Notices by Bruce Perens K6BP (bruceperens_k6bp@mastodon.radio), page 3

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@G8GDS - That's the right way to do it. I think I was touring Indigeny Reserve, a cider maker and sometime brandy distiller in Northern California. There was a 55 gallon drum of methanol on hand for cleaning, and to show folks how much they've extracted.

@G8GDS - Yes, it is possible that methanol was deliberately added. It's also possible that a distiller used pomace, skins, peels: fruit by-products which are high in pectin, which converts to methanol and requires additional attention to the "cuts", the portion that you discard from the still. These are popular with moonshiners because as a waste product, they are cheap or free. A skilled distiller can make grappa from them, an unskilled one can kill someone.

... comes out of your still is mostly ethanol, and is fit for human consumption (skipping the lecture on ethanol and safety).

Someone didn't throw away that cup. That's all it takes.

... result of fermentation, but an amount we can tolerate (it's part of what gives you a hangover). When it is distilled, it becomes too concentrated for safe human consumption. Professional distillers know that methanol boils at 151F while ethanol boils at 173F. So, the _first_ thing that comes out of a still is mostly methanol, and you throw away the first half cup out of your still (or store it, carefully marked, for cleaning solvent) because it is a lethal poison. The remainder of what ...

How do people die from methanol poisoning?

It starts with an unlabeled drink or a bottle that has been refilled. This is endemic in many parts of the world. In this case it was a town popular with hikers in Viet Nam.

The alcohol comes from a local illegal still, what we call "Moonshine". Fruits or grains are fermented to make a kind of beer or wine that is distilled into harder alcohol. There is always some methanol in fruit that we eat, beer or wine which we drink, as a natural ...

Nice article about Post Open in the New Stack today.

https://thenewstack.io/what-comes-after-open-source-bruce-perens-has-some-ideas/

@thebluewizard - I suspect my mom didn't get her folic acid, which is the common cause of neural tube birth defects. Maybe Valerie's too. Now we know about that.

Yes, I walked on my toes and did not speak clearly until about 18. In 1962 They put me in what was then called the "retarded" class in 1st grade - no examination. When my parents finally figured that out, they lawyered up, but I still had to be taught to read by an aunt over the summer.

Thank goodness things are better today.

@thebluewizard - No, it would not do for you and I've mostly seen conferences use signing exact English. Valerie (my wife) is deaf in one ear and impaired in the other, wears hearing aids and reads lips.

I have bilateral temporal bone encephalocele with soft brain tissue in the air spaces of my ears, and now pretty badly impaired on the right and somewhat on the left. I have started using the assistive listening devices in public venues and use computer text assistance while videoconferencing.

There is a new version of the Post Open Code of Conduct. This one is more reasonable about casual contact like handshakes and fist-bumps, says that punishment should have a finite term and be designed to facilitate reform of the offender and their re-integration into full participation in the project.

I am now happier about this, and think it might compare favorably against the codes used by many Open Source projects, which have had some less-than-optimal results.

https://perens.com/static/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.txt?v=1.5

It is now cheaper to buy a 50" TV for a trade-show display and give it away after the show than it is to ship it. Why? The manufacturers get royalties from the subscription internet channels, and from selling data about your viewing habits.

I like to think all of my followers are more clueful than this, but just in case: DO NOT BUY ANY EMP PROTECTION DEVICES. If you want real ones, I'm happy to explain some issues over a phone call. But all the ones I see are snake-oil.

... This is not going to be the final version, we'll continue to work. But we are well on the way to having legal solidity to the Post Open Zero Cost License and our other documents.

I spent two hours with lawyers today going over issues of the Post Open organization and then the Post Open license text. We identified more points for improvement and clarified a number of areas where I was unclear whether I could I could get away, legally, with some of the language I drafted. The lawyers will do another iteration with the result of this and I will publish it. ...

This would be a good time to buy anything you are going to need that is imported. Once tariffs are in place, it's going to be more expensive.

Post Open submitted a $725,000 grant request to help get the project operating. No guarantee that we'll get any of it, but the foundation we've been dealing with has already been very helpful, and we've only dealt with _two_ grantors so far.

https://postopen.org/

How the mighty have fallen! Nvidia will take Intel's place on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-replace-intel-dow-jones-212628611.html

Governor DeSantis of Florida has 22 million people about to be hit by a storm. So, what is the very first thing he does? Order the gun stores not to close. Note how his office put that one first for the press.
https://www.flgov.com/2024/10/05/emorandum-executive-order-number-24-214-emergency-management-tropical-storm-milton/

#introduction #HamRadio #OpenSource

Hi! I am Bruce Perens K6BP. I am one of the founders of the Open Source movement in software, and also founder of No-Code International, which successfully lobbied to end Morse code testing for Radio Amateurs in most countries.

I make my living as an Intellectual Property Consultant, specializing in Open Source, and am building a startup company.

Here are slides on a ham remote site I'm building:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G8o8Q7DmIHOjN5ifiyLe1OhYs4LNRA6MDRb4Pe6TlZo/edit?usp=sharing

Do you Linux folks know about this?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key