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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hmmmm... I think that speaker cable might be in need of a few more toroids 🍩 if I'm going to do much on 40m
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, so both 20m and 40m get me JS8 heartbeat SNR reports. good... sometimes I wonder ;^}
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
-23°C (-8°F), -36°C (-32°F) with windchill.
It's cold here.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/15/im-feeling-it/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
finally... on 20m my JS8 heartbeat pulses get some responses
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
trying to be systematic, working my way from 6m on "up" (in wavelength) using JS8 to map out Propagation Now(-ish)
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zanchey@aus.social ("David Adam") wrote:
#fishshell rewrite-it-in #rust progress, 2024-01-15
87029 rust lines added
76776 / 76776 C++ lines removed
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 100%--
So, we're done? Well, yes and no.
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christianp@mathstodon.xyz ("Christian Lawson-Perfect") wrote:
I'm severely colourblind - my eyes can hardly detect red light at all.
So, working in web development, picking colour schemes is hard.
There are tools around to help you pick accessible colour schemes, but they assume that you can tell by looking that a colour is the one you want, and the only information you need the computer to calculate is the contrast ratio.
I realised I need a tool that will take the name of a colour and find a shade that gives a target contrast ratio.Here it is: https://colourblind-palette-maker.glitch.me/
It uses the new APCA perceptual contrast algorithm and the Oklab colour space to help me find colours that people with better colour vision will interpret correctly, while ensuring there's good contrast for as many people as possible.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Libertarians confront the reality of the desert Southwest, stupidity follows.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/15/libertarians-will-never-change/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
but of course
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Something specific brought this to mind, but you can imagine this applying to any number of situations. And I'll just add (free from context I know) that it doesn't matter how caring or good the people working for that big company are when they do this. What matters is the structure and purpose of the company they work for. We spend so much time asking whether employees are good people (yes usually) and not nearly enough time asking whether the institution that directs their work is good.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Thinking about massive companies trying to join in with or (more likely) replace something that small communities have been doing for themselves, "Yes this is all very interesting and good, but the important questions is how can we fuck this up at scale!"
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Of course, if you're going to commit unjust acts of viciousness, you must silence the people who demand justice.
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Mastodon Feedkeul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
Just wasted a couple of hours in a #CSS related bug in #Safari.
My fist instinct was to try to report it, but to be honest it can go to hell.
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jeff@honeytree.social ("Jeff Brown") wrote:
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thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:
A surprise visit to Kyiv by Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa showed Japan's leadership at a time when support for Ukraine is wavering. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/01/15/japan/kamikawa-visit-ukraine-important/?utm_content=buffer57545&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #commentary #japan #yokokamikawa #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #russia #foreignministry
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
Still a few bugs left in basic combat but the overal idea is there :blobcatgamer:
Don't mind the world, it's just a super simple test level i made super quick for testing
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daylightatheism@universeodon.com ("Adam Lee") wrote:
https://onlysky.media/alee/why-libertarian-cities-fail/ An update on Rio Verde Foothills, the libertarian city in the desert in Arizona that I wrote about previously.
RVF found a clever way to skirt Arizona regulations about having a water supply for new development. Then they discovered, to their total surprise, that even if you find a loophole in the law... humans still need water.
Like the ant and the grasshopper, they were relying on others who planned better than they did. For several years, they were parasitizing the water supply of the neighboring town of Scottsdale, until Scottsdale had enough and cut them off.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thus, the new semester begins.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/15/void-abyss-both-have-their-virtues/
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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:
Thousands of people in Bashkiria come to the courthouse deciding the fate of activist Fail Alsynov, who faces four years for opposing local gold mining and alleged hate speech against migrants. One of the biggest protests in Russia since Feb. 2022.
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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:
@ilumium The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.
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unseenjapan@mstdn.jp ("Unseen Japan") wrote:
OP captured Japanese cranes whose breath was tinged orange by the am light so they look like they’re breathing fire 🔥
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BramMeehan@ohai.social ("Bram Meehan") wrote:
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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
Welcome to the rest of your life.
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AE4WX@mas.to ("AE4WX Weather Center") wrote:
Okay, more #Winlink adventures:
I installed Windows 10 in a VirtualBox machine (host system is Debian 12) and installed Winlink Express.
Now the issue I'm having is that Winlink Express reports port 8200 (where it expects to find the ARDOP software modem) is busy and can't be opened.
This is where I admit to not understanding how ports work in a virtual machine. I don't understand what's happening or how to fix it so I can use Winlink Express in a virtual machine.
Ideas? Tnx!
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ArtSmart@mas.to ("Art Smart") wrote:
Climate change is proving very costly. One of those new costs is the need for additional electrical generation capacity during peak load emergencies such as the one in which we now find ourselves.
We have gone for well over a century thinking that we can belch all the carbon dioxide we want, totally free of charge. It is now time to start paying the hidden costs of that practice.
If more polar ice melts and releases trapped methane (much worse than carbon dioxide), then we're toast.
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helge@mymath.rocks ("Helge") wrote:
I can recommend browsing the Web Annotation documents for everyone who is thinking about improving ActivityPub / JsonLD. I like the way how Web Annotation specifies more than ActivityPub does. I would expect having this amount of detail in the Fediverse would reduce the interoperability friction.
Another example is Web Annotation Vocabulary: B. JSON-LD Frames. Providing things like this makes the specification less ambiguous, as the authors' intention is translated into code.
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
LockBit are trying to hold an insolvent company that doesn’t exist to ransom.
I wish ransomware groups had a Fediverse server so I could cc them.
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alanpringle@mstdn.social ("Alan Pringle") wrote:
"But for one age group in particular—people over 65—the crashing #vaccination rates should inspire dread. More than 1,500 deaths each week are still associated with #COVID, and almost all of them are senior citizens; current data hint that COVID has been killing seniors at seven times the rate of flu."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/covid-19-vaccines-seniors-risk/677104/
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n3vemrepeater@qth.social ("Allstar 56001 N3VEM Repeater") wrote:
I'm Connecting to the Phillippine Allstarlink Net in 1 Hour! (13:00utc) 444.200+ pl 100, Allstar 56001, Echolink 994842 or directly to Allstar node 57575 https://www.philippineallstarlink.net
#HamRadio
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nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:
"LOL I EXPORTED A SONG AS JPEG" aka
Experimental answer to "should/could you use JPEG instead of MP3 for music compression?"Boring answer: "shouldn't, but could"
Fun answer: let's try!
There were two things I wanted to test:
- Audio treated as RGB vs audio treated as greyscale JPEG. JPEG _could_ compress color component of the image more than luma, so greyscale JPEG should give better audio quality.
- How well JPEG will fare compared to MP3.
RAW audio was 485 KB.
MP3 "insane" was 354KB.
MP3 "VBR low" was 103KB.
MP3 "fixed 8kbps" was 45KB and still OK to listen to.JPG RGB 90% was 117KB and the quality was between low VBR and fixed. It got noise though.
Grey 90% at 174KB was better than VBR low, but got some noise too.
Grey Potato (0%) at 11KB was horror.
Grey Less Potato (10%) at 30KB resembles very poor radio reception.This is Grey 90% JPEG converted back to WAV:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gtxBxSbvQt4z0Djhw_7vUo5xKdqcGSi7This is "less than 8kbps MP3" Grey Less Potato: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yco3FkrwE6C_5MiOs1sFGkL9u3n1-Js5
All files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hXDx0OKqLY2XZ2qlpCFjdPO9byM8ombm
