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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well, pskreporter.info says I am reaching both New Zealand and South Africa on 20 meters using JS8, but sadly I guess no actual humanoids are listening for CQ calls at 14.078MHz right now... boo hoo hoo
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
[Talking into the tape recorder I wear around my neck]: a dark, gritty Batman-style reboot of Ronald McDonald where Mayor McCheese is kidnapped and eaten by the Hamburglar
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
#BBC [World] Ukraine war: US gives 1.1 million rounds of ammunition seized from Iran to Kyiv https://w.st/80IZ1
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:
"What makes this news more interesting is the fact that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has abandoned its Threads account but is still maintaining its self-hosted Mastodon accounts online." #Media https://darnell.day/bbc-gives-up-on-threads-by-instagram-sticks-with-mastodon?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
Mastodon FeedIt's been this long, and I've only just now said the words "pine Inch nails." I'm clearly not right.
Mastodon FeedThe container of spoiled pineapple in my kitchen is perhaps the best Nine Inch Nails cover band I've ever heard.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
shrugdealer@kolektiva.social ("ted🎃cutezynski¹") wrote:
Do it for the environment.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
I just realized that `let _ = ...` and `let _foo = ...` behave differently in #rust.
The former drops the value immediately while the latter drops it at the end of the scope. This almost never matters due to the borrow checker but this was resulting in my tracing context being broken because I was calling `let _ = span.enter()` and the guard was being dropped right away.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Your hair
It's everywhere
Aggravating allergies
Mastodon Feed#DNSSEC serves no purpose other than causing outages for those who try to keep the dead technology alive.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1-1-1-1-lookup-failures-on-october-4th-2023/
It doesn't even matter if DNSSEC is secure, because nothing important relies on it.
Mastodon Feedrust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:
If you want your #Rustlang code to be fast and compact, avoid code that could panic.
Returning from a function instead of panicking is always going to optimize better.
https://rust.godbolt.org/z/MKW1xjrrx
This is because the optimizer fully understands function returns, and is able to reorder or coalesce them together. Panics have unique locations and major side effects that can't be touched by the optimizer, so in addition to adding extra unwinding code, panics prevent optimization of code around them.
Prefer
?over.unwrap(). Prefer iterators ora.get(…)?overa[…].
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
PS my wife and I both got it, and we've taken three Covid tests between the two of us, all negative.
Still...I think I liked it better when we were all wearing masks all the time.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
My kid brought a virus home from school last week. He recovered in like a day. Then I got it, and it's had me laid up in bed every afternoon for a week.
[Googles "how to tell if your 4yo is flexing on you"]
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stargirl@hachyderm.io ("Stargirl") wrote:
I've been working on KiCanvas's embedding API, and after a ton of work I finally have both a schematic and a PCB displayed on a webpage alongside other content.
Still lots to do, but the hardest bits are done. :)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
The latest Oxide and Friends is up on all the pod platforms. I highly recommend going on Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride with us.
Confession: I'm kind of a networking aphasiac, so while "Nagle's algorithm" rang a bell, I couldn't have told you what it was. More importantly, I couldn't have told you what it looked like when you were suffering from it. This vestige from 40 years ago remains basically unchanged, and the impact can be calamitous; learn from @bcantrill's suffering!
https://share.transistor.fm/s/c1aabbfd
Mastodon FeedNeighborhood spiders keep building webs around the hummingbird feeder. I think they’re getting ambitious.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
k2za@mastodon.hams.social ("John K2ZA") wrote:
Had limited time this afternoon, wanted to go for a bike ride and do some ham radio. Why not both? Taking a page from Jim @N4JAW book, I rode about 12 miles to Parvin State Park. Didn’t have time for a full blown activation attempt but did make a park-2-park QSO on 20m CW. Of course, I forgot the power cable for the external battery so I was using about 1.5w but the contact was completed. I think the KX1 is going to live in my bike bag for this sort of opportunity.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I didn't hear a thing, although I did receive the message. And my phone locked up after receiving the alert. Good job, fellow pogrammers. 👍
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
monthly local radio association meeting tonight, & I help run the raffle which means I need to be there in about 90 minutes. time for me to light a fire and char some DAP (dead animal parts)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lawprofblawg@mstdn.social ("Lawprofblawg") wrote:
This has been a test of the #EmergencyAlertSystem. Had this been an actual emergency, members of Congress would have tweeted about it, blaming the other party from the safety of a bunker as the rest of us died.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The national emergency alarm test was scheduled right on top of my cell biology class, and yeah, alarms were going off in the middle of my lecture. Then all the students turned into zombies. I think. Hard to tell after my lectures.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/04/i-thought-the-cacophony-was-bad/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
JS8 is just an absurdly effective high-noise/low-signal-condition protocol
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
too relatable, from a private IRC channel:
hahahaha, i just went to file a bug report on an instance of the issue i detected
THE GOD DAMN BUG REPORT TICKET FEATURE ON THE GOD DAMN WEB SITE THREW A 400 BAD REQUEST
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
playing around on 6m band JS8 with a friend who had just installed the s/w, and we got down to 1.5w (them) & 5w (as low as my Yaesu goes) in ‘Turbo’ mode (~40wpm) with 100% copy (~12-15km)
Mastodon FeedI’m really liking the titanium #iPhone. Feels much better than previous sharp-edged cold steel. My USB-C U2F key works with it!
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
One of the darker realizations I’ve had growing up is that a lot of unpaid public interest work is done in exchange for status, and that, as such, paid work on the regular market is often more sincere and therefore more noble, somehow
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:
Microsoft's Bing Image Creator depicts beloved characters doing 9/11, illustrating the struggles of generative AI models have with copyright and filtering. https://www.404media.co/bing-is-generating-images-of-spongebob-doing-9-11/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):
Being in tech is so exciting because there's so much room for growth
... It's also terrifying because there's TOO MUCH TO KNOW
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm | US news | The Guardian
‘A statement from Polanco that Detained in Dubai released said she and her friend chose Dubai over Paris for their layover because they believed the UAE city would “be a more modern and futuristic city” than the French capital.
“We were completely wrong,” said Polanco, who has also been grieving the recent death of her 44-year-old father. “I felt really violated. I felt really embarrassed and taken advantage of.”’
