Captain Aggravated

I have a Kenmore 80 Series washer and dryer set. There’s a knob on the control panels to turn the buzzer off. It runs until it’s finished. There is no lid lock, the washer is top-loading. The drum brake is a bit loud these days, should probably look into that. And it’s probably about time to clean out the dryer’s vent, the dull men’s club will enjoy that.

The reason I don’t use Gnome is “We don’t want that” Okay, and just who the fuck is ‘we?’

It does depend on what band you transmit on. If you transmitted a two second burst, once, on 23cm, and never did it again? You’re almost certainly going to get off scot free. Try that on the HF bands, or even on 2 meters where a lot of people are listening, transmit for longer and do it regularly? We WILL find you.

Encryption does not hide the presence of a message. Transmitting with a radio is literally the act of shining a light into the sky. That light is redder than the reddest infrared so we can’t see it, but it’s light nonetheless. We transmit meaning using that light by blinking it on and off, or varying either its brightness or color in ways that mean something to each other. Encrypting just means the scheme you use to vary the brightness or color doesn’t mean anything to the general public, only the person you’re trying to talk to. Everyone else sees meaningless noise. But, they still see it.

You can tell which direction a radio signal is coming from, using a directional antenna like a yagi, you literally sweep the antenna around and listen for where the signal is strongest. It’ll literally point to the transmitter. Do this from at least two locations and you can draw a line on a map that crosses pretty close to where the signal is coming from. Hams do this for fun, it’s called fox hunting.

On a related note, numbers stations do exactly this. If you listen to the HF bands, you may hear voices reading strings of numbers or letters in some foreign language. At least one of these has been confirmed to be a one-way communication system for governments to talk to their spies in the field. The messages are encrypted with a one-time pad system which is not breakable unless you have the one-time pad, the message which might sound like “three, three, seven, three, nine. Three, three, seven, three, nine. Eight, four, six, three, two. Eight, four, six, three, two.” is meaningless to most, but it’s trivial to detect where it comes from.

Look up the account of the Yosemite Sam station, some hams started hearing the voice of Looney Tunes character Yosemite Sam saying “Varmint! I’ma gonna bloooow ya ta smithereenies!” from the cartoon Bunker Hill Bunny, followed by a digital data burst. This would happen on several frequencies at regular times. So they tracked it down, ended up at an R&D facility with a bunch of antenna masts out back and were quickly met by employees telling them to stop taking pictures.

Even if you aren’t bothering anyone, hams will foxhunt you because it’s a fun mystery to solve. If you are bothering anyone, hams will foxhunt you to turn you over to the FCCs punishment division.

I don’t know if it’s illegal, but Meshtastic takes place outside the amateur radio bands (using LoRa IIRC) and thus isn’t bound by amateur radio licensing requirements, so the law prohibiting encryption on the ham bands doesn’t apply. Some other law might.

I’m not sure there is a “representative of the whole” here; I think the Youtube algorithm is modal.

I think it’s an evolution of the old spam bots, like if you had an email address that in any way indicated you were male you’d get “v1agra” and “c1alis” ads nonstop, I’m sure you’d get makeup and breast enlargement spam or some shit in a woman’s inbox, whatever they can make you feel insecure enough to buy.

I’m on sh.itjust.works. Which is actually run like a democracy, funnily enough.

According to a post made in our Main Community, sh.itjust.works is the fifth largest Lemmy instance by total posts, after lemmy.world, hexbear.net, www.hexbear.net, and lemmygrad.ml. So figuring Hexbear got duplicated, and anyway hexbear and lemmygrad are commonly defederated with because tankies, that puts sh.itjust.works at #2 on this side of the Silicon Curtain.

It shows lemmy.world at 390k total posts, with sh.itjust.works at 65k. Sh.itjust.works has very, very few of THE communities people use. !Games[email protected] is the biggest one by subscriber count.

So sh.itjust.works is a popular place to access other instances from, and I think others like lemm.ee and lemmy.ca are in the same boat.

“Join this instance, they’re not as radical left as lemmy.whatever” misses the point. Who cares which door of the building you walked in through when everyone congregates in the same room anyway?

My watch history would peg me as NOT a Republican. Youtube’s short feed will serve me

• excerpt from youtuber’s longer video
• tiktok repost from like, the truck astrology guy or “rate yer hack, here we go” guy, etc
• Artificial voice reading something scraped from Reddit with Sewer Jump or Minecraft playing in the background
• Chris Boden
• Clip from The West Wing
• Clip from Top Gear or Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm
• “And that’s why the Bible tells us that Jesus wants you to hate filthy fucking liberals.”

“Do not recommend channel.” “The downvote button doesn’t even seem to be a button anymore but I clicked it anyway.” “Report video for misinformation and/or supporting terrorism.” But the algorithm keeps churning it up.

What is a distro but a collection of software?

I further wonder how that occurred.

I wonder how that occurred.

Windows RT. What a pile.

Ironically it’s probably Suckless.

Now do you mean the actual original, or do you mean Wolfenstein 3D?

Been playing a game called Buckshot Roulette, came out in 2023. You play Russian Roulette. With a pump action shotgun.

I still prefer the email analogy with explaining how it works. The WoW analogy is for the people who say “That’s too complicated for the unwashed masses to understand.” People have been signing up for World of Warcraft going on three decades now, I think they’ll figure out lemmy.world vs sh.itjust.works.

I never played WoW or anything like that, but aren’t there several WoW servers and you have to decide which one to be on when you start the game? People managed that.

Did that ever…work?

In the book The Martian, the computers built into the rovers apparently run Linux, or at least some *Nix. At one point they have Watney run hexedit on /usr/lib/habcomm.so and change a number of bytes to hack it to talk to Pathfinder.

I furnitured!

I built this planter box, along with one three times as long as this one, out of cedar

This little table for my porch out of some lovely local white oak. It’s a humble little thing but I’m rather proud of it because it’s the first project I made with genuine mortise and tenon joints, some chopped by hand with a chisel.

A plant stand, also out of white oak. This one has slanted and tapered legs, and Avril Lavigne wrote a song about it. Why DID I have to make things so complicated?

And two bookcases from birch plywood and white pine. I was particularly careful planning this one, and managed to get the carcass and shelves of each bookcase out of a single sheet of 3/4" plywood, though it does mean the grain direction on the fixed bottom shelf doesn’t make sense.