This is "news" but it strikes me weird.

TL;dr: sometimes super expensive #Stingray gear shows up on eBay. My question: who's the audience for this? $50k-$100k is out of reach for hacker types, or organized crime, who can build their own for much less, and foreign adversaries or domestic cops will buy their own from normal surveillance tech companies, not eBay.

https://san.com/cc/ice-uses-this-device-to-surveil-cell-phones-you-can-buy-one-for-50000

(Added CW because the card for the news story is scary militarized cops)

[Low Poly] Animated Sea Animals Vol.1 #Rigged #Stingray #Turtle #Crab #Low #Animation #Blender #Fish #Flatfish #Shell #Sea #Squid #3Dcharacter #Lowpoly #Poly #AssetStore

https://u3dn.com/packages/low-poly-animated-sea-animals-vol-1-221166

Stingray’s TuneIn acquisition is blowing past expectations, driving ad revenue & in-car streaming growth 🚗📈

#Stingray #TuneIn #StreamingGrowth #AudioAds #InCarEntertainment #DigitalAudio #MediaNews #AdTech #StreamingExpansion #RadioTech #TechBusiness #AudioStreaming

#ReadMore👇
https://thepodcasting.org/stingray-says-tunein-acquisition-is-exceeding-expectations-boosting-ads-and-in-car-streaming/

little alien baby-stingray and stingray nebula

#stingray
#stingraynebula

Well, the recovery from my last surgery has been a challenge.

Pain-wise, I was on strong painkillers just for the first 3 days. Right now, there's nothing that acetaminophen and ibuprofen are not able to handle.

It has been more about my anxiety. I just cannot stay in bed! I get guilty feelings if I don't at least change out of my PJs. I need to remind myself that it is okay to be in bed the whole day. I had actual surgery! My body needs rest to heal. It is dangerous to walk around when dizzy. I get exhausted pretty quickly if I try to do any kind of activity, yet that guilty feeling is there, hiding in the shadows, waiting for the right time to ambush.

This got me thinking, and putting my hopefully future SRS and FFS surgeries in perspective. My last surgery was an easy, routine outpatient procedure (removing my gallbladder). The next ones are going to be a major change in my body, and a lot more to heal... I really need to do some mental work to deal with my anxiety, or I'll need to be on anti-anxiety meds for an extended period of time...

In the meantime, I bought a Verizon Orbic and reflashed it to be able to detect the use of stingrays (fake cell tower devices used by police to intercept unencrypted cellular data), and got a LoRa board and flashed it with Meshtastic to be able to have comms if the mobile and internet infrastructure goes down. My only problem is that I am the only node around here. I want to build a solar node with a decent antenna and see if I am able to see other nodes further away.

I mean, this was kind of therapeutic!

#recovery #meshtastic #lora #anxiety #stingray