⁂ Hy 
⁂ playing with software defined radios as K3XEC 
⁂ formerly: board of directors of the Open Source Initiative 
| github | https://github.com/paultag |
| website | https://pault.ag |
| radio blog | https://k3xec.com |
| eicar | X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* |
@paul I love this post Paul. I've been calling a small Tailnet with some shared services on it (photo hosting, media library, etc.) our "digital collective" and had even written a draft post calling for others to do the same-- but every word of this resonates w/ me.
The membership isn't as technical as yours, and that's kind of the point since a lot of the folks can't/wouldn't, but still want a path off big tech services.
You can read long-form thoughts at https://notes.pault.ag/tpl/ where I tried to capture as much as I could into one place.
This is on my blog but I was just the one to put keyboard to markdown here. I am exactly one of many. I hope this represents our thoughts well. It definitely represents mine.
We know we can't scale this. We can't even get all our friends on the LAN. I don't know how long that will take -- nevermind letting anyone outside that group in.
However -- this is my call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Have fun with computers.
We’ve grown our own culture and fads - around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each other’s counters.
There’s a 3-node IRC network, exotic hardware to gawk at, radios galore, a NAS storage swap, LAN only email, and even a SIP phone network of "redphones".
In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together.
The idea is simple - fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things. We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.
Last night I printed out a version of one of these dishes, so I could hold it in my hand as I wrote this post!
Check out Jess's post announcing 1.0 over at https://zoo.dev/blog/zoo-design-studio-v1
So proud to see Zoo (https://zoo.dev) Studio v1 out! We did this one on hard mode (our own CAD kernel, UI, and even a small programming language that is editable by hand, via the GUI or via prompts) -- so it's incredibly cool to see the payoff.
Yesterday I modeled a parabolic dish (I'll actually use one of these soon!), which means I wrote a function that accepts the depth and diameter of the dish, and it computes everything for you -- including the focal point!
wrote a new blog post where I demonstrate abusing the parasitic capacitances within MOSFETs to make a voltage-controlled low-pass filter.
this trick has rather limited applications, but it was pretty cool to go from thinking about the graphs in MOSFET datasheets to actually building a working adjustable RC filter with it.
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