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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

aaaaand it is up. I could not resist testing it on the Yaesu… it tunes up and shows no SWR at all xmitting dahs on 50.250 MHz at 80W and a voice test at 100W gets me the same measures on the rig’s meter and then on the Flrig display.

I am pleased so far. it is vaguely aimed at describing a great circle towards Belgium (a heading of ~50°), which is close to what I want for the local net too (~40° & 220°)

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glen_malley@mstdn.ca ("Glen Malley") wrote:

TIL: if windows asks you to use CTRL-ALT-DEL for anything, and you're connected via RDP, you need to do CTRL-ALT-END instead...but it'll never tell you that.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a friend came by and steadied the base while I walked it upright, stuck in the retaining bold, and set up the guy lines and stakes. it seems to tune up just fine, with no measurable SWR showing up on my meters (both on the Yaesu and in Flrig).

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Its always good when the 5 people who have invested significant proportions of their lives in your game are baffled and laughing at how broken everything is and need to constantly ask for a mods help to keep playing the game, the mod also being either confused or just an LLM itself

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I've put @uoou's YouTube videos up on the Fedi at @uoou_vids

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://yiff.life/@tael/117033238015042955

The gas town guy has like 12 $200 Claude subscriptions to run like 20 bots to automate churn in a 20 year old game with literally 5 players in it. 10 if you count all the level 1 players who just came to grief it. This is the true endpoint of all this: spending thousands to make nothing for nobody.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

preparing to raise a mast of fiberglass poles with my homebrew 6m quad loop on top for a 100W test tonight

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

> Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself.

https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

fucking lol

https://archive.is/lqCnP

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davidcelis@xoxo.zone ("david celis") wrote:

"engineer away the slop"

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This seems wasteful and dangerous to me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/04/the-sky-is-falling/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Beep. Boop. That's bot for 'I found something you should know': 'whack' — According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/whack.html

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decay@todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com ("Giant Intercranial Aneurysms") wrote:

@foolishowl @davidgerard so... one of the biggest tragedies of the modern infotech industry predates AI sloppery by a long minute but really helped set the stage and it's that different development disciplines are different skill sets. I am a web application developer by trade at this point and a systems dev previously and somewhat on the side and those are not the same thing. Client user applications (eg Excel or Thunderbird or the Steam client) is a different skill set again. There's plenty of overlap in the same way there's overlap between, say, civil engineering and mechanical engineering. Games development, in this metaphor, is technical theater. Flattening them all and especially trying to treat games and, say, shipping website code for Amazon as fungible has done immeasurable damage to programming as a whole, and here comes the slop to reduce everything to a thin grey paste even further

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

time to assemble the 6m quad loop exciter again & try it out on a different mast

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
chartier@toot.cafe ("David Chartier") wrote:

This is a great song to train #AI

#music

https://youtu.be/ZBvLadXo7XA

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
RegularRaptor@mk.absturztau.be ("A normal Velociraptor on Fediverse") wrote:

I just remembered I could ask the internet for help on this issue

I have a wonky sleep schedule, but the main issue I have to deal with daily is uncontrolably falling asleep while doing something. It doesn't always happen the same way (that is, I couldn't find a trigger or some preceding symptoms), but it mostly happens when I am doing something that requires attention but not that much interaction. I very rarely have that while driving (but I don't feel safe having a long drive by myself because of that), but I very often do have it during classes or lectures. Reading things also becomes a coin toss whether I'm able to or not. Having a lot of sleep on the previous night doesn't prevent it. Sometimes I can pay attention for over 30 minutes before sleeping, sometimes I'm knocked out within less than 10 minutes.

I've had this since childhood but it took until getting out of university that I realized it wasn't normal (oops).

Anyone has any idea on what might be and what can I do about it? I did do sleep apnea and narcolepsy tests but they weren't conclusive and no doctor I came across gave me an answer.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

ring ring ring ring ring ring ring

bwananada phone

bododolodoodoo

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Had a dream I was talking to someone and they told me their middle name was "Sunday" but they were thinking of changing it to "Bureaucratic Friday"

I woke up trying to figure out which way they intended the joke

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Congratulations to https://www.getgrist.com/ on Airtable's acquisition by Bending Spoons.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
algorave@toplap.org ("Algorave") wrote:

London UK call for performers!

Algorave: deceleration
16th September 2026, Carpet Shop Peckham
A celebration of 17 years of uzulangs on the birthday of TidalCycles

Call for performers - live coding musicians/visualists and their collaborators.
Live coding music will have a focus on uzulangs like Tidal and Strudel, but we might be able to fit in others !
Details unclear, including whether we will charge on the door / be able to pay artists, but it will be run by volunteers only on not-for-profit basis. We'll try to work this out asap!

Apply to perform here:
https://numbers.patternclub.org/o/docs/forms/rCUxFtiM3S2Wd6dwKGkaTK/13

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nonnihil@hachyderm.io ("Grant Gould") wrote:

Finally got around to reading @cwebber 's https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
... and yeah, that's exactly what it feels like. I think she nailed it.
😔

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

@remmy this is why they are called user agents - they annoy the user

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Got milk? We're going to make more whether you want it or not.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/04/farm-politics-not-something-i-ever-thought-id-get-into/

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
Rairii@labyrinth.zone ("Rairii :win3_progman: :win3:") wrote:

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than curl | sh

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

My first perfect solve!

#CluesBySam

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 4th 2026 (Medium), in less than 14 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

one thing that i think will be controversial is there is no * as in C. There is a Ptr a type and there are functions to work with it.

i would like to say this will make no difference at all to the appeal but lol i've run the polls.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

morning mushrooms in the garden

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Calling out "Adam Howard" aka "Linux is best", a person or group of persons creating, rotating and constantly running more than 20 Fediverse accounts in parallel, to get away with concern trolling and spreading defamation.

Their specialty is denouncing #GazaVerified, a verification initiative that was founded to give #Palestinians in #Gaza a voice.

"Adam Howard" / "Linux is best" is continuously trying to sabotage any donations to people in dire need, by slandering them as a fraud, wherever possible.

Please report the respective posts to your instance admins, and have your reports forwarded to the instances that harbor the accounts of this scum. IMO, a #fediblock is overdue.

Boosts of this post very much welcome.

// CC @aral

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xkcd@mastodon.com.br ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

#3277 - Forth

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

littlegem: i am translating some c to littlegem and tweaking the syntax until i think it's good enough.