curiousfab

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by curiousfab 5y ago
A 2€/month VPS, Apache, Let's Encrypt certificate, done. Use rsync or sshfs, or edit the file right on the VPS. It is not much easier and cheaper nowadays than 10 years ago because is has always been quite easy - with the main cha
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by curiousfab 5y ago
DokuFunk from Austria has collected a lot of material about well known ham radio personalities, including Gus Browning: https://dokufunk.org/amateur_radio/personalities/index.php?C... and Danny Weil: https:/
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by curiousfab 5y ago
For non-hams it may be difficult to understand why hams do this, but collecting "countries" (or rather DXCC entities [1]) is a big deal for many radio amateurs. There are currently 340 countries of which ~250 are "easy",
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by curiousfab 5y ago
Some true gems right there ;-) https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/25085/any-way-...
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by curiousfab 5y ago
I would never have heard or cared about the original fraud case. A great example of the Streisand effect.
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by curiousfab 5y ago
Composing such texts is an art form indeed, and really hard. Amazing achievement. Once in a while when composing an email, the first three lines or so just happen to have exactly the same length. I always take this as a challenge to continu
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by curiousfab 5y ago
The things that would have to be done would be so deep-cutting into what humanity does now that I have very little hope that they will be implemented. Especially considering our (humanity's) failure to get much easier things right (lik
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by curiousfab 5y ago
Fun fact: The same court ruled in 2008 that access providers may not be forced to block DNS: https://www.telemedicus.info/lg-hamburg-bestaetigt-wirkungsl... This Hamburg court in particular has produced hundreds of scandalo
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by curiousfab 5y ago
Considering this network was running from 1957 through 1976, I think "CW" in this context means "Continuous Wave", the (somewhat incorrect) synonym for Morse Code?
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by curiousfab 5y ago
Typical German humour: The shuttle shown says "Wir lassen keinen fahren", which means "We don't let anyone drive" (i.e. driverless), but "einen fahren lassen" colloquially also means to fart, which refers
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by curiousfab 5y ago
"Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard". https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=Logitech+Internet+Navigator... I literally picked it from a box of trash I walked by a few years ago because my old keyboard was broken.
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by curiousfab 5y ago
In my day job in corporate R&D about 3 or 4 large development projects (in which I have different roles: system architect, integrator, code monkey, dev ops, a bit of everything) and always a few smaller "incubator" projects. I
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Man accidentally dosed with LSD while repairing ’60s era synthesizer (2019)(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
34 points by curiousfab 5y ago|8 comments
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by curiousfab 5y ago
There have been quite a few startups based on the same idea (Waterseer etc.) and I think the common consensus is that these devices (which are basically dehumidifiers) are not viable. Thunderf00t has some youtube videos about the Waterseer
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by curiousfab 5y ago
Site hugged to death? I only get a database error. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210409170904/https://fergus-mc...
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by curiousfab 6y ago
I will additionally suggest the "ARRL Handbook" (there's a new edition every year - mine was 2001 and I guess there is no need to get the latest one), from which I learned everything about electronics, antennas and radio prop
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Amateur and Personal Radio Users Reminded Not to Use Radios in Crimes(fcc.gov)
3 points by curiousfab 6y ago|0 comments
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by curiousfab 6y ago
Trolling and many other forms of online abuse may not be against any law but it is in the public interest to allow platforms to remove such content. This initiative may turn out to be the opposite of what it claims to stand for.
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by curiousfab 6y ago
Ham radio has something for everyone, there are many hobbies within the hobby! For me personally it is Morse code on the shortwave frequency bands, often with very low power, with battery driven gear operated from the nature. Morse is still
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by curiousfab 6y ago
Hetzner. I once was blacklisted at MSFT and filled out their online form, which solved the problem within a day or two. The only provider that doesn't accept my mail (for years already) is AT&T but this is something I can live with
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by curiousfab 6y ago
Yes, and yes, no problems ever with receiving mail on my self-hosted systems. exim4, self-signed cert. Sending is what may be difficult but personally I only had very minor trouble with that (VPS on a reputable provider, all set up properly
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by curiousfab 6y ago
On average 300 per day (2100 per week), of which 100 (700/w) are spam, 150 (1050/w) are from various mailing lists, 25 (175/w) are outputs from cron jobs and monitoring systems (one of them contains these figures :) and about
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Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M(southgatearc.org)
114 points by curiousfab 6y ago|97 comments
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by curiousfab 6y ago
I got started in Linux when I was in my teens and played with amateur radio and Packet Radio (AX.25) in particular, some time around 1999. Back then I wrote a lot of small programs that helped me in my hobby so I almost never coded the for
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by curiousfab 6y ago
I own a domain name that is a generic word but is also an one-off of a medical company (and a very "likely" typo). My catch-all mailbox has received an insane amount of highly sensitive medical records over the years. Most of thes
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by curiousfab 6y ago
Yes, channel list, user list, lots of white space next to the usernames, for my taste there's also excessive spacing between the single message lines, the channel topic line could take up half of the space, and so on. I know that many
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by curiousfab 6y ago
What I don't understand about these "modern" apps is that users simply seem to accept that they waste megapixels of screen real estate for nothing. This has always put me off from using these, so still "stuck" with
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Solar Cycle 25 is coming to life(spaceweatherarchive.com)
2 points by curiousfab 6y ago|0 comments
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by curiousfab 6y ago
This is not true. You can get started on VHF for below $100 (e.g. Baofeng handhelds) and the same is true for HF (e.g. a QRP-Labs QCX kit and a simple dipole antenna). You can also find used 1980s HF radios (TS-440S era) in the range of $30
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by curiousfab 6y ago
No commercial activities, no encryption, no politics and no religion are fundamental pillars of ham radio's culture and the adherence to these principles (on the air) has led to a world wide community of radio amateurs, who are living

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