Nostr notes by Chuck

I trained on one of those! Although it wasn’t a paper strip ...

2026-07-13T06:19:33+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6dnc
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I trained on one of those! Although it wasn’t a paper strip chart is was a tablet type display. It also showed the volume of air you blew into their mouth.

Ah my app was givng me the wrong front page image.

2026-07-13T06:08:37+02:00

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Ah my app was givng me the wrong front page image.

That is more plausible, I wonder what paper he’s reading. ...

2026-07-13T06:07:24+02:00

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That is more plausible, I wonder what paper he’s reading. Neither today or yesterday’s WaPo had a baseball picture on the front page. (I know not definitive). If it does turn out this is a ruse and we find out on 8/4/26 that he is now ‘suddenly’ dead, would that be suspicious to you?

Specifically I”m wondering if “conspiring to deceive the ...

2026-07-13T06:00:04+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…ecd5
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Specifically I”m wondering if “conspiring to deceive the health of an elected official in order to prevent an election.” is a crime. It would certainly be an interesting case.
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I’m curious why he’s in a regular shirt and not a hospital ...

2026-07-13T05:58:04+02:00

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I’m curious why he’s in a regular shirt and not a hospital gown, I’m curious why it took so long to post, and I really wish it was a video and he was talking and turned his head to both sides while talking which is still beyond the current AI models to reproduce.

Legal question though, if he continues to recuperate and then on Aug 4th “takes a bad turn and dies” what then? Do we investigate to see if there was fraud? Not even sure how to prosecute that. 1/2

And who sits in a hospital bed in their regular clothes? While a ...

2026-07-13T05:54:29+02:00

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And who sits in a hospital bed in their regular clothes? While a picture is nice I would be much more comfortable if it was video and he turned his head to both sides while talking. I am just that cynical given all the stuff the current administration has done.

Yeah, that's all I want. So that I can have a shared volume ...

2026-06-25T03:11:36+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…9nn9
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Yeah, that's all I want. So that I can have a shared volume on my network that both the Windows clients and the FreeBSD clients can see it. Alas.

Anyone know why CIFS support is so sad in FreeBSD? I've got a ...

2026-06-25T01:21:41+02:00

Anyone know why CIFS support is so sad in FreeBSD? I've got a NAS that is exporting things to the windows clients that I also use on non-window clients but no, I'm not gonna let it run V1.

#FreeBSD

Yup, and this is only the tip of the iceberg because they ...

2026-06-21T22:06:23+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…g704
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Yup, and this is only the tip of the iceberg because they 'de-emphasized' human code review over Gemini code review in the name of 'dogfooding' and this just might be the case where the dog food gives the dog a debilitating liver disease that permanently damages the dog's quality of life.

For a fun time, drive though one while operating a BT/WiFi ...

2026-06-09T02:29:24+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…g2eq
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For a fun time, drive though one while operating a BT/WiFi jammer. 😉

The funniest part of AI fails is when the text is self ...

2026-05-31T02:02:29+02:00

The funniest part of AI fails is when the text is self inconsistent.

I strongly recommend (if you haven't already) point this out ...

2026-05-29T04:09:21+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…jcqh
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I strongly recommend (if you haven't already) point this out to the rsync maintainers. "Tridge" should have their commit privileges suspended until they can review AI slop.

Nice, in 1983 mine ended at ...!intelca!cem before I started at ...

2026-05-23T22:20:11+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…skm7
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Nice, in 1983 mine ended at ...!intelca!cem before I started at Sun. Before intel it was CMCMANIS@USC-ECLC 🙂 (if you were on INFO-MICRO that was where you would have seen it.) I think I first saw your posts on Usenet perhaps in the comp.sys.amiga groups? In the mid-80's.

Just split the difference, move it 30 minutes and never change it ...

2026-05-22T21:24:47+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…fx5h
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Just split the difference, move it 30 minutes and never change it again.

LOL. Yeah, but I would bet you a donut that in the initial commit ...

2026-05-18T23:02:28+02:00

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LOL. Yeah, but I would bet you a donut that in the initial commit of the code all it did was demodulate WBFM and then someone said, "Well it could also do ..." and that got added on. You could hack it to also demodulate SSTV and add a switch to tell it to produce .png files or something and the cycle would continue. 😆

@npub1ucv…5a8g And in the way of these things, after writing it ...

2026-05-18T22:57:19+02:00

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AI6YR Ben (npub1ucv…5a8g)

And in the way of these things, after writing it and publishing it, two or three people will come out of the woodwork and say "Oh I did that same thing years ago!" without having ever told anyone else apparently.

Yeah, I thought about rtl_fm as a good example of how it would be ...

2026-05-18T22:56:10+02:00

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Yeah, I thought about rtl_fm as a good example of how it would be coded. I would be surprised if you were the first to want to do this, but not surprised in the least that someone did it and didn't bother to make it hugely visible.

Ah got it. I went back and read your 'hacking sstv' web ...

2026-05-18T22:51:06+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…reex
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Ah got it. I went back and read your 'hacking sstv' web page. One answer is to just write a program that tunes your SDR to the band where the SSTV images are being transmitted, capture the transmission and decode them and then post them to the Fediverse. That all works fine on a headless RasPi with an SDR dongle and an internet connection.

It's interesting that few do it this way.

When I re-read your question I realized that you were saying you ...

2026-05-18T19:44:27+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…mesf
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When I re-read your question I realized that you were saying you wanted to use the headless RasPI SSTV box. But no remote GUI protocol. Perhaps just run a TCP-IQ server on the RasPi? Send the IQ data to an app on your laptop/desktop? Something like Spyserver? That would avoid the remote gui protocol and its an off the shelf solution. 2/2

Sorry. As I understood your question it was this, "I've ...

2026-05-18T19:40:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…fq38
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Sorry. As I understood your question it was this,

"I've got an RTL-SDR type dongle and upverter, I need [missing thing] that control the SDR and can decode SSB audio and pipe it into an app."

I have found small integrated RasPi compute module boxes do that [missing thing] part well. (Clockwork Pi, ReTerminal). 1/2

I have been playing with this as a base station controller: ...

2026-05-18T07:24:40+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…v4k0
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I have been playing with this as a base station controller:
https://www.seeed.cc/product/reterminal-5-hmi-cm4108032-all-in-one-modular-design-ips-multi-touch-screen-rich-interfaces

[@vk4msl_sstv](https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/@vk4msl_sstv )

For me, the more interesting question is "Was it worth ...

2026-05-18T05:39:23+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…5gfa
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For me, the more interesting question is "Was it worth it?" What I mean by that, is if you told me "This will set you on the path to discovering some amazing thing about the universe, but as a result you will die early and possibly in a much more painful way than if you hadn't been given this opportunity." Do you say yes? Do you say no thanks? I suspect even if I knew it would kill me, my desire to know a new thing would compel me.

John Carlos Baez (npub1nf4…nqe4)

I used to do this for a push to talk key while raiding in WoW. It ...

2026-05-14T07:42:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…k2f0
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I used to do this for a push to talk key while raiding in WoW. It can be handy. A surprisingly useful thing can be a mouse pedal that lets you operate the mouse with your feet.

Oooh, I saw that when it came into Moffet. It's been back a ...

2026-05-13T01:36:15+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…kuyc
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Oooh, I saw that when it came into Moffet. It's been back a few times, presumably to talk to the Lockheed folx.

AI6YR Ben (npub1ucv…5a8g)

Sometimes I fantasize about just being able to order something ...

2026-05-11T22:48:36+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…jjxk
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Sometimes I fantasize about just being able to order something like this from a chemical supply company and play with it in my lab. Such an interesting crystal.

Oh, and it's hilarious to search for '"blue bronze" for sale' on any search engine.

How does that work? Do you have a description of what a fraud ...

2026-05-05T22:08:53+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…52km
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How does that work? Do you have a description of what a fraud resistant implementation of universal health care would look like? I ask because medicare fraud from doctors telling medicare they did a thing when they didn't, seems to work just as well when everyone is covered by health care. So I'm trying to understand the mechanism here.

During my tenure at Google I was astonished at how many engineers ...

2026-05-04T18:44:04+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…de5a
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During my tenure at Google I was astonished at how many engineers would clearly admit they didn't understand why something was the way it was, so they rewrote it. This *repeatedly* bit them in the ass.

mumble, mumble, Chesterson's Fence, mumble, mumble

2026-05-04T18:16:20+02:00

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mumble, mumble, Chesterson's Fence, mumble, mumble

And the big strong meteorologist will speak out with tears in ...

2026-04-15T23:25:34+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…zytl
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And the big strong meteorologist will speak out with tears in their eyes and say, "Sir, nobody makes hurricanes like you do."

Future text in hurricane alerts: "Hurricanes like ...

2026-04-15T23:13:12+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…fyrt
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Future text in hurricane alerts: "Hurricanes like nobody's ever seen. Big strong hurricanes."

Damn, now you're making me think about pie. 😆 Gonna have ...

2026-04-15T22:22:28+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…3enj
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Damn, now you're making me think about pie. 😆 Gonna have to drive over to Gizditch and get one of theirs, my pie fu is weak.

Only $1000 to fly economy from the bay area to Glasgow. Alas ...

2026-04-14T06:44:06+02:00

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Only $1000 to fly economy from the bay area to Glasgow. Alas I've got a conflict for the 9th.

Also see this: ...

2026-04-14T01:15:29+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…kcug
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Also see this: https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-cuts-soldier-sign-up-bonuses-by-75-in-four-regions-amid-recruitment-crisis-12396

Kinetic sanctions do work. It has been interesting to watch how ...

2026-04-14T00:47:25+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…nftk
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Kinetic sanctions do work. It has been interesting to watch how Putin has avoided conscription, frankly I'm surprised he made it through 2025.

Here's one for @npub1xw7…r9m5 where it again emphasizes ...

2026-04-12T21:58:40+02:00

Here's one for Ben Royce V͎O͎T͎E͎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ ⁼ ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (npub1xw7…r9m5) where it again emphasizes that *voting matters* y'all.

This is pretty freakin cool of them. I wonder if they could turn ...

2026-03-27T06:21:18+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…5t7y
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This is pretty freakin cool of them. I wonder if they could turn a half a million acres of Oklahoma into a solar farm and grid scale batteries, it could generate 250 GWhrs of clean energy every day. With the battery installations built under the panels (uses the same space), that could generate 10GW of baseline power continuously over 24hrs of every single day. The Chocktaw nation would be rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Apparently today is brought to you by the color pink! ...

2026-03-21T22:35:56+01:00

Apparently today is brought to you by the color pink! #Bloomscrolling

Hey @npub1vc3…axsh do you have the lowdown on this Punchbowl ...

2026-03-13T02:16:21+01:00

Hey BrianKrebs (npub1vc3…axsh) do you have the lowdown on this Punchbowl campaign that is going around? ( can send you an email with the attachments if you haven't seen it) basically shows up as an "Invitation" which then asks you do download some code if you want to view it. I know two people who have been hit with it so far, so I'm guessing it is fairly widespread.

So a different take? Like you submit a talk to a professional ...

2026-03-10T23:12:15+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ngm2
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So a different take? Like you submit a talk to a professional conference and they don't "accept" it? I mean there are conferences and there are "shows". I think TED or SXSW as "shows" whereas Usenix was a "conference." Things like DesignCon are really professional commercials. I know a couple of conferences that are off the record that would love to hear you speak, but not much 'fame' to be had there if that is what you seek.

Is there a 'I attend but they don't ask me to speak' ...

2026-03-10T23:03:27+01:00

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Is there a 'I attend but they don't ask me to speak' ? Two people I know who do speak have agents who set up those speaking engagements.

Man the surplus market post crash is gonna be LIT!

2026-02-16T01:47:32+01:00

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Man the surplus market post crash is gonna be LIT!

I'm sorry you have to deal with this, blocking is your ...

2026-02-03T20:06:25+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…95kd
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I'm sorry you have to deal with this, blocking is your friend. And no, I don't think 'blocking is easier' on closed platforms, rather there are people paid to filter out the damaged people early. That sad thing is that a few tens to hundreds such people can ruin everyone's experience.

It was fun to watch the PiDP-11 group as people figured out the ...

2026-01-08T06:47:39+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ll6z
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It was fun to watch the PiDP-11 group as people figured out the format and got it running on their PiDP-11's. Here's a picture of mine running RSX-11M+

and yet they STILL do not call on him to resign.

2026-01-03T19:00:46+01:00

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and yet they STILL do not call on him to resign.

I'm a bit surprised you would use anything other than sine ...

2025-12-29T23:56:37+01:00

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I'm a bit surprised you would use anything other than sine waves as the harmonics in non-sinusoidal signals just add other mixes. For example, square waves + pythogorean has 256+384+768+1152+1280+1920+1792+2688+... Hz. (all the odd harmonics). Sawtooth is worse with *all* the harmonics. Sound in air is worse still since air mixes so you get the sums and differences of those as well.

Nicely done! I played around endlessly with different scales when ...

2025-12-29T23:09:33+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…lx0z
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Nicely done! I played around endlessly with different scales when I figured out how to make a microcomputer generate tones. The whole 12th root of 2 thing had massively confused.

Interesting that gift links now require you at least give them an ...

2025-12-24T05:20:58+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…0mj3
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Interesting that gift links now require you at least give them an email registration. Sad.

That the air holds more moisture as it gets warmer is only news ...

2025-12-14T22:34:31+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ytfv
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That the air holds more moisture as it gets warmer is only news to people who have been paying attention 🙂, but its also the basis for one potential outcome which is glaciation. Basically jet stream stops, moisture precipitates out as snow, albedo goes through the roof, creating a positive feedback loop and you get 10,000 years of ice age.

Oh I missed that bit. There was a co-worker at NetApp that I knew ...

2025-12-05T16:20:35+01:00

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Oh I missed that bit. There was a co-worker at NetApp that I knew who built his own plane and used to tell stories of how cavalier some of the other kit builders were. He said after that experience if he were to buy a plane that someone else had built he would completely disassemble it and reassemble it to verify it was done correctly. Seems challenging in that many steps are pretty much one way.

alleycat🏳️‍🌈 (npub1way…mzlw)

There is a certain level of craziness you need to install parts ...

2025-12-05T16:01:26+01:00

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There is a certain level of craziness you need to install parts bought at a swap meet that will, if they fail, possibly kill you. My dad was familiar with people who would sell 3D printed gun parts at gun shows that he knew would fail if they got hot. I wonder what sort of liability the swap meet has for that sort of thing?

alleycat🏳️‍🌈 (npub1way…mzlw)

Norman coordinate!

2025-11-27T18:58:20+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…j2tl
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Norman coordinate!

Is it failing to post the video? (I've been trying to debug ...

2025-10-30T17:40:14+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…79qa
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Is it failing to post the video? (I've been trying to debug something like that where I can't post videos to the Fediverse from my phone)

I wonder if they realize they could use them to make enough ...

2025-10-05T21:19:04+02:00

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I wonder if they realize they could use them to make enough natural gas to replace all of the imported gas from Russia?

I'm playing with a CP/M machine that I built from a kit and ...

2025-10-04T23:30:51+02:00

I'm playing with a CP/M machine that I built from a kit and I'm feeling both nostalgic and amazed. With 62K of available RAM it's doing all its things, while Firefox on my desktop where I have the documentation open is taking MULTIPLE GIGABYTES of memory out of my desktop machine.

We _really_ need to get back to minimalist computing.

Language adoption is slower than you’d think and running code ...

2025-08-31T14:47:43+02:00

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Language adoption is slower than you’d think and running code is better than ‘new’ code. So longer a commonly used language has been around the more likely its near the top. Also why ‘dead’ languages like VB are hard to kill. I’m impressed Rust is as high as it is.

Kind of amazed that bats get enough calories from bugs to support ...

2025-08-31T04:01:44+02:00

Kind of amazed that bats get enough calories from bugs to support the energy of flying around and catching them.

There is an effort to get TENEX out into the wild. As you know ...

2025-08-20T02:14:44+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…e9sx
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There is an effort to get TENEX out into the wild. As you know TENEX was the PDP-10 OS that BBN wrote that we ran at USC-ECL on our “ARPA Net” host (ECL-C) and at USC-ISI. Currently owned by Raytheon (who bought BBN). The pager is different which makes emulating it tough without source code.

Hah, yeah. I’ve got one of Oscar’s PiDP-10’s and run ...

2025-08-20T01:59:53+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8zsc
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Hah, yeah. I’ve got one of Oscar’s PiDP-10’s and run TOPS-20 on it. It isn’t “the same”, I know, but I really don’t have the 3-phase power (or the power budget!) to run a “real” PDP-10.

Looks over at a MicroVAX …

2025-08-20T00:47:57+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…z76y
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Looks over at a MicroVAX …

I appreciate your sentiment of a strong Ukraine. Maintaining ...

2025-08-18T02:22:10+02:00

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I appreciate your sentiment of a strong Ukraine. Maintaining nuclear weapons was outside of Ukraine’s control then as it is now. And this particular point of view excuses the fact that the US was TREATY BOUND to protect Ukraine and it did not.

That the US didn’t rally the UN and Europe and send in troops in 2014 to repel the “green men” was the real crime. As a result I cannot help but see this sentiment as victim blaming rather than support. FWIW.

Hard to believe this isn't getting more coverage ... ...

2025-08-07T19:08:50+02:00

Hard to believe this isn't getting more coverage ...

"This artifact must be extremely old, the inscriptions on it ...

2025-08-02T01:58:20+02:00

"This artifact must be extremely old, the inscriptions on it are written in the language of the Gods."

"Really? Wow, Aramaic? Egyptian? Sanskrit?"

"No, perl."

#microfic

I kid you not, but one of the more creative ideas for getting ...

2025-07-29T19:12:50+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…evsp
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I kid you not, but one of the more creative ideas for getting kids interested in palentology was to have them put hand prints into concrete stepping stones (it was some sort of art kit) and then BURYING those stones in the sierra foothills. With the idea that a million years from now the Fossils they are creating will be in museums that other kids will look at and wonder about.

So they just filled the tunnels with grout? Basically entombing ...

2025-07-29T19:04:27+02:00

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So they just filled the tunnels with grout? Basically entombing the equipment and rail cars? Four or five thousand years from now some academic, thinking they’ve found the tomb of an ancient ruler of Cascadia, is going to break into one of those “concrete logs” and get the surprise of their life 😆

Ouch! The judges too?!?

2025-07-25T17:01:56+02:00

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Ouch! The judges too?!?

My progressive lens glasses can do that. As the switch between ...

2025-07-25T16:59:46+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…wrap
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My progressive lens glasses can do that. As the switch between mid-range and far is just above my pupil it creates a prism that generates blue/purple highlights over LEDs that are not behind diffusers (like car headlights)

I have always loved how the F-5 looked.

2025-07-15T20:33:21+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…dhs8
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I have always loved how the F-5 looked.

This one the AN-124 still flies into Moffett from time to time. ...

2025-07-12T21:41:02+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…7zt3
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This one the AN-124 still flies into Moffett from time to time. I've never gotten as a good a picture of as Freddy though!

Every day of Congressional inaction makes " ... when the ...

2025-06-27T22:13:09+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…kt2q
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Every day of Congressional inaction makes " ... when the tables are turned." less and less likely.

Let's see, armed troops? Check. Taking unarmed civilians ...

2025-06-09T06:34:20+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…s6eu
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Let's see, armed troops? Check.
Taking unarmed civilians hostage? Check.

Seems like it would deserve an "overwhelming response" right? Right?!?

See https://www.eff.org/cases/us-marshals-airborne-imsi-catchers

2025-06-08T06:58:10+02:00

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See https://www.eff.org/cases/us-marshals-airborne-imsi-catchers

In the past, the FBI has flown aircraft over demonstrations with ...

2025-06-08T06:57:27+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8y90
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In the past, the FBI has flown aircraft over demonstrations with an IMSI catcher to collect phone IMSI data without having to get a warrant to talk to the phone company. I was wondering if you could saturate their IMSI catcher and prevent it from collecting that data.

Curious what you would see if you pointed a very directional ...

2025-06-08T06:15:07+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…7unf
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Curious what you would see if you pointed a very directional antenna blasting out noise in the LTE bands at that plane. 😉

Yeah, it's horrific. An ICE vehicle crashed the barricade and ...

2025-06-07T22:20:42+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6h4s
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Yeah, it's horrific. An ICE vehicle crashed the barricade and hit a pedestrian. Karl Auerbach (npub1rhq…s08d) predicted things would get kinetic in July, I think he may be correct in that prediction.

Probably not but makes for a great conspiracy right? I heard he ...

2025-06-06T01:36:28+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…2dad
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Probably not but makes for a great conspiracy right? I heard he got it when Stephen Miller punched him after finding out that Elon had made Katie pregnant. What have you got?

Hence my idea for the League of Extraordinary Engineers. Which is ...

2025-06-03T22:10:44+02:00

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Hence my idea for the League of Extraordinary Engineers. Which is basically a member-benefit organization which provides a space for engineers to do basic research, train upcoming talent, socialize, and work on hard problems. Ideally it is structured so that licensing fees on the IP produced covered basic costs. (its a bit more complex than that but not much more).

Yeah but what's up with China, Korea, and Brazil. They were ...

2025-06-02T19:31:28+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…xq4z
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Yeah but what's up with China, Korea, and Brazil. They were like the bulk of the devices that attacked you? Some device popular in those companies that was hacked? One might think China, with its state sponsored internet censorship, would have a big handle on traffic coming from their ASINs.

The scheme is simpler than that, go to goodwill, buy a dozen VHS ...

2025-06-01T06:44:39+02:00

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The scheme is simpler than that, go to goodwill, buy a dozen VHS tapes, put them on craigslist for $3000 each, "buyers" come by and buy them. Deposit the money in your bank that you got from your "collectible" VHS tapes. Your buyers stop by goodwill and donate VHS tapes. The buyers in this scenario are the low level street dealers cleaning their daily/weekly cash haul.

A bit heavy for the money laundering but possible. I've ...

2025-06-01T05:19:18+02:00

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A bit heavy for the money laundering but possible. I've always been tempted to "front run" one of these scams in craigslist (list the identical item at the identical price) but I suspect they would not be happy they paid the "wrong" seller and then, well, it would get uncomfortable.

I've signed up for Forrester's introduction class, I ...

2025-05-31T21:56:43+02:00

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I've signed up for Forrester's introduction class, I expect that will give me a better grasp that I can relate to the other fields.

If you know anyone "high up" in that society you might encourage them to seek out someone who was facile in "lightweight responsive web sites" 😃

If you gave a correlation factor between system dynamics and macro economics what would it be?

Generally people with the title "Systems Engineer." ...

2025-05-31T19:49:28+02:00

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Generally people with the title "Systems Engineer." It's a common role in defense industries, less so in civilian focused tech. Typically they are expected to evaluate and optimize a collection of components into a coherent system. So in a military context the detection component, the evaluation component, the response component plus the people who are in that loop and the interfaces between those components. Also surety systems.

Okay then, I'm curious how system dynamics and systems ...

2025-05-31T19:40:29+02:00

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Okay then, I'm curious how system dynamics and systems analysis are related (if at all). I got to play with some tools that tried to formalize systems architecture so that you can reason about them and that was under the umbrella of 'analysis' as opposed to 'dynamics'.

I've joined the society but I don't think I'll make the conference in Boston. That should let me access the background materials though that the society provides.

To be clear, the guy who said this was trying to insult me. I ...

2025-05-31T01:01:36+02:00

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To be clear, the guy who said this was trying to insult me. I expect it was because he was trying to reconcile his internal opinion about me and the comments from other members of the standards body that were calling my suggestions on the architecture "profound" and "insightful."

And because I can be a dick sometimes I responded with "Like Mozart and music right?" (which got a chuckle from other members present, but did NOT endear me to the chair.)

> I'm working on some math inspired by these and other ...

2025-05-30T22:23:51+02:00

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> I'm working on some math inspired by these and other related diagrams.

Which is particularly interesting to me as someone who understands systems intuitively (I was once called a "Systems Architecture Idiot Savant" by a competitor) I have wondered if there were formalisms for things that just "look right" to me. So I find your work in this space very interesting!

I responded similarly on Bluesky. The only reason AI answers ...

2025-05-30T00:04:33+02:00

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I responded similarly on Bluesky. The only reason AI answers exist is to keep you from following ANY link on the SERP.

I was going to pop in here and say "But this is just ...

2025-05-29T20:54:27+02:00

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I was going to pop in here and say "But this is just System's Analysis." Interesting to contextualize it as a directed graph and labeling the edges with the first derivative of the distance from the solution.I wonder if you could use the gradient to plot a path to localized nodes that are arbitrarily close to the solution. Like current LLMs it wouldn't necessarily land on the optimal path, but a workable one.

I was reading about the "flap lid" and thinking that one ...

2025-05-28T00:10:43+02:00

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I was reading about the "flap lid" and thinking that one could probably re-create it with hobbyist grade SDRs.

You'd need an interesting mixer structure to throw it up J band but not impossible.

Time to dust off my urban datacenter design and start shopping it ...

2025-05-27T02:51:30+02:00

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Time to dust off my urban datacenter design and start shopping it around. Back around 2012 I worked with Bloom Energy to design a "small" 10MW urban data center that only used fuel cells for power, it was both quiet and didn't need diesel for backup power (there was an on-site CNG tank that was used if gas supplies were interrupted.) It had an "indoor/outdoor" floor plan and a solar panel roof.

is an excellent explainer. His series on entropy on Twitter ...

2025-05-13T20:52:25+02:00

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is an excellent explainer. His series on entropy on Twitter really hooked me! He also did an excellent series on Maxwell's equations which is something I believe you and I discussed at that place where we meet 😉 but you've been in a while.

Someone has to do that gag where a cardinal leaves his cell phone ...

2025-05-08T21:11:58+02:00

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Someone has to do that gag where a cardinal leaves his cell phone near the fireplace and it overheats and the battery catches on fire and sends white smoke up the chimney. Hilarity ensues as the Cardinals try to figure out who was elected Pope.

If you're Canadian, please vote. Too many of us yanks stayed ...

2025-04-29T03:46:31+02:00

If you're Canadian, please vote. Too many of us yanks stayed home. Don't make our mistake!

He was trying to call H. R. Pufnstuf obviously.

2025-04-10T06:11:07+02:00

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He was trying to call H. R. Pufnstuf obviously.

It's sad to see people disrespecting the employee for doing ...

2025-04-04T20:12:30+02:00

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It's sad to see people disrespecting the *employee* for doing something that took a lot of courage. She's going to be fired but she stood on principle. That takes courage that so many lack, to stand up, not knowing how that act will affect your future going forward, respect that.

We need more of it.

Looks super tasty! Have you baked scones before? They sort of ...

2025-03-31T20:27:23+02:00

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Looks super tasty! Have you baked scones before? They sort of scratch the itch of muffins that aren't muffins :-) and a great conveyance for clotted cream and strawberry jam!

I wished the interviewer had responded "It's like Hillary ...

2025-03-30T04:50:26+02:00

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I wished the interviewer had responded "It's like Hillary Clinton's server, not government owned."

So given the symmetries, what does that say about either the ...

2025-03-28T23:41:53+01:00

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So given the symmetries, what does that say about either the edges or the nodes? I'm struggling with what the symmetry "means", does it mean "Keeping all the edges of a graph at the same length you can rotate them to create a new view that looks the same but has different nodes at different points." ?

As a former security clearance holder I wrote up why the argument ...

2025-03-27T01:37:37+01:00

As a former security clearance holder I wrote up why the argument that the information in the signal chat was "not classified" especially from SECDEF was farcical on its face. This is likely the most incompetent SECDEF in the history of the United States.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qoWyFfgblbLoo2CymmRmK8RT_05wP-VV-hvzVt1YxLY/edit?usp=sharing

My guess is that without the US being a signatory it seems less ...

2025-02-20T21:12:42+01:00

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My guess is that without the US being a signatory it seems less threatening? Or perhaps Putin feels he can 'control' what the EU does. Certainly Orban has been in that role for a while now.

So much angst among folks who didn't vote Harris because ...

2025-02-06T00:43:54+01:00

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So much angst among folks who didn't vote Harris because "the democrats didn't do enough on Palestine"

All part of the shadow organization "Quacks United in ...

2025-02-03T00:10:06+01:00

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All part of the shadow organization "Quacks United in Supporting Other Quacks"