MatStace @MatStace@octodon.social
Hates labels, unless you're talking about servers, in which case, it must be labelled. Gadgets, geekery, and hamradio
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen / Robin Hood, Robin Hood, and his Not All Men. / They need to explain / Again and again / Not all men / Not all men / Not all men.
I just checked my Strava activity graph for the last year.
The last three months look much better than the previous nine...
https://octodon.social/media/BTpXKr5XVLhmLmWg27I
(and apart from the money I've saved on the commute, that is a load of days when I've reduced my stress levels by not taking the tube)
Speaking of projects though, I need to find a mi-fi device with an on-board ethernet port, so hook up a non-wifi-enabled device.
Do such things even exist, or am I going to end up with one of those TP-Link nano router things and a 3G/LTE dongle?
I wonder if @Documentally knows of such a device?
As I utterly failed at my #hamradio goal for April (having an #amsat QSO) I am going to make that my May #amateurradio goal instead ;-)
Time to start checking for useful satellite passes. Which, of course, means that my attention turns to one of my project ideas of a satellite tracker/info display. Which is attention I should be putting into actually operating my radios and not procrastinating over new projects.
TIME ZONE FACT # 26/24
Most people assume that time zones span 24 hours (-12 to +12). But it's actually more!
There exist UTC+13 and UTC+14 time zones for several island groups in the Pacific, including Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga. During daylight savings, New Zealand is +13, meaning that for one hour a day in the summer, New Zealand is 2 days ahead of Baker Island (UTC-12), even though they are only about two degrees of longitude apart
If you use Chrome, Google can use a network protocol for tracking and ad delivery that can't be seen or blocked by extensions. TL;DR: You really shouldn't use a web browser made by an ad company.
"AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin, and other extensions cannot block QUIC requests. Recommended best practice is to disable QUIC from the chrome://flags/ URL."
https://blog.brave.com/quic-in-the-wild-for-google-ad-advantage/
Catching up on the last couple of week's of @Documentally 's weekly email (go sign up, it's well worth it - http://documentally.com/newsletter/) and loving this NYT piece about London and Brexit https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/11/world/europe/uk-london-brexit.html?_r=1 https://octodon.social/media/BOk_8RulJenKNQ9GKVk
Having "just signed up" to a mostly random mastodon instance, I have since found another one which _may_ be more appropriate for me and my interests, but it seems a shame that I can't seem to view the local timeline to that instance without having to sign up for it first.
Today I discovered that when other #hamradio friends said that #aprs coverage in London is terrible, they were speaking the truth.
Apart from one position report which was received by my own igate when I started my cycle commute to work, no other packets were received by an igate at all, which is a shame.
I feel like I should be all profound for my first toot, but it's not going to happen, is it? I'm probably not even over 140 characters 😉
