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Current situation with CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I have just run across the following note in Section 05. Guidance, Navigation and Control of the NASA site [State of the Art of Small Spacecraft Technology]: GPS units are controlled under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and must be licensed to remove COCOM limits$💬^💬$ $⚡^💬$Office of the Federal Register, “FOREIGN AVAILABILITY DETERMINATION PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA,” vol. Title 15 Part 768.7, 2015. I then found this at the Cornell Legal Access Institute: § 768.2 Foreign availability described. (a) Foreign availability. Foreign availability exists when…

Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip-hop at its most audacious

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from The Verge 📖 📂 **Category**: Column,Entertainment,Music,Music Review 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There was a period in the early 2000s when it seemed like Definitive Jux (née: Def Jux) would be the future of hip-hop. While the label included plenty of experimental, boundary-pushing, and politically oriented work, Leif emerged as a "more conscious rapper" in the traditional sense. However, it was clear that frontman El-P envisioned it as an important part of Def Jux's identity, as the first record released was in the 2000s. Enter the giant EP, from Liv.Mr. Leaf's follow-up was in…

You need a webring!

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Posted on July 5, 2026 • 0 views You need a webring! Yes, you! If you have (1) a personal website and (2) n+0 friends, you should set up a webring. What is a webring? Well its just a circular linked list of websites that have some topic assiged to it. It could be a hobby, a passion, or just your friends! The lore behind webrings is pretty deep, I would read more about it here linky. But to be honest, all you need…

The analysis found that Trump MemCoin investors lost $3.8 billion

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Crypto,Government & Policy,$trump,Donald Trump,memecoins ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nearly 1 million people lost a total of $3.8 billion after purchasing President Donald Trump's MemCoin, according to cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. The New York Times reported that Nansen's analysis is based on publicly visible transactions on the blockchain, which show that 988,905 accounts had lost money on memecoin as of the end of June. That represents about two out of every three Trump buyers. On Sunday, the Trump dollar was trading at $1.69, down about 98% from its high of $75.35.…

Small penis rule – Wikipedia

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Strategy used to evade libel lawsuits The small penis rule is an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits. It was described in a New York Times article by Dinitia Smith in 1998: "For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two," said Mr. Friedman. Thus, he continued, libel lawyers have what is known as "the small penis rule". One way authors…

How to avoid spoilers online and in chats

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🔥 Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Shhh! ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: With multiple streaming The services you can choose from and the entire history of film and TV you can delve into, you'd be forgiven for not keeping up to date with the latest movies and shows. This is where spoilers can hit you.Whether it's a twisty thriller on Netflix or the season finale of a show on Apple TV, there will be times when you're not ready to watch something and yet don't want the plot to be spoiled…

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctorial silence. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flame warriors; Cryptography and casinos; TSA v dying 95 year old woman's adult diaper; Neoliberalism and Brexit; Beyond solutionism; How Thiel cheated with his Roth; Inequality's stabilizer; Palm Pilot school; Gillmor on PR flacks; "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper; Conservative judge chokes liberal judge; Hollywoodnomics; Rubber fingertips…

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

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✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Amazon,Amazon Web Services,mechanical turk 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: These may be the last days for Amazon Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new clients. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after "careful consideration," adding: "Existing customers can continue to use the service as usual. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Mechanical Turk, but we do not plan to introduce new features." In other words, Amazon is not completely shutting…

Starring the Computer

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Starring the Computer skip navigation 0 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Acer Acorn Acorn A5000 • A Mind to Kill - Season 1, Episode 3, "Gameboys" (1994) Acorn Archimedes • Bergerac - Season 8, Episode 11, "There for the Picking" (1990) • Capital City - Season 1, Episode 2, "Insider Trading" (1989) • Dark Season - Season 1 (1991) • Doctor Who - Season 25, "Silver Nemesis" (1988) • Howard's Way - Season 4, Episode 10, "Publish & Be Damned" (1988) • Howard's Way - Season 4, Episode 11, "Screwdriver" (1988) • Minder - Season 9, Episode 7, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Retiring" (1993) • Murder Story (1989) • Paddington (2014) • Rancid Aluminium (2000) • Strapless (1989) • Watt on Earth - Season 1, Episode 1 (1991) Acorn Atom • Micro Men (2009) Acorn BBC Master • Choose or Die (2022)…

There is a global network of fungi under your feet. This is the first complete map

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Environment,Mychorrizol Over ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: underground On the surface is an extraordinary underground fungal network of almost unimaginable size. An international team of researchers has produced, for the first time, a global map of this vast mycorrhizal network – the system of fungal hyphae that form mutually beneficial partnerships with plants across the planet. Researchers estimate that the network extends a total distance of about 110 quadrillion kilometers, nearly a billion times the distance between Earth and the sun. The results were published in the journal…