I bought a mobile radio transceiver. Coming back to the hobby after 20 years is fascinating: technology has really jumped ahead! Will share more on the features soon.
There are 3 models of the Kenwood TH-D75: for Europe, America and Japan. European version costs โฌ879 now, Japanese one โฌ529. The American model can send on additional bands, but Europe/Japan specs are almost same.
Waiting now for permission to use it from the ministry for communication :)
@benoit I heard it from you first, German provider 1&1 building an OpenRAN based network with Rakuten. The big remaining German magazine c't also was featuring it now in an article, quite innovative what they are doing.
Visit at the UR Danchi museum. Danchi are clusters of apartment buildings in Japan, I'm also living in one.
They started these even before the war, up until today, constantly improving. 1/X
The danchi houses were built with concrete and steel. Putting tatami-mats directly on the concrete would lead to mold, they used cork and then simple mats.
The floor map is interesting: the elevators did just stop at every second floor! If you were living on the other floors, you would drop of at the "floor nearby" and then again take stairs. The flats just reachable via stairs were bigger as they had no corridor in front of them, so rent was higher.
News in other parts of the world: murder on the streets
News in Japan: tourists leave trash and are in the way when taking pictures of Mnt Fuji together with a convenience store. Because of that, a black sheet to prevent the famous view was setup.
While we lament about AI getting trained with reddit ("You should eat a few stones every day!"), training material for Chinese has it's own challenges: the sane stuff is censored away, so the available material is mostly propaganda and spam: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64222
Japans "Ministry of internal affairs and communications" has actually a nice mascot on their application page for operation of a HAM radio station.
A week after filing the request they came back, asking for more details.. and where you enter the "technical certification number" of your radio transmitter, I had entered not only the HAM certification number but also the "bluetooth certification number", that's not related to HAM and needs to be removed.
Translation choices: Be careful with your second mentions.
"Canada said it granted refugee status to two Japanese women last September due to widespread discrimination they faced in Japan as lesbians and members of the weaker sex."
I haven't paid attention to Netcraft's Web Server Survey, which was once a battlefield between Linux and Microsoft (namely Apache httpd vs Microsoft IIS).
Nginx took the lead from Apache in 2019. However, for the past 3 years Nginx's market share has been on a steady decline, matched by the growth of Cloudflare (10%) and "Other" (25%). Is Amazon AWS lumped with it?
@benoit Yes, the caterpillars. It did not occur to me at that time to walk while waving something in front of me, maybe I had nothing appropriate with me. I ended up just moving very slowly, these are so small the are just spotted when already very near to the body/face.
Due to a new regulation, green electricity providers in the EU+EEA have to provide their customers information about the countries of origin of their electricity (or the certificates, which... isn't really the same, but I disgress...). If you got something like that lately, can you scan it or make a photo and send it to me? https://hboeck.de/en/contact.html I'd be particularly interested to see those from the "real" green electricity providers.
From the questionnaire: "ใฐใฌใผใใใซใผใใธใฅใผในใฏ้ฃฒใฟใพใใ" - Do you drink grapefruit juice?
[ ] often
[ ] every now and then
[ ] no
