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  On #StarTrekDay I'm wearing my "imagine better futures" t-shirt and thinking about the positive visions star trek encouraged me to see. Deep space nine feels especially relevant to our current situation, where we need to find ways to fight back against fascism.

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  I love that this speaker includes a picture drawn by her niece at the end of the talk. https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-235-1-flexible-pcbs-for-you-and-for-me Another better option than asking an AI to make you some garbage. Also a very cool talk about practical work in teaching people to make flexible PCBs!

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  Finished some heat wave prep this evening. I use a bunch of slightly insulated Mylar coated "camping" or car window protection mats. The sheets are exactly the right size for the balcony doors. There, I used 3m double sided tape to tape up a "curtain rail" on the outside of the window frame. Then I use clothespins to attach the sheets at the top. The straps hanging past the bottom of the window get shut in the window frame and hold the whole thing sturdy. Not recommended fo...

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  I'm very pleased I got an embroidery kit from the #EMFCamp shop. It's kept me company on this long train trip home. Next time I'll try to get a spot in one of those workshops!

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  Anyone at #EMFCamp with a Nokia slide charger that definitely works? I think the phone is bricked but I'd like to test a known good charger before I give up.

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  In travel to emf news: my Eurostar for Saturday has been cancelled, my partner is on a rail replacement bus, and we ended up paying 3.5x what we expected for luggage. It will be worth it but it's time for me to go touch grass.

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  PSA: check the batteries in your old electronics before they cause a fire. I discovered some puffy batteries in old feature phones stored in the back of the cupboard. I'm going to remove all the batteries from tech like this and bring them to the recycling - or get rid of the whole device if I don't need it anymore. Might be worthwhile for those of us packing for #EMFCamp to pair this errand with packing. That's why I was digging though the pile of old feature phones. Nice that i...

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  Figuring out if someone is doing corporate or foreign espionage or if they're just an overly enthusiastic networker is harder than it should be sometimes.

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  Another day, another reminder that Amelia Bedelia is an incredibly useful mental frame to get into when writing software requirements. "How many ways could I possibly be misunderstood?" is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself.

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  I think it would be really fun to do a talk that's not just "intro to passkeys" but more "how can you mess up passkey implementation". I know you can set up SSO so you don't link the SSO accounts immutably to an account. You 100% could do the same thing with passkeys, and I think proposing a talk would be good incentive to learn more about how passkeys work in detail (like how badly could you mess up a passkey request? Or is it really just th...