Notices by Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)

"Stocks are doing great"

@dj @AlabasterBrick @Quentel @SiRrogueKnight @verita84 @Owl apparently that didn't go so well

@Hoss that's right, everyone must keep looking up. Space. Stars. Aliens.

Don't look at the deep mass of unexplored liquid that covers the majority of navigable areas.

~8 cubic yard compost pile.

Chicken coop for scale.

Hijacking this thread to make it about rabbits again.

As is so often the case, I've made last-minute changes to the plan. Rather than have ramps and totes, which I'd have to clean out anyway, I'm going to put breeding pairs in raised colony enclosures. Think "big rabbit cage with 48" of dirt on the bottom", which is closer to their natural state of being.

They're big(ger than cages) and I'll have to build spares for cycling (parasite control), but that's ok.

I'll post pictures tomorrow.

Tomorrow is coop clean-out day.

I'll also be moving the rabbit cages to their permanent locations, installing wind baffles, and clearing out brush outside the coop on the rabbit side in preparation for the rabbit ramps and kindling totes. Once everything is set and they've had some time to adjust, we'll try breeding the buns.

Credit for the kindling tote strategy goes to https://www.youtube.com/@TheRabbitryCenter, who IIRC developed the system inspired by European colony setups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKROYeu0tP4

At around this time last year, our first (6) chicks had matured into laying hens.

Twelve months and a little “chicken math” later, we have 28 chickens.

I didn't clean the coop today because it was raining and too damn hot. Instead I cleaned the basement and found a bunch of stuff that had gone missing.

As for my many other in-progress projects...

I have the fittings and design for the re-plumbing of the house finished, just need to pick up the pipe and get to work.

The laser engraver is ready to roll, but I'm giving my wife a few days recovery before I recruit her help with art.

The CNC and woodworking is on the back-burner for now.

Chicken coop annual clean out done.

Bunny cages to be moved tomorrow (hung by wire) in preparation for their ramps and kindling totes.

What I cleaned out of the coop will sit in a big pile and continue to decompose until next year’s clean out, at which point it’ll be finished compost ready to go around trees and plants the following Spring and Fall.

@EvolLove

Radio would have made intuitive sense to me at a significantly younger age had someone shown me a waterfall / spectrum analysis.

@Murray_N DMR is really cool. All the digital modes are, tbh. I was lucky that I was into tech at a young age and was able to follow along with the wifi innovations as I grew up, both on the crypto side and the RF side. I vividly recall reading about beamforming in my parents kitchen.

re: DMR, just don't trust the encryption until you've verified it yourself (or someone you trust has): https://noauthority.social/@eriner/112425669207022257

@Murray_N > legally encrypt

The FCC can legally encrypt deez nuts

@IceCubeSoup @Murray_N I think this is actually compliant (if you do it every so often), and I don't think there is any requirement that it be transmitted on/close to the same frequency that you're using for DMR or other non-ISM band technology you're using, but I could be wrong about that.

The RuLeZ (non-legally-binding regulations) are retarded.

@IceCubeSoup @Murray_N > spend 5 figures buying antennas, hard drives, and SDRs to record large swaths of the RF spectrum
> decode DMR tx
> its encrypted
> eventually get encryption key for one tx (keys roll between txs)
> it's a text message:
> "whoever is reading this is a gay old man who wants to be buried with his HAM radio gear"

@skylar DITCH YOUR COMPACT, GET A TRUCK.

DRIVE MORE.

BURN MORE GASOLINE.

DO NOT LISTEN TO BILL GATES, THE DECEIVER; WE MUST TERRAFORM THE EARTH.

RT: https://noauthority.social/@eriner/111763887766812430

I found some Jeff Cliff approved sanitizing wipes in the back of my garage shelf dating all the way back to the ‘tardening.

@Vo @graf @dcc @Elliptica @smugumin SAAR DO NOT REDEEM ANIME GAME COMPLAINT, LISTEN TO WHAT I AM TELLING YOU.

@taylan @nicholas

@jeffcliff @nicholas @taylan @vic ...QED, there is no reliable or accurate system for tracking adverse reactions in the United States where the producers of the supposed prophylactics cannot be held liable.

I'm calling CVS right now.