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I'm planning to have a small transceiver hooked more or less directly up to an antenna, with a Raspberry PI also involved, to have a full packet radio TNC setup outdoors. Any suggestions for a good transceiver for this use case? :3 #AmatuerRadio #HamRadio #PacketRadio


What's a good kit radio to build for 2m? :3 #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

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For 1k2 anything will work. I haven't done PR in ages and only 1k2, but a lot of mobile devices should be 9k6-capable now. For that there must be lists online.
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I started packet back in the day with a Yaesu FT-208R 2m “handheld” and AEA PK88. I later switched to ex-PMR 70cm, with crystals on local freq. Currently rebuilding packet station using Tait 8100 as mentioned on https://wiki.oarc.uk/packet:transceivers and considering a possible Baofeng UV-5R Mini for portable. They’re a bit poor, but v cheap. Planning/building OpenTNCs for both stations. I’ll need a 40m TXVR for longer distance HF/NVIS links to rest of UK network. QRP Labs QDX?




What's a good kit radio to build for 2m? :3 #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

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The same people who claim nothing other than authoritarian governments (including the US federal government prior to the current regime) will work are the exact same people who would fuck up a community-led anarchist system of governance. :/


How difficult would it be to set up a #PBX at home and make it callable from the PSTN? :3c
#pbx


Every day, I wonder how much of our culture today is rooted in marketing campaigns, and how much actually came about organically. :/







Trump finally apologizes for something - Yahoo News Canada


President Donald Trump has broken the habit of a lifetime and issued a rare apology, albeit not to Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, for reposting a meme of them on Truth Social, despite facing intense pressure to do so.

Trump caused uproar on both sides of the aisle last week by recirculating a video depicting the 44th president and his first lady as apes.

He deleted the clip but later told reporters aboard Air Force One that there was no reason for him to apologize because, in his opinion, he had done nothing wrong.

“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” the president said. “I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”

Instead, the issue he did feel compelled to apologize over was his past endorsement of Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt after the official angered him by insisting on the bipartisan purity of the National Governors Association, an organization he chairs.

“When Kevin Stitt, the very mediocre (at best!) RINO Governor of Oklahoma, was losing his Election to a Democrat, primarily because he did a bad job, he called for my help. I Endorsed him, and he won,” Trump wrote on his social media platform late Wednesday.

“Sorry, my cherished Oklahoma, to have done that to you!”


https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-finally-apologizes-something-153538951.html

original: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-apologizes-kevin-stitt-governors-b2919193.html







It's wild how many tech controversies I've stayed far removed from by using almost exclusively non-commercial software. :P

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The basic "Hello, World" program constitutes AI according to tech industry marketing departments. :3c




I just read the following article in CACM. I think it contains a huge number of very good and deep insights into just how LLMs are changing the landscape of human endeavours:

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/as-answers-get-cheaper-questions-grow-dearer/






Trump Sends Phishing-Style “System Alert” to Boost Donations - MeidasTouch News


Donald Trump’s campaign blasted out a late-night “Emergency Memo” claiming “external filters” were attempting to block communications from the president, warning supporters they must “manually sync” their accounts with a so-called “Secure Patriot Server” before the State of the Union.

The email, sent under the banner “Team Trump – Emergency Memo,” included faux system language like “[SYNC REQUIRED] Account #28600” and declared, “Trump is floored. He can’t afford to lose another top MAGA Patriot during this year’s midterms.”

The urgent call to “SYNC MY ACCOUNT NOW >>>” does not lead to any technical fix or account setting. It routes directly to a donation page.


https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-sends-phishing-style-system-alert-to-boost-donations






they don't want to win, tho
I'm seeing conflicting reports that they have already caved

Michigan Senate candidates tell Washington Democrats: Show some spine | The Independent


Three Senate candidates in Michigan are unified around demand for Democrats to stand their ground on shutdown fight


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michigan-democrats-2026-senate-uaw-b2918628.html

backup: https://archive.ph/Nvm0k





Pretty sure most misogyny is rooted in gynophobia. :/








Furious Kennedy Center Staff Tear Into Boss Over ‘Stupid and Cruel’ Plot


Ric Grenell, the serial online troll Trump has put in charge of his Kennedy Center makeover, told its 2,000 staff in an email—seen by The Washington Post—that as part of the center’s two-year closure, jobs will be on the chopping block.

The email, which also heralded a “total renovation of the building beginning in early July,” has rankled the already embattled roster.

“There is no way to read this message as anything other than preparation for mass layoffs and institutional contraction,” one anonymous staffer told The Post.

“The language of ‘renovation’ masks a leadership failure that has driven down ticket sales, donor confidence, and artistic participation. The crisis is self-inflicted.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/furious-kennedy-center-staff-tear-into-boss-over-stupid-and-cruel-plot/

backup https://archive.ph/IX07Q






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A good tool for the apocalypse is an angle grinder. After all, it provides an easy path to endless supplies. ;3



Tired: MAGA is a death cult.
Wired: Capitalism is a death cult.






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Back when this was more affordable I bought some 0 gauge silver wire. Silver's pretty soft but that stuff takes significant hand strength to bend at all.