LH0ezVT

@LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case, the game consists of players who choose to play it this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, that sounds like a person who perfected the skill of avoiding work. Something you’d laugh at as too ridiculous in a BOFH story. One should be honored to see such a master of his craft. I wish I had the poker face to pull stuff like that off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Names are arbitrary anyway.

  I see the point of something like euw-69-r47s11-vm420, but a memorisable name is more useful if you are small/specialised enough that you need to remember which box does what.

  Also, let people have some fun, the world is bleak enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found myself in a similar, although, waaay less bad situation. Imho there are basically three ways:

  1. Embrace the stupidity, do the bare minimum to stay employed, try to game the reviews, find meaning in your private life, side projects and hobbies

  2. Enjoy that you get paid for drinking coffee while it lasts, and spend the time you have writing applications and acquiring stuff that looks good on a CV

  3. Quit, whether on your own or by literally doing jack shit, accept the unemployment and/or worse job you might have to take. May or may not be an option, depending on the situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨congrats to Egypt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, of course not, I was only referring to the initial post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨congrats to Egypt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sane people, in my internet?!

  Abuse sucks in general, there is more domestic violence and sexual abuse done to women than to men, lots of traditional Muslim countries have very traditional (male-favouring) gender roles, subverting expectations can be funny. What more is there to say?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What a load of bullshit. I want to see AI deal with “unprecedented minor emergency no. 42069” while simultaneously serving drinks and reassuring someone that everything is alright, no need to panic and/or start a fight. Physical jobs will be the safest anyway.

  Also, “historian”? What the fuck? AI is spectacularly bad at doing even passable science with any accuracy, and in a discipline so nuanced and inherently biased as history? No chance at doing anything remotely science-y. Maybe it can replace the writers of pop-history articles with its surface level rendition of established facts, but even those are supposed to be entertaining and not lifeless, boring slop.

  But yeah, most translaters are screwed. Turns out, large LANGUAGE models are pretty good at transforming languages. Sure, legally binding translations might need some human oversight and good literature translations might hold out a bit as well, but largely, that is one job that I believe has been in steady decline and will continue so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches disturbing footage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of it comes down to experience. For a senior paramedic, a multi-car crash with people screaming all around is probably just another Monday, while I do get quite disturbed by seeing things that are supposed to be inside the body. Not that I couldn’t stand blood, it’s just wrong, and sets of the same pre-historic monkey alarm bell as big spiders and unusual amounts of fecal matter.

  While I believe you can learn to push through most of that, different people have different tolerances for different things at different times. Plus, “I can handle this” is different from “I enjoy watching this right now”. I would be pretty happy to have a gore warning when watching something while eating, for example. Or a warning about a super depressing story when I am feeling down anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cops pay Anon a visit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful. There are levels to it, and from stories that I heard, those levels don’t always communicate with each other. If you get the regular “normal cops”, then no, they won’t know anything more than the average joe about computers.

  If get in deep enough shit, you might get a visit from the specialised cops, either the state or federal variety, and those guys know what they are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cops pay Anon a visit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s proven that you did it, you are getting locked up anyway.

  In 99% it is better to not say anything or indict yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NanoVNA vs. Loop antenna SWR testing [Question]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely :)

  Keep in mind, I assumed worst case, both with my estimate and with what I’ve input into the program. Plus, the legal limits probably have some rather large safety margin.

  To be honest, below 10W and without a highly directive antenna, you’re probably fine.

  Again, I am not a doctor, most RF limits assume mostly the heating effect is relevant. I personally don’t believe it causes you brain cancer or makes you want to drink coca-cola. But I might be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NanoVNA vs. Loop antenna SWR testing [Question]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My repositioning the primary loop i managed to get the SWR down to 1.5 :D

  HF is black magic. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

  currently at berlin/brandenburg area

  Ah, damn. I am in central / southern germany, a bit too far for antenna experiments :)

  I just hoped i aint cooking my insides

  To do some back-of-the-envelope math: Assuming a very much worst-case gain of 6 dB and 12 W actual output power that all makes it to the antenna and all gets radiated (it won’t):

  12 W * 10^0.6 = 48 W

  In free space, ignoring near-field weirdness (which you really shouldn’t, especially not with a mag loop!) that would be:

  P = E^2 /Z ; E = (P*Z)^0.5 ; (48W * 377R)^0.5 = 135 V/m

  The BImSchV (nice name, isn’t it) says a max peak field strength of 5 kV/m and a quadratic average over 6 minutes of 28 V/m is allowed. So, back of the envelope says, running for short periods of time next to your chair is “probably ok”.

  Out of curiosity, I asked the official BNetzA WattWächter. It tells me to keep a safety distance of 4m for a mag-loop at 12W, but it only has mag-loops for 7 MHz and below. It has a CB version, but it doesn’t run for me, and I am too lazy to debug some stupid java app.

  Note that with mag-loops, the near field is pretty “special” in that it has a pretty high magnetic field created by the large reactive currents between the capacitor and the loop inductance. As a rule of thumb, everything within 1-2 wavelengths of distance (so like 20 m for CB) is near-field weirdness. But don’t quote me on all that, I never looked into this too deeply.

  Now, I say about myself that legal limits are boring and that there are several lifestyle decisions to take before I should worry about non-ionising fields, like no more alcohol, more sleep, more exercise… but I am an engineer, not a doctor, so I am not really qualified to talk about this kind of stuff. Make the health decisions you are comfortable with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NanoVNA vs. Loop antenna SWR testing [Question]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a remark, remember that everything that you connect to the radio and which is not matched on both sides will have an effect that the radio “sees”.

  So if you get a different result with and without calibrating in the cable, and the cable is used for the radio connection as well, the vna result that doesn’t include cable calibration shows what the radio will see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NanoVNA vs. Loop antenna SWR testing [Question]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that your capacitor and loop are OK (otherwise there would not be a dip at 27 MHz).

  But my guess is that the match to 50 Ohm is bad. Try playing around with your feeding loop.

  You can ignore the cable if 1) it is properly matched to 50 Ohms on both sides and b) there is no field outside of the cable, meaning the cable does not act as an antenna itself.

  You are clearly working on the 1) part, and for the 2) part, it depends on how you feed the loop, unbalanced vs balanced. For coax you either need an unbalanced feed loop, or a balun (“balanced-unbalanced” converter) or a ferrite or similar “Mantelwellensperre” (don’t know the English word, sorry).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NanoVNA vs. Loop antenna SWR testing [Question]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All good points, especially calibration. Without, it still gives you a general idea, but it’s more a “meh looks OK” than a serious value.

  Also, as fullsquare said, take a picture of yhe smith chart / impedance display as a second check, if it shows something like alot + j toomuch, you know your SWR is actually bad, and you know what direction you need to go for (add more capacity, inductance, or some resistive transformation).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NanoVNA vs. Loop antenna SWR testing [Question]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Second number should be SWR, first one scale (value change per horizontal box). So that would be 3.8 SWR, which corresponds to about half a box of 6.1 - 1, because the lowest you can get is 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NanoVNA vs. Loop antenna SWR testing [Question]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, i did this! I made a 2m loop and an HF one before. Both showed a narrow dip in SWR about where I expected it, give or take a bit. With a bit of fiddling, I easily got both down to an SWR of <2. Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nice guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the key is having some nice verbal sparring. And like with sparring, both parties accept that it’s just for fun and nobody is supposed to get hurt. That’s why it very easily flips from being funny to being mean if one party doesn’t adhere to the unwritten rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets nostalgic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s take a look…

  • The example picture for dressing “modestly” (what is it, the 1800s? is he scared because some absolute whore has dared to show her ankle?) shows a woman in a long, wool jacket, boots, thick-looking leggins… probably sensible clothing for cold-ish weather. Also, the thickest eye liner since queen Cleopatra.
  • Gentrification doesn’t fix anything, it just displaces
  • Every person I know married and had kids: eeeeeh… as someone who grew up in that time, no, not really, plenty of people didn’t, sounds like confirmation bias
  • Music was about joy? Man, I remember listening to the most vulgar political rap with my friends at the end of high school, also, wasn’t there a big phase of metalcore and electro-metal stuff around that time?
  • The drug epidemic is scarcely the result of music and fashion
  • I don’t know jack about art, tbh
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might as well be the same thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldnt get in a car with one either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon runs some tests⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are saying that as if you try to humanize a bunch of linear algebra. As if you think a few gigabytes of matrices can feel pain.

  Stop that. Please. They are doing a bunch of evil shit to real humans who lost their jobs, their sanity, their access to water and a clean environment, or in the case of conflicts like Gaza, their lifes because of AI.

  That is why you should be angry at AI bros. Not because some numbers on a harddrive have been tweaked to output noises that our subconsciousness interprets as fellow human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, recognising that you have a problem and going to a professional is the best case option.

  Luckily, this is a green text and therefore fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, shared life experiences make it easier. Training and experience should be able to compensate it, of course, but they do make it easier.

  Probably goes for all genders, with male therapists having a harder time understanding female patients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *thrust

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so sorry to bring that reddit bs over, but you do have a fitting username

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Menopause doesn’t hit before the 40s or so. Plenty of women have children in their 30s. At that point, they have had time to mature, get an education, and build stable circumstances to raise children. Yes, the consequences of the industrial revolution and so on, but those consequences also basically eradicated the child mortality we had before, for instance.

  If someone knows they want a family early, good for them, but I don’t blame anyone wanting to experience life before passing it on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I can always decide to argue with someone who seems to disagree but is willing to stick to the rules as argue in good faith. Who knows, maybe one or both of us can learn something. Likewise, I can always decide that someone is so far gone that there’s no point. But to categorically avoid any argument that sounds stupid is not helpful.

  Those people are like that because a) they are genuinely bad people, b) they are fueling the fire on purpose, and c) nobody ever convinced them they are stupid.

  To not let the a) and b) win, yes, we need to convince people that what they heard is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t even make sense from a (pretty stupid) “you have to have children” point of view, what is stopping women to have kids later in life, when they’ve got an education, know what they want in life, and are financially and mentally stable enough to raise them?

  Of course I know the answer starts with “m” and ends with “isogyny”, but it’s a very stupid take even in its own framework

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What next, power supply shortages?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I feel like I’ve kind of “won” that game. I bought a R5 2600 for 130 when the 3000 series came out, a 1050Ti for 170 when the first crypto craze ended (2018?) and then earlier last year I’ve got a second hand 3060 for 200 before the AI bubble went crazy (all prices in EUR).

  Sadly, I barely play stuff any more, and for regular PC stuff, I use my laptop with a dock, as it uses half the power and created half the heat :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lose yourself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is mildly funny to me. There is no rule against political content, and I don’t really see it as news. So, respectfully, fuck off with that “be unpolitical” bs.