Posts by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
(DIR) Post #AT7EAVSa0p6mSQNkzQ by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-02-27T19:55:46Z
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@sideband @kelvin0mql Check this guy out: https://swling.com/blog/2018/05/how-to-build-sm0vpos-20-meter-magnetic-loop-antenna/I feel like I need to use solid wire so the gimmick cap will stay together.OTH, I could twist up extra, shrink some shrink tube around it, and just trim it to length. From what I hear, strands are good (unless they aren't).Doing it like that, I have everything I need to build this antenna laying around me, pretty much at arm's length.EVEN THE MOTHERHUMPIN' CONNECTIONS! 😆
(DIR) Post #AXMWaBZN01OyBVHZE8 by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-07-04T20:50:49Z
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@rdaily This is my bubs. He can hear a slight rumble of thunder 50 miles away, at which time he will seek out the nearest of several bunkers he has identified around the house.
(DIR) Post #AY3OVRCmiVwA3cbh8C by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-07-25T13:12:51Z
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@lowqualityfacts Idk, but this is sounding more like high quality facts
(DIR) Post #AY9KdRRlsJpLi68paS by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-07-28T09:57:39Z
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@tante I get the sentiment, and I agree people come first. But I'm not sure fucking shit up is the answer.We got much better ways of doing things.Consider this:Twitter became a toxic stew of bullshit, bc reasons.It is now dying a trembling death as advertisers and users flee for their sanity.The power of people to do things constructively through boycotts and a general refusal to participate is profound.
(DIR) Post #AYSiXhvoXOgemrb6W0 by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-08-06T18:25:12Z
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@khoji @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Y’all *might* be overthinking this a little, because we got that other word about which there is no doubt about it’s meaning: synonym: (n) word not dissimilar to another, different word, and synonymous, (adj) that state enjoyed by being a synonym.thanks, I’ll see myself out …
(DIR) Post #AabfmBFcC4CA22yVnc by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-06T16:11:58Z
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@n6cta @k2za Guys I'd love to know in more detail about the troublesome things that were discovered in the js8call source code.Having gone to have a look at the repositories, I can see at practically a casual glance that the testing effort (at least) involved a large base of international hams, and I suspect development did as well.It seems, shall we say, less than probable that they all cooperated to bring hidden features to the code.In any case, lets get the deets out into the light.
(DIR) Post #AabfmHVmuqhHRwaVqC by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-07T14:27:07Z
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@n6cta @k2za I've been doing a bit of searching at github, but I can't seem to make their search work at all
(DIR) Post #AabfmHb6b4wziR4l84 by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-07T10:45:37Z
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@k2za @kj5amz @n6cta @bud_t My question is, in absolute terms, do they have something that favors them specifically in the source code, or rather do they use js8call in some novel, less than obvious way to support their cause more effectively than you or I?This is the salient question. If the code can be shown to reflect some political or organizational favor, then demanding a fork is perhaps reasonable.Otherwise, it's completely excessive.
(DIR) Post #AabfmIyBUl0PyIshk0 by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-07T13:56:12Z
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@k2za @kj5amz @n6cta @bud_t The reason I've got such a boner for this is, I hail from the world of open source, and to say "I won't use this until someone forks it", is functionally the same as saying "I'm not going to use this."The way it has to be done is to fork it; grok the project; make the build environment produce binaries; and then, and only then, can you begin to hack the code.This is, shall we say, a nontrivial undertaking, though not outside our collective capabilities.
(DIR) Post #AabfmJvjvKe0x0kGZM by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-07T14:01:42Z
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@k2za @kj5amz @n6cta @bud_t Decisions also have to be made about the goals of the hypothetical fork. Are we forking it to make a derivative work of, and something other than, js8call? Or do we hope to submit pull requests to the js8call devs that reverse 'tainted' code?The point is, whatever we do by way of forking the existing codebase is going to be seriously labor intensive.So before forking, we need to be damned certain that there is a problem, and what it's nature might be.
(DIR) Post #AabfmKjivUcvS28BTk by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-07T11:30:40Z
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@k2za @kj5amz @n6cta @bud_t John,Wasn't it @n6cta that was telling you about all the bad js8call things?
(DIR) Post #AabfmLp4t4VIovdySm by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-08T11:52:45Z
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@ve3qbz @k2za @kj5amz @n6cta @bud_t Not at all. It’s just pretty time consuming and labor intensive if you’re the only one working on it and you have no practical experience with c++.I’m into it, but first I want someone to show me the offending code.So far no one has stepped up a d done this.
(DIR) Post #AabfmM0mBZrTPD7JhI by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-08T11:50:13Z
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@k2za @kj5amz @n6cta @bud_t So far no one has addressed these concerns. I’m getting just about ready to put my station back on the air.The whole thing begins to smell of a poorly conceived and amateurish psyop.
(DIR) Post #AabfmN7u2Z9krbSWRc by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2023-10-07T14:03:27Z
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@k2za @kj5amz @n6cta @bud_t Truth be told: just to investigate problematic code requires much of this same effort to be made; that is to say, replicating the required build environment and being able to generate binaries.
(DIR) Post #AzBaBgvKSw7JCh3KQC by KI5SMN@mastodon.hams.social
2025-10-13T11:17:18Z
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@gutenberg_org she invented computer programming out of thin air. full stop.