FullMetalElmer🤘

@commsonawire Snazzy

The new mobile command.

@KiloMike9Golf Only on my work machines. Somewhere around here i still have a laptop with bpytop installed from one of your tutorials.

Yay, windows updates! its been going for like 20 minutes plus... must be a big download.

Acoustic Drone Detection On the Cheap with ESP32 ift.tt/ZoL5Cx1

This account is for radio and tech, but sometimes some policy has to be discussed. The tech that I use is chosen *because* I want to stay off the main road. Out of the crowd.

Funny. I took my first ever stab at college in 1989. After a long and pretty lucrative career I went back and graduated in 2022. Whatever my performance rates, you know it was genuine.

If enough people choose the less-traveled road, and anything close to a free market still exists, you can get the elites out of your business. Of all the things I've done to protect my privacy, GrapheneOS was the easiest, I think.

@ec7zt Just about the coolest looking rig in existence.

CT9/DJ2CW

My father the patent lawyer worked during a time when it was believed by many that the American edge would be lost forever to Japan etc. They were so well organized! I asked him if he feared this himself, based on his work in international cases. He said he didn't. Not for the time being. Our freedom of thought and thus our creativity was unrivaled, he said. It would see us through. Let it continue to be so.

Let me explain exactly why your phone seems to read your thoughts, because the real answer is more invasive than telepathy. Every time you open a website or app, a real-time bidding auction fires in under 100 milliseconds. Your GPS coordinates, browsing history, device fingerprint, age, gender, income bracket, and hundreds of inferred interest categories get packaged into a “bid request” and broadcast to hundreds of companies simultaneously. One company wins the ad slot. All of them keep the data. This happens thousands of times per day per person. A 2018 New York Times investigation found 75 companies pulling precise location data from apps, with some users tracked up to 14,000 times in 24 hours. In 2012, a Target statistician identified 25 products that, purchased in combination, could predict a customer was pregnant and estimate her due date. A teenager’s father discovered she was pregnant because Target sent baby coupons to the house before she told anyone. That was one retailer. Store receipts only. Fourteen years ago. Now scale that. Your phone pings GPS while you sleep. Data brokers link your phone, laptop, and tablet through probabilistic matching of IP addresses, WiFi networks, and behavioral patterns without you ever logging in. The FTC caught two brokers in 2024 categorizing people by visits to reproductive health clinics, political protests, and religious services, then selling those profiles to law enforcement. The algorithm doesn’t hear your thoughts. It compares your behavioral fingerprint against millions of similar profiles and predicts your next interest before you’re consciously aware of it. It makes hundreds of predictions per day. You ignore the misses. The five hits feel like telepathy. You paid for the phone. You pay for the data plan. You generate the signal. And every time a page loads, your identity gets auctioned to the highest bidder before the content even renders. They called it “personalized advertising” because “real-time mass surveillance funded by the people being surveilled” doesn’t fit on a consent banner.

@Kc3Snr Man, if it hurts it hurts. I'm no expert, but I find paddles more appealing anyway.

Excuses are excuse but the carpel tunnel makes learning on the J38 Miserable and distracting so I took the plunge tonight.. Wish me luck!

@Kc3Snr Been there. Hopefully you're all square now.

Well.. Sadly to say. Cash in hand and the LesPaul has found a new partner. 😪 If it wasn't for catching up on the taxes.. Never would have happen. C'est la vie. Just had to catch up with someone.. Woofed down dinner and it's been a long stressful day. Night all Be safe, Be well

@Intel_Dork We had a local dentist do 5(!!) Between me and my wife over a couple of years. 3 required intervention by somebody else and two took us to the oral surgeon. I think they go to sales seminars like time share salesmen.

@SignalSteveo Sometimes they work and you don't have to get a root canal. This time it didn't work. 😔

I wouldn't wish this pain on my worst enemy 😭

@Intel_Dork Crowns are de debbil

Had a dead nerve under a crown filled with infection that was causing all the pain I've been dealing with. So glad to have gotten that figured out. 😮‍💨

On a Graphene phone with X installed before the nonsense, it still works. On a newer Graphene tablet, I use a web app, which probably preserves privacy a bit better. Not as many useful settings. I don't know what will happen if the phone app logs me out. I don't use any other social media apps.

I don't care a bit about the theater kids getting together to congratulate each other for crying on cue. I don't care about the former Fox common tater with two first names. You can mute words on here and it is GLORIOUS.

@K5PO @WxZachary Bonkers

@SignalSteveo @WxZachary Just started to snow a bit in Bella Vista. It was like 65° this morning…

Pray for people who don’t pay attention to the weather in Arkansas… They are going to wake up in a completely different world tomorrow morning. This feels illegal, honestly. It was so warm this morning! 😭

Our local weather net started informal and became less formal. OM's talking Razorback baseball now 🤣 We are on the western edge of the watch area. Participants from Oark south to Clarksville.

@W6OBB "Rough start" tells me you were eventually successful, so that's good. I wonder if the vehicle had an inverter or another added piece of noisy equipment or if it was the vehicle itself. What kind of vehicle?

Had a rough start. First, had some SWR issues. Then, all the sudden, an S7-S9 noise level at a park that's always RF quite. This lasted a couple hours, until the vehicle parked closest to my picnic table left. As he drove off, the noise slowly faded and the completely vanished.