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by amatecha 2y ago
Well, with Winlink you can send emails to/from anywhere on the planet - I once sent an email via an RF relay in California (I'm in Vancouver, Canada). It could have been anywhere in NA though. Pretty sweet. There's a Winli
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by amatecha 2y ago
nice, congrats!
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by amatecha 2y ago
"how to operate a radio", so when the station on the other end is like "change to 146.58" they'll definitely rememeber how to do that after a 5min primer during a regional disaster? Or when interference comes in (p
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by amatecha 2y ago
QuadrigaCX comes to mind, heh >_> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriga_Fintech_Solutions#CEO...
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by amatecha 2y ago
First, "citation needed", but also for me personally, I'm often totally undecided or otherwise un-committed to one view or another about something, because I sense my knowledge of that thing is minimal, or my only exposure to
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by amatecha 2y ago
Right? When I worked in the office I kept a copy of Apple's Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines on my desk. It's amazing how "solved" a ton of that kind of stuff was, 30+ years ago. If you design software / UI a
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by amatecha 2y ago
"it’s effectively impossible to assign a button to every thing." - maybe not? see: any commercial airplane.
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by amatecha 2y ago
"Was"? flat UI is still here and it's horrible. It drives me crazy having to guess that a featureless piece of text might be a button because its position in a window vaguely suggests it may be a button and not just a ran
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, that's pretty shitty behaviour, invalidating all the good-faith feedback and going so far as to call it "trolling"?? Ridiculous. There's no excuse to be so hostile when handling bug reports.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, when I was a kid one of my biggest motivators to type faster was chatting with people. I got faster at typing because I "had" to, because it bothered me when I wasn't able to get a message across as fast as I was think
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by amatecha 2y ago
Nice, today I found I'm blocked from subway.com, that's cool. Good bot detection, my brand new Debian Linux install with Firefox must be really suspicious.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeh, they don't want to give credit to anyone else, only giving attention to "Ubuntu". Even at the end when it says some literal credits, it only cites Ubuntu "and other open source software" (which is almost undou
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by amatecha 2y ago
At least they got one noteworthy "hit" on the jargon bingo card: "performant" -_-
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by amatecha 2y ago
Nice, that's cool to hear (best computer), but yeah I suppose it has some inherent "rarity" to it. One of the nice things about the ThinkPads is their popularity/"ubiquitousness" (is that a word?) - I have lik
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by amatecha 2y ago
Oh wow, I had never heard the word used before in that way -- thanks!
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by amatecha 2y ago
On that note, OpenBSD is from Canada and thus not subject to crypto export restrictions (not that I even know what such restrictions are present in the US today, if any) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD
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by amatecha 2y ago
Oh damn, that escalated quickly. Nice! How is that 51nb board? I totally forgot they were a thing. I have many ThinkPads but unfortunately am at the cap of coreboot-able (X230)... It's sadly getting to the point where the web, of
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by amatecha 2y ago
You could put quotes around the first line to make it clear you're joking or being sarcastic. I was pretty taken aback by someone seemingly actually saying that, at first! :`D
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, I've scanned the radio bands at night hoping to pick up something neat like this, but never really had any luck. Sometimes stuff in Spanish or Chinese, not much else :\
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by amatecha 2y ago
What are "flagging numbers"? I've had my amateur radio certification (Basic w/Honours in Canada) for a few years but never heard this term before.
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by amatecha 2y ago
The actual title of the page is "My journey into FM-RDS" which definitely gives a better summary than what the current HN title says.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Dunno, this account[0] says Mastodon has 15.5m users, says it pulls from https://instances.social/ .. no clue how reliable/accurate their data is though. [0] https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount&
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by amatecha 2y ago
For anyone curious, that would be the "NoIR" camera: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/pi-noir-camera-v2/
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by amatecha 2y ago
May I introduce you to: the Log-periodic dipole array antenna[0], allowing quite a broad response range with decent directionality in a single antenna. There's probably a practical limit to just how broadband you can make one, but ju
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by amatecha 2y ago
If you have Tech (you're in US I assume?) you can activate parks and summits on 2m and 70cm, too (or even 1.25m or 6m for that matter)! No additional privileges needed.
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by amatecha 2y ago
I think using national parks just gives a convenient "marker" by which to designate valid activation zones, and ensures public access, thus making the program available to anyone. Same deal with Summits on the Air, the whole ide
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by amatecha 2y ago
Just chased a POTA/SOTA activator yesterday on 2m -- conveniently from the comfort of my own home hahah, just doing my part to help the other station get enough contacts of course! :D
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by amatecha 2y ago
I have an extremely similar QRP kit! Same battery, same radio, similar throw weight, though I would usually use EFHW instead of... is that an OCFD? It's always so cool to pick up signals from all over the place with such a minimalist
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by amatecha 2y ago
Only thing I have posted online currently: a Photoshop script to radially-repeat the current layer, making for interesting graphics! Assign it to a key-command, draw some stuff and press the key-command each time to progressively refine you
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, I was pondering just how long of a time delta you'd need/want to actually show a meaningful difference... Probably at least as long as the lifetime of the Euclid spacecraft...

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