smkellat

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I am trying to pivot in the midst of the coronavirus mess. There isn’t enough space to outline what that entails.
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Comment · 4 years ago
According to the Secretary of State, the company was founded on March 3rd of this year. It doesn’t have legal authorization from the Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Education to operate in this state. The Chancellor can ask Attorney General Dave Yost to get an injunction to shut them down in short order if they enroll anyone.

The whole thing feels either like something is wrong or it is a sting by ICE. I remember them running one outside Detroit in the past couple years.

Comment · 4 years ago
I’m very curious how they’re getting around section 1713.02 of the Ohio Revised Code as seen at https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1713.02

They’re not on the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s authorized list. They make no mention on their website of even seeking authorization. They’re not clearly identifying themselves as a “Bible College” to take advantage of that loophole.

Comment · 6 years ago
It is comforting that people are at least thinking about this potential situation.
Comment · 6 years ago
As Glenn Hauser, Kim Andrew Elliott, and others have asked it comes down to the big question of what regs exactly authorize this. There really isn’t any ambiguity in the relevant rules to sneak this in under.
Comment · 6 years ago
I’ve listened to a few shortwave industry experts hammer out the issues with this. Despite the novelty of the technical application this is an end run around the Commission’s rules. As there are other operators carrying out such data transmissions licensed under the Experimental Radio Service the major question is what exactly has changed in the rules to suddenly make this permissible.
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Comment · 6 years ago
Well, that does help explain why one of the local high schools had their livestream abruptly terminate 22 times when they tried to stream their band’s senior night concert. It does seem to be a clear TOS violation by the school even though the school was trying to work within Ohio coronavirus guidelines. I guess the effort to build something using OpenBroadcaster has increased urgency now.
Comment · 6 years ago
ikiwiki has been around for over a decade. You can even pay for a hosted version of it at branchable. It is kinda sad how much people overlook it.
Comment · 6 years ago
That leaves the question of who you are and why your opinion matters then. You could be a rogue GPT-3 experiment for all any of us know.
Comment · 6 years ago
Chromium was due to the absolute nightmarish amount of manpower on Canonical’s part it took to keep up packaging with releases. Copying Debian’s work wouldn’t have helped because they had and still have fewer resources than Canonical did to commit to packaging it.

LXD ships a private version of a library as it has changes not accepted by upstream. It pretty much needs to be a snap as it doesn’t fit into the realm of .deb packaging due to that.

Two fits “some”. Off the top of my head I cannot recall anything else that has a .deb that diverts to snap. More might come in the future perhaps. 2020 has not been the kindest of years to bookmakers in Vegas and elsewhere.

Comment · 6 years ago
People are not code. People are, for lack of better terminology, messy. We are still finding unanticipated outcomes from this mess.

I was reading a journal article yesterday about a separate unanticipated consequence of the coronavirus shutdowns that we may start to have trouble with weather prediction. Why? All those grounded airplanes doubled as automated airborne meteorological observation platforms to help provide the most accurate data possible. There are not enough drones with sufficient altitude rating to replace all those missing commercial air flights as to weather data capture.

Comment · 6 years ago

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