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by kawfey 8y ago
I believe encryption is a good thing so long as FOIA is followed. Big time news agencies usually have a desk somewhere that's covered in radios from the city's police, fire, ems, etc. that were bought from the agencies respective
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by kawfey 8y ago
I think this would actually be very hard, especially with the gear used by most agencies. Motorola, for example keeps everything locked down and buried behind exorbitant costs. Just a single handheld radio can cost upwards of $6,000, and re
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by kawfey 8y ago
From a hardware perspective, I spent wayyyy too much time re-wiring breadboard circuits with perfectly measured and cut lengths of wire to make them look "beautiful," turning something like this[0] into this[1]. That was a waste o
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by kawfey 8y ago
I like to believe the calmness from tea comes from L-theanine, commonly present in tea leaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine However, experimenting with putting theanine in coffee and consuming energy drinks w
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by kawfey 8y ago
Nostalgia. I started my youtube "career" on that Kodak 2MP Powershot, and by some miracle I still have that camera.
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by kawfey 8y ago
Sometimes I wish GNU/Linux developers and evangelists wouldn't take this advice, because there's some pretty bad designs (and a few passable) logos out there. https://www.gnu.org/graphics/graphics.html
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by kawfey 8y ago
Users without the skills to verify the code isn't nefarious have to trust good samaritan developers instead.
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by kawfey 8y ago
It's very common for would-be thieves to see the doorbell camera and leave. Cameras, by the nature of the fact that someone could be watching, are a natural deterrent.
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I also don't think this really ruins his credibility as a YouTuber (or an engineer) at all. It's quite normal to act out and stage events for videos, especially in this case where the success of the video depended on recovering th
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by kawfey 8y ago
I'm patiently waiting to have injuries and sudden symptoms until ER bills become more reasonable and transparent. Until then, if something happens, I guess I'll just die. -youth of today
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It's hard to explain that to an unfit person who would argue it's immeasurably more enjoyable to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. Sometimes only after they develop heart disease or diabetes, or other obesity-related healt
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by kawfey 8y ago
I forgot to mention this is in the city of St Louis. They all know they've got far bigger fish to fry.
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by kawfey 8y ago
I learned from Nextdoor, that a neighbor of mine put cat litter in an amazon box, and later found out her car's driver side window busted in and the litter dumped on the seat. I now just have packages sent to lockers and UPS/FedEX
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by kawfey 8y ago
🅘🅝🅒🅞🅡🅡🅔🅒🅣 Your name is obviously 𝕄𝔸𝕏
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by kawfey 8y ago
Possibly thanks to beer, St. Louis's water is also some of the best in the nation. A common myth (or is it?) is that Anheuser-Busch pressures the city maintain a high quality water system, so they can brew high quality beer. [0] The fu
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by kawfey 8y ago
Meanwhile, a vast majority still use the amateur radio 70cm band to transmit telemetry. One such cubesat is in hot water because it doesn't seem to be following the non-commercial interests regulations.[0] A laser system would be pret
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by kawfey 8y ago
Why in the world was this the decision they came up with?
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IRC has, for all intents and purposes, been replaced by Discord. In other words, a large number of communities I frequented have re-formed in Discord, and are much more active. There's still a few holdouts, but it's usually just 3
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by kawfey 8y ago
From my experience, it's either 1. People who make profit and don't want to lose it to the FOSS crowd 2. People who are ashamed of their code 3. It's status symbol and they 4. They don't realize open source exists 5. T
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502 bad gateway
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From his HN profile: https://www.voxelquest.com/about.html
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Another amateur radio sidenote for the day[0], SATNOGS[1] performs a similar task by tracking and recording satellite passes of LEO cubesats with amateur radio telemetry and communication payloads via a network of DIY ground stations. Anyon
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by kawfey 8y ago
One perfect use case is amateur radio cloud logging. Logbook of the World[0] is the defacto standard, which implements cryptographic signing, but the database is centralized, and it's consistently broken, lagging, and needs frequent up
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by kawfey 8y ago
sign me up too, please. kawfey@gmail.com
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by kawfey 8y ago
I can understand facebook, but air travel? You musn't be of the USA. A train from Seattle to New York costs $350 and takes at least 3 days and there is only one carrier - Amtrak. A flight is $200 or less, and takes 6 hours.
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Qualcomm cuts 5G millimeter wave antenna size by 25% ahead of 2019 debut(qualcomm.com)
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I feel like in an emergency situation, voice would still be the preferred mode since ARES and other HF radio organizations are dispatched to fill in coverage gaps that would have been there otherwise. You also need a working computer with t
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by kawfey 8y ago
What you're looking for to research is WSJT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJT_%28Amateur_radio_software... In a nutshell, Joe Taylor (K1JT) created a program that features novel modulation schemes that solve a
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by kawfey 8y ago
I tend to agree with the many people that say that ham radio is a dying hobby - both literally because it's practitioners are becoming silent keys by the hundreds a day, and newcomers are in it only to meet the minimum requirements for
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by kawfey 8y ago
This is a dead horse but it isn't encryption.

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