Notices by Dianora (Diane Bruce) (dianora@ottawa.place)

Clearly, I am not a geek.

I saw this earlier but it had no alt-text.

#Canada

@alex hmmm newsmast.social as well as newsmast.community ? Just blocked the entire domain. Aint got time for this shit.

@tk I am not a fan of the G5RV. It's a 20 m gain antenna that happens to be tunable on some other HF bands but performs badly. I'd cut the coax right off and use it for a separate 2m J pole or something. Use a tuner for the remaining openwire feeder and it will tune all HF a lot better than the G5! J pole will perform much better on 2m than the G5RV.

@tk 1. feedline does not have to be completely at right angles. 2. typically openwire or ladder line is mostly used at HF not a VHF although a few VHF/UHF moonbounce (EME) stations have used it. Use a good quality coax. 3. Impedance of ladder line can be quite a bit higher than 50ohm but a tuner is not suggested. If you must use a 300ohm <-> 50 ohm balun. 4. tough location as you are hemmed in quite a bit. Look up J pole you can make one with 300 ohm twinlead. Hang it as high as you can. 73 de va3db

@kaia Kafka wants his story back.

Controversial opinion. Ritz crackers have more flavour than some apples.

#Baking #Pie #Ottawa

I have mixed feelings about the sudden influx of spambot/scambots on here! Sorry Jasmine, I think you are a scam or something. Ah Mastodon.social already zapped the account!

My father lived during the war when the U.S. helped fight fascism in Germany but I might live during the war that Germany helps fight fascism in the U.S.
It's ironic and sad.

#Fascism #War #AntiFa

@Alison We don't need all those aircraft carrier because we aren't the ones with an Empire.
Also we like everyone else were convinced we had a "Peace dividend" after the detente and now this orange maniac has destroyed this. We will have to rearm like the Germans and the French and the Uk like everyone else.

@evilscientistca You aren't the only one that's said this or similar. The F-35s will be made in the U.S. and if the U.S. will control the tech inside. We would not be able to get spare parts.
I suggested the Gripen earlier as others have. It was a runner up anyway.

@bmacDonald94 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

I don't recall. But did Russia invade Finland to "de-nazify" the country as well ?(Winter war) /s

#History #AntiFa #Ukraine

@YurkshireLad Finally a good shot of the top floor. The snow removal folks did the wrong thing here. Instead of removing the snow load they pushed it into a corner. You can clearly see a pile still on the roof. That's a lot of weight.

(edit)
Snow piled into one spot is the cause. https://informedinfrastructure.com/92182/guidelines-to-prevent-damage-to-parking-structures-during-snow-removal/

"Do not pile snow on the deck surface. Piles of snow can exceed the rated load capacity and cause cracking in the concrete deck surface."

@alison

Given that the U.S. doesn't want to trade with us anyway, why don't we just unilaterally abrogate the new NAFTA and get rid of DST eh?

#Ontario #OntPoli #Quebec

@bmacDonald94 I assume you also reported them.

Those Latin pedants who freaked out over the split infinitive in "To boldly go" would blow a gasket with German. The Germans put whole sentences in between!

"Ich stehe um sieben Uhr Auf"

#SciFi #Startrek #German #English #Linguistics

@MattMerk @troed "Remember kids, it's only free speech if it's fascist speech!"/s

What is going on in the U.S. with data being scrubbed from their CDC brings back bad memories of essentially book burning. Remember the data the Harper government tossed into the garbage? Physical books etc. ?

Please. Not Again. Please.

#Canada

Time to leave Amazon if you haven't already done so.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/4500-layoffs-amazon-quebec-1.7447291

#Canada