vk6flab
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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- Comment on lemmy.radio turned 2 today! 4 days ago:
Thank you for making this place!
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Random Serendipity #podcast 4 days ago:
Universal Radio Hacker playlist:
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- Comment on Laptop drastically increasing noise floor 5 days ago:
I’d recommend you explore qrm.guru to determine exactly where the noise is coming from and what to do about it.
- Comment on Should I be worried about "Prompt ejection" attacks on my gmail? 5 days ago:
I work in ICT. Leaving Gmail is much easier said than done. It has the best spam filtering bar none and integrates with a whole host of other services that I use daily, like the mobile phone I’m writing this on for example, the one that integrates my calendar, tasks, contacts, photos, websites, YouTube channel, spreadsheets and, oh yeah … that other thing … Gmail.
So, if wishing made it so.
What I’d like is a Google Workspace tier that is entirely without AI.
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Can you be a Professional Radio Amateur? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What's really happening at the IARU? #podcast 2 weeks ago:
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What's really happening at the IARU? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
Oh … you’re a dick … thanks for self identifying.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
- I’ve been here for almost six decades.
- I don’t know what the topic of “procreation genetics” means outside this thread where I was attempting to answer OP’s question and put those two words in sequence to explain myself.
- I think that life has an imperative to procreate and has done so since it started.
- Life, as we currently know it, appears to revolve around genetics.
- I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that being gay doesn’t turn off the part that’s looking for a beautiful mate.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that it boils down to successful procreation genetics. As in, the more attractive you are the bigger the selection of mates you have access to. It’s been happening for as long as life has existed here.
No doubt this has across history been heavily distorted by culture, art and religion and in more recent times by fashion, marketing, advertising and media.
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- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What do you think you're doing? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - How does your member society represent itself? #podcast 4 weeks ago:
It might be an idea to raise the issue with your member society directly. Their “official” contact details, and that of every society is here:
The Wikipedia page of societies is here:
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - How does your member society represent itself? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 2 comments
- Comment on Could you use a stationary array of antennas to form an image? 5 weeks ago:
So, your eyeballs already do this … that is, convert radio frequencies into electricity.
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - A brief introduction to the HamSCI community #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Could you use a stationary array of antennas to form an image? 5 weeks ago:
That you posted in this community means that I am going to assume that you understand that light and radio are the same thing. This means that anything that can “detect” light is essentially an antenna, for that (range of) frequency(ies). The Charge Coupled Device sensors or CCD sensors are in common use in digital imaging, it’s an integrated circuit that can detect light. Or said differently, a CCD can detect radio waves at light frequencies.
In other words, a CCD chip is an array of antennas, that do what you describe.
I’m not sure what a densly packed array of nanoscopic antennas brings that isn’t already solved with a CCD.
CCD’s are also used outside the visible spectrum in all manner of places.
- Comment on Sweet pic 1 month ago:
Further down the article it talks about why it’s that colour.
- Comment on Sweet pic 1 month ago:
What’s even more remarkable is that someone actually did that, in January 1998.
- Comment on 100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone 1 month ago:
Here’s a question.
How is a digital cumshot image of a person worse than say a kitten being tortured, or a war being fought?
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- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 1 month ago:
Hmm … I confess that I really appreciate and enjoy the company of the neighbours all around me … although there is one … let me work on that …
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 1 month ago:
Very cute … I don’t even have space for the little rodent, let alone a distant cousin ten times its size.
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 1 month ago:
I’m guessing that you’d need a big backyard for either … so I’m out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not familiar with how many telephones in Spain are landlines, but looking at Australia, where I am, the majority of connections don’t have an SLA battery, made even more power dependent because we have been rolling out fibre optic cable everywhere and the copper wire in the ground has been disconnected, preventing telephone exchanges from powering much of anything anymore.
The idea that generators will keep the essentials running is incomplete if not outright incorrect. Most of these systems have never been actually tested with an actual outage, look at Heathrow airport for a recent example.
At best a generator will run for up to 12 hours, and only if you have multiple generators and the fuel to run them will you have much in the way of energy security.
Of course if you’re already running on a generator then the picture is different, but even then, in the case of a country wide power outage, getting fuel for longer periods of time is going to be a challenge.
- Comment on Does humanism lead to tolerance paradox? 1 month ago:
Do you mean this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Off the top of my head in no particular order:
- sewerage pumps
- fresh water pumps
- telecommunications systems
- refrigeration equipment in homes, restaurants, hotels, factories
- transport infrastructure like street lights, traffic lights, railway crossing lights
- trains, consider for example control of signalling and switching, let alone electric trains
- fuel distribution like petrol pumps
- hospitals
- broadcasting like TV and radio
Essentially society as we know it stops, at least for a while. Generators are used, but are often of limited use, since getting fuel to them is non-trivial and many are scaled for short outages.
Without knowing what happened in Spain, I can say that events like this can and do happen around the world. It’s likely that this will increase.
Given how interconnected the electricity grid is, I’m surprised that this didn’t cascade across Europe.