huh. TIL.

Stone. There’s a particular kind of stone similar to soapstone that’s prized for this, but the really hardcore can carve in granite or agate or the like as well.

Cheaters use those little rotary tool things, but I’m going old school with chisels.