The enter key on my split keyboard is occasionally playing up.

I think it’s probably shorting on the aluminium plate which means the pins have pushed through the insulation I added!

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I’m super late to this party, but as an experiment I asked ChatGPT and Cody to write me a browser extension to help manage tabs by letting me close all tabs which have loaded a certain domain.

It worked really well! I had to make a few small code changes, and I’m pretty sure totally non-technical people couldn’t use these tools like this yet, but as a way to scratch as an experiment an itch it’s great. It’s something I wouldn’t have started on my own.

Edit: code at https://github.com/mattfoster/tab-smasher

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I’ve been meaning to get back into interactive on masto for a while now, so I think it’s time for a re- #introduction :alex_grin:

I’m a not-very-active ham, first licensed in late 2017 (got my full license in mid-2018).

My toddler and job limit my free time a lot, but I really enjoy seeing people post projects here & love the radio newsletters that have sprung up over the last few years.

I’m interested in data modes, #electronics, #infosec, #security, #hardware #hacking, etc.

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I made badge kits for a Christmas party with some friends and wrote it up at https://hackerific.net/2024/12/17/christmas-badge-buildathon/

Great fun and very successful - highly recommended if you have geeky friends! :alex_grin:

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I went for a lunchtime run with a LILYGO T-Beam in my pocket running LoRa APRS tracker firmware ( https://github.com/richonguzman/LoRa_APRS_Tracker) on 70cm! It worked surprisingly well despite being a bit uncomfortable.

I flashed another LILYGO thingy with the I-gate firmware ( https://github.com/richonguzman/LoRa_APRS_iGate) and attached that to my antenna at home.

Overall pretty cool and cheap, and worth trying on the car.

I found https://lora-aprs.live/ pretty useful while setting things up.

#lora #aprs

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I missed WSJT-X 2.7.1-rc7! It dropped on 30th September 2024.

Changes here are mainly around the new superfox mode and a verification system, but there are bug fixes (esp for macOS).

New features: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.7.0-rc7.html#NEW_FEATURES

Release notes: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Release_Notes_2.7.0-rc7.txt

Announcement mail: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/58823158/

Downloads: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html

#hamradio #ft8

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Late to the party with this one, but K1JT has released WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc6 (and rc5 a bit ago) #hamradio #ft8.

rc5 added “SuperFox” mode, which seems to use closed binaries (I’ve not closely followed the discussions about this), there are some interesting snippets about keys and digital signatures in the notes.

New features are described here: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.7.0-rc6.html#NEW_FEATURES

Release notes: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Release_Notes_2.7.0-rc6.txt

Announcement mail: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/58796998/

Downloads: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html

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📢 K1JT just released WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4.

This is another bugfix and feature release.

New features are described here: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.7.0-rc4.html#NEW_FEATURES

Release notes: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Release_Notes_2.7.0-rc4.txt

Announcement mail: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/58747448/

Downloads: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html

And this toot still isn’t automated :alex_grin:

#hamradio #ft8

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📢 K1JT released WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc3 on New Year’s day.

This is a bugfix and feature release.

New features are described here: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.7.0-rc3.html#NEW_FEATURES

Release notes: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Release_Notes_2.7.0-rc3.txt

Announcement mail: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/58718536/

Downloads: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html

#hamradio #ft8

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📢 WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc2 dropped on Friday:

“WSJT-X 2.7.0 Release Candidate 2 is mostly a bug-fix release.”

Release notes: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Release_Notes_2.7.0-rc2.txt

Announcement mail: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37867534/

Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/

#hamradio #ft8

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