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M0YNG

@M0YNG@mastodon.radio

A radio amateur in Gloucester UK 🇬🇧

#Linux user (mostly #debian)
#Accessibility consultant at work
mastodon.radio #instanceAdmin

#HamsOverIP 200147
#HamshackHotline 24016

He/his/him/they/them/theirs
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are Human rights 🏳️‍🌈

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kc3yqi, to random
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This weekend is packed full of radio.

Saturday morning I am taking my general.
Sunday morning is supporting a local 10k race. Sunday afternoon is the Rockville Science Fair.

I have Friday off and if the weather cooperates, I'll do a POTA activation. 🤞

M0YNG,
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@tony @kc3yqi why in the ever loving 🦆 are they using proprietary spyware for this anyway?
Jitsi exists and can be self hosted and works pretty damn well.
They'd probably pay less for hosted jitsi than a zoom licence, and I'd they're not paying for zoom it's even worse!

grumble grumble
I'll ride my high horse into the sunset now

libreoffice, to foss
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Look! A feature you may not know about 😉 When exporting a the "Hybrid PDF" option embeds the original file. Then anyone with a PDF reader can view the file – and LibreOffice users can edit it too: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Writer/PDF_Hybrid#What_is_a_hybrid_PDF_file?

M0YNG,
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@libreoffice why is "tagged PDF" not enabled by default?
It's pretty much the most common accessibility issue with PDFs (not being tagged, that's the issue)

M0YNG, to random
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According to https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk

9 of the 14 UK regions have a carbon intensity per kWh of generation of less than 10gCO2eq!

All of them are less than 45g, and four are 0 or 1!

The UK average isn't forecast to go above 90g in the next 48 hours (the forecast length)

M0YNG, to random
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As the weather gets nicer I'm thinking about getting out on the again.
I'd like to log my paddles, in the past I used my banglejs to record GPS position but it's not working anymore.
There are many cheap GPS trackers available but they all seem to use a sim card to report location on demand, where I want to log to SD or something and get the data out later.
Has anyone got any suggestions?

APRS will be a future project!

M0YNG,
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@revk @edavies @mw1cgg ah, yes, looks ideal. Could 3d print a case to give some splash protection...

mekkaokereke, to random
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People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

M0YNG,
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@mekkaokereke I get weird looks and/or told I'm being offensive when I say that as a native UK English speaker I love hearing people speak English who don't have it as their native language or (like you!) Do have English as their native language but with a whole different culture.

But I do, it's awesome to hear someone speak something completely perfectly but also completely differently.

revk, (edited ) to random
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My usual watch died, so wearing this now.

I’m actually finding it pretty easy to read.
Just have to remember it is not waterproof.

M0YNG,
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@revk nice! I also recently got a watchy and like having a 24 hour analogue watch

M0YNG, to random
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It's a long standing expectation that we don't talk politics or religion "on the air" in amateur radio.

But, we're not "on the air" when we use mastodon.radio.

And we have content warnings which are well established on the fediverse.

I'm proposing we update the rules of mastodon.radio to clarify that:
Political, religious, and similar discussions are allowed but must be behind a content warning, e.g. "UK politics" or "religion Christian".

M0YNG,
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@arnie_dxer fair question, I think it's probably a great example of an edge case!
I'd like to think people will use their judgement and tend towards using a CW if unsure. I like to think of them more like an email subject line, and your feed of interesting reception reports could work very well in this way.
E.g.
"SWL on HF: Vatican City"
"Online TV streaming: North Korea"

What do you think?

M0YNG,
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@arnie_dxer true, although you do already use hashtags!

I think if you're just reporting that a certain transmission exists you're OK without a CW.
But if you're sharing the content, and it's political or religious that would be a good toot to CW.

M0YNG, to random
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I'm seeing quite a few requests for various non-existent paths on my website, things like /sftp-config.json and /bak/sql.sql

I'd like to mess with these and slow them down, anyone have tips on easy ways to do that on nginx?

M0YNG,
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@k5dru @dl2jml yeah, I'm thinking something that just hangs the response would slow things down just as effectively without burning through data transfer.

philpem, to random
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When not even your quality control stickers are good enough to pass QC

M0YNG,
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@philpem maybe they go on the inside of the glass?

M0YNG, to random
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What happens to your web server when you post a link on mastodon is that every instance goes off to fetch a preview (pleroma) does this too.

M0YNG, to homeassistant
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Over a month ago I promised a blog on my Heat Pump and Solar Panels and Battery Storage.

I've finally hit "publish" (well, actually "rsync" but whatever)

It may, or may not, answer any/all questions you have about this. If not, maybe ask me here and I'll try to reply and forget to include that in a future update.

https://m0yng.uk/2024/03/Solar-Panels-and-Battery-and-Heat-Pump-Info-Dump/

gemini://m0yng.uk/2024/03/Solar-Panels-and-Battery-and-Heat-Pump-Info-Dump/

inquiline, to disability
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I am particularly irritated at a couple bigger-account "urbanists"/transpo people for not using alt text.

In addition to disregarding needs of disabled people here, this tells us that you aren't willing to listen to/learn the norms & values of the community you're in; & that you do not consider routinely regarding disabled people's needs as your responsibility.

Both of which are very shitty given the line of work you're in.

#urbanism #Transportation #Infrastructure #Disability

M0YNG,
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@inquiline one of them blocked me for suggesting a way they could improve an image to make it more accessible.

RickiTarr, to random
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Trans people are "forever patients"?

So is literally everyone!

Fuck off.

M0YNG,
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@RickiTarr inhaler for my asthma, two puffs twice a day (total four)
Before covid I only needed an inhaler on extremely rare occasions to relieve. This one is combined relieve and prevent.

ned, to random
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J.K. Rowling also writes under a pen name of "Robert Galbraith", publishing over half a dozen titles under that name, most of which have TV adaptations.

Robert Galbraith Heath was the American Psychiatrist who pioneered Gay Conversion Therapy to convert homosexuals through electro-shock therapy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath

M0YNG,
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@ned it's weird that a woman who so hates trans people exclusively publishes under male names.

eniko, to random
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my games are still on sale on itch and steam for the next 3 days. we're struggling to reach the end of kitsune tails development (a mario-like platformer with a very gay story) without running out of money, so any support would be greatly appreciated

itch.io: https://eniko.itch.io/
steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/

yuzu kitsune tails showing off her normal, little fox, snow fox, and earth forms

M0YNG,
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@eniko I might wait until after the sale. Unless that doesn't actually get you more money due to charges from steam or something?

M0YNG, to random
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I'm not convinced forecast.solar is giving me particularly helpful data for my

M0YNG, to random
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In all seriousness, what would be required to start a national (UK) amateur radio society like rsgb?

Not to complete directly with them, but to offer an alternative group that aligns explicitly and intentionally with an inclusive ethos?

And if it surpassed their membership numbers...

M0YNG,
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Heck, even if it just got a Significant Number that might cause a change in rsgb...

M0YNG,
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@G0TRT something to put the wind up rsgb, maybe even replace it.

liaizon, to random
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is there any internet radio apps (.pls, .m3u) with any fediverse integration. Funkwhale, Owncast, Peertube and Castopod do not have any.

M0YNG,
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@liaizon it's a nice idea, but we're talking about different sorts of radio.
Amateur radio is very different to music radio
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio

Edent, to android
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Can anyone recommend a key manager for ?

I was using OpenKeyChain - but is has been abandoned https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain

(Looking for personal recommendations - not search results. Thanks.)

M0YNG,
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@Edent I'm using OpenKeyChain, does it need to be actively developed? If it works it works, right?
However I can see the desire to move before it beaks or there is a security issue that doesn't get fixed...

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