Did my homework. It sounds like to participate, you need some specialized equipment, but it may be possible to listen in to the most powerful transmitters.
Interesting content! Is it available as a web page and not PDF?
Anyway, from the first article:
Palestinians do not have their own currency. Under the 1994 Paris Protocol, they were locked into using the Israeli shekel, with no central bank of their own to issue money or set monetary policy. […] Since Palestinians clear their money in shekels, Palestinian banks can only settle transactions by routing through Israeli correspondent banks. Those banks process Palestinian transactions only under an indemnity waiver from Israel’s finance ministry, a piece of paper that shields them from legal liability for handling Palestinian-linked money. The waiver has to be renewed on a schedule, which means that a routine bit of financial plumbing doubles as a political switch that someone in a ministry can flip.
While some people in Gaza have access to Bank of Palestine accounts, many have lost this access or never had it. Cryptocurrency has become one of the most reliable ways to get funds directly to those who need them.
I got fastmail about a year ago. I was pleased I could turn off SMS 2FA and use only TOTP, and generating masked single-use email addresses is great. Also surprisingly easy to set up the MX record for my existing domain. Their own web client is good, I’m using FairEmail on Android.
Exactly — money is not the only cost nor benefit. It’s fun, it gives me control, it’s not going to get acquired and trashed, etc.
The auto-generated memories I’ve seen it create are pretty inane: “always name variables container_ when in MySpecificClass”. Not really learning engineering principles.
Similar, I’ve found AGENT.md files might nudge it in the right direction, but as always it’s a fuzzy matcher, not a learning engineer.
Human review of AI is sufficient in theory, but in practice it’s never as thorough as the understanding you get writing it yourself. It’s hard to avoid AI, but it is a constant invitation to laziness.
The fundraising issues page seems to be gone now.
Bummer to learn of Wikipedia’s Zionist leadership. Followed that trail to Jimmy Wales’ comment from 2025 November :
I assume good faith of everyone who has worked on this Gaza “genocide” article. At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia’s voice, that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested. This is a violation of WP:NPOV and WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV that requires immediate correction. Remember: “This policy is non-negotiable, and the principles upon which it is based cannot be superseded by other policies or guidelines, nor by editor consensus.”
A neutral approach would begin with a formulation such as: “Multiple governments, NGOs, and legal bodies have described or rejected the characterization of Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.”
Nice response to that there:
We don’t even seriously argue some Robert F. Kennedy Jr. type anti-vaccination positioning anywhere, for instance, or for moon landing hoax or flat earth theories. Those are extreme examples, but even on the spectrum of those to the Gaza genocide, the same basic formula and calculus applies. The conclusion of an article under WP:NPOV on anything contentious is always inconvenient for someone. That’s neither a bug nor a feature. It’s a mirrored reflection of consensus reality.
Anyway, I’m left in a similar conundrum. I stopped my monthly donation when they refused to recognize the union, and was going to restart after I caught up on the news the union got the NLRB’s recognition, but now I’m hesitating.
Much better results with a higher pass.
Got part of one. 22⁰ pass, hoping to track a higher one later.
Awesome, I have been looking to do this but didn’t hear about it anywhere else, so thanks for posting!
Let’s just quickly check https://isaiprofitable.com/ :
Nope. The answer is still “they’re burning cash.” Only the companies making silicon are raking it in.
Yeah, I’d like to see the cost of sub-prime mortgage on that chart.
We need to stop fining and start taking away privileges. Sorry, you can’t buy/build any fossil fuels any more.
What’s a good frequency/time to try out JS8CALL? It’s easy to find the big block of FT8 but I haven’t found other digital modes yet (just getting started with digital). I’m best set up for 40m.