Life as kTBR ...

@liberalpuppy @DontCAmyAZ_ Do you think TX will take them… they would be port close…

@DontCAmyAZ_ Well your problem is that you’re way too far from a port.

California shuts down refineries. Arizona families pay more at the pump. That is what happens when our state relies on California for about one-third of its gasoline supply. Energy dependence is expensive. Arizona needs independence, not more California control. #DontCAmyAZ

@Bking78120265 @RanaePape Funny thing… as a disadvantaged high school student heard the stories of vacations at Jackson Hole and San Diego… ended up with both as part of normal life… with a career overlooking SD bay and Pacific… Wind Rivers Mtns are my favorites…

@RanaePape Just drive back to Grand Targhee, Wyoming take the lift up and start hiking for the best vistas in the good ole USA from a chairlift.

Jackson Hole What a stupid place. ‘I want to go to Jackson Hole to relax and be with nature’ 🙄 Everyone has to have all their amenities and all the shopping of over priced cowboy ‘wanna be’ hats and boots. This isn’t Wyoming. Said what I said. If you wanna snark at me I’ll block you…. Because this isn’t a real place.

@ruffriden @RanaePape 40 years ago went into Safeway and was amazed by the aisle of mustard/capers/cocktail olives… my first experience with growlers… dad retired, year round, in Cora… we skied Grand Targhee… Wind River Mtns backpacking… other than airport… Jackson an afterthought…

@RanaePape Super rich people are stupid and ruin everything. Jackson hole should be a dusty cowboy town and those rich dip shits have turned into a resort town with cowboy hats. There’s a Wholefoods there for gods sake.

@Rev_J_A @qkl2058 yeah… load Stellarium on your phone and watch the Starlink sats… the Starlink antenna is a phased array… needed to track that constellation…

@qkl2058 C'est faux. Une parabole est une antenne très directrice elle ne capte que ce vers Quoi elle est orientée. Tout ça c'est du bullshit.

16岁小孩做了个"星链原型"，赚了30万美元 他能接收卫星信号，而且这玩意儿在哪儿都能用。 SpaceX想关掉他？人家早有准备。 实现方法说穿了其实不复杂，他全靠Claude就搞定了： 先说明一下，他不是在偷星链的网。 他用的，是SpaceX卫星往外发的无线电"信标"，相当于拿这个信号当免费定位系统，在GPS失灵的地方照样能定位置。 每颗星链卫星都在不停往外发信标信号。 你只需要一个小天线锅，再加一个35美元的无线电接收设备，就能接收这些信号。然后通过三颗卫星的三角定位，算出你在地球上任意地方的坐标，就算GPS被干扰或者完全屏蔽了也不怕。 这个思路，美国陆军也在测试。 这小孩把它做成了便携版，卖给了徒步的、跑船的，还有应急队。 具体怎么搞？很简单，分六步走。 第一步：买硬件 RTL-SDR Blog v4 USB接收器，35美元 小号Ku波段抛物面天线，大概50美元 Ku波段LNB下变频器，20美元 树莓派5，8G内存版 偏置T适配器 5000毫安USB电池 全部加起来，大概180美元出头。 第二步：给树莓派装系统 把树莓派系统镜像烧录进SD卡，开机就行。 第三步：装SDR工具 打开终端，敲两行命令： sudo apt update sudo apt install rtl-sdr gnuradio python3-numpy 第四步：接线 LNB装在天线锅的焦点位置，LNB连偏置T，偏置T连SDR，SDR通过USB连树莓派。 第五步：让Claude写程序 打开Claude Code，把下面这段话扔进去： "帮我写个Python程序，用RTL-SDR抓星链卫星的信标信号，用来定位。硬件是RTL-SDR Blog v4加Ku波段LNB加抛物面天线。 要求：扫描Ku波段下行频率抓星链信标，用celestrak网上公开的TLE轨道数据识别每颗卫星，靠至少三颗卫星的多普勒频移算位置，把经纬度和精度显示在小OLED屏上。用pyrtlsdr、skyfield、numpy这几个库，记得加注释方便我调参数。" 第六步：跑程序 树莓派会自动锁定头顶的卫星，然后显示你的坐标，精度大概10到30米。 不用GPS，不用手机信号，也不用联网。 最后，这小孩3D打印了个外壳，打了个牌子叫"徒步水手GPS备份"，一台卖899美元，卖出去350台。 一台成本180，利润719。 客户里有野火应急队、丛林飞行员、深山滑雪的、开游艇的。 SpaceX会不会告他？不会。接收公开广播的信标信号是合法的，小孩的律师提前就确认过这一点。

@KingoCat22 @codevsdev Cardinal 3” Slant D Binder, FORTRAN IV manual for the CDC 6400, and RF design equations that had my interests… did I forget the punch card decks…

@codevsdev The ancestors had an ancient method. When someone came up with new ideas they could use it to record information so other people could learn from it later, even after they themselves had died. I remember the old ones talking about it when I was small, they called it “book”.

how did people even learn to code when there was no docs, no YouTube... nothing?

@codevsdev btdt… imput… haha

A bug can take 5 hours to find and 5 seconds to fix.

@theliamnissan Pete's doing the revenge thing because Mark Twain wrote that the Mormons had a king first...

And then Pete Hegseth came for the Mormons, and I didn't care because the Mormons voted for this exact shit

@ewema @RaineyOneDark @ScottPresler But somehow The Simpsons always comes through... IYKYK...

@ewema @RaineyOneDark @ScottPresler Who would believe, except here on X, a post with that profile picture… Arizonians, especially Phoenicians, are responsible the increase in Phoenix’s minimum nighttime temperatures… But, hey, we need to defund the record keepers … facts be damned… weather.gov/psr/ExtremeTem…

How is it 94 degrees at night in Phoenix? I’m still going for a hike while I’m in Arizona.

@TaylorTary @LakotaMan1 What’s even better, they survive off the teat of CA’s Federal taxes… seems CA must be doing something right to be the World’s 4th largest economy… call or fold…

@LakotaMan1 it's fucking hilarious......... those god damn idiot Rapeublicunts are throwing a titty fit over election results in blue state....... the BIGGEST blue state in the Union!...... Like WTAF????

Californian here. You stupid MAGA dipshits. Blue represents POPULATION DENSITY. The red represents VIRTUAL NOTHINGNESS. Hope this helps you dumb fucks out.

🚨 The House just passed the Ukraine Support Act by a vote of 226-195 to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia.

Alabama with deserts (Arizona) is waiting with open arms... Just another taker State... AZ took $33B more... CA gave $276B more... youtube.com/watch?v=6mshV9…

@HurtsNobody Let them cry and moan ... a state inhabited by ostriches ... or Alabama with deserts... youtube.com/watch?v=6mshV9…

@knotbeerdan @DontCAmyAZ_ @katiehobbs Our elections are secure. Nobody has ever proved any fraud that changed the outcome of any race in any state not only Arizona. Stop with the election fraud lies already.

@Dogavich1 @cqcqcqdx

@Dogavich1 @cqcqcqdx the first thing I looked for…. I had one where the end was attached to disk… feed point attached a certain distance up the spiral…

A hell of a Helical

@RetroTechorDie I remember grownup in the 60’s where we were taught the story… maybe because the nun’s order was the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill…

My hometown

@ElsaSofia__AI And if you have ever watched @ScammerPayback" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ScammerPayback if the scammers get into your computer, your hard drive is worthless to you... treat it as radioactive... hope everyone here performs regular backups...

@ElsaSofia__AI OG... Security Office had a degausser where the door was like something on a pressure cooker... load the drive... secure the door... charge the internal capacitor... push the button... hear the slam... University surplus site had Gaylord bins full of shredded drives...

I sold an old laptop online before moving apartments a few years back. I wiped it, reset it, and shipped it off thinking everything personal was gone for good. As far as I was concerned, that chapter was closed . Three days later, I got an email from the buyer with the subject line: “I think you should see this.” At first, I assumed it was a scam. He attached a photo of a document he had found while running data recovery software on the laptop. 1/

@MichaelGrahamSC Feel the same way about expensive outdoor gas grills...

Oven won't properly ignite, keeps cutting out, it's only eight years old. Repair technician comes out and diagnosed the problem in minutes. It's a small, inexpensive part that can be easily swapped out. Repair guy looks up ordering the part. Samsung no longer makes the part, nor does any third party. So I have to buy a brand new stove. VAFFANCULO!!!

@GreenAcreRabbit @EP4M22 @Monica55dzrh Don't know where you live, the issue of a lifetime commitment to financially support half of the fence repair and maintence is now yours... along with the obligation of payment for half that fence...

@GreenAcreRabbit @EP4M22 @Monica55dzrh Before I'd post anything about borderwalls/fences, I'd do a little research... most laws are based in English Common Law... and if they accessed your property with out your permission... an issue of Trespass should be raised... along with emotional distress...

I honestly feel sick every time I pull into my driveway now. My neighbor suddenly installed this huge metal fence directly on our property line and I had absolutely NO warning it was happening. One day everything felt open and normal… the next day it looked like the entrance to a warehouse yard. I cannot explain how drastically it changed the feel of my home. What used to feel welcoming and open now feels cramped, cold, and boxed in. Every time I drive up, it’s like staring at a giant steel wall. And the part that really bothers me? Nobody said a word to me beforehand. No conversation. No heads up. No “hey, just letting you know.” Nothing. I understand people can do what they want on their property, but when you put up something THAT massive directly affecting your neighbor’s space, wouldn’t basic courtesy tell you to at least talk to them first? Maybe I’m overreacting, but it genuinely feels like my property changed overnight and I had zero say in it. What would you honestly do in this situation?