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@LewisWorkshop@mastodon.online
Just be careful about mildew. Don't ask how I know.
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@M0KHR@mastodon.radio
mastodon 4.7.3M0KHR (Hakan) - mostly operates QRP or into the dummy load.
As a hobby I used to collect callsigns. Until OFCOM takes the Intermediate and Foundation away (soon), I am M0KHR, 2E0RHK, M3FCJ and also TA4KHR. In late 90s I used to be TA2MGW but that callsign had lapsed long time ago, and some point I was also M1FCJ.
Locator: Mostly IO91 and couple of weeks a year KM36
Mostly found at: 144.174, 50.313, 28.074, 14.074 MHz
(He/him)
Trans rights are human rights.
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Joined November 16, 2022
The study is too hot and humid.
The garden is too hot and humid.
The kitchen is too hot and humid.
Eurgh. I hate this new normal.
18MHz is quite disappointing today. I'm just casually checking the screen between meetings but it's pretty crap.
Went down to 14MHz for a while earlier in the morning, it was busy, even with 50W I couldn't get a message edgeways and I don't like that so went back up to 18MHz for some peace and quiet.
8 QSOs between 05:50-08:19UTC. 3 on 17m, 5 on 20.
RSGB's exam analysis for 2025 PDF was an interesting read.
Once more the amount of M/F ratio in the hobby is truly shocking. Also the age of the new entrants is quite shocking.
An interesting read was the analysis on frequently wrong questions, I would like to do a more deep down into that personally, but the document wasn't very helpful - I'd have to somehow find out all 2025 full questions and cross-check and I'm not sure if that data i available in a suitable format.
It is time to close my account on Reddit. Not only it's a toxic place, it's only concern is to sell our input as AI slop.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/reddit-ceo-on-ai-overviews-were-still-looking-for-that-win-win/
In this very hot weather this summer, I'm really being tempted by the inflatable kayaks...
yay, a new small keyboard for the big machine!
There's an awful amount of AI generated amateur radio slop lately. What really surprises me is the blogs and toots here. Trying to build a ham cred with slop? Why? What's the point?
I've completely wasted today away.
Yeah, the last thing I need in my terminal is an "AI-native ‘agentic operating system’ that sits a level above OSes" living in my tmux-replacement.
Screen was too good for these idiots. #LostThePlot
Hmm, there's 100% something wrong with my #adsb monitoring setup.
I'm on the flightpath to Farnborough and lots of other flights too. This should have been chock-full of flights.
Wonder why, I hadn't checked this for a long time.
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@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social @foone@digipres.club
While you're down there, have a poke at Charlie Stross's The Jennifer Morgue novel, if you haven't already done so.
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@M0YNG@mastodon.radio @xssfox@cloudisland.nz apparently needed for new RyA pilots doing multiple touch and gos
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @tom_verbeure@mastodon.social @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @datenwolf@chaos.social
Computing went through a mad pace of change between 1985 and 2000, from 8-bit computers to 64 bit becoming relatively affodable with Alpha chip.
I went from doing BASIC on my Spectrum 48k as a kid to running multi-user systems on Intel/AMD architecture.
Meanwhile, the last 15 years in user-end hasn't that much advanced. Yeah, more cores, more RAM but I've already had more than 4GB RAM on my PC in 2010, and even now that's quite OK with Linux.
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @datenwolf@chaos.social
Once I have had removed all 640kb of RAM off a PC XT clone to check any issues, and re-seated them. Looked very much like this (image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/h8t32l/8088_motherboard_from_ibm_xt/)
Calling CQ on 80m FT8, but the band is closing.
My 20m end fed is not working well, I guess after three years it's time to replace the cable.
Hmm, moved the Meshcore repeater to my study, next to the radios, on top of a metal cabinet, it shouldn't hear a thing, but it does.
I don't see my own messages in the Public channel though, but receiving adverts and messages for now.
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@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place
You cannot escape the AI bullshit and slop at the moment. It's depressing, very very depressing.
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@jk
When XP had landed, I already had a rather similar but much more fancier DE, the KDE, with wobbly windows and all that.
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@G8RKE@mastodon.radio
What's the SWR like right now? Wire antennas can cope with all sorts of shapes w/o significant difference in SWR and still radiate fine.
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@datenwolf@chaos.social @tom_verbeure@mastodon.social @azonenberg@ioc.exchange @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
Oooh, I had a batch of those once! Installed on a couple of office computers as a 100Mbit upgrade, and then they didn't work thanks to collisions! No wonder they were cheap.
Edit: actually they weren't even cheap. I remember jumping into my car and driving to Dixons to grab a bunch of cards to replace them because they were needed *now*
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@timbray@cosocial.ca
Same kind of experience we've had with Google DNS hosting. Squarespace is just awful.
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@tom_verbeure@mastodon.social @azonenberg@ioc.exchange @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @datenwolf@chaos.social
There were shenanigans about bus vs CPU bits (386SX33 and 8088 comes to mind)
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@16af93@wetdry.world
Code reviews boils down to: "this is an ecumenical matter, Father."
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@makethecatwise Looks like a fancy 50-pin SCSI interface to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_SCSI
Yup. Looks like the reason my Meshcore node sprung to life is a station popping up in nearby Sherborne St John.
This reliance of repeaters will be the downfall of Meshcore. If everyone was a repeater like Meshstatic, I'm sure I would have been able to join the wide network earlier.
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@G8RKE@mastodon.radio
I am guessing here, looks like majority of people are after 'awards', not chatting, and that moves traffic towards FT8.
I am also one who rarely does voice work, since I just don't like talking on a mic. Digital modes are much more comfortable for me. I could have never racked up thousands of log entries if I was doing voice.
Grabbed a couple of Simon Stålenhag art books from the library, wow they're gorgeous.
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@G8RKE@mastodon.radio
I need to learn from you on how to whittle down the nodes. I've got 5+ active right now.
Do I use them? £&%$ all.
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@jimfrost@mastodon.scot
Not exactly the same place, but some years ago we stopped at the Kilt Rock Waterfall (Creag An Fhèilidh) in a stormy weather. I walked to the edge, I could not see A THING. Walked back to the car drenched.
We drove off, 5 minutes later the sun came out and we drove back. I couldn't understand how on earth I missed seeing it.
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@FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital
My own todo list bears an uncanny resemblance to this.
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@ian@mastodon.radio banana and bread is a winner combo, and I would eat it but I would classify this as a dessert, not main course.
(edit: typos galore)