Man, cable bundling has turned into a full-on Special Interest. I'm now trying to decide if it would be sufficiently aesthetic to hand-weave cable bundles for my home rigs. There are some fun patterns that could be done with branching off, etc.
But it's also an absurd amount of work and dedication to a pointless thing that very few people will ever see, and nobody will ever appreciate like I do. Also it will probably turn out poorly.
Oh, shit, is⦠is this Art?
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Being able to just leave the telescope set up in the garage, blocking the car, is such an amazing selling point for living in a city with good mass transit. If I hear that a planet is up, or the moon seems neat, I can just go down, poke the scope out the garage door, and have a gander. No setup except if I've taken the car out: just move the scope out, look, then pop it back in.
It's taken me years to be okay with just leaving the telescope set up, and moving it every week or two. I bet lots of people have something similar they could keep instantly available by accepting that their car as a "sometimes thing," but this is mine.
(Cue that @TechConnectify video about "But Sometimes," but as lifestyle advice.)
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Legend says that the datetime author is still holding the sympy author's beer, to this very day.
[#]python #programming
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New Year's being a holiday means that everyone who works in infosec gets their birthday off every year, and I think that's beautiful.
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One of the challenges with Open Source's Cascade of Attention Deficit Teenagers model is that the designs are being done by inexperienced people.
The problem isn't technical: the code itself is usually reasonable to quite good. (NB: I was an ADT.)
The problem is cultural: when you're that new, the system your buddy cooked up last weekend is just as foreign as the ones used by millions of other people for decades. You can't even conceive of the friction you're going to create for so many Olds.
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This has given me a hilarious idea for a dystopian future: a manipulative government forces companies to use their personalization databases and generative AI for stuff like "Using this set of gorgeous landscapes as a basis, slightly tweak them to make this specific person feel maximally disappointed," so I get the one with a golf course and my golf-course-dwelling fundie parents get a bunch of Pride flags on the little houses.
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I just let my TV go to Google slideshow by accident, and the first image it showed me was a tiny remote peninsula, with a strange mesa in the center, surrounded by the kind of crystal blue you only get in a few places on Earth. It's gorgeous, and the terrain is rugged, and seems almost undisturbed by humans.
There's a couple dozen houses, making it a perfect place to get away from it all ... oh, wait, is this end of the peninsula a golf course, just with strategically-placed trees? Nevermind.
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I'm sure you're all familiar with the old saying, but it bears repeating:
A ham with one SWR meter knows how well-tuned their antennas are; a ham building up two different SWR bridge designs will slowly descend into madness trying to understand why they don't agree.
[#]hamradio
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Does anyone know a name for the circuit that MFJ uses (used? π’) for their SWR meters? Or, even better, an article walking through the theory of operation? I can't seem to find it in the places I'd expect to, and I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it.
This directional coupler seems β¦ unexpected.
Thanks in advance for any insight here!
[#]hamradio
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I can see the 280 flyway down to the southbound 101 from my kitchen, and it has been bumper-to-bumper crawling for at least 5 hours now. We're talking "idling in first gear" speeds here.
I finally looked into why: it's almost certainly due to a lack of investment in #infrastructure maintenance π₯³
I wonder how much CalTrans "saved" by not preventing the drainage problems, how much they'll spend on overtime to fix it, and how much the traffic has cost the overall economy in time lost.
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Here's one for the sincere-type hams of the fediverse.
(via @bruces, who posted it without alt text. Reposting with alt text and hashtag)
[#]hamradio
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Almost done with this l-match #hamradio antenna tuner. I tried to put it into a case since it was a known circuit, which went predictably poorly. After I splayed it out onto a blank copper board (like I should've done in the first place), it became much easier to find the problems.
The final version is in a different case, using a different coil setup, but, most importantly: using copper tape as "bus bars" worked really well. Would recommend as a technique, if you're low power enough.
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I'm using https://bookshop.org to buy a paper book, and choosing which store to support is a surprisingly difficult decision for me.
My local shops are mostly doing okay (AFAICT), so I'm trying to find the places I wish younger me could've had in the places I used to live, to make them available to the baby queerdos stuck in those states.
If you've got a local bookstore, shop there! But if you need to order online, consider supporting some podunk town's safe space. We thank you.
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DuckDuckGo has seen fit to shove AI Chat into their UI.
If you want to help make this shit stop, engage with it on some boring-ass thing your parents would ask it about, and then mark the answer as offensive in the feedback sidebar.
They will pay attention to "offensive replies," as that's the most damaging outcome. Filling that feedback with chaff with either waste a human's time or dilute their ability to recognize truly offensive content. It's a win either way.
[#]ai #duckduckgo #llms
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Not enough people are talking about how the US economy is looking more and more like the Soviet economy did to Americans.
Everything is as cheap and minimal as possible, and all the options you have to "choose" from are made by a handful of companies. These are run by powerful figures, removed from any meaningful public accountability.
The difference is that we are constantly innovating new ways to market the same schlock at every-better margins, while paying workers less and less.
[#]uspol
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I'm going to be avoiding the news (and most social media) tomorrow. I would appreciate any random long-form YouTube nerdy shit recommendations folks might have, though, in case I get antsy and need a shiny novel distraction.
For y'all, I'll offer up Alexander the ok's history of the first microcomputer, found in the F-14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpruA5mC7wg
And a bonus of Primitive Technology's fantastic work on making a thatched-roof workshop using stone tools (turn on CC!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tZLCCLMws4
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My favorite #SanFrancisco Voter Guide is out: The League of Pissed Off Voters.
https://www.theleaguesf.org/voter_guides
They explain why they make the endorsements they do, which is invaluable. I have been increasingly in agreement with their endorsements over the years, but I still find things to disagree with them on. And that's great: they do better journalism than most of the papers here in town.
(Also, a reminder that GrowSF and the "Neighborhood" Democratic Clubs have serious 90s Republicanism vibes.)
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This article about the flood risks in Asheville, posted almost two weeks ago, is painfully on the nose. It's eerie to read these interviews, knowing that the worst case scenario was weeks away from coming true.
"Ashevilleβs flood risk will only grow as rain events and climate change intensify"
https://avlwatchdog.org/ashevilles-flood-risk-will-only-grow-as-rain-events-and-climate-change-intensify/
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Presented without comment: "After days of tense negotiation and brinkmanship, ARRL agreed to pay a $1 million ransom. That payment, along with the cost of restoration, has been largely covered by our insurance policy."
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/arrl-it-security-incident-report-to-members
[#]hamradio
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I wonder how much I could make from livestreaming DOS defrag? When it finishes, a bunch of random files are created to refragment the drive, and it starts over again, forever.
Oh! I bet you could make really good money by doing one that was the Windows Update screen, but very, very slow, and occasionally jumping backwards. I suppose midrolls could ruin the "Sorry Boss, the computer's taking hours to update!" that would drive the views.
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112860074086727852
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