The problem is money, if they had stable funding they could go the library route of training and equipping people with the tools and skills without limits.

But the models they work in don’t have that and they are just struggling to survive and do what good they can in the now.

no.

Hydro/aeroponics with greenhouses is the way forward

and until climate change is reversed, the green houses are only going to get more essential.

First, there is no such thing as unskilled labor; if any job could be done economically competitively by unskilled labor, it would have stopped being a job that exists. The fact that they choose to pay you proves that you are skilled. Once you exceed 5 years experience, the degrees stop mattering for jobs that get real work done.

If you are worried about finding a job, there are classes that teach people how to interview and they tend to be worth the money.

Please be kinder to yourself

Lots of love

-Dad

it would be better if one could git clone the wiki

unless the people make their power felt, they have no power but when they do the politicians respond to that power (not the individual people).

Most government systems tend to require submissions (licensing, welfare benefits, birth certificates, etc)

Easier makes it possible for low level employees to add support, harder requires political buy-in.

Wrong Mom.

Remember, not everyone is born to the parents that deserve them and unfortunately I am sorry I made that mistake. Your bio-mom choosing to be a religious nutcase was why I left her. You deserved better and that is why I married your actual mom (although she wishes you stopped calling her Melissa and start calling her Mom) and she does care about you; even if you think she puts too much sugar in her cookies.

much love,

-Dad

So you feel China is betting on Silicon and that the actual future is Gallium arsenide ?

Because it has a direct band gap and at 1/50 of the thickness would be cheaper and more efficient than silicon?

Just focus on being your honest, authentic self.

No one trying to be cool, is cool.

The cool teacher is the one who authentically loves to teach and you’ll only discover that if you find that you love teaching.

Also, trust me; you’ll want to teach Queen. It is a classic for a reason.

-Love Dad

PS, call your mother more. She worries.

no, the government doesn’t serve the people it serves power.

Unless power thinks you as a group are worth the effort, they will ignore your mailed documents, state you failed to file paper work and you now have to deal with (problems incurred due to not having completed the paper work).

Paper processes are going away. Oh, they will keep mailing you stuff for a while but nations and states are implementing SSO systems and the scanning/indexing systems are disappearing. Replaced by “You scan and upload” combined with you extract the relevant bits so we can cut staffing again.

But the point was, there are no good XMPP libraries that would enable a willing government to easily onboard that support. If there were, it would be a very different discussion.

Queen is the answer to most music questions; including teaching.

Well, my precious child.

Your mother has been telling you to write more but I guess I should have been calling you more often.

Tell us more about your field of solar research and what bit around it you think we might need to know about.

My general Digitizing VHS tapes advise is:

Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQioCb4KUHM

Look into:

https://legacybox.com/products/vhs-conversion

https://lotusmedia.us/convert-tapes/

https://www.memoriesrenewed.com/video-transfer-services/

and only if you have a shitload of personal VHS tapes should you get a TV tuner card and try to convert.

let me know if they actually end up having full capacity, because slow drives I can deal with. That price per TB is close enough to spinning metal to finally tip the scale for me towards SSDs

ssh -X ${hostname} works better than both even on ancient hardware (pre 1990)

If you are going to self-host please embrace a shell (bash, powershell, fish, zsh, etc) any shell; then you’ll be fast and productive even at 300 Baud.

ok, lets just assume xmpp is reliable enough to use. And a government agency is will to adopt it to prove that all out.

What libraries for Java/C# are available under an FSF approved license that would enable one to securely send XMPP messages to the public?

As governments don’t like being mailed or emailed anything. They want you to login to a thin wrapper around a database and perform basic data entry so that they don’t have to pay someone to do that data entry.

They are only going to message you to deal with password resets or data entry tasks they want you to do (legally required renewals, reviews, etc).

a liter of Urine in the fuel tank would disable them, so make sure plenty of restrooms are available.

A $5 magnet and $30 of electrical equipment could cause the electrical systems to permanently burn out as the induced voltage might go too high. so you may wish to ensure electrical diagnostic equipment is properly grounded and not connected to electrical mains.

Also be careful with unidirectional speakers, they can shatter windows and cause extreme disorientation in the drivers even if the children in the vehicle can’t hear it…

Well, I know but your aim is getting better.

Well 16 year old laptops are still snappy Linux systems, so continue to use them or give them to other people for free who might have a use for them.

Well governments will use any open standard that can reliably contact individuals (as that is the easiest way to do their jobs) That is why the 3 most supported options are:

• mail
• phone
• email

They would use IRC, XMPP, Matrix, etc if they would reliably send you a message and enable them to reliably receive messages from you. The problem is that those options are not reliable.

The other alternative is they provide a website (that they control) that you can login in to but it is then on you to routinely login and people are bad at that and thus few organizations even support that approach.