I've just finished War Diaries: A Radio Amateur in Kyiv.
It was alright. I read Diary of an Iraqi Girl right before hand, and the contrast between the two books could hardly be greater. There is a very significant difference in the amount of agency available to both authors.
I was surprised that ham radio was banned at the beginning of the conflict. And very surprised by the insecure orc comms.
Anyhow, fuck war. Fuck Russia. Fuck the USA.
I see Linux is Best is at it again today. Multiple new accounts posting on Fediblock trying to push some CSV blocklist.
Does this guy have nothing better to do than harass people on Fedi?
The Great North American Fiber-seeking Backhoe strikes again.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/21/newark-philadelphia-nyc-flight-disruptions.html
#Aviation Fedi, please tell me if this is a bad idea or a good one or a 🤷♀️? Like what is the vibe on this from people who understand planes and air traffic control? What does this system even actually do? The linked didn't explain it well.
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/faa-ai-air-traffic-control
The FAA Is Spending Nearly a Billion Dollars to Make AI the “Brain” of Air Traffic Control Towers, Starting This Monday
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/SMART_One-Pager.pdf
SMART One-pager
I had no idea backscatter modulation was even a thing. That's literally so fucking cool.
Other than toll booths where else is this modulation used?
I wish I could say I came up with "Yohoho and a bottle of RAM myself." Shamelessly stolen from a very old Andrew Huang song (back when he was going by "Songs to Wear Pants To") by the name of Robot Pirates.
Edit: Found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XLgpReEkLc
Huh, 40 CFR 15.23 says that it is possible to build homemade part 15 compliant devices.
Now that's interesting...
@Makemehappy@mastodon.social Do you have permission for any of these photos? This looks a lot like NCII to me.
You can't just post photos of naked women that you find online. They never agreed to have their bodies displayed for free on this site.
So I have been primarily a Debian user since like Debian Woody. That's damn near 20 years now.
I'm probably not going to be moving off it anytime soon just because it is where my home is.
But if I wanted to move to another distro, given the situation... What other options are there?
I want something rock solid stable. I mean, it shouldn't break unless I break it. Debian has always been that for me.
I have friends who had personal stuff hosted by NoBlogs.
Does anyone know if their servers are still online? Is it just DNS that is gone?
I'd like to assist some friends in backing up their personal data. My plan right now is to find out what domains they had stuff on, and then just add those to their hosts file for now.
Is there any reason this might be non-viable? Are the servers still online?
Law firm Paul Weiss spends $3.5 million to oust transgender partner
Hey could people fucking stop calling me (and others like me) an extremist for not eating animals. Thanks.
Fucking hell. I try to do good by the world and everyone thinks I'm an extremist for it.
Transgender extremist
Vegan extremist
Anti-government extremeist
Leftist extremist
Anti-war extremist
The fucking only extreme thing I want is for everyone to stop killing one another.
They don't care about your or your family.
Desert. You don't have to do this.
Go AWOL. You don't have to do this.
"I don't want to think about the National Guard. I don't want to necessarily discuss my affiliation with the National Guard. I don't want to fulfill my normal National Guard duties just because of the abuses of the National Guard in this D.C. mission."
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-5939973/national-guard-members-washington-dc-deployment
I was wondering if there was a patent free open source digital voice mode for amateur radio that I can just like run on a laptop. And there is!
Not sure if there are others (please share!).
How long do vanity call signs usually take to get approved?
Just listened to this wonderful interview featuring @ai6yr! Was cool to hear how Ben got into all this. Ben, you're a big inspiration.
Live Like the World is Dying: S1E107 - Ben on Communication After a Disaster
https://live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/7966b905/ben-on-communication-after-a-disaster
What sort of antenna do #acarsdrama drama farmers usually use?
There is an AI research/datacenter near me that is hiring general IT folks. I'm being encouraged to apply.
I just spent the last year protesting these same folks. So fuck that.
I'll continue to be miserable at my job, no thanks. I'm not working for the machine. I have my priorities in order.
There needs to be a culture of forking projects again.
There are waaaaay too many projects being run by fascists and fascist sympathizers and everyone seems so hesistant to fork any of them.
"Its impossible"
"We don't have the resources/money"
"It would split the community and kill the project"
I don't know. Maybe. But I think there are enough of us. We outnumber the fascists and crucially, we do almost all the most valuable work.
We can do this folks. I believe in us all.