GPS itself is receive only but if you’re really paranoid, don’t trust your phone to not store the location data and upload it someplace afterwards.

Upside down US flag signalling that the country is in trouble has been used at times.

It will be great if this reaches the Moto G series. I’m sure the Fairphone is nice but it’s 4x as expensive–no thanks.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ffmpeg+normalize+audio

Spend a few weeks in Mexico if you can get away for that long. Or consider taking a class (in person, not online) if you don’t mind the issues that entails.

Sesame Street in Spanish is a thing too: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sesame+street+in+spanish

I use it, I hate GNOME.

No don’t. Even for just moving the toilet (to replace the wax seal underneath) you’re supposed to disconnect the tank from the toilet, to make sure that the stresses on the bolts don’t cause cracks in the porcelain. Toilets aren’t held together all that well. I’ve been watching plumbing youtubes because I’m trying to fix a leak in one right now. It’s not pretty.

Standing on the toilet seat is probably less dangerous than standing on the tank.

You need to have the hardware set up ahead of time.

https://xkcd.com/644/

So if I talk about hemorrhoids enough, it will think I’m old and let me into the pr0n sites! Cool!!!

Sticker tag sounds like NFC. Certainly a bluetooth tag is possible too. Thing is, Bluetooth range is a few dozen meters tops. Airtag works by turning the entire Iphone population into a giant surveillance network, so if any iphone anywhere detects your airtag, it informs the Apple mothership, which in turn reports to you where your airtag was just seen.

Only comparable long distance approach I can think of without that is a cellular tracker. Those exist (search: cellular gps pet tracker) but it’s a much bigger box with a subscription plan of its own. Someone else mentioned meshtastic so maybe that’s an alternative in some places, or a LoRA tag instead of a bluetooth tag.

By coherent I assume you mean consistent. Yes an inconsistent theory isn’t considered useful in mathematics. In philosophical logic there’s an idea of “paraconsistency” that means something like “inconsistent but only slightly” but I think it’s not used much in math.

Russell’s fix to Frege’s inconsistent system was quite complicated, much more than just adding an axiom disallowing certain types of sets. ZFC handles it differently too, by saying you can only create new sets by following certain rules designed to keep things consistent. Frege’s system let you do whatever you wanted and it went sideways quickly, as Russel found.

Buy a new hard drive/SSD for your Linux installation. Put your Windows drive away in a drawer so all of its contents are saved, and you can swap it back in if you have to. A USB adapter can be helpful for retrieving files.

We know from Gödel’s incompleteness theorem that if ZFC is consistent, then it is incomplete. We don’t consider incompleteness to be a problem any more, so no biggie there. We generally assume and believe that ZFC is consistent and therefore incomplete, a perfectly fine way for it to be. But we can’t prove its consistency, so there are understandably some lingering doubts.

There are definitely IDE to USB adapters. Not sure about IDE to SATA.

What info do you want to collect and what do you want to keep private? If it’s an in-person event, how do you expect it to stay private once people show up? Why do you need sign up? What if you just announce the event and tell people to come?

I don’t know the unicode situation with ed. It is pretty minimal. There is also GNU Nano which I’ve never learned how to use. Ed is a line based editor, not screen oriented. I’ve programmed with it (back in the day) but these days I use Emacs for everything except minimal tweaks.

Hard to tell what you want but maybe /bin/ed . I use zile now and then fwiw.

For simple cutting I just use ffmpeg. It can do a few other effects too.

Yes, that’s Frege’s system mentioned in Henry Cohn’s post. But that happened in a very naive time compared with today. So it would be more of a surprise if something like that happened again.