Three days in Mount Pleasant DC:

* https://news.sky.com/story/as-trump-sends-in-the-troops-the-us-capital-feels-like-its-creeping-towards-a-tipping-point-13419708

* https://apnews.com/article/washington-bowser-trump-dc-police-5d3768539b5155b1a7f4f26ddb54a8c3

* https://x.com/mollymotoole/status/1961039688094900468

On Tuesday, ~7:15am, four blocks from my house, masked armed men took three guys out of a landscaping truck, put them in their cars, and drove off with them. IANAL, but I feel like a good one could get the traffic stop thrown out. Video can be seen in the SkyNews segment.

On Wednesday, ~7:15am, two blocks from my house, law enforcement officers gathered in unmarked vehicles. Eventually they established a narrow perimeter around an apartment building and served an arrest warrant. They were a mix of MPD officers (professional & courteous) and masked armed feds. This is featured in both the AP and SkyNews segments.

The best video of Wednesday, though, was https://bsky.app/profile/csfrayer.bsky.social/post/3lxfu7x5sk22c. It shows a woman taking two kids to school, having to bumble through the scrum of masked armed feds, who should be escorting her out of harm's way, but of course don't.

This morning, ~7:15am, ICE pulled over a guy who'd just picked up his daughter to take her to school. They took him away and left his daughter there (neighbors are helping her). This is shown in Molly O'Toole's video on TFG's site.

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I'm looking for advice about protecting my house from potential lightning damage due to an outdoor wifi antenna.

The situation: at Camp Codeslack, my rural compound in the upper Midwest, the house has an old steel pole, ~20' high or so, with an old yagi TV antenna atop it. A coax cable runs down from the antenna, into some conduit that's been closed with foam, and into the basement of the house. Currently the pole and antenna are down and the coax is not plugged into anything.

I would like to mount an outdoor wifi router onto the pole instead of the yagi antenna and run CAT6 up to it, using the coax cable to pull it through the conduit. The outdoor router would then connect to my indoor router, forming a mesh network (it has support for this) and bathing the surrounding valley in wifi, from which I can stream music and podcasts to my phone when I'm working in the garden.

I am worried, however, about providing such a convenient path for static electricity to flow into my house, with the potential to damage my indoor router, my internet modem, and potentially other things. Are there breaker-type things I can install on the CAT6 line? Do I need a lightning rod that's higher than the pole? etc.

@tallison Do you know of extractous? It uses GraalVM to compile Tika natively, and then exposes it as a Rust crate.

https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous

Makes me wonder whether anyone's used wasm to use Tika in the browser...

@tallison Do you know of extractous? It uses GraalVM to compile Tika natively, and then exposes it as a Rust crate.

https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous

Makes me wonder whether anyone's used wasm to use Tika in the browser...