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@red@woof.tech

Mixed adventures of a little Røde fox. Mostly fennec, sometimes Arctic. Sometimes little, always a disaster.
Confusingly named, confusingly screechy. Disappointing attention span. hardbass enthusiast. Scotiacon staff.
Professional EE, works with satellites, mid 30s. You might know me by a different name.

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tj, to random
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Now I have a 8 second build/test kernel debug cycle having to do a 3 minute clean build is really jarring

red,
@red@woof.tech avatar

@tj 8 seconds for freebsd kernel? Bloody nora

Ninji, to random
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most of the UK has forgotten about the pandemic, so I want to recognise one business that’s committed to their principles

in early 2020, Domino’s decided to fight COVID by removing half-and-half pizza from their menu, and almost four years on, they’ve stuck to it

thanks for keeping us safe 💙

red,
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@Ninji this came up in the hacklab on Sunday. We were very upset

red, to random
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Paul was a security guard, hired in by the hotel, who fell in love with our antics at Scotiacon - we were much better than corporate or other boring guests he had to deal with.

In my frontdesk/operations capacity, I spoke to him every day of the event, handled handover and sated his curiosity (and took his suggestions of music).

He was always happy to see us, be in the mix and just became one of the team. We loved Paul. Nothing was ever a challenge, and he was invaluable during the TERF concerns and others this year.

We (the team behind the event) heard his mother had cancer, and then died soon after. He lost his job as a result of taking her to treatment.

We told our community, who also loved him, and we raised enough money for the funeral costs and then some, which was an incredible thing to be a part of.

2 months later in August this year, we got the worst news - Paul had unexpectedly died. Distressing.

Every so often now I think about his approach to our event, the completely alien situation he walked into during his normal paying job and the way he embraced us, year on year with such joy.

I'll miss him, his cheeky grin and his adopted love for a bunch of absolute weirdos in stupid carpets. A lot of our community will miss him to, and have commented as such.

Don't hide what's happening in your head from yourself or others, share your burdens, your joys and remember that your impact on others is always greater than you think it is.

https://x.com/Scotiacon_Info/status/1698021733914046961

jonty, to random
@jonty@chaos.social avatar

PSA: The floating-GPU-datacenter-seasteading-nation-state-in-international-water thing is just an ARG being run by someone selling NFTs

red,
@red@woof.tech avatar

@jonty this feels like an insane online tabletop game my partner would contrive to play for 8 months with friends despite only knowing a tiny bit about some of the words and technologies.

Ninji, to random
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I’m feeling very low energy today, anyone got any good suggestions for how to fix this

(wrong answers only)

red,
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@Ninji drink some wine

Ninji, to random
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nothing could have prepared me for this email subject

red,
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@Ninji ⭐️⭐️🎉 Congratulation you have been won toot of the day award on this day of our lord september 23 27, congratulation 🎊

jonty, to random
@jonty@chaos.social avatar

I have drunk
the cold brew
that was in
the fridge
and which
i should probably
massively
dilute
Forgive me
it was delicious
so strong
and such headache

red,
@red@woof.tech avatar

@jonty tj and I had a phase of this and it was dangerous.

Boyfriend and I drank cold brew and gin for a while, hipster red bull and vodka essentially.

It’s good but it’s no buckfast.

red, to hamradio
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Hello fediverse! For everyone interested in , tune in please!

Today is the first Patch Tuesday™️ at the OARC Packet Radio Repo!

What is the OARCPRR?
It is a collection of packages for Debian and commonly used derivatives, occasionally with some opinionated patches by me.

What OSes do we support?

Currently, we support Debian Testing (amd64), Debian Stable (amd64), Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (amd64), RaspiOS Stable (armv7/armhf && arm64).

What are the current packages?:
The below packages are available to apt install:
QtTermTCP (0.0.0.69 - nice edition)
QtSoundModem (0.0.0.66 - oarc enhanced beta)
LinBPQ (6.0.24.2)
Direwolf (1.7-dev feat il2p)
Uronode (2.15, hibby's twists edition*)

  • Hibby's twists include: addition of MOTD for users connecting in via Net/Rom, removal of all ROSE & FLEXNET menu commands and likely some other stuff I've forgotten.

How do I sign up?
Instructions are here: https://online-amateur-radio-club-m0ouk.github.io/oarc-packages/

Bug reports are welcome to me, but preferably filed as issues at https://github.com/Online-Amateur-Radio-Club-M0OUK/oarc-packages

red,
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@holgerschurig thanks for your opinions - for note, I already actively work on the Debian project by maintaining the bulk of this code and more in Debian, and use testing on my devices by default as I don’t wish to run unstable and I submit bug reports and patches to other parts of the project.

There are some software packages here that will be too complicated in a few ways to submit upstream, or that the author doesn’t want upstreamed but hold utility for users of this project and I wanted to centralise in a way our group could understand. I’ve taken a few shortcuts here and there too that would make ftp-master never speak to me again!

The testing build is actually built against unstable for the moment, so if people want to run that but I’d rather direct users towards testing if they’re unhappy with the age of stable and involve them in bug reports than tell them to run unstable, which has a less comfortable name for those involved in the project. I’m also uncomfortable putting not-fully-Debian people in the path of partial transitions that the testing hold will prevent.

As you can see from my list of distros, I also target stable.

jonty, (edited ) to random
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Dad suggested I should retrain, because I always seem stressed out by my job.

His "really calm" neighbours are air traffic controllers and have I ever considered that as a less stressful career?

red,
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@jonty “design safety systems for oil and wind platforms” they said

“It’ll be fun, rewarding and low stress with no professional obligation to make sure people stay alive” they said.

red,
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@gsuberland @jonty wait wait wait you’re saying I’m not meant to put the AIS, GNSS, RADAR and bridge instrumentation for an FPSO on a common DMZ network using moxa unmanaged switches so that it’s easier to make them all communicate?

red,
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@gsuberland @jonty you’ll be glad to hear that in the last decade I’ve seen huge leaps forward in network design and security in the energy industry.

Fiber to the platform and wind farm was a generational shift big enough for the majors to realise that they weren’t secure by default and that good design starts on paper years before and is included all the way through.

The usual human factors still exist though, and the companies that aren’t keeping up with the best in the field are definitely numerous.

jonty, to random
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I make my own fidget toys. My favourite is this MASSIVE NUT you can spin on your fingers.

If you want one, the files are on thingiverse: https://thingiverse.com/thing:6143237

A giant nut spinning on my thumb

red,
@red@woof.tech avatar

@jonty I keep a barrier gland from Hubbell on my desk to fidget with, I get to deconstruct and reconstruct it allll day long - https://www.hubbell.com/hawke/en/Products/Electrical-Electronic/Cable-Glands/Hazardous-Location/PSG553RAC-Ex-d-Ex-e-Cable-Gland/p/11131310

Ninji, (edited ) to random
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how would you refer to 🍅🐶🚆?

i have an Opinion on this and i'm curious about how many people agree with it

red,
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@Ninji Emojed I

jonty, to random
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Sent an ebay link to a friend with poor impulse control

red,
@red@woof.tech avatar

@jonty I have spent the last 90 minutes looking at hovercraft on eBay. I need to dig out 30 grand 😁

red, to random
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I take my boyfriend to weddings and he insists on being a weirdo.

carrot, to random
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There’s something really enjoyable about old tech making noises that unequivocally mean it’s doing something… dot matrix printers, 56k modems and such

red,
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@carrot I’m currently setting up 9600bd packet data systems using little modems I built over radios so that I can remote control computers at home over a wide are while things make fun crunchy noises to transfer data!

Next step is adding amigas or something into the mix 😁

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