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GrrlScientist@mstdn.science ("GrrlScientist Ⓥ :verified:") wrote:
"We are seeing every night on television news a nature hike through the Book of Revelation."
-- Al Gore
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Can spiders be gay? A quick observation demands more detailed study.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seems like a reasonable size for a reasonable-power (5/10/30/80 watts output) portable 2 meter band FM voice station… that (20 amp hour) battery box is probably half the weight
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I am so totally done with meetings. Fuck 'em. I've got tenure, & I'm close to retirement, so I have the power to avoid them.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/17/be-it-resolved-2/
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's Q3'23, and React is still bad at DOM. Wild.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, and a 5 watt test gets me a decent signal report 19.9 mi ( 32.0 km) away, despite the tripod not being very tall and obstacles around this #HamRadio #antenna
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
with a hill to the north, trees to the east & west, and a 2-story-ish house with metal roof to the south, that ain’t bad for medium (nominal 30 watts out) power setting… now for a low-power (5w) test
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
that’s a decent test: 5 over 9 signal report from a station 29.7 mi ( 47.9 km) away when set to 30 watts output
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Mastodon FeedI've made improvements to the lib.rs site: #rustlang
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
it has been a while since I’ve used this puppy… 2m FM voice at up to a nominal 80 watts out (Yaesu FT-2980)
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
time for a hydration break, then set up the radio & power for a 2m test… that seems “level enough”
(tripod is just maybe 9.5 feet tall)
;^}
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
assembled, mounted, and ready to add coax & hoist it for a test on 2 meters
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
there’s not a whole lot to this #antenna
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
making an “ugly balun” for my new J-Pole antenna, which I got for portable use on the 2 meter & 70 centimeter bands #HamRadio #Antenna
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Welp! 😂
“#Trump's promised press conference to refute the allegations in the #TrumpIndictment handed up by the #Fulton County #Georgia DA's Office is now very much in doubt”
His lawyers finally got him to shut up. (They think)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Summer is over. Today I have a string of meetings over most of the morning & early afternoon, the most dismal way to start a term ever…but also how we start every term.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Digging up dead children and seeing evidence of maltreatment must be a bit depressing,I would think.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/17/all-weve-got-are-bones/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Tomatoes demonstrate that Charles Murray is an idiot.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/17/charles-murray-is-still-an-ignoramus/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I know I am just being a silly city gardener, and seeing my corn mature still makes me smile
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
The 1983 Lou Ferrigno Hercules movie is so good
Mastodon FeedI'm headed out to see Bad Religion play in a couple months. Anybody know what classes I need to pass for admission?
Mastodon FeedAstro Bot is the best game Nintendo never made.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Not career advice per se, but I can recommend learning juuuuuuust enough about X.509 to be horrified that the world runs on it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
craigm@hachyderm.io ("Craig") wrote:
@pzmyers I mean, forget PhD feeder programs, what the guv wants to know is if they can go one for three in the series against the East Central Alabama Baptist Bible College Shrimpshuckers.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
One of the very most bizarre things in our world of paracopyright nonsense is that the Nintendo Switch blocks you from taking screenshots of the store app
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StarlingW@mstdn.social ("Starling Whistler") wrote:
A Small Journey
A gentle barefoot wander through the grass, the day's #Piano #Diary improvisation.
https://soundcloud.com/starling-whistler/2023-08-14-a-small-journey
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
My work desk in 2023: https://nadim.computer/posts/2023-08-16-desk2023.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Aepasek@scholar.social ("Anne Pasek") wrote:
The Critical Carbon Computing Collective's issue of Branch is now up!
We have a set of 4 keyword docs + an intro outlining our shared thinking on role of💻s in climate politics, widely defined.
Digital enviro governance is complicated! Let's talk about it!
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- Introducing Carbon Computing Computers lie at the heart of climate politics. Computationally-intensive models frame and constitute how governing bodies and public perception alike understands the problem of climate change, while a growing number of digital tools and systems are positioned as the solution to the climate crisis. The urgency of global warming isn’t in dispute but how the computing tech industry is setting the terms and horizons for mega climate change projects should be understood and recalibrated. This inquiry attends to the material realities of computing technologies—including labor, supply chains, and digital infrastructures—and to the widespread faith that digital solutions and technological management are the best and only responses to climate change. Even when carbon reporting mechanisms and software tooling intended to reduce GHG emissions are most effective, it is unclear if 1) carbon cost numbers are accurate across fully supply chains, 2) measuring and reporting emissions leads to substantial reductions in GHG emissions (measurement is not the same as action), and 3) an outsized focus on decarbonization casts aside or, at the very least, deprioritizes other crucial environmental and social factors. (remote)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't want to read about Ales Hrdlicka ever again.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
charlesroper@indieweb.social ("Charles Roper") wrote:
The Nib made all of their issues free for download:
https://membership.thenib.com/donate-free-pdf-downloads
"The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end of August. But before we go, we are making all 15 issues of our Eisner and Ignatz award-winning magazine available for anyone to download for free. That’s more than 1,600 pages of comics, including our out of print Secrets, Nature, Food, and Color issues."