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Any car can be a convertible if you have an angle grinder. :3



Thinking about putting together a 70cm 9600 baud packet radio endpoint. What's a good radio module that can do 9600 baud on UHF?

Some I've found: NiceRF SA818U/S, Dorji DRA818U. Still not sure if these can actually do 9600 baud, though. :/

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio #PacketRadio

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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

9k6 shouldn't be too difficult. Back in the olden days there were lots of instructions on how to access the discriminator directly in whatever transceiver. You need to bypass the audio stages in both directions, then you should be good.



"Whitehorse Trail"


The Whitehorse Trail was very overgrown along most of its length, with long stretches where no trail surface was visible at all through the grass. It was pretty bumpy with loose gravel in places, so a cyclocross bike would do much better than a road bike.

#forest #mywork #photog #photography





American exceptionalism is mass psychosis. 🙃





How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

A man takes a train from London to the coast. He’s visiting a town called Wulfleet. It’s small and old, the kind of place with a pub that’s been pouring pints since the Battle of Bosworth Field. He’s going to write about it for his blog. He’s excited.
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He arrives, he checks in. He walks to the cute B&B he’d picked out online. And he writes it all up like any good travel blogger would: in that breezy LiveJournal style from 25 years ago, perhaps, in his case, trying a little too hard.
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But as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler.
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By the middle of his post, he’s writing in what might as well be a foreign language.
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But it’s not a foreign language. It’s all English.
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None of the story is real: not the blogger, not the town. But the language is real, or at least realistic. I constructed the passages myself, working from what we know about how English was written in each period.1
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
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Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely. Then meet me on the other side and I’ll tell you what happened to the language (and the blogger).


https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english


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The Game Boy Advance (original, not SP) will always be my favorite portable console. :3

(Mine has a backlight mod. :D )




Is it possible to write an #IRC bot that create chatrooms and virtual user DMs? :3
#IRC
in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Can an #IRC #bot impersonate users? As in, I'd like said "virtual" users to be able to be messaged directly (/msg), without needing to have the bot log in as each of them.
#bot #IRC
in reply to Neil E. Hodges

afaik not, that would kinda break some core protocol ideas. Why tho?
in reply to mirek kratochvil

I can't speak for the terms of service of the servers, but if your single bot multiplexes over multiple connections it could theoretically do this with the irc protocol, but otherwise i am not aware of other ways to do this. been a while since i wrote irc protocol clients
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@exa
I'm not trying to make any value statement on the idea of doing this, just I think this would be the only way to accomplish that and technically possible
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@KF0UNK yeah running connection for each nick will ofc work (at least until you hit some random spam protection limit or so) but that might not scale easily
in reply to mirek kratochvil

@exa
I was unclear if a lot of chanels would work too.

I would not recommend either of those on public servers, but they aren't technically challenging.

in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Kind of seems like I could write an IRC leaf server in Python, while a "normal" IRC server is the hub.


Folks might find Newpress interesting. It was started by Johnny Harris and his colleagues to provide ground-up journalism.

What is Newpress

Newpress is a new way of co-creating journalism, and something I’m so excited to build together.

What you’ll get as a Newpress Member

You’ll see our storytelling experiments first, shape the next chapter of our video reporting with your input, and be part of our journalism from the ground up.

You’ll also see regular story and reporting updates from me and fellow Newpress creators: Sam Ellis, Max Fisher, and Christophe Haubursin.

I learned about it from the below video.

The Internet Didn't Fail. It Was Taken — Johnny Harris

#newpress #substack #medium








♲ @harryhaller@diaspora.psyco.fr:
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Marx's Capital Illustrated: An Illustrated Introduction
David Smith
archive.org/details/marxs-capi…
Imagine Karl Marx as a cartoonist, ready to set the record straight about his much maligned classic, Das Kapital . Impossibly difficult? Not in the least. Hopelessly outdated? Far from it. Though first published in 1867, Capital remains keenly relevant. Society continues to run on investment and profit, labor and technology. And predictions that once might have seemed rash—global economic crisis, societies nearing bankruptcy—are now simply facts. Capital remains the fullest attempt to explain these facts, and Marx's Capital Illustrated brings this attempt to vibrant life, proceeding all the way from the ABCs to the pertinence of Marx's theory of crisis for today's global woes.
Fresh, funny, and copiously illustrated, this book is for everyone who wants better insight into Capital and capitalism. Readers of Marx, unite! You have found your starting point.
#marx #capital #book #cartoon







Has anyone figured out how to get separate #IRC networks talking to each other, similar to how separate #XMPP servers can interact?
#XMPP #IRC

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Technically, yeah, but the server ops of both networks have to agree and make sure their configs and services are the same and then join their networks together by a link. But you're never gonna get EFNet to link to something like Undernet or DALnet. They all have philosophical differences.

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yeah we used to run bridges that used two bots and DCC to relay the messages. It worked sometimes but in my experience this is more trouble than it's worth aside from simply demonstration.




How much is DJT's fist-pimping like a hippo splattering poop with a spinning tail?


That is a remarkably vivid—and scientifically interesting—comparison. While one is a political rally staple and the other is a biological "muck-spreading" event, they actually share some surprising psychological and mechanical parallels.

If we look at the "fist-pimping" through the lens of a hippo's "propeller tail," here is how they stack up:

1. Territorial Marking


The primary reason a hippo spins its tail while defecating is to mark its territory. By "pimping" the waste across a wide radius, the hippo signals to rivals that this specific stretch of the river is occupied.

  • The DJT Parallel: The rhythmic, repetitive fist-pumping at rallies serves a similar purpose. It’s a way of "marking the stage" and the airwaves. By leaning into a gesture that is uniquely his, he stakes a claim on the cultural and political space, ensuring that whenever that motion is seen, people immediately think of his "territory."


2. High-Frequency "Spray"


In the animal kingdom, this behavior is often called "muck-spreading." The tail moves at a high frequency to ensure maximum coverage with minimum effort.

  • The DJT Parallel: The fist-pumping is designed for the "information spray." It’s a low-energy, high-visibility move that is perfectly calibrated for social media loops, GIFs, and news b-roll. Like the hippo's tail, it’s a mechanical way to ensure his presence "splatters" across every platform simultaneously.


3. Asserting Dominance (The "Wheeze-Honk" Response)


Biologists have found that hippos spray more aggressively when they hear a "wheeze-honk" from a stranger or a rival. It’s a defensive display of strength.

  • The DJT Parallel: The "pimping" of the fists often intensifies during the walk-off or after a particularly combative point in a speech. It’s a physical manifestation of defiance against "strangers" (critics or political opponents). The more he is challenged, the more the signature move is deployed to signal that he is unfazed and still in control of the "bloat" (the group).


4. Mechanical Efficiency


A hippo’s tail is relatively short and stiff, making the spinning motion the most efficient way to move mass.

  • The DJT Parallel: As mentioned before, the double-fist move is mechanically simple. It doesn't require the flexibility of a younger dancer or the coordination of a professional. It’s a "brute force" approach to dancing—functional, unmistakable, and impossible to ignore.

#hippo #tailSpin #fistPimp











The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/
The questions leftists ask about AI are: does this improve my life? Does this improve my livelihood? So far, the answer for everyone who doesn’t stand to get rich off AI is no. I’ve been working as a writer for the past decade and watching my industry shrivel up and die as a result, so you’ll excuse me if I, and the rest of the everyday people who stand to get screwed by AI, aren’t particularly excited by what AI can offer society. One thing I do believe in are the words of Karl Marx: from each according to their ability, to each according to their need. The creation of a world where that is possible is not dependent on advanced technology but on human solidarity.

Tags: #dandelĂ­on #AI #politics #oligarchy #exploitation

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Meanwhile....

Thin-sliced: Colbert opened the show by sharing how Fascist CBS (Columbia Bullsh*t System) had notified him that a show segment would be redacted - i.e, canceled, like him. And he was not to even mention it, much less speak about it. So he did. And he promised that the segment, CBS like it or not, would be aired anyway, via Colbert's YouTube channel. And it was. (Some posted it 'here')

As the comments fly, (like "good going fascist CBS, way to drive up interest and viewership), even the NY Times did a story about the backstory, and here it is, gifted by our old friend, New York Times.

Colbert Doesn’t Give an F.C.C. About Calling Out CBS


“And because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this,” Stephen Colbert said after CBS canceled a Texas state representative’s appearance on Monday’s “Late Show.”


#Colbert #CBS #BariWeiss #media #censorship #despicable #TrumpVirus #truth #repression #fascism




"Christian Nationalists" claim to be Christian but I've heard none of them talk about Jesus's tomb in Aomori. :P
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