I’m very lucky to have an independent radio station in my area. It’s run by a nearby college, but they let anyone take training to become a host.

They don’t always play music I like (hell, they don’t always even play music) but I’ll deal with 30 minutes of buddhist chanting because the variety can’t be beaten. Also, they have no ad breaks.

You didn’t even ask ChatGPT. How am I supposed to trust your math?

You can thank the US Army for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-300

A much better idea than when I tried to organize my restaurant with hashtables.

It was too much for the waitstaff, who had to reindex the floor plan every time they added or removed a plate.

On the plus side, delivering the right food was always O(1).

Actually, amateur TV broadcast was something that interested me. I had the opportunity to buy an SDR with wider bandwidth, but I wasn’t sure how much I’d get into it, so I kept things cheap.

Another thing I’m looking into is ADS-B flight tracking. My house is within range of a sports arena where there are all manner of overhead banners get flown. Might be fun to follow them around on a map.

If you post on !amateur_radio@sh.itjust.works, I’d read.

I bought a cheap RTL-SDR to help solve a CTF challenge at DEFCON. The 2m/70cm antenna on my roof is begging for a fun project that’s not just talking to other hams.

Surely this could be good, right?

If celebrities need to be accessible to their biggest fans, maybe it would induce them to leave the birdsite? And if this is as big a migration as the article suggests, it has the potential to snowball in network effects, giving other influential users one less reason to feel chained to a dumpster fire.

Thanks!

Definitely: https://web.archive.org/web/20221204145004/https://www.desertcart.com.om/products/30202270-toy-camera-mickey-mouse

I worked on a product that was only allowed to return 200 OK, no matter what.

Apparently some early and wealthy customer was too lazy to check error codes in the response, so we had to return 200 or else their site broke. Then we’d get emails from other customers complaining that our response codes were wrong.

I’ve been browsing your blog as part of a plan to build my own node using some ESP32s I have lying around from a prior project.

I was wondering if you know of any recommendations for a 900MHz transceiver module that I could use for US node?

“Honey, the water is about to shut off. Can you file a JIRA ticket to fill out bathtubs? I should be able to get to it next sprint”

I’m not sure if amateur radio is due for an external September. Most people don’t see the point, since they have phones and Internet.

I guess we could see HF airwaves fill up with frivolities? But all the new operators would open up opportunities for cool new digital modes to make the most of shared resources. I’d love if there were enough people in my area to start a broadband Hamnet.

Not that I was ever interested in being military, but I was at a lunch with two older lifelong army retirees. They kept talking about how military service broke their bodies and politicians won’t cover their medical costs. These injuries were independent of any combat: It’s just expected that you sell every part of yourself when you sign up.

Who wants to be 45 years old with a limp, be unable to hear a quiet conversation, and have horrible back problems?

Yes, OP I highly recommend a GL.iNet device. It’s pocket sized and always does the job.

It’s also great for shitty wifi that tries to limit how many devices you can connect. The router will appear as one MAC and then all your other devices can route traffic through it.

A story I heard was that it was the poor indigenous farmers who were forced to cultivate coffee for the Dutch. They weren’t allowed any of the beans they grew, but were able to collect it from the dung of civets that prowled around near the plantation. Of course, once the colonizers learned that it tasted “good”, it was commoditized too.

Might be apocryphal.

Seriously, what a shit article.

Summarizing reviews with “some critics said…” “reviews mentioned …”, and explaining that fans of the game like gore.

I learned absolutely nothing that I didn’t already know from cultural osmosis, and even though I didn’t read through to the end I still feel like I wasted my time.

1. Study free materials available online.
2. Take free practice tests.
3. Look for license exams in your area, or take an online one. Exam fees in my experience have been ~$25 and go towards whichever club is proctoring.
4. Pay the $35 FCC licensing fee and get your callsign.

Theoretically, that’s all you need. It’s possible to use certain internet linked amateur transmitters for no cost as long as you have a valid callsign. However, I promise it’s a lot more fun with a real transceiver. You can buy a bare minimum, highly hackable handheld VHF/UHF transceiver for as little as $20.

Or you can slowly give your soul to the moneypit of HF equipment…

If it’s just for movies, consider an Intel ARC A380.

Small, cheap, great transcoding performance, and its drivers should be shipped by default with most distros. It really can’t do games though.

Why’d ye spill yer memes, Winslow? Why’d ye spill yer memes?