shortwavesurfer
@shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Communicating With Satellites Like It’s 1957 2 weeks ago:
I saw somebody was creating a BBS for meshtastic like it’s 1999.
- Comment on First two-way contact via geostationary satellite bounce 3 weeks ago:
Damn. Cool
- Comment on Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards 5 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, I read the link fully expecting to completely disagree with it, and actually I don’t. There’s actually a decent amount of it I do agree with. Bitcoin has evolved and not in a good way from what it was meant to be which was peer-to-peer digital cash that anybody could use to send money around the world in an instant with no government oversight. That’s actually the big reason that I’m interested in Monero, because it still fulfills that vision while providing user privacy and low fees. It does use proof of work mining, so uses electricity for that, but it is much better than Bitcoin simply because it uses your general CPU that you find in your phone, your desktop, your laptop, etc. and does not require specialized hardware that costs a ton of money and burns a crap ton of power to only mine.
You may or may not find my arguments above compelling, but I appreciate the link. Because, as I said, I expected to fully disagree with it and found more agreement than I expected to.
- Comment on Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards 5 weeks ago:
Nostr + monero = 🖕
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 1 month ago:
Exactly. I can’t really stand chapters that are 8 to 10 minutes because I have to turn pages so frequently that it becomes really annoying.
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 1 month ago:
I’m assuming it takes the average reading speed in order to make a guess, and I actually find that I like them, especially in fan fiction stories. That way, I know how long the chapter is, because I’m blind, so I use a screen reader, so I prefer somewhat longer chapters, because I don’t have to constantly switch pages as often with longer pages.
- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 2 months ago:
That’s true. I just don’t know of a lot of mainstream things that have deployed it quite yet. Like I do not think HTTPS is post quantum secure, or at least not that I’m aware of.
- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 2 months ago:
Quantum computers could feasibly do it. However, even Google’s project willow at 105 qubits is not enough. Because if it were, we would have much bigger problems like, oh, I don’t know, the encryption that protects your bank account and HTTPS connections.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 2 months ago:
In that case, they won’t lower it in February than it’s not illegal because they’re not offering it for a higher price for a short amount of time.
- Comment on MP speaks out in Parliament against ban on marrying cousins 2 months ago:
I do not see a problem with it as long as they are made aware that children are not a good idea.
- Comment on Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals From Voyager 1 2 months ago:
Well shit, that’s impressive as hell.
- Comment on Words reportedly written onto ammunition found at scene of health insurance CEO's killing [USA] 2 months ago:
Read Assassination Politics by Jim Bell
- Comment on Starlink with self hosted? 2 months ago:
If you wish, you could always host your stuff through tor and use it as a hidden service.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I use my password manager to generate 32 character or 64 character passwords whenever possible.
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 2 months ago:
I have all of my email sent to my own domain, so while I would lose previous emails, if my provider just up and shut down, I could just switch to another provider, change a few records on my DNS, and all of my emails would go to my new provider from then on with no problem. I control the domain after the “@” sign.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Why does your Wi-Fi connection drop out when cooking lunch? #podcast 2 months ago:
Yeah, I probably should have checked my text to speech before sending the reply LOL.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Why does your Wi-Fi connection drop out when cooking lunch? #podcast 2 months ago:
I don’t own any IoT devices. And I absolutely refuse to buy any device that does not support fire gig Earth’s Wi-Fi.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Why does your Wi-Fi connection drop out when cooking lunch? #podcast 3 months ago:
Which is why I’ve totally disabled the 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi band on all of my routers for several years now and only use 5 gigahertz.
- Comment on Antenna mounted in attic? 3 months ago:
On HF it probably wouldn’t be too bad since the signals would generally just go straight through the surface. On VHF and above though it could be problematic.
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- Comment on How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era 4 months ago:
Eventually, it won’t just be for disaster areas. It will be for the entire United States and will show up anywhere that you would normally not have a signal.
- Comment on kv4p HT - open source ham radio transceiver for your smartphone 4 months ago:
Oh my fucking god fucking yes yes fucking yes. Oh my fucking god.
- Comment on How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era 4 months ago:
I don’t know anybody who uses SK as end of contact. I’ve always heard it referred to as the operator being deceased.
- Comment on How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era 4 months ago:
Um, hold up for a second. Did the author seriously at the very end of the article say 73 SK? I’m sorry, but those two things do not go well together.
- Comment on How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era 4 months ago:
Starlink was approved by the FCC to run a limited test in North Carolina and Florida in the damage pads of the two hurricanes and it’s doing pretty good as well. With their system, anybody on any carrier can get wireless emergency alerts and currently T-Mobile customers can send and receive text messages.
- Comment on Drunken woman defecated on police officer who tried to put her in handcuffs 6 months ago:
Good for her. These goons need to be shit on more often.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 6 months ago:
Federation, this makes it immune to large-scale disruptions because a single instance may go down or a couple of instances may go down at the same time, but the entire network cannot be taken offline all at once without taking the internet itself offline.
- Comment on New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions. 6 months ago:
Many good answers here. So I will just say welcome. It’s great to see you here.
- Comment on Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say 6 months ago:
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 1 year ago:
And if that actually happens, then very few countries will trust the US dollar as they reserve anymore and buy up gold as they are already doing.