Last year, the well known Diaspora node Diasp.org announced it will be shutting down… April 2025. Reasons stated include liability for anything posted within a server an administrator controls, and maintenance and the disk space growth and general expectation that the service should be more like other social media companies.
Continue reading “One week until Diasp.org shutdown – have you downloaded your data?”Bluesky vs Twitter – how many are really moving from the X?
In the past months many have moved away from a well know social media company that has been said to be degrading over recent years.
I had never done much on the Twitter other than testing and integrations for coding, and browsing news and accounts. So I thought it interesting that recently an open source alternative of Twitter reached mainstream. Let’s see how popular it is – among some of those accounts that have both an X and Bluesky account:
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2024 Year in Review
2024 brought some very timely articles to our readers…
Continue reading “2024 Year in Review”3 Reasons to get RepeaterSTART Premium
As you may know there are well known free repeater apps that are widely used for ham radio repeater info, but there are several reasons to try the premium repeaterSTART app: (currently on sale for 14.99 $4.99, biggest sale of the year…):
DigitalOcean performance – and reasons to get set on a newer region!
If you have had a very old Ubuntu/Linux server that you had recently noted does not receive security updates (without paid subscription), you may have certainly looked in to the pros/cons of creating an entirely new server of a newer Ubuntu, vs Ubuntu upgrade process. There may be more advantages than you think, to start an entirely new droplet:
Continue reading “DigitalOcean performance – and reasons to get set on a newer region!”AI Attempts at Ham Radio Help
There has been much research in recent months making LLMs give helpful and useful information. Unfortunately it is often wrong or inaccurate. Today I show how some simple tasks for radio amateurs are given back with incorrect information in Claude, ChatGPT and Bing AI assistant:
Continue reading “AI Attempts at Ham Radio Help”Laravel update breaks Eloquent queries
Laravel is generally known to be compatible from minor release to minor release, but a recent update breaks many queries and has been reported by several coders!
Continue reading “Laravel update breaks Eloquent queries”Kv4p HT app brings 2-meter Ham Radio to Android Phones
If you have been involved in amateur radio groups you may have noted the new popular kv4p HT project that many have been talking about. This app and USBC-connected radio chip let you use your phone as a small ham radio handheld!
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Days ago, senator Warner reported on the major intrusion on American phone networks. In recent months, the group Salt Typhoon was found to have compromised various systems, including those involved with major political figures.
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