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[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

I can go to China, buy a book full of propaganda, fly to the USA, and read it with no issue.

I can tune my radio to a shortwave broadcast from Mexico, and there's not a damn thing the FCC will do to stop me.

I don't even fucking like TikTok. It's an amalgam of all the worst dark patterns developed by corporate social media. Of course, nobody in government gives a fuck when Zuck does the exact same thing. I think it really comes down to the fact that as a foreign company, ByteDance can't play the same election fundraising games that American companies do.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

'Es shot? Dump eet.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I used to browse certain subreddits for negativity bait. Eventually I decided that I didn't want to immerse myself in a negative mindset so often.

The trick for me was to recognize those moments when I was on auto-pilot and navigating to those spaces because I was bored and it was a reflex. I would remind myself that I know it's bad for me, and then force myself to do literally anything else. Go to some other website. Vacuum the floor. Put on some music and go for a walk. Eventually I lost that reflexive instinct, and now I have no desire to go back to those places.

I'm not going to pretend that what worked for me will work for anyone else, nor will I say that I'm now a better person for avoiding those spaces. I've probably replaced that habit with an equally pointless one, it's just nice to not always view things from the context of tearing others down.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

Eh, maybe. Back during feudalism, emancipation of serfs was also considered theft from the nobles who owned the land (and thus the serfs who worked it).

Sometimes governments implemented programs to reimburse the nobles for losing "their" serfs, and sometimes not. Now that we're a couple centuries removed from that drama, we generally accept that the destruction of feudalism was a good thing, regardless of whether it was theft.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There used to be a similar bug in the Roku jellyfin app.

If you can recreate the subtitle issue using test file 5 from this repo, it might be worth submitting a bug report. https://github.com/ietf-wg-cellar/matroska-test-files

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

This is a reference to an ad for a shitty mobile game. An animated Roman soldier is trying to stab an Egyptian woman but she dodges him by swinging dancing and swinging her hips. It's a city builder game themed around ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In modern parlance, it's called a D'k tahg

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just use docker/podman containers: They're way easier to use and correctly configure than jails.

Podman quadlets will even spin up containers as systemd services. You could automatically assign solitary confinement containers to new inmates on the fly.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

No. 404 media is written by people. I've personally been impressed by their reporting over the last year.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

You could use your SDR to record yourself on a random simplex frequency instead of the repeater. Dial down your transmit power to minimum so you're not blasting everyone. After all you only need the signal to reach your SDR. Key up, start with your callsign and announce a microphone test. Then say a short sentence or two while listening to your SDR.

Choose a clear frequency that's slightly off from national simplex and I think you'll be fine.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Looks like a briar pipe of some kind. I don't really know my pipes but I think it could be a churchwarden or a sherlock style.

There are plenty of online shops that would sell similar pipes. It's a question of how close to the photo you want it to be. I think a high quality briar pipe can run a few hundred dollars. However, you should be able to get something for 30-80 USD if you look at entry-level options.

I sometimes enjoy smoking from my long stemmed 18th century replica clay pipes, which I purchased from pipeshoppe.com. Historically, clay pipes were cheap to produce and somewhat disposable. Even today a fancier clay pipe can be had for <50 USD. However, their current selection of wooden pipes is a bit sparse so you'd have to look elsewhere to match what's in the photo.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I always assumed that it was to quickly delineate what people say in their capacity as a citizen vs what they say in their capacity as a representative of their government.

"Sarah Carter, from the Canadian embassy, says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet" could be interpreted as a personal opinion. "Canada says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet" is clearly an official statement.

Plus, sometimes the news may be reporting on a memo or announcement from a government entity which was crafted by several people and has no author listed.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20077977

What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there.

  • New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware

  • Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop.

  • AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS.

Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still like to hear what's out there.

 

What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there.

  • New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware

  • Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop.

  • AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS.

Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still like to hear what's out there.

 

I work in a basement office. There is a below-grade egress window, with a 3-4ft ladder and a large plexiglass dome that you can push out of the way.

I noticed a terrible smell when I opened my window the other day, and it was because of a dead mouse that presumably couldn't get out of the recess. On inspection, I found the remains of several more dead rodents there, so this has been a problem in the past too.

Any ideas on how to prevent this? I both feel bad for the dead animals and am disgusted by the smell when they decay. The plexiglass dome has chicken wire for airflow, so I can't necessarily block those off. Maybe there's some method to repell them, or help them escape?

 

The latest dev builds of OpenMW now support music playlists run from Lua. Mods could now create custom music playlists based on location, weather, combat status, or anything else that can be measured with Lua. The pull request includes a sample mod to play certain music when fighting muscrabs.

I look forward to all the new ambience mods that this will make possible!

 

Sounds a bit trite, but Morrowind represents a kind of comfy stability for me. I can always go to Vvardenfel any time, and it's always the same place.

Yesterday, I moved houses. The neighborhood is different, there are boxes everywhere, I can't find anything, and there's no internet. On top of that, I get very stressed out whenever even a small thing in my life changes. I try to focus on one task at a time, and that's all I can do.

However, all I need for Morrowind is to unpack my PC, monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Tonight, when the takeout food is gone, but I'm not ready to sleep (in a new room that smells weird), there will be Morrowind.

 

Figured I'd share some of my favorite OpenMW mods. Today is AttendMe, a cool UI for monitoring your companions. It tracks health, stamina, magicka, as well as whatever spells/weapons they have equipped. I find it very useful for all the slave rescue quests, so I know who to heal.

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Played DX a few times, but the only part of the plot that never fully makes sense to me is Maggie Chow:

  • She is an MJ12 plant who knows JC is Paul's brother, but doesn't know he's a fugitive? Or she does know he's a fugitive but doesn't call her MJ12 guards to take him out?
  • She sends JC to the police station on a mission to steal information, but then the information incriminates her. Why? JC even asks her what she expected to happen.

Not so much a plot thing, but I also find it strange that she runs up to fight JC in Versalife with just a sword and no armor. It's the least threatening fight in the game. I know the people in Hong Kong say she used to do Kung Fu movies, it would have been cool if there was some allusion to that during the fight.

 

Robo Wind Construct (RWC) is a standalone game demo for OpenMW that doesn't use any proprietary assets. It truly shows what can be possible with the OpenMW engine aside from reimplementing Gamebryo games.

https://modding-openmw.com/mods/rwc-robowind/

Following the RWC project in OpenMW discord has been interesting. There's symbiosis between development, where RWC might need a feature that ends up ported to OpenMW and becomes available to everyone! I hope they're able to eventually complete the game.

 

Just moving in to our first home, and I'm very excited to have the freedom to set up a permanent HF antenna.

I'll probably build a sort of fan dipole and run it along the side of our property. That's the only place long enough to fit. However, the power lines for the neighborhood run over part of our backyard. I'm not worried about my dipole being too close to high voltage power (it won't be) but I wonder if the AC frequency can cause interference on certain bands?

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/9321551

I'm really intrigued by digital modes. Stuff like JS8Call seems really cool, and I want to get into it.

I don't have any HF equipment. SSB isn't very interesting to me, so I was thinking of getting a digital-only transceiver and saving some money. I think it would be cool to take a small QRP box with a laptop or raspi, and do digital mode Pota with it.

I've seen the QDX which looks exactly like what I want and seems to get good reviews. Any others that I should be aware of?

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