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#BBC [World] Israeli soldiers' mosque behaviour condemned by IDF https://w.st/HA58a
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#BBC [World] EU to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova https://w.st/hiyCD
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh no no no, please no... inevitable, and good lawd no no no
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
picked up one of these (on sale for $US60) today, tired of carrying my main all-band/all-mode field rig (an FT-991A) around in a bag with no real protection from dust, moisture, and shock:
https://www.harborfreight.com/4800-weatherproof-protective-case-x-large-black-64250.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I hope you aren't all waiting for a happy ending to this story.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/14/a-slight-correction/
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hankg@friendica.myportal.social ("Hank G ☑️") wrote:
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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:
I wrote about the AI trust crisis: when companies like Dropbox and OpenAI say "we won't train models or your private data", it's increasingly clear that a lot of people simply don't believe them.
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I wandered into the Muckleshoot casino. Now I’m blind, deaf, and lost in a maze of slot machines.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
but of course, everyone should have a box of various sized toroids hanging around
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I hate it when ppl post things like "...social media isn't for [fill in the blank]". any given socmedia platform is for whatever the users use it for. that is how this thing works
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seems like a smart move
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
someone ask clarency thomas if any women are on a jury of his peers
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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 📡
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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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
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 🙂