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"Six ports a-scanning" "Seven scripts a-running" "Eight hackers typing" "Nine kernels crashing" "Ten zero-days exploiting" "...and a root shell in a full tree!" Happy 10 days of Halloween 👻🎃🧟‍♀️😱

Halloween party planning in progress! "On the first day of Halloween, the hackers gave to me... an invite in binary" "Two glowing screens" "Three network ghosts" "Four packet sniffs" "Five secure keys!"

Projects Meetup tomorrow - get your link off the mailing list or workspace. We talk about what we've done, what we have planned, what we need, and if there's any roadblocks. All meeting recordings and presentations are on our YouTube. @OpenResearchInstituteInc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@OpenResearchI…

Dear X Algorithm, Consider this an open-source issue. Tag every developer, maintainer, coder, and tech enthusiast as a contributor.

@NathanGDQuest Even when there is a private "foundation" in your field of work, they do tend to coddle, platform, and placate commercially-minded efforts. Altruism is a significant challenge for many. The tendency to adopt zero sum thinking is very hard to resist without education & practice.

A sad reality of Free Software is that the most well-funded companies that greatly benefit from the technologies will actually rarely contribute or give back, even when they request changes. For a project like Godot, the vast majority of the funding and contributions ultimately come from indie game developers, Free Software organizations or enthusiasts, and companies built by long time contributors to the project. You can scour big industry events actively trying to get sponsorships. Even if there are companies with really large revenue using Godot that have much to gain from this, it just doesn't work like that. And Godot is lucky to be really up there among the Free Software projects that receive some funding or sponsored developer time from multinationals - generally to better support their own platforms or products, e.g. integrating C# for Microsoft, improving mobile rendering performance for Google...

Lots more detail in their paper: satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlooku…

Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer. Then security "researchers" and corporate employees came along repeatedly insisted "critical" security issues were fixed immediately waving their CVEs. This was hugely demotivating to the fun and enjoyment of reverse engineering.

An interesting article in the Nov 2025 issue of "IEEE Microwave Magazine" walks through the design of a portable 2.4 GHz CW radar built entirely from COTS parts and an Arduino Nano. Simple and educational; great for students and hobbyists.

Opulent Voice sent over the air with real Barker code synchronization words and basic framing is working great in the PLUTO SDR implementation. #opensource #amateurradio This is the uplink for our #GEO and #HEO space projects.

We are having a H4lloween p4rty in collaboration with @DCG858 Smart Cities Field Trip so bring your SDR, SAO prototype, Remote Lab tours, food, fun and more! If you are in San Diego, CA, USA and on our mailing list, then check your inbox for more information.

Thank you to all our volunteers that attended @PacificonOrg this past weekend. @abraxas3d gave the MDARC meeting presentation on Friday night, everyone attended a wide variety of events and talks, and ORI made many new contacts and welcomed some new volunteers.

@abraxas3d will be giving a talk about #AI in #AmateurRadio at #Pacificon this weekend, and hopes to see some of you there. pacificon.org/events/mdarc-o…

Talking about OTFS and delay doppler communications for the Earth-Venus-Earth link attempt in October 2026 today at our weekly projects meetup. Along with #OpulentVoice prototyping for #FutureGEO. And, progress with @opencpi downlink. Thank you to those who support our work!

Tomorrow's ORI Projects Meetup agenda includes: * Roundtable reports * EVE2026 prototypes and collaboration progress * Opulent Voice design with framer place and route challenges * FutureGEO update (report and prototypes) * Office Hours following

The Dwingeloo @radiotelescoop just observed pulsar B0329+54.

Weichenstellung für den nächsten geostationären #futureGEO Amateurfunk-Satelliten #AMSAT amsat-dl.org/rueckblick-fut…

The Dwingeloo @radiotelescoop just observed the satellite RSP-03 as a @SatNOGS ground station (while tracking the satellite). View the results at network.satnogs.org/observations/1….

The rest of 2025 is documenting lessons learned from QO-100, and making sure that the @esa has input from stakeholders. 2026 is demonstrating prototypes. Linear transponders to advanced digital regenerative payloads are under consideration.

We had two volunteer participants and our message about open source digital radio and modern amateur-focused solutions came through loud and clear. There's a clear plan forward from here.

The ##FutureGEO workshop for #AmateurRadio in Space happened in Bochum, Germany on 19 September 2025. This workshop was held immediately before the @amsatdl symposium. This was an important step forward for the amateur radio satellite service.