I just tried posting the series of parts to my /mag, they showed up in reverse order in the microblog? WTF?
Please, if there is some advantage to this microblog thing, I'd love to know what is, and also how to make a post in my own magazine that does not feature a link.
'Threads/Microblog/People/Magazines' is where simplicity goes sideways in this webapp. It is not obvious what those things are; the couple of guides I've found don't discuss this focal point of confusion.
Interesting but not really helpful. I found something in a recent FAQ that says I should add an article instead of a post, but the option to add an article is not on the menu on my instance, as it is in their screenie
Also I'm a mastodon user, and my account there is the focus of my microblogging activity. The user there follows this account, so my posts here, show up there. The short story is, the microblog here is essentially a right pain in my ass.
There's so many great makers on there, but I think my deck could be a contender.
It's a neet form factor, and packed with enough gizmos to really cause some havoc in the right/wrong hands.
@js8users
1st attempt to get linux laptop un-zip (not really an "install") of js8spotter to connect to the JS8Call running on McLinux box experienced a few bumps.
1: Although on McLinux, python3 was able to run the app without doing anything about dependencies, the laptop didn't have the "request" module.
python3 -m pip install request
...cleared that hurdle.
2: Then I set the IP of McLinux in the js8spotter settings of laptop. Restart. Still no.
Ok JS8Spotter is up and running, and when configured with the TCP parameters, says that TCP is active, and I can see some traffic on the waterfall, if that's what the two red rectangles are.
That said, no traffic is being analyzed in the background, that I can tell.
It could be said that we aren't really doing much with this right now, but exchanging heartbeats. That may be true, but in so doing, so many of us together are forming a network that is aware of it's health, in a manner of speaking.
While it may not have a capacity to heal itself, as such, proper analysis of the data gathered from the heartbeat exchange might yield such valuable information as which station(s) is/are currently the best to pass a message through, and which stations are presently best for holding a message for delivery.
The former would be characterized through analysis of current routes; one would filter for the smallest collection of that set of 'hearing/heard' stations that connect source and destination for such a message. Additionally, age information about the heartbeats can be leveraged to make informed decisions about the present reliability of a route or a station's probable status.
The latter would look at more historical data to find stations where the message recipient is most often heard.
Combined in real time, these two approaches to delivery could conceivably form a reliable station delivery mechanism in a situation where condx are highly dynamic and highly variable.
For those of us who grew up thinking that UNIX, in some (elusive) form, was the Holy Grail of operating systems, NextSTEP was where we wanted to live, work, and play, as soon as we knew about it.
In a small way, the internet was 'late' for me - most of these kinds of development weren't happening on the internet yet. This, in particular, was a Steve Jobs project, and was spoken of only in whispers and sometimes in a magazine interview. By the time I really knew anything about the technology, it was pretty much reliquary. This applied pretty much to all of the Unix world.
Like all the rest of it, Linux was a bit late getting to me as well, in that sense that I had just began to steel myself to the realization that I had missed the heyday of open architecture, multiuser operating systems, and would be saddled with some kind of M$ Windows for the rest of my life.
Of course, that's all highly subjective, and truth be told, I was just about as ready for Linux at that point as Linux was for me, and a million other screwball wingnuts like me -- our ship, as it were, had just landed, and was recruiting crew.
There are a few things from back then that were worth retaining from the museum depository. Some of those that have perhaps been easiest to keep in play and updated are window managers. Openlook is an oldie but a goodie, and modernized (OpenBox WM), it is more powerful than ever, and running with critical efficiency on the Raspberry Pi, where it makes it possible to use a Pi4x8GB like one might have used a workstation of yesteryear.
Now NextSTEP has been shown the love, and here it is. It should run on the Raspberry Pi as well, and given that the project has a Debian target, I'm willing to bet it will run just fine.
What's the oldest #Linux distro you've used? What's your story using it?
For me, it was Red Hat Linux 6 in 1999. I purchased it from the software aisle for $40 at Stokes Brothers in Logan, Utah when my wife was going to school.
I booted off the live CD and played around with it a bit. Seeing the installation icon on the desktop, I thought it would install like other software onto my Windows 98 PC.
Of course, it wiped the boot loader and the Windows OS. I learned the value of backups that day.
I had it loaded up on an IBM PS/2 by a guy at the NOC for Texas A&M U at Corpus Christi while the XYL was having a natal checkup on the base (she was in the Coast Guard at the time).
There wasn't room on the disk for most of the distro; I told the guy 'just make it boot and put whatever you can on it'
LOL he didn't say it, but it was in his eyes that he thought I was an idiot. Even so, I learned so much from that damned thing.
I don't know if there was any other distros around at the time, I guess this was around 1994-1995, we hadn't been married a year yet.
On this #hawaiianshirt Friday, I'd like to thank all the #parksontheair#pota volunteers, all at @POTAspots, all hunters and others who helped me make my 100th activation from K-7956 Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve today. Even had a little help from a teenager doe. #amateurradio#hamradio is such a great community