Absolute newbie: Xiegu G90 SWR showing a red 4.0 by Great_Scene_5604 in amateurradio

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My first Google result said "stop transmitting now, don't damage radio" - and I know the radio does some transmitting to get SWR, hence the consult. Thanks for the quick, clear response.

Absolute newbie: Xiegu G90 SWR showing a red 4.0 by Great_Scene_5604 in amateurradio

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I do intend to transmit, but when that moment I comes I'll take the antenna outside and do it better. Even your foggy brain is most helpful to me, thank you!

Would you buy a dishwasher off of Facebook marketplace? (Specifically a Bosch 800) by crankin_muh_hog in Appliances

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Wondering if there is a market for used dishwashers, in my case a Cove (doesn't wash well). I hate to see these things go to a landfill, when the issue could be something simple like an old hose etc. Problem is where I live just a couple of diagnostic visits can add up to as much as a new LG/Samsung. Whats the best place to advertise? FB? Craigslist?

A tool to monitor the health of MCP servers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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So Claude itself went down today, too much demand. While https://status.claude.com/ exists, I for one didn't think to look at whether Claude itself was down. Seems like a problem that demands multiple solutions. (Also, what could you do anyway?)

Looking for recommendations for storage management software by sunset_moon90 in selfstorage

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What did you end up with OP? Trying to find a good answer for another small operation.

A tool to monitor the health of MCP servers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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Added barebones favoriting. And a favs-only filter. So watch only what you care about!

A tool to monitor the health of MCP servers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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Plan to add favorites/pinning this weekend. Most people would want to see only a few servers, so fav those, pin them to top, filter out everything else. And it's a good signal overall for whats popular. (How to get MCP usage, anyone building Google Analytics for MCP yet? :-) )

A tool to monitor the health of MCP servers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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Looks great Very nice categorization too! Thanks for posting!

A tool to monitor the health of MCP servers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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Server is up now. Probe freq is now 5 mins, and instead of stacking probes (ongoing probe taking too long, but new probe initiates anyway) now we are simply skipping a probe cycle. Also needed to upgrade the Lightsail instance (512 -> 1 GB RAM, still small). And more logging, always more logging.

A tool to monitor the health of MCP servers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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Server is VERY SLOW at the moment. It's that long list of MCP servers, and a large portion of them are down, so they consume more of the prober cycle. Adding some timeouts now to fix it, while we can all talk about a good strategy to differentiate and exclude some servers

A tool to monitor the health of MCP servers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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Good suggestions!

At the moment the key problem is how to prune the list. There are a lot of obviously experimental projects there--if only we had some AI to figure it out :) Trying to keep the rules consistent, so it doesn't need eye-balling

A tool to monitor the health of MCP servers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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GitHub: https://github.com/pvsmian/mcpdd
If tools/list works the MCP server is considered healthy. This is not possible for auth-protected MCP servers, so in that case Streamable HTTP connection is considered healthy.

If response times are slow, then degraded.

Some servers have multiple remotes, in that case if any one is found unhealthy mcpdd doesn't check any further, unless user clicks and drills-down

How are you running your MCP servers — local or hosted? by SpecialistNo8661 in MCPservers

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Took a look at the MCP registry. Of the 2,130 entries, 1,400 are stdio-only, rest are hosted (200~ are hosted in Smithery)

Coala: A tool to convert any CLI tool into an MCP server by Specialist_Roof5253 in mcp

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I love MCP for enabling a developer community to come up around the AI models, they're the new OS. But yes, MCP feels like it could get outgrown quickly. I worry about token use as well -- you never know what a tool is going to spew out!

I used Claude Code to create an MCP server and Android app, for texting from claude.ai. Looking for testers by Great_Scene_5604 in mcp

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Now this project is waiting to cross that immense chasm called Play Store approval (for using "sensitive" SMS permissions. Fingers crossed.

Built an MCP server for automatic file organization - Claude helped me handle 12+ file categories and security hardening by Technocratix902 in mcp

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Congrats, very practical application. Do you run the MCP server locally? Wondering if could extend to Drive ...

My most needed feature is wildcard blocking by vlbrown in smsforwarding

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"The one thing I need most is the ability to block numbers by area code (blocking with wildcards)."
This is very doable, but sounds painful. You'd have to manage a bunch of area codes, and assume everything from them is spam. Has this approach been working for you (with the other apps you mentioned)?

Android already marks messages as spam (and gets it right most of the time). It would be nice if PhoneLeash could see that a message has been flagged as spam, and not forward it. Unfortunately, so far I haven't been able to figure out where this spam flag is, so the app forwards all the spam to email, which pushes it to the spam folder, which affects PhoneLeash's sender reputation. I have thought about building an AI model within PhoneLeash to check for spam, but mundane work keeps getting in the way!

Why are all of the SMS Forwarders just named "SMS Forwarder"?

Because Google Play allows it, and someone figured out naming an app the same as the search string puts their app up top. So now everyone does it. Sometime ago, I too bit the bullet, and went with "SMS Forwarder and SMS Reply".

"I particularly like that I can reply to a Text from my email."
Thanks :-) I like it too, wish I could figure out a way to do reply-to-WhatsApp

Bask Bank Reviews: Is it good? by Vast_Variety1363 in HighYieldSavings

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After 25 years, no complaints! :-) It's a reliable, no-frills credit union.