I am elevating this from megathread post to real post

I regret looking at X almost every time

This weird discourse has done actual psychic damage I think

Can someone make this make sense to me? Not uncritically adopting the weaponization of language traditionally, normally even, used to attack queer and neurodiverse people against less-lib American reactionaries by Democrats makes you a fed? It's not a hill I would die but yeah

We are truly reaching levels of normality never seen before, regardless of how not weird and normal it is in many sections of society to be a turbo-reactionary

Have we entered a period where internet leftists and K-hivestandard internet left-libs become almost indistinguishable? I feel like I'm stuck in the event horizon of a terminally online singularity, spiraling toward a center of infinite onlineness

The most online people I have ever seen are telling other online people to log the fuck off, the 🥥🌴 usernames are joining with the 🍉🇵🇸 usernames in fed-jacketing people, the Democrat campaign is reposting dril tweets

We are cooked, the !kamala-coconut-tree internet singularity consumes us all

Weirdn ormal weird werird normal couch weird weird normal

!i-love-not-thinking

!doomjak

Realism Overhaul for Kerbal Space Program is so cool lol. Everything looks so much better, parts fit better together, have more realistic characteristics because they're modeled after real-life stuff, the game takes place on Earth now, etc

That being said, it's much much harder than base game and I keep losing all the menus I need somewhere

Was looking for that menu that lets you build new launch complexes/simulate launches but I literally cannot find it anymore among all the buttons so I can't test this thing yet lol

Also in my world, the Sino-Soviet split will never happen/never happened and the USSR and PRC have a joint space program okay !sicko-wistful

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:deviantart-cool: !qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

I just came back to this site recently and it seems like it's turning to shit

Half the results for stuff I look up is AI sludge and it all looks like shit

Incredible choice for a site supposed to be about creativity to encourage and offer tools to automate away creativity

It's called a R3000A

Cute big little core right here

Unknown beanis-per-second rate though !beanis

This time it wasn't even that bad, just me and my friend out on a night walk in an urban park

We walked past a parking lot on the edge of the park that had a few cars parked but they seemed empty and we started walking along the road

Then 2 cars came to life, turned their lights off, and pulled out of the parking lot at insane speeds and drove right past us but as they came toward us it was like "oh fuck, did we just interrupt something bad? Are they gonna start shooting?"

Idk maybe we were just being paranoid but it really surprised and scared us, especially cuz their shitty cars had no mufflers so it was deafening as they went by

That being said, we still get harassed by cops a lot more when we're out than by anyone else lol

Artist is "Guy-Mandude"

https://www.deviantart.com/guy-mandude/art/the-Great-wolf-Sif-Dark-souls-fan-art-429255749

Soo me and my friend were out yesterday in an urban park, walking along a path, and we encountered 21 dollars in cash and eyeglasses sitting on a bench. He wanted to take the cash and keep walking (we are both very broke rn and could use the money) but I convinced him to leave it cuz it felt wrong to me. It would really suck if I left that somewhere and came back and it was gone...

We talked for a while about it afterwards, which seemed to get a little heated, and basically: my position was that most working people are struggling with money more than ever and I don't wanna make someone's situation or day worse by taking some of their money they left behind. His position was that he doesn't have a lot of money and taking it would have helped.

Idk... would you have taken the money? Probably the better thing to do than anything would be to see if the person who left it was still around but... idk why we didn't do that. Also tbh I wouldn't be surprised if they were quite close (popular park) and they were just watching this unfold lol

Also the next person walking along maybe would have just taken it anyway lol

I have very little money and I just need something I can use to proxy traffic (HTTP mainly for my website) from the internet back to my server on my home network so that people can't tell where I live

Any dirt cheap hosting providers that just let me access some Unix system remotely?

Unlimited destruction on """the cloud""" of course !qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

So you got your technician's license? You get to do such fun activities as: call out on simplex FM voice for no one to respond or talk to the 70-year-old+ "repeater guys" who are on every day from 6 am - 6 pm about uhhhh radios, grilling, ex-wives if you want..... and then listen to the silence when everybody runs out of things to talk about in the presence of an "outsider" (someone who hasn't been on the repeater every day for 10+ years).

Not interested? That's fine, instead you can just listen to the activity on the repeater when they think no one else is around and hear interesting conversation topics like what the repeater guys would do if someone they were dating had an abortion including, but not limited to, "putting 2 between their eyes".

Not interested in even that? Okay, if your radio is capable of digital operation, you can connect to a system of linked repeaters and make contact with a different set of 70-year-old+ repeater guys. Once you make contact and talk a bit (maybe even have a good time listening to their stories if you're into that), you can look up their callsign and find their Twitter and find out they're REALLY RACIST and that probably the only reason they spoke to you in a polite manner or at all is cuz you have a "normal-sounding" male voice.

If this is what the self-policing culture of amateur radio is like (at least where I am in the United States currently) then we need to give many, many more Baofengs to unlicensed zoomers immediately

Anyway, that has been my experience so far in a rural area in the US. It hasn't been all bad (making contact with the International Space Station was cool) but yeah. I'm going back to a city soon, maybe it will be better there.

I really do want to get into this hobby and I love the technology (need to find the money sometime to do more packet stuff) but a lot of this type of stuff has been off-putting

I had no luck, couldn't hear anything and they (they includes their computers lol) couldn't hear me even though I had perfect line of sight to the station

I heard they have an APRS digipeater and other amateur radio equipment on board... maybe they turned it off recently or something

Info is sparse on the English-speaking internet

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2781613

> Do any of you have experience with community mesh networking? It seems like a fun time and a good way to connect with people (socially and technically lol) in the community. Not to mention the possibility of providing at least limited internet access to people who can't access it by conventional means for whatever reason. A community mesh network might also have organizing possibilities - especially because the state or the cops or a company can't just shut it off or look inside it as easily

Do any of you have experience with community mesh networking? It seems like a fun time and a good way to connect with people (socially and technically lol) in the community. Not to mention the possibility of providing at least limited internet access to people who can't access it by conventional means for whatever reason. A community mesh network might also have organizing possibilities - especially because the state or the cops or a company can't just shut it off or look inside it as easily

https://www.siliconbunny.com/silicon-graphics-laptops/

My jaw dropped when I saw these, would be so cool to have one ;w;

The MIPS community is dying, upbear and comment if you're still a MIPS fan

What do they have to say?

A lot of hams think the Automatic Packet Reporting System is a system for broadcasting your location, and maybe your status. But the APRS is really a lot of local general-purpose low-speed message-switched* networks joined together by the big Internet (the one we're on rn) into another inter-network.

*Yeahh, it says packet in the name and is based on AX.25, but really the APRS is only capable of routing complete messages

It's primitive compared to the Internet but still very useful because of how widespread it is (I'm in some place you could describe as the "middle of nowhere" rn and there are still internet-connected APRS stations and digipeaters in range). The APRS is source-routed, meaning the sender of packets specifies the route they take through the network. You can specify a direct route for your packets to take through the network but most people leave this routing information set to the default on their radio, which is usually something like WIDE1-N,WIDE2-N where N specifies the number of times a packet is rebroadcast by any forwarding-capable station (digipeater) in range (this is how your position and status beacons get distributed to a wide area).

If you're familiar at all with the history of the APRS then you know its original purpose was to distribute information of local interest and it still does this but is now capable of so much more. You can send and receive text messages (including to the phones of non-hams), e-mails, get weather information, find out when satellites pass over your area, check into APRS nets, subscribe to groups and bulletins, and more.

Even if you're truly in the middle of nowhere with nothing and no one around, you can still keep in contact with people and beacon your location via one of the satellites carrying internet-connected APRS stations, no commercial satellite subscription and proprietary radio required (don't rely on it though lol). Even the International Space Station has an APRS station aboard

Kaepora Gaebora posting on main :did-you-get-all-that:

Artist is "Hail-NekoYasha", source at https://www.deviantart.com/hail-nekoyasha/art/O-RLY-NTNDO-33158110

Sometimes I like to look up the origin of the taglines. So I looked one up and found this old thread...

https://hexbear.net/post/1640059

I don't know this for sure, but I'm almost certain all of the other accts in this thread were eventually banned for being alts of DayOfDoom (HaruhiSuzumiya got herself banned during that thread about DayOfDoom's banning by being sus about it, the other got banned around the same time for unspecified ban evasion)

Literally arguing with themselves, completely artificial thread, and managed to get into a tagline

My honest reaction to this information:

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The tagline from this thread is:

>Apart from further Luna Rossa flankers, would also recommend (re) testing more of the Prada Infusions for a less gourmand, sweet and/or woody, also fresher, crisper and more transparent take on somewhat similar notes, as well as the many AMen flankers, perhaps especially Pure Wood and Pure Tonka, while not entirely dismissing the other flankers and maybe also Kenzo Homme Boisee to certain extents

My fav rendition of this pretty song