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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seems like a smart move
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someone ask clarency thomas if any women are on a jury of his peers
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abraxas3d@defcon.social ("Abraxas3d") wrote:
A more prosaic part of the pattern: attaching the #hackerboxes LED panels with buttonhole stitching. First one went down without incident. Soldering will be done with a shield protecting the fabric.
Time for #Tessellation!
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is A Seriously Big Deal #AmateurRadio 📡
"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published new rules adopted last month that replace the symbol rate restrictions on the HF bands with a bandwidth limit of 2.8 kHz. The new rules go into effect January 8, 2024.
The bands and band segments affected by the rules change are those authorized for data transmission between 160 and 10 meters, exclusive of 60 meters (where no change was made)."
https://www.arrl.org/news/bandwidth-limits-replace-symbol-rates-on-the-hf-bands-other-bands-open-for-comment
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blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
"They used to throw women in the water to see if they were witches. If they drowned, they were innocent. Now they're saying the only #abortion exception is if the woman's life is at risk. If she dies, she was at risk.
You can see the recurring flaw in the methodology."
h/t @gfarrell
source: https://mastodon.social/@gfarrell@mastodon.world/111573387801867541
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the blurb I submitted for my preso next month to the https://rochesterham.org/ mtg on the JS8 protocol and using the JS8Call software package:
#Amateur/Radio 📡
-----[blurb]-----
Jeff Sonstein (WA2RRB) is a retired RIT Prof and longtime hacker of code who, once upon a time, was an Army Sgt and radio operations chief. Jeff is particularly interested in approaches to communicating over long distances through noisy conditions using low power; in having “conversations, not just checkins”.
At the January 2024 RARA meeting Jeff will be presenting materials about the JS8 protocol and the JS8Call software package (first released JAN 2019), with a practical focus on configuration and conversational-operations issues:
“JS8Call (JS8) is an amateur radio QSO communication mode based on FT8. It is popular among amateur radio operators for its ability to send and receive messages despite challenging propagation conditions, high noise environments, low power operations (QRP), or even compromised antennas.
JS8Call turns FT8 into a "chat" mode, allowing stations to send longer messages "keyboard-to-keyboard." JS8Call can be thought of like a very weak-signal radio broadcast form of 'e-mail' (though it is not e-mail), where operators can check their message inbox and reply later. Messages can also be sent out to be relayed through other operators to reach a recipient operator. JS8Call conversations can also be had in real-time.”
[ from > https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/JS8 ]
Issues such as rig-control and remote operations software choices will be touched upon, but the real focus will be on understanding, configuring, and using this protocol and software for conversational radio communications, ad hoc network formation, and message-passing possibilities.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Mom is doing better!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/14/in-case-you-were-concerned/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Trying do defend YOUR religion by invoking "tradition" is stupid. Traditions change, religion evolves, your faith today is yesterday's heresy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/14/here-we-go-again-with-the-war-on-xmas/
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Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:
@daniel @signalapp @heiseonline The number of rude, misinformed comments I get--here especially--from people who clearly have no experience developing & maintaining a high availability comms service that people actually use is astounding. I can't tell if it's rigid ideology--unwillingness to acknowledge the sorry state of the tech ecosystem due to a personal investment in a fading FOSS libertarian dream, or misogyny, or genuine/willful misunderstanding, or some combo. But it's exhausting.
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Bad news for Apple 🍏 too! An Epic win jolts Google: The company's app store monopoly has been ruled illegal, and the ramifications will extend well beyond Fortnite
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@plinth @davidbraze @futurebird after undergrad in math & CS I was surprised that grad school in CS built more on the math degree than the CS degree
In hindsight it makes sense, but I wonder how undergrad CS could be done differently so we’d all see that coming (and be better prepared for it)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seems like a reasonable plan
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xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:
Hivemind, please help.
One thing that still eludes me is a way to lint #Markdown files to enforce a one-sentence-per-line rule. This is remarkably nontrivial.
Can somebody point me to such a thing? Ideally in #Python, but I'll take any language (even an emacs minor mode will help).
A bajillion bonus points if the thing can also unwrap wrapped paragraphs and automatically turn them into one sentence per line.
Boosts appreciated, thanks!
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Who's going to #37c3?
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Make no mistake, this is huge for Mastodon. Currently people have to choose between X, Mastodon, and Threads, and network effects play a dominant role in that choice. If we can say, you can access all the folks that went to Threads from a Mastodon account, that makes it a far more attractive option given all of its other perks 😉
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
If you’ve got questions about what interoperability with #Threads means, we wrote this up back in July, and you can still refer to it:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
oh yeah I screencapped that both to show that you CAN download stuff on the PS3 still and that Trash Panic, a pretty small tetris clone/parody, is somehow an entire gigabyte? maybe they were being really extravagant with the soundtrack/textures/models or something. I'd expect a game like that to be 1/3rd that size, especially since the big AAA titles of the time were like 6~8gb. Trash Panic got a giantbomb quick look ages ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONNro5Y2hNE
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I thought they had shut down the PSN on PS3 and Vita but you can actually still download stuff. If they decided to do this to discourage piracy/jailbreaking, it worked. I was totally gonna jailbreak because I thought it had hit its hard EOL
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
#Threads is testing federation for a few selected profiles. I'm now following @mosseri! It's one-way for now, but it's exciting. It's a step towards the interoperable social web that we've been advocating for 🙂
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Christmas tree. This year, it's blue. And by the way, this kind of piercing blue should be illegal, it's impossible to photograph.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Since I upgraded my win10 hd I had an extra ~970gb ssd hanging around. I'm gonna try putting it in the PS3
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
When did Reddit finally start prompting for their PWA instead of endless slam-doors to the app store?
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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:
Meta just said they’re starting to test federation on Threads. This is a win for the movement to re-open the social web, where even the most powerful social platform knows that the threat of regulation and the ascendancy of open innovation mean that they have to go with the momentum that’s pushing for open standards.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"When I made my first film, La Pointe Courte—without experience, without having been an assistant before, without having gone to film school—I took photographs of everything I wanted to film, photographs that are almost models for the shots. And I started making films with the sole experience of photography, that's to say, where to place the camera, at what distance, with which lens and what lights?"
Agnès Varda
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
… I have to invent a tag for it, don't I?
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Today in the "Ivan answers questions in headers without reading the article" category:
"How Netflix’s Wednesday became a pop culture phenomenon" — https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/14/wednesday-addams-family-reboot-netflix-tiktok
By relentless, incessant advertising.
Next!
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
She knows she’s a gift.
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mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:
if you’re wondering what all the fuss is about with AI and autonomous agents, you might want to start here:
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lindamciver@aus.social ("Linda McIver") wrote:
"data governance is not a topic that gets a lot of love. people yeah switch off when they hear it, but it really makes a huge amount of difference to what you're able to do with data (and not just avoiding big regulator fines)" new episode of MMDL with Fiona Tweedie!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"This piece is part of “Polling young voters,” a series exploring some of the reasons young voters lack enthusiasm for voting in 2024 through polling analysis."