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 Right now I'm roughly at the end of my capabilities. 

Dealing with desperate trans people on the other side of the world, some of whom are trying to scam you, is draining. 
 There are people who bring a website down with carefully crafted packets exploiting vulnerabilities.

And then there are people like me, who sometimes take down websites with 200 carefully chosen words, and an inbound link. 
 nostr:npub1c0j00l2myxm88tggq202wsd37y7e0y9v64hegk7g6drx8qape9tqxx6t9s Too late for that. The spit... 
 @d4b81373 I spend a lot of my time at the moment monitoring the effectof extreme polarisation in the USA, it worries me a lot that I'm seeing it taking hold at home too. 
 nostr:npub1c0j00l2myxm88tggq202wsd37y7e0y9v64hegk7g6drx8qape9tqxx6t9s Originally I was all for it... 
 @d4b81373 Let's hope some of them do it, otherwise there will be a backlash and it'll be lost. It works well in Oxford. 
 Catching up on the Welsh 20mph story. Not surprised it's causing a fuss.

Can't help thinking they should go for the Oxford model, or 30mph on through routes and 20mph on all other roads. It works pretty well.

The Netherlands does this too, with 30 and 50 km/h zones, which are rough equivalents. 
 I was once shown someone's project on speeding up the response of those cheap Chinese photodiode modules, and now I can't find it anywhere. Has anyone seen the thing I'm talking about? 
 nostr:npub1c0j00l2myxm88tggq202wsd37y7e0y9v64hegk7g6drx8qape9tqxx6t9s You can watch all the entri... 
 @2fd7551e there's also an entry fee. It includes processing, but it's a little steep. 
 @2fd7551e I'm very much aware of that competition, yes. I suspect this one would be outclassed by others :) 
 Back in August I took a #Super8 camera and a cartridge of Kodak Vision3 with me to #BornHack in Denmark.

This is the result.

https://youtu.be/T5TqsGfNRHw