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May 1, 2020Just setting up my newest Pi! These things feel so fast, Iām hoping I can get away with no fan. This is hooked up to my 706mkII
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Just setting up my newest Pi! These things feel so fast, Iām hoping I can get away with no fan. This is hooked up to my 706mkII
My pick for today’s bandcamp bonanza:
Different Dimensions (The Quarantine Sessions) - EP
Some acoustic Brazilian prog rock
https://godsandpunks.bandcamp.com/album/different-dimensions-the-quarantine-sessions-ep
→ View toot on mastodon.radioI couldn’t get the latest beta of sslscan to build on macOS so I made a Dockerfile:
https://github.com/mattfoster/sslscan-docker
I used Debian unstable so I’d get chacha20 and friends and TLS 1.3.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThis satellite map is super cool: https://maps.esri.com/rc/sat2/index.html
You can click on each tiny dot (a satellite’s current location!) and view information on.
Found at https://github.com/simsieg/awesome-maps
→ View toot on mastodon.radioOne of my colleagues (on a placement) is doing a survey on:
[the] Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on the Mental Health of Working Adults - for a uni project.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGX0ds8-MuSEehVWL5q9BEYQthL3unhlbBiExCk–Rt83urw/viewform
If you have a few minutes to spare and wouldn’t mind filling it in that would be awesome!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThe digital edition of QEX is now available as part of a standard ARRL subscription ( http://www.arrl.org/news/the-may-june-digital-issues-of-qex-and-ncj-are-now-available). Pretty cool news!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioI hope everyone is keeping busy and entertained!
I posted a few links to some interesting radio things I found: https://hackerific.net/2020/04/15/radio-links-1-april-2020/
Things like this cool glowing mini antenna: https://circuitsalad.com/2020/02/13/simple-low-current-mini-whip-antenna/
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Here’s a fun Dockerfile:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16296753/can-you-run-gui-applications-in-a-docker-container
Running GUI apps in a container using xvfb + vnc š
→ View toot on mastodon.radioVirtual Machines for iOS: https://getutm.app/ this could be awesome if it gets off the ground.
iSH is already fun and useful https://ish.app/ but it’ll be good to see what’s possible on locked down apple hardware.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioHacking cheap GPS radios to make a long range mesh: https://www.meshtastic.org/
I hadn’t seen these ESP32 based GPS modules before: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000119152086.html
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