This goes way, way beyond 'guns.' It is an assault on property rights and freedom of expression as concepts generally. It would fully outlaw Free Software firmware (which is what the entire 3D printer hobby, having started with the RepRap project, is based on!). It would cut the Maker movement as a whole off at the knees.
It's absolute tyranny in ways entirely unrelated to guns themselves.
I just ran across this thread and tried out a few of the functions on your dashboard there, but got error 500s when I tried to actually look anything up.
McMorrow’s exit ahead of the early August primary doesn’t just reflect her own struggles, but also an emphasis among many Democrats to stop El-Sayed, out of fear he would be a weaker general election candidate against former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican.
Wrong, he'd be a stronger candidate. Fucking neoliberal traitors would just rather have a fascist.
The hard part is that turning the raw data into actual forecasts requires a lot of processing power.
Hmm, I hadn't really thought about that; I was just thinking about stations reporting current conditions. But yeah, you're right that that's the important part. Is weather modeling software another one of those areas like CAD where the state-of-the-art is locked up in proprietary shit, or is it government/scientific enough that the software is public? If one were to start building a distributed weather prediction system, are we talking about refactoring existing software to be distributed or reading research papers and implementing algorithms from scratch?
The fucked-up part is that there are various networks of croudsourced weather data, but I think most or all of them are proprietary, or at least centralized (which means enshittification could put consumer API access at risk).
We need a service that's peer-to-peer (or at least federated) and open-data-licensed. And also not affiliated with the National Weather Service because Trumpism puts even that one at risk.
There was a headline yesterday or so that the FBI was sending 250 agents to "investigate" Fulton County GA (i.e., Atlanta) for nonexistent "voter fraud." They are definitely gearing up to try to disenfranchise Atlantans.
This goes way, way beyond 'guns.' It is an assault on property rights and freedom of expression as concepts generally. It would fully outlaw Free Software firmware (which is what the entire 3D printer hobby, having started with the RepRap project, is based on!). It would cut the Maker movement as a whole off at the knees.
It's absolute tyranny in ways entirely unrelated to guns themselves.