kawfey

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by kawfey 6y ago
The ecosystem of a multitude of various chat apps is daunting and confusing. I've been finding that I'm spending more time talking and thinking about chat programs rather than actually doing anything valuable. It's kind of li
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by kawfey 6y ago
I used to work at the VLA as an RF engineering intern. I learned a lot. There is a good technical answer in these comments already, in regards to reception. But AO was also a transmitter - it could pump out millions of watts to illuminate a
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by kawfey 6y ago
Last night I didn't realize Doordash doesn't even give me the option to tip for carryout. I came back to the restaurant to leave some cash in their jar labeled "DOORDASH TIPS!" We Americans really need a way to tip via a
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by kawfey 6y ago
I know a few teachers so I asked around. The status quo - like in the classroom - is to still just use ___________'s and whitespace on printouts. Some teachers even print the students completed work, just because "grading is easie
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by kawfey 6y ago
Less guns, more Notices of Apparent Liability.
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by kawfey 6y ago
A United States of American.
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by kawfey 6y ago
I like this, mostly for the OS LAN Video conferencing system. The only one that comes to mind is VideoLAN VC but it seems to be deprecated since 2007. The wireless part is really just wifi with big antennas. I'm sure you could get much
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by kawfey 6y ago
Many states don't have ballot boxes, and a LOT of people are distrusting of mail-in and absentee voting which forces them to vote in person.
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by kawfey 6y ago
My voting location is a school, but voting days are always on weekdays while school is in session. The voting public occupies the school's gym, so it annoys me that the students must forgo PE and physical activity for the day for my pr
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by kawfey 6y ago
This is a massive problem in ham radio. Their main "selling point" is to provide a radio service for emergencies and disasters, but here we've got some of the greatest disasters we've ever seen, and the ham radio scene i
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by kawfey 6y ago
Coincidentally, Behind the Bastards podcast has put out a two-part show on Mark Zuckerberg's background and the atrocities Facebook has let happen on their platform - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-b
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by kawfey 6y ago
Because ham radio is fun. It's a different hobby than the other myriad ways of communications which you describe. It's a radio service explicitly dedicated to the personal enjoyment of radio. It is not a personal communication ser
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by kawfey 6y ago
Reiterates a lot of the points from this post, "Millennials are Killing Ham Radio" [ https://n0ssc.com/posts/583-millennials-are-killing-ham-radi... ]. There is a movement/revolution in ham radio occurring
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by kawfey 6y ago
I've noticed in my neighborhood, there's this guy who drives around in his old beat up pickup truck absolutely full of junk - broken air conditioners, fans, lamps, furniture, TVs, wood scrap, mangled bicycles, you name it. He pick
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by kawfey 6y ago
I used to work for NRAO. Arecibo is a transmitter, which illuminates the asteroid with very high powered radio waves. The asteroid reflects some of the radio waves, which is received back on the ground at Arecibo or at other radio telescope
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by kawfey 6y ago
You must have some very interesting notes. I think for most of us, the US government wouldn't be particularly interested in our musings, but what do you suggest?
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by kawfey 6y ago
It's amusing that the tweets keep coming, get deleted, reappear, get deleted... I can't help but imagine how any account on twitter would be safe if the Bill Gates', Elon Musk's, and top crypto site's Twitters are c
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by kawfey 6y ago
I just had my right airpod returned and replaced under warranty, it's only a matter of time before the left goes. It took me two hours to get a person on the phone, and we went through no less than 3 reset cycles. :| Then the advisor t
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by kawfey 6y ago
> that you can't carry the internet over ham radio is one of the main reasons for its lack of popularity This isn't exactly true; misleading at best. Internet via ham radio isn't really that much "fun" whilst the
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by kawfey 6y ago
Author here. A lot has changed since then, mostly for the better. There's been numerous youth initiatives, clubs, groupos, and technological advancements that have grown ham radio since 2017 across all generations, especially millennia
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by kawfey 6y ago
This is the opposite of what they should do. Encryption is verboten on amateur radio.
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by kawfey 6y ago
It depends on the fuel capacity. The article says >That mobile [7.2kW] welding shop can run for 32 hours continuously on a full tank, making all-day, heavy-duty work possible. F-150 has a few capacity options. Per a 2019 tech sheet[0], 2
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by kawfey 6y ago
I always felt strangely about it. It is quick, dirty, free, and easy, but the fact public docs hosted on Google Docs are very unstable, i.e. they don't get archived, and they're prone to removal by the writer at any moment, or by
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by kawfey 6y ago
I think the minority opinion is those who don't like this. This group is much more vocal about their privacy, while the other group is either okay with it or blissfully ignorant. I do prefer an opt-in default though, because the blissf
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by kawfey 6y ago
I look at lots of repeaters. I'm a repeater engineer for our city radio club. Not one has any encrypted links, unless you're talking about echolink/allstar/D-Star/YSF, in which the audio is transmitted via the inter
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by kawfey 6y ago
everyone else like: - General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) which is limited to a set of frequencies in the UHF band, 50w repeaters, and a few watts handheld, and requires an $80? license. - Family radio service (FRS) which is limited to st
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by kawfey 6y ago
This video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIyckKhZrpA ) has a few good points on having private conversations via that don't "obscure the message" via ham radio, namely: - Use rare/odd frequencies that
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by kawfey 6y ago
Their skin burns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_burn
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by kawfey 6y ago
Compared to less-than-lethal means like rubber bullets, beanbags, and tasers, acute RF exposure at reasonable distances and safety margins causes quite a bit less physical damage while making those exposed very, very uncomfortable. However,
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by kawfey 6y ago
https://vector.im/ Vector.im already seems to be the parent organization of Riot.im, so it might be confusing.

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