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Education researcher and statistician. I'm a proud dad and enjoy both remote and trailer camping, cycling, building/fixing interesting things, and radio. I still suck at CW but it's my favourite mode. IC-7300, Youkits HB1B, and FT3DR are the objects of personal photon warbling.
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The luddites weren’t technophobes, they were the high-skilled technologists of their time, angry that automation tech in the brutal new factories made the rich richer, and replaced their skilled loom work with violent, blighted factories full of low-wage unskilled workers (often children at the end of a whip). Reading: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59801798-blood-in-the-machine @bookstodon
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Agai…

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the…

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I did a thing.

I’ve had a long-standing love of stickers on laptops. I know a lot of you do too! So I built a site to highlight them. At Hope next week I’ll take as many pics (with permission) of the best stickered laptops I can find and post them.

It’s always sad when a laptop gets upgraded, the old one tossed, and that sticker canvas is lost. I’m trying to preserve it.

Please submit pics of your laptops so I can “seed the tip jar,” as it were.

https://stickertop.art

stickertop.art - Discover Laptop Sticker Art

Discover a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world. Each laptop tells a story through its stickers.

Huzzah! My website can once again be accessed as a #TOR Hidden Service.

I'm unsure anyone would want to, but it can be done once more.

http://6hkxwfcx3qzszltced7sdobowilzv5m5qszh34nqnb4qikl6up3nyiad.onion

Also via HTTP (no S) for anyone using packet radio.

And Gopher, and Gemini

Are there any other protocols I could / should add?

Aside, I need to work out why you can't log into mastodon.radio over tor

Stumbled on tut - a TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys. Such a treat - especially on-boarding, type in your home server, click a link, past the string back in tut - done, everything works. Well done. https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut
GitHub - RasmusLindroth/tut: TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys

TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys. Contribute to RasmusLindroth/tut development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
@kzimmermann Giving credit where it's due - your post about alpine as a desktop is a bit dated (`setup-desktop` exists as a single-shot command now!), but it inspired me to try it and wow, I'm impressed. Such a quick install and snappy desktop. https://tilde.town/~kzimmermann/articles/alpine_linux_desktop.html
Klaus Zimmermann's musings - Alpine Linux on the desktop: awesome feat or fool's errand?

I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that a Heathkit H11 was really a DEC PDP11 in disguise.

#retrocomputing #oldcomputers #retrocomputers #retrocomputer #pdp11 #pdp11s #decpdp #heathkitcatalog #heathkit #heathkit1978

Fishing In The Night - 99% Invisible

The Divided Dial is a podcast series about the history of radio from WNYC’s On the Media and longtime 99PI contributor, Katie Thornton. In season 1, Katie explored the rise of right wing talk radio in the United States. The newest season of The Divided Dial is all about shortwave. Across four episodes, Katie dives

99% Invisible

Ok I now have a reasonable display. The schematics for the Arduino rotator control show pin 15 and 16 NC which I did wonder about. That’s the backlight. ;)

RTSL Found a couple of MEMORY saving defines. I don’t really care about anything but the Yaesu commands so it all fits.

Now it just seems to hard swing the azimuth full scale to the right. No shorts that I can see. I guess I’ll do more debugging after lunch.

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Antenna

Cyberpunk Librarian is back!

Libraries are in danger and Dan is angry. There have been more books banned in the last two years than ever before. Censorship and attacks on libraries are both on the rise, but we can fight back. We can rise above.

Join me for Cyberpunk Librarian - Episode 67.

https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/podcast/cyberpunk-librarian-episode-67-rise-above/

Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 67 – Rise Above

Libraries are in danger and Dan is angry. There have been more books banned in the last two years than ever before. Censorship and attacks on libraries are both on the rise, but we can fight back. …

Cyberpunk Librarian