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   pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:13:25 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
   I think I care what Facebook is doing even less than I care about Nostr.
   
   If you forget about Facebook, it stops existing. Their entire revenue model relies on you caring about what they're doing.
   
   Facebook can't stop me from doing anything I'm doing, and they're not going to ever allow themselves to be mentioned in the same sentence as FSE or any other region of the Pleroma Shitnexus, so it's not going to affect anyone here. Sure, they're terrible, they're evil, they have all the money, but they're also all the way over there and their capacity to interfere with anything going on here is no greater than Gab's or anyone else's.
   
   Not a threat. I just can't manage to care.
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:21:22 JST victor

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     @p No, you don't understand, they're going to pull everyone on fedi into the metaverse. They're going to force us to wear gay Apple headsets and look at 3D avatars of each other. Nobody will be allowed to leave.
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     @victor They'll have to instance-block the back of my hand.
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     Jezza™@threads.com (Official) (jeremiah@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:18:31 JST Jezza™@threads.com (Official)

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     @p i'm of the opinion that we should welcome them to fedi in fedi style -- with a firehose of GPT generated content, users, on the most banal, useless topics and nonsense. AI generated hellthreads arguing Kim Kardashian: boobs or butt? and a violent extremist organization demanding the return of Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

     There's no reason to be bad neighbors when we could be absolutely fucking awful neighbors.

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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:18:31 JST victor

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     @jeremiah @p Oh, you want boring conversations?
     
     Find your local ham radio repeater. Pipe it in to speech-to-text. Make posts out of the transcripts ad infinitum.
     
     There is no conversation on this planet that is more boring than two hams talking to each other over the radio.
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     @verita84 @p @jeremiah Swearing technically isn't allowed per the FCC
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     @victor @p @jeremiah
     
     can they use gamer words?
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:22:42 JST victor

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     @verita84 @p @jeremiah You can get around it with some creativity (callsign owner names are public record, I just blocked the guy's name so as not to be a jerk)
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     @victor @p @jeremiah
     
     ah, useless tech then
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:24:15 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @victor @jeremiah
     
     > There is no conversation on this planet that is more boring than two hams talking to each other over the radio.
     
     I disagree, but does not apply here. Maybe you just live somewhere that sucks.
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:24:15 JST victor

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     @p @jeremiah I guess in my experience 98% of ham radio conversations are "Hey can anyone hear me? Hey, what radio are you using? What's your antenna? Hey, I just got out of Wal-Mart, heading home soon, been having some back pain lately, let me describe it..." and 2% are things I can't repeat here.
     
     So maybe it's worth listening for that 2%.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:33:46 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @verita84 @jeremiah @victor You can get SSTV transmissions from the ISS. That's cool shit. There are apparently BBSs that use AX.25.
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     @p @jeremiah @verita84 At one point you could actually talk to astronauts (they're all hams, or used to be anyway) on the ISS with their callsign NA1SS. I think they only do it prescheduled with little black girls in school classes as some PR thing now, though. I think it used to be, "Hey, let's see if the astronauts are bored and monitoring right now, oh cool, they are, let's talk with them for a few seconds while they pass overhead"
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     @p @victor @jeremiah
     
     These people have a big ass antenna on their roof where I live and they can talk to people in Asia....should be easy to find someone
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     mia (mia@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:33:56 JST mia

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     @p @verita84 @jeremiah @victor
     
     Reticulum works over AX.25 too, there's pirates in these airwaves. :pirateradio_social:
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:37:17 JST victor

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     @verita84 @Pyrrho @p @jeremiah It's pretty easy to find where a signal is coming from, though. Nowadays there are SDRs that people just run for fun, placed all over the world, and you can use them to triangulate arbitrary signals to some general area. And then from there you can get your direction-finding equipment to pinpoint it.
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     @Pyrrho @victor @p @jeremiah
     
     and they cannot block you
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     Pyrrho (pyrrho@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:37:23 JST Pyrrho

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     @p @verita84 @jeremiah @victor
     Radio is useful in case there is a nuclear war, so citizens can be kept informed.
     
     >Ionizing radiation makes radio signals unintelligible
     
     Oh wait...
     What IS it good for?
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:37:24 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @verita84 @victor @jeremiah Yeah, "radio" will never be a useful technology. Who needs radio waves?
     who-needs-oil.jpg
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:39:53 JST victor

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     @p @jeremiah I just wish hams were allowed to use modern, interesting things like spread spectrum and frequency hopping. I also wish there was more interest in things like phase-shift keying (using raw IQ, not modulated over FM). It seems like the commercially available hardware is stuck in the 90s.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:39:54 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @victor @jeremiah Yeah, it reminds me of the first part of the Hackers book. (Fun book.) Basically, there was a model railroad club (this was the 50s), and there were two types of guy in it: there were the EE guys that spent all their time dicking around with wires and making primitive animatronics happen, and there were the other guys that spent all their time painting eyebrows on the tiny men inside their hand-carved, period-accurate train cars, and the groups experienced a lot of friction until the EE guys fucked off to go poke at this new thing in the basement, a computer. So there are the guys collecting QSL cards and name-dropping gear, and those guys are boring as shit, but the people talking radio engineering and math, that's interesting.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:41:25 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     > Reticulum works over AX.25 too, there's pirates in these airwaves. :pirateradio_social:
     
     :terrylol2: NICE
     
     Also fun: https://github.com/antirez/dump1090
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:41:25 JST victor

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     @p @mia @jeremiah @verita84 Mode S is fun for detecting which aircraft around you aren't transmitting (mandatory per the FAA, even for military aircraft). There are a lot more "ghost" aircraft than we realize.
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:42:21 JST victor

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     @Pyrrho @p @jeremiah @verita84 They tried it with Helium, which is basically just a vaporware cash grab for cryptofags. The Things Network is better, or just run one yourself with the ChirpStack.
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     Pyrrho (pyrrho@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:42:27 JST Pyrrho

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     I wish solar powered decentralized zigbee or z-wave mesh networks for text communication were more of a thing. Didn't the crypto community do something like that? Or it was just Wifi? IDK.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:42:37 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @victor @jeremiah @verita84 I wandered off to the internet because that seemed cooler at the time, I didn't do any of that cool shit. I'd like to get back into it when I have some time.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:54:47 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @victor @jeremiah
     
     > I just wish hams were allowed to use modern, interesting things like spread spectrum and frequency hopping.
     
     How does someone stop you from doing it?
     
     > It seems like the commercially available hardware is stuck in the 90s.
     
     Yeah. I think everyone that was interested in developing cool tech fucked off to the internet in the 90s and radio stagnated some. That's one of the cool things about the proliferation of SDR, there's a lot of stuff going down now.
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:54:47 JST victor

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     @p @jeremiah
     
     > How does someone stop you from doing it?
     
     The same way they stop you from doing anything else, if they care (and if you, in turn, care that they care). The ham radio community is kind of like gun boomers, though. Lots of people who think it's their patriotic duty to snitch the moment someone hits the gray zone.
     
     > SDR
     
     The little RTL-SDR dongles are pretty fun, but the real fun comes from something like the HackRF or USRP, which also let you transmit (low amounts, you'd need a linear amp to boost it). Combine that with GNU Radio and really learn the modules and how to chain signals together, and you'll be listening to all kinds of weird signals. There are open-source modules for making your own cell tower. Michael Ossman has a great tutorial series on how to think about phase shift keying as a 3D spiral like a slinky.
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 07:00:16 JST victor

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     @p @mia @jeremiah @verita84 Equipment needed: Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR, 1090 MHz antenna, band-pass filter (optional, useful in crowded areas)
     
     Software: PiAware (Debian-based distro made by Flight-Aware), just flash it onto an SD card
     
     Here's a tutorial on it: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build
     
     If you contribute your Pi's tracking to their network, they give you a free "enterprise" account to view all flight data, but I'm under the impression that a lot of it is censored, and you can't get the historical stuff (which is what's VERY interesting) without $$$$-level access, so being part of their network doesn't have that much actual benefit.
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     @victor @jeremiah @mia @verita84 I do not know how to do Mode S.
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 07:04:58 JST victor

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     > How do they even know it's you?
     
     Geolocation (triangulation) and deducing based on who has a license in that area. I guess if you didn't bother getting a license and used low enough power, sparingly enough, you'd probably be fine. The HackRF module can transmit up to 50mw which is plenty for lab/development use. I only know of one guy who got arrested (actually went to jail) for being a retard on the radio, but he was persistent about it, on a very public repeater, over many weeks.
     
     I think the general feeling in the ham radio community is that the government is always trying to auction off frequencies (which is a gay concept in itself) to big companies, and the ham radio frequencies are looking more and more appealing to sell, so (they believe) playing nice with the rules will make that less likely to happen.
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     @victor @jeremiah
     
     > The same way they stop you from doing anything else, if they care (and if you, in turn, care that they care).
     
     How do they even know it's you?
     
     > Lots of people who think it's their patriotic duty to snitch the moment someone hits the gray zone.
     
     Fuck's sake. At least on fedi, they've walled themselves off.
     
     > The little RTL-SDR dongles are pretty fun, but the real fun comes from something like the HackRF or USRP
     
     That does sound fun! I know a guy that knows a guy that is pretty good with GNU Radio.
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     @victor @jeremiah
     
     > Geolocation (triangulation)
     
     It's really rough to triangulate bursts, or even realize that they are happening. It was probably sunspots!
     
     > The HackRF module can transmit up to 50mw which is plenty for lab/development use.
     
     Nice.
     
     > I only know of one guy who got arrested (actually went to jail) for being a retard on the radio, but he was persistent about it, on a very public repeater, over many weeks.
     
     I think it's probably a matter of pissing people off rather than QRM.
     
     > I think the general feeling in the ham radio community is that the government is always trying to auction off frequencies (which is a gay concept in itself) to big companies, and the ham radio frequencies are looking more and more appealing to sell, so (they believe) playing nice with the rules will make that less likely to happen.
     
     Maybe if they lick the boots extra-clean!
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