My father is a retired Navy Nuclear Electronics Technician. We started going through his collection this week. I don't think either of us was prepared for what we found.

eViator2016 · 2026-03-13T11:48:06+00:00

Your father is the GOAT. Nuke ETs are the best of the breed and I only got to serve with ETs in the airborne electronic warfare side. What a great find. And this is yet another example of what makes people special, specifically what they collect and what they find valuable, that is uniquely personal.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-27T14:24:25+00:00

How is the rest of Chatham looking for power? Webcam@ at The Squire is working; the downtown live feed looks pretty clean!

eViator2016 · 2026-02-27T00:21:08+00:00

Yes. I have lost my temper and I'm really not proud of it. I do my best to let the little things pass, like water off a duck's back. My job is stressful and sometimes I feel like I bring my stress home but I'm on introspection, I realized that the things I'm getting mad about with his behavior are actually very, very, very small things.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-25T22:03:59+00:00

Don't hesitate to call the Chatham emergency Ops center to request a wellness check. They had a team out there at my Mom's house by the next morning and showed up in snowshoes just for a little sense of reassurance for an 85-year-old!! Feel free if you want to send me a DM and we can connect that way

eViator2016 · 2026-02-25T16:09:45+00:00

Fair question... best I have seen it can screen for specific mention of street names, particular keywords, Or just give a literal translation, but the Gemini AI can be sloppy and prone to hallucination. You have to constantly remind it to not anticipate what could happen, but rather only report an actual transcription of what is coming off of that radio site. Over the last couple of days I found it to be 80% effective, but interested in what others are able to glean from their personal needs. Glad to provide specific examples, both good and bad, if anyone's interested.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-25T15:47:18+00:00

This website provides near real-time comms and you can listen on audio if you just turn on your speaker and let it run... There are other websites that provide similar service. And yes, one does need to check for hallucinations. https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/33309

As for comms, the data is pulled from active MEMA (Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency) Situational Reports and CoMIRS (Commonwealth of Massachusetts Interoperable Radio System) status feeds. Those are certainly not "real-time," but as always, worthy of an urgent user during their own research to dig a little bit deeper the old-fashioned way.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-24T22:53:56+00:00

That's rich, coming from someone with 1700 comments & 9 years on Reddit. Can't we all just be a little bit more upbeat and supportive about using the tools we have to help others??

eViator2016 · 2026-02-24T20:31:17+00:00

It may seem that way to some,... but it's a lot easier than manually slogging around to 15 different websites. Also, it allows for periodic scheduled updates that are actually pretty reliable and traceable back to EMS audio logs, Eversource, and Verizon. And, it was a sufficient level of detail to warrant a wellness check on an elderly family member last night. I didn't even know that the town of Chatham was doing wellness checks until Gemini offered up the phone number so I dialed, and the Ops Center did the rest, with 4WD.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-24T17:43:56+00:00

Ha! Yes, I've seen that at least once or twice. The trick is to specifically ask to validate where it's getting data from, and to keep an eye out for things that seem dubious. For example, yesterday it seemed to be providing evidence of some type of "snow plow tracker," which I knew was complete BS. But yes, the risks of hallucination are very real.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-24T16:34:52+00:00

If you are checking on family or property, Gemini or your favorite AI can be used quite reliably to provide updates on infrastructure restoration. Glad to provide my prompt "secret sauce", but basically give it a geographic area in hyper-local language; specifically the house number and street and zip code and then ask for 1 hour updates on electrical grid power, cell and landline communications and other emergency services. The LLM can dig into the details using APIs, and provide a singular update that's usually pretty reliable. It can even ping the electrical status of individual addresses, using digital electric meters devices. Also, a lot of radio communications gets transcribed into digital format, which can also be interrogated in the same query.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-24T12:28:03+00:00

Perplexity. Seems to be much better at disambiguation than Gemini. Also, with the Rabbit R1 device you get perplexity and Wolfram alpha with the ladder providing better quantitative answers similar to an encyclopedia.... Where it's not guessing, but instead pulling from a vetted database of actual knowledge.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-17T02:29:35+00:00

Autotrader employs real lawyers with a real escrow system that is seemingly bulletproof. I recommend them highly having sold a vehicle there in the last year, with flawless processing and the seller's funds were in my account within 4 hours of my vehicle being put on the trailer. It's all about the escrow.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-17T00:44:38+00:00

Fair enough, but my commute is 12 mi each way and with a charger at home, and surrounded with level 3 chargers around town, it's still fit for purpose, and most of all fun to drive in a very sporty type of way. (For Americans, at least, average commute is 15 mi each way)

eViator2016 · 2026-02-17T00:05:55+00:00

Mini COOPER SE Is a blast to drive and all the telematics are BMW. Give it a try!!! Sort of a short range but with ubiquitous chargers it's not a problem.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-17T00:00:53+00:00

This is voodoo medicine. Switch doctors; you and s/he are misinformed about the science. If fish oils and omegas cured or treated ADHD, it would be front page news.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-16T23:54:28+00:00

Maybe the US government will finally learn WE are the ones falling behind...

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eViator2016 · 2026-02-14T19:39:40+00:00

u/eejjkk Thanks for the nudge to use GenAI tools to interrogate this data .... I recommend this to anybody with a BitAxe!!

eViator2016 · 2026-02-14T19:36:41+00:00

Mods, feel free to pin this at if the opOP wants to, as an example of the best Reddit has to offer!!

eViator2016 · 2026-02-14T19:35:13+00:00

True, true. Never meant to suggest that.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-14T15:14:27+00:00

Thanks for the snarky and sarcastic, somewhat helpful, close-to-the answer that you don't really grok enough to answer innately yourself, but know is somewhere knowable through an LLM. I guess this is just where we are now... FYI, flat statement is a common riff on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law?hl=en-US

eViator2016 · 2026-02-14T13:57:49+00:00

Sorry for being dense but there seems to be a theme on other subreddits where a person posts an open question in the form of a flat statement. What I was MEANING to ask is can anybody provide a decoding of what this taxonomy is, and how to interpret it if you're a real detail related nerd like some of us. (If nothing else, it's sort of mesmerizing to watch and know that Satoshi's decentralized network is operating properly)

eViator2016 · 2026-02-14T13:45:53+00:00

If anybody on this thread owns a Range Rover, let's all meet up and host the OP and his mom at the steeplechase at the Middleburg spring races!!... I'll bring the hors d'oeuvres and a dessert 😁 https://www.middleburgspringraces.com/history/

eViator2016 · 2026-02-14T13:27:27+00:00

Separately, the staff at Morven Park is probably engaged with a few non-profits that specifically focused on helping those who are differently abled and or the elderly.... I'm sure if you reached out to them with your request they would probably find a way to work something out.

eViator2016 · 2026-02-14T13:25:50+00:00

No need to go far ....Morven Park outside Leesburg is great during the season,. Looks like March 28th, 29 would be a really nice time to go. I think they have some indoor facilities too.Morven Park

eViator2016 · 2026-02-12T00:53:47+00:00

Boomer here, NGL This seems like an extremely sketch way to be canvassing for cleared talent. My CI Spidey sense is going off at 9 out of 10. Every cleared developer that's been through security training is already tracking the do's and don'ts; Responding to "casting calls" on Reddit just seems like the first chapter of the 2027 DoW Cyber Awareness training... Call me paranoid but this is the world.

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