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https://gadgets.life - interesting stuff blog

Metro Skywarn & Sky Watcher 2025/2026
Ham Radio, Electronics, Computer, and Gadget guy

Dropped a new summary on Gadgets.Life. Lots of Pi cluster work, radio/SDR experiments, network upgrades, automation projects, and general homestead tinkering. Good chaos.

https://gadgetsdotlife.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/summary-late-april-2025-to-now/

Summary: Late April 2025 to Now

Summary: Late April 2025 to Now What I’ve actually built, explored, debugged, or re-architected since April 18th. Apologies for no updates. It’s been a dense stretch of weeks with lots of hands-on …

Jeff's Gadgets and Maker Blog
@N3VEM At least a mile away; with rats and rabbits it's 5 miles! Never tagged 'em but I'm pretty sure a rat we relocated ~1.5 miles away returned since it resumed it's habit of stealing just the one cereal (rice crispies) from the pantry. House was since professional treated and entry holes identified and patched (there were so many in the eaves; the rats would climb the stucco walls like it was a ladder).

Pictures from one year ago as we were getting set up.

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#museum #vintage #retrogaming #retro #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

@trevorflowers I have this at my desk (transparent Princess phone)
@twylo If I can find my old notes from my SGI days, when we were designing xFS we iterated over most computer file system features and decided every unit of data down to the editable level needed metadata. Bytes tagged with URLs. We could have that today; most things don't need the tagging but when you have it, things get interesting. True hypertext filesystems...

Fun fact-

I'm pretty sure I've got the only chicken coop & run that has doors from a presidential mansion!

Back story:
The Wheatland estate - President James Buchanan's home in Lancaster PA, was doing some repairs and was throwing out all the wooden screen doors (they weren't original). We salvaged them from their dumpster and used them when we built the coop and run.

@WiredForFlight Modified the Machete ordering to include Andor. Keeps the spoilers to a minimum as compared to a timeline or release ordering

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