Abraxas3d W5NYV

I enjoy thinking and doing. Not necessarily in that order. This is my amateur radio account. I can also be found at @abraxas3d

de W5NYV. Open Research Institute co-founder and CEO, ARRL Technical Advisor, ARRL San Diego Section Technical Specialist, #OpenSource HEO #amateur #satellite lead (Haifuraiya), and member of FCC TAC 🏳️‍🌈

Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
2025-06-29
The first speech is from the character climbing from panel 4 to panel 1

YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME, I'M STUCK IN A TIME LOOP

HOW LONG DOES IT LAST?

ABOUT 4 PANELS

HAVE YOU TRIED CLIMBING OUTSIDE OF THE COMIC?

GOOD IDEA

GOOD LUCK
Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
Terence EdenEdent
2025-06-29

OK cyber-sleuths, I need your help!

I can't find high-resolution images of the t-shirt logos for:

* 2014
* 2015
* 2021

I've searched GitHub, Dribbble, Wikimedia, Archive.org, and a bunch of reverse image sites.

These are the logos I'm looking for. Ideally SVG, but a high resolution raster image would do. Can you help?

THANKS GANG!

Grey t-shirt.T-shirts with logo.Small photo of a t-shirt.
Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
2025-06-28

Help request. My brother has Stage 4 colorectal cancer.

His life insurance has refused to pay out on a technicality, meaning he and his loved ones cannot afford the mortgage on their home.

I've never asked for anything in return for infosec stuff, but if you have anything spare, please chuck it this direction instead:

gofund.me/b9a0d8f4

2025-06-26

@OpenResearchIns board meeting starts. Working on #OpulentVoice issues on GitHub.

Paul, Abraxas3d, and Rose sit at a table at Arcade Monsters in San Diego. The walls are very brightly decorated with florescent paint. Table is garishly colored. After gaveling in, we voted on #DEFCON participation (unanimous yes), talked about the AMSAT-DL workshop,and then had a work session for #OpulentVoice.
Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
David Chartierchartier@toot.cafe
2025-06-24

Reminder that, once investigators got past Elon’s tactics of hiding real driving and accident data, #Tesla cars were found to be the most dangerous and lethal cars on US roads.

But I’m sure the new taxis will be great.

fuelarc.com/cars/tesla-robotax

Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:

Imagine not having to worry about what OS you use because of accessibility so much that you can literally refuse to run stock Android for privacy reasons. Day in the life of a sighted nerd, a pipedream for blind ones.

Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
Tube🏳️‍🌈Timetubetime
2025-06-17

it's really sad. besides being excellent investigators, they're also excellent communicators to the general public, publishing numerous videos on their YouTube channel at youtube.com/@USCSB

Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
Dianora (Diane Bruce)Dianora@ottawa.place
2025-06-17
Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
François, Kookaburra chilljaztrophysicist@sciences.re
2025-06-17

No further comment needed I think... poke @johncarlosbaez

Some US researchers want to leave the country. Can Europe take them?

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Graph comparing the amount of cancelled grants (8 billion)  and proposed cuts (18 billions) for NIH, proposed cuts for NSF (5.1 billions), to what europe has put on the table with the "choose europe program"  (571 millions)
2025-06-13

Two clothing items entered in the local county fair (San Diego County, California, USA). Description in alt text. The Tuxedo won third place and the reversible embroidered jacket won first place.

Reversible embroidered jacket displayed on mannequin at the San Diego County Fair, inspired by Asian design, so similar to a very short kimono. The curators figured out how to display a reversible jacket, by turning the right half "inside out" and then pinning it down so it stayed put. Very clever! You can see half of the embroidery of the inside, and all of the embroidery of the outside. It won first place. 

One side is brown linen and has embroidery with wheat, barley and sunflowers in green and yellow. The leaves are blowing in the wind. The sleeves are Native American in style, with lines and blocks that are derived from local San Diego art recovered through archeology. 

The green cotton reverse has a dragon and flower theme, with the dragons in many shades of pink, and the cherry blossoms arranged around them, supporting them like they were on a cloud. 

It won first place.This is a tuxedo, with vest. It's made in black and cream silk. The pants are black, and are non-controversial. the vest is cream silk and is reversible. The other side is a green silk with square designs on it, that change with the angle of the light. They chose to show it with the cream side facing the viewer. The buttons on the cream side are gold, and really pop in the overhead lighting. The jacket is black silk (matching the pants) but tuxedos can have a very long vertical collar. I did this for this pattern, but the upper 20% of the collar is the same black silk as the jacket, but the lower 80% of the collar is the same fabric as the vest, so it's very angular and lego-like, and unexpected. I did the pocket welt on the lefthand side of the jacket in the same cream silk, for further contrast. 

The curators chose to put a pilot's hat on the female mannequin that the tuxedo was on. They couldn't have known this in advance, but maybe someone knew what they were getting. I had modified this tuxedo for my daughter to wear to prom. It looks better on a female mannequin. They had male mannequins, but put a traditional male outfit on a female mannequin. I choose to believe they figured it out from the modifications made to the pattern, and had no issue with presenting it as it was sewn. Thank you San Diego County Fair.
Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
2025-06-13

I've boosted a few posts about the AIDS quilt exhibit in London, but haven't linked to anything under the #QuiltingNews hashtag. Here's a couple of recent articles - Huck has better pictures of the quilted panels, but the BBC has personal stories about some of the people memorialized in the project

huckmag.com/article/largest-ev

bbc.com/news/articles/cgmjrm0m

#Quilting #AIDSQuilt

Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
Daveography 🇨🇦 :magpie:Daveography@yeg.bike
2025-06-13

Inside every QA tester there are:

- Two wolves
- One wolf
- Zero wolves
- 0.5 wolves
- 2,147,483,648 wolves
- -2 wolves
- Beer wolves
- Two coyotes
- 🐺🐺
- Два волка
- '); DROP TABLE WOLVES;--
- <script>alert('Awooooo')</script>

2025-06-08

@BlindHams thank you - we will gratefully accept as soon as it's ready. We got the constant overhead byte stuffing protocol part working just now, and have something weird going on with frame order out of the priority queue. Command line in general is stable, with a verbose mode producing copious debug and quite mode knocking things down to "just the facts". There are potentially a lot of statistics and quality indicators that can be exposed, but I can't have that be messy or intrusive.

2025-06-07

@BlindHams

We now have all the network layers installed- RTP UDP IP for voice, UDP IP for chat and control, and UDP TCP IP for data.

The next part could or should be an HTML interface that does not get in the way of anyone that wants to do radio, following best practices advice.

Nothing works better than actually using it, so we're trying to get it working over the internet, treating a server like a satellite or a "groundsat" earth station central node, as soon as possible.

Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
Open Research InstituteOpenResearchIns@micro.blog
2025-06-06

Online version of our Inner Circle Newsletter for May 2025 can be found at www.openresearch.institute/2025/06/0…

2025-06-01

@azonenberg @whitequark @G_glop

Ok now. Have you ever had a dream? Have you ever wanted to do something that everyone else said you couldn't do? Like, build a bridge to Mars, own a unicorn, or get enough sleep.

Far be it from me to impugn the efforts of a company to simply provide the specifications that I need to connect my SDR directly up to JTAG.

2025-05-28

@sluttymayo literally laughed out loud.

Abraxas3d W5NYV boosted:
2025-05-28

"hey sweetie, i'm sorry, they were sold out of the warhammer space marine codex you wanted, so i bought you a copy of the catechism of the catholic church and a history of the at&t bell telephone system and glued them together. i hope that gets you started at least"

2025-05-28

@BlindHams Things are working as a command line python script. Now, early on in the process, is the time to ensure accessibility for hams.

I'm getting conflicting advice. I'm a compromised vision developer but can get by. Making this digital mode really work is very important to me. What is the best radio interface practice that we should adopt?

2025-05-28

@BlindHams greetings blind hams network. I'm working on Opulent Voice which is a high quality voice, text chat, and file transfer amateur radio protocol. I must have this be accessible. It won't move forward unless it is accessible. We are at an inflection point. What is the best interface? Is HTML-5 interface to the radio station the best way forward?

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