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mastodon 4.7.3I enjoy thinking and doing. Not necessarily in that order. This is my amateur radio account. I can also be found at @abraxas3d@defcon.social
de W5NYV. Open Research Institute co-founder and CEO, ARRL Technical Advisor, ARRL San Diego Section Technical Specialist, #OpenSource HEO #amateur #satellite lead (Haifuraiya), and member of FCC TAC 🏳️🌈
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Good News about PSKReporter:
https://www.openresearch.institute/2026/09/14/pskreporter-levels-up/
I will be in Washington DC from 1-4 October 2026 for the FCC TAC meeting.
If you're there and want to talk open source digital radio work, @OpenResearchIns projects, or regulatory reform work for amateur radio and amateur radio satellite services, please let me know.
I'll be staying near FCC HQ.
It's a long shot, but does anyone here have paper copies of the SANDPAC newsletter?
San Diego Packet Radio Association.
It's almost completely offline, but has some very important historical stuff in it. 1986 to mid-90s. Mike Brock WB6HHV, Franklin Antonio N6NKF, and Tom Lafleur KA6IQA. Paul KB5MU, Brian Kantor WB6CYT, Roy Davis WB9RKN. Marvin Munster WB6PKK, who ran the Escondido ARS node, and Steven Ruiz KC6MDV, who wrote a packet Battleship game.
Seriously good history. Anyone have these?
Decorated the bottom of stationary before writing and sending a letter to my sister. Alcohol markers from Olo. Technique from a video by #sketchbox art supply subscription.
Second to last paragraph, on the second page, is one of the many paragraphs from many books that contributed to how I view engineering as a vocation.
Summer edition of the @OpenResearchIns Inner Circle Newsletter is out!
There is honestly nowhere one can escape sexism in tech. It is everywhere all the time. That was the lesson from that awful book "Lean In". It's a lesson I keep learning successfully leading teams.
Men will always favor other men. Over women. Every time. Right now, women are not truly included. Because we're not truly considered to be people.
If you can accept this, and if you can keep the focus on the work, and if you can absorb gut punches, and if you have enough margin, then you're good.
Have you ever asked "Why isn't there an open source method of moments wire antenna analysis tool?"
Then I have a link for you.
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@ai6yr @wtrmt
"NASA’s consistent delight with ILC’s suits and constant frustration with the firm’s paperwork were not contradictory. In fact, they were of a piece. As the many counterexamples to ILC’s expertise show, any attempt to fit the human body precisely into the procedures of systems management seemed destined for difficulty."
So well-said. Open source pattern/sizing designers have been grappling with this exact thing for at least two decades now.
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@wren6991 really good question.
Even without LLMs, TDD can give a false sense of security. Because passing tests do not guarantee functional code. It's worse when you succumb to the temptation to choose the test, rather than choose the code.
For TDD to work, you need to have some steely nerves (discipline!). Now imagine doing TDD as a disembodied pattern matcher. No discipline.
When it accidentally works it seems like magic. Because cathexis. (We will pack bond with toasters and plushies).
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@divya@sfba.social and this will ensure that even more of us never consult with therapists, ever. Huge damage.
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@thephd
Misery loves company. Here you go:
https://youtu.be/jYGxY5icxjc?si=VkLy3oJIhrXQZY5l
The Infamous 2023 Radio Caller Rant about the Chicago White Sox
Replying to
@dd0ul@mastodon.radio looks misspelled? should be https://openresearch.institute/getting-started
Very sorry for the inconvenience! I'll double-check the links. I should be able to clean that up.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @20002ist@thepit.social @kims@mas.to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org wait, this is a thing?
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@mroszko@mastodon.social @yaxu@post.lurk.org @steeph@todon.eu @netspooky@haunted.computer oh wow, that's one step beyond.
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@ARDC@mastodon.hams.social
PSA: be careful with ARDC. They are pretty gruesome with the ethics and code of conduct type stuff.
DM me for on the record details, with receipts.
If you need money and you can't find it anywhere else, take the money and run. Be warned, if you feel obligated to comply with their rules, they certainly do not.
If you can find alternative funding, definitely do. There is money out there, distributed by much more professional and ethical people.