OH: “I thought JT9 and JT65 were like fish in a barrel. FT8 is like fishing in a barrel with dynamite.”— London Hackspace ARC (@m0hsl) January 24, 2018
A jack of many hobbies and a master of none - spending lots of time on amateur/ham radio, running, and technology.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
FT8
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Switch Bot
Switch Bot allows you to retro-fit traditional switches for control via voice or an app. It is a little mechanical bot that will flip the switch for you. It is an interesting solution for all the legacy switches that are out there. It's not nearly as elegant as replacing the switch and being able to manipulate the physical world starts my Skynet red flags waving.
Labels:
Alexa,
Voice Control
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Funny IT Tweets
Ouch.
DevOps: "load-balanced, auto-scaled, multi-region redundant services for maximum availability"— Liam O 🦆 (@liamosaur) November 1, 2017
Also DevOps: "Slack is down, I can't do work"
“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” - Leslie Lamport— Programming Wisdom (@CodeWisdom) December 3, 2017
Why can't we rate this app in the App Store?— Chad Whitaker (@chadwhitaker) November 10, 2017
- None of my friends are on it
- The notifications are annoying
- It's full of spam pic.twitter.com/D1KCkURCCs
shamelessly stolen from reddit... but so appropriate... @nixcraft pic.twitter.com/Y9t9sGcPyx— #Jed (@JedCavins) September 19, 2017
Labels:
Humor,
Technology
DCRainmaker Pro Cycling Ride Along
DCRainmaker is my go to resource for information on running watches and other, similar tech. He got to do a ride along with a pro cycling team in their support car. He talks about some of the radio problems and what looks like an Alinco DR-635 makes an appearance.
Monday, January 22, 2018
Color Printing
I like my monochrome Brother printer. It was cheap. It works well. It has wireless, so I can put it anywhere. I don't have to take out a loan when I buy more toner. It's a laser, so my infrequent printing doesn't result in the discovery of a dried up ink cartridge. This is a current model ($80) of what I bought a few years back.
I don't really need a color printer, but I'd be tempted by the Brother offering at $210. What's totally crazy about this printer is the Amazon Dash integration:
I don't really need a color printer, but I'd be tempted by the Brother offering at $210. What's totally crazy about this printer is the Amazon Dash integration:
"Upon activation, the Amazon Dash Replenishment service measures the toner level and automatically orders toner from Amazon when low. This ensures that you never run out again."
CZ-75B
I'm a fan of the CZ-75 due to reports like this:
So this wraps up the CZ-75B Omega 2k round test. The gun was field-stripped and lubed with Lucas Extreme Duty Gun Oil on November the 6th, and has since fired 2,000 rounds, most of it filthy, steel-cased TulAmmo, with no further cleaning or lubrication. The gun has not once failed to go through the complete cycle of operation. The front sight's tritium vial leaked all its radioactive glow-y stuff, but there have otherwise been no parts breakages.CZ posts.
Alexa Cannibalism
Interesting chart about what things are now being done with Alexa and her friends... I know we stream a lot of music (vs. doing it from our smart phones), so that fits. We stream WUOT (the local NPR station) on our phones. If WUOT added a skill for streaming, that would also move off our phones to the Echo Dot/Anker Eufy Genie. I'm not seeing that Alexa replaces much time with tablets, the TV, or our computers - other than doing some basic voice commands for lights, thermostat, etc.
See the article at Business Insider.
See the article at Business Insider.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Fast!
Uhhh...4.12? https://t.co/5YIP9V40da— Peter Foley (@pedrodit) January 20, 2018
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