squarefoot

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by squarefoot 6d ago
I have surplus/military bare cables dating from the 1970s or so, extra shiny silver plated copper with PTFE jacket: a joy to solder, then more "normal" ones from the late 80s and 90s, then "old" modern ones, that is
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by squarefoot 10d ago
The main concern isn't much about privacy, we have our share of crazy laws as well, age id, etc. sadly, that's where the society is heading, but mostly because of the worries about depending on a service where someone could decide
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by squarefoot 12d ago
How does it compare to neocities.org, which is sadly not EU?
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by squarefoot 2mo ago
True, but they can't use directional antennas nor lots of power, and once they're far enough from the transmitter inverse square law does the rest. Ground stations always have an advantage because of higher gain antennas and more
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by squarefoot 2mo ago
Brute force wide band jamming would be easy too and would make hopping ineffective. Unless drones use self tuning antennas to overcome losses, they can't hop too far away from the antenna resonance frequency, which makes jammers job ea
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by squarefoot 3mo ago
> You can publish to both and even better your own domain that simply points to your video hosting provider. That one is likely the best use case while one monetizes on YT waiting for FreeTube to gain more popularity. Worth also for keep
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by squarefoot 3mo ago
Totally agree on the atrocious landing page. The technical one is much better, although the power supply circuit by using a resistive balancer and a linear regulator wastes some good power for nothing.
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
I read somewhere years ago of panic ensuing when a pilot greeted a colleague on the radio with "Hi, Jack". Whether it happened for real or not, the idea of a simple word causing fighter jets to scramble is just crazy although full
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
This swill split entire families, more likely forcing those in the US to follow those who need to leave. Of course this has nothing to do with immigration. They're indeed feeding their racist voters some candy, but the goal is rather t
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
A $499 phone? Hah! Then what about a $11,500 Donald Trump autographed guitar that is actually made in China? https://gettrumpguitars.com/products/american-eagle-electric... https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
AM radio, like other frequencies in the low HF spectrum, travel using ground waves then ionospheric refraction during night which can let the receiver pick stations several thousands of Km away. FM and generally VHF frequencies require most
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
There have been multiple reports of Flipper Zero devices being seized because they're known as burglars and black hat hackers tools. If I had to design a successor, first requirement would be to let go the popularity brought by its nam
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
If you're worried about that, Dangerzone might help. https://dangerzone.rocks/
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
Nothing aside a normal PC. I was the slow human in the middle swapping cards and typing/copying/pasting commands and results; I admit being far away from being able to do that myself; tried a few years ago and failed, then A
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
I used Claude, back then when the free tier was usable, to port Linux on a obsolete, unsupported and undocumented board whose manufacturer didn't publish any info aside binary only Android images, which fortunately were enough to obtai
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
Does it apply to the meshcore.io app as well? From what I know (not a meshcore user currently) there has been a kerfuffle recently when a developer decided to fork and vibe code the project using Claude, then silently trademark the name and
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by squarefoot 4mo ago
Not my field so I'm likely using the wrong name for the concept, anyway, don't stepping (bistable) brakes exist? I mean, one pulse to one pin engages and one pulse to another pin disengages, just like step relays, with the current
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by squarefoot 5mo ago
Ebay is also down. https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ebay.com.html
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by squarefoot 5mo ago
It redraws it every minute, and some models give quite different results although the prompt is exactly the same.
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by squarefoot 5mo ago
Same for teleport, time travel and warp drive.
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by squarefoot 6mo ago
Don't forget civil forfeiture, which can (an does) happen whether they think you're an enemy or not. https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/freq...
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by squarefoot 6mo ago
Access control and pervasive surveillance has been the plan since day one; child protection is the leverage. Also, I don't expect people who repeatedly hide the contents of certain files to care about children.
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by squarefoot 6mo ago
When the internal non replaceable battery dies the product dies; that's also one reason to prefer wired over wireless. I wrote product instead of headphones because the principle is applicable to every product whose battery can't
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by squarefoot 6mo ago
Probably next generations of kids being fed PragerU studying material will. Something tells me we didn't see a fraction of what's going to happen in the decades to come.
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by squarefoot 7mo ago
"All lawful uses" has no meaning when a malignant narcissistic sociopath in power controlled by ruthless rich psychopaths can now rewrite every law at will.
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by squarefoot 7mo ago
I'm not from the US as well but that's true: those tactics are used on both sides, although they may be more visible where protesting happens more often, which is the case today with the Trump administration. It's part of the
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by squarefoot 7mo ago
> It's like how the minority of Left-leaning people who burn cars and shoot public speakers are what most on the Right see the entire democrat party as. That's the result of well known disinformation tactics by certain media in
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by squarefoot 7mo ago
Same here with FreeTube. YT has become a toxic experience on any browser and recently it has stopped working on my laptop with Firefox and uBlock Origin, no matter if I surf it as logged in in my main google account or not. The same arrange
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by squarefoot 7mo ago
Interesting, I loved both HL1 and 2. Some games never die, brought to mind the Black Mesa remake of HL1 with the HL2 engine that gave it new life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKutLsub-80
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by squarefoot 7mo ago
People is kept away from details by shortening their attention span with the production of continuous pervasive stimuli. Regarding Trump, when he does something apparently stupid (on behalf of the rich people pulling his strings, let's

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