Infrastructure Engineer | Self-Hoster | Community Advocate | Amateur Radio - KJ5FTE | Dad/Husband | He/Him
I run the Mastodon instance @ Okla.Social
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I don't normally do anything about pride month on Mastodon.radio because LGBTQIA+ people are always welcome here.
However, "welcome" isn't quite true.
If you are LGBTQIA+ and interested in amateur radio, shortwave listening, etc. You are explicitly invited to join Mastodon.radio.
If you are homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, etc. I have a very glittery and rainbow coloured ban hammer waiting for you.
If you're in the market for some new #hamradio content, check out Temporary Offline. His most recent video regarding experimenting is the kind of content that really drives me to try new stuff. Funny enough, the other day 10M was dead but on our local 2M repeater, folks were talking about how much 6M was hopping. My EFHW couldn't tune up to that so I threw together a speaker wire dipole with a 1:1 balun, threw it up in the tree and was making contacts right away.
the entire haul - everything works except the TR-7800 - and yes it still had the 4 AA's inside the TR-7800. this person needed a lot of batteries.
@kr1st that's awesome! Thank you for sharing this, will for sure file it in my project list lol
@weezmgk thank you!
@kr1st I did read that while looking them up! I’m very excited for those.
@ai6yr thanks! Very stoked, picked it all up for $150 :)
I'm very excited to experience them. I love the old HT designs also, beautiful stuff.
Do I really need these radios? hell yea! Found a lot for sale from a silent key. super glad to give them another home to live on. #hamradio #vintage
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.
Just in time for summer!
I would like to sell this #bicycle. I'm in #Portland #Oregon #PDX
It is a 26" Nishiki hybrid city #bike.
Asking US$150. Just want to make back what I put into it for new parts. I have a spreadsheet if you'd like to see a breakdown of the costs.
I'd really like to be able to fund my next project soon.
Available exclusively on the #fediverse for just 3 more days. On June 1st, 2025 I will be putting it up for sale on Craigslist.
Boosts are appreciated.
Mastodon is full of queer people, communists, anarchists, and Linux nerds.
I really love it here.
Telegram is about to add Grok to the app. If you’re still using Telegram, it’s about time to start packing.
“AI tools developed by Elon Musk's xAI are to be incorporated into the encrypted messaging service, Telegram.”
#NWS #tornado Tornado Warning for Custer, OK; Ellis, OK; Roger Mills, OK #OKwx https://alerts-v2.weather.gov/search?id=urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.2793e63292e23548901d5b1274f4afc25a40fdc9.001.1
This is very cool! Today in Oklahoma we’re watching this line of beautiful rain spawning over and over and moving east.
@ai6yr I know here in Oklahoma, those requests come after a lot of review and assessment. But if it's anything like over in AR, obvi a very red state, still just farts in the wind from Sarah Huckabee Sanders to FEMA.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/sarah-huckabee-sanders-fema-trump-arkansas-rcna203546
oh hell yea, looking to mount an iPad for HomeAssistant in our main bathroom and am looking for POE -> USB-C adapters. Thankfully, even though I'm in Oklahoma, I sure hope this Texas Converter will work for me. :/
the best software is written with a premise in mind: that when the code works, and is bug-free, that it should never be touched again. apply change only when it is beneficial and good, and be as conservative about it as possible. finish the code.
write one program that does one thing perfectly, and when you need to do something else, write a new program.
if the code you wrote still works in 5 years, you've done well. i can't say this for most software i use. it just gets bigger and more buggy.
Editorial: Bill changing initiative petition process is dangerous
https://www.koco.com/article/editorial-oklahoma-initiative-petition-bill-sb1027/64792668
I think I found my #Trakt alternative. It's called Simkl. Check it out and it rather priced nicely if you want added features.
