lighting designer and gaffer. electronic gadgettery.
did art school, work mostly as gaffer and lighting designer. i like ham, my callsign is DO4PPL. maintainer of goodenoughlightingdevices.
Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue
Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?
The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
The primary use cases for AI aren't improved customer service or accurate summarizations of data.
Based on the types of investors funding AI, the main goals of AI are:
1. Wage suppression
2. Automated & funded disinformation
3. Election interference
4. Stock market manipulation
5. Orwellian state surveillance
6. Thwarting climate action
7. Inflating fossil fuel usage
8. Suppression of dissent
9. Media manipulation
10. Money laundering
11. Distrust of expertise
Weren't we joking about making a 2-resistor array with optional cross-over to BOM-fix that pesky UART RX-TX mixup the other day?
Tadaa.
Hat jemand von euch 3 Granatwerfer gefunden? Die sind dem LKA Sachsen-Anhalt abhanden gekommen.
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