Nivex 🐧 📻 @nivex@octodon.social

@w8emv @rey I thought maybe it was some kind of paging system. On very rare occasions it does deviate from that idle rhythm. It's much narrower than the other paging systems I've seen though, and it never unkeys.

I've got a signal here I can't figure out what it is, despite spending some quality time with sigidwiki.com :

https://www.nivex.net/images/tmp/mystery-signal-454337500.wav

Audio is recovered from FM demodulator.

Hoping @rey or some of the #hamradio folk might know what it is.

They fixed my #IPv6 autofs bug in January, so I stopped following it. In April they discovered a regression and backed the patch out just in time for the release of 18.04. So now we get another full LTS cycle without autofs+IPv6.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/1101779

@djsundog Oh, and it juggles pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYS0kzdExD8

@minego @djsundog It did have limited usefulness, being designed around Flash applets. Even more so now that the "cloud" service is basically gone.

The price was right though: I won it at Ohio LinuxFest many years ago.

@djsundog Oh, I almost forgot: the super-secret SSH interface!

More @djsundog inspired hardware nostalgia: the Chumby!

@djsundog and friends: Do you remember the i-Opener?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Opener

@rey wat

I thought the Walmart electronics demo area was the only place that still had an analog bus.

@rey What's in Boston?

@rey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU

PalmOS > Android

Tonight's nostalgia:
Found a Pole Position ROM for my Atari 800 emulator. Just like I used to play when I was a kid.

@staticsafe Look me up once the invasion's over, k? https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-case-for-invading-america/

@rey Power corrupts, something something...