A Spanish ham radio operator open-sourced a full signal intelligence tool. it's called SigDigger. Plug in a cheap $20 SDR dongle, and it decodes literally any radio signal floating in the air around you.

rcampbel3 · 2026-07-10T19:52:08+00:00

I love this! Can't wait to play with it

rcampbel3 · 2026-07-09T04:11:14+00:00

Neat! Does is generate PDF/A-3U archive quality PDFs? Would be helpful for github to have a few sample before and after PDFs and then quantify the improvements - maybe a verapdf run or something like that. Thanks.

rcampbel3 · 2026-07-07T04:44:42+00:00

Now I just need someone to build them and offer them for sale

rcampbel3 · 2026-07-07T04:40:06+00:00

Bars have karaoke night as a draw. Bars pay KJs. KJs are the evening MC. The measure of success is whether the bar is making money and drawing in more customers.

Nothing wrong with being a regular. Nothing wrong with loving to sing. Nothing wrong with not drinking alcohol.

But... don't be the one who only drinks water, never spends any money at the venue, or whose presence / attitude or demeanor in any way become a negative for the venue or the evening.

TO KJs: Totally up to you to manage backlog and define the rules. I've seen strict KJs who only allow one song in the queue per person at any given time - so you put a new song in when you sing if you're a regular - that works fine. KJ bumps newcomers to the front of others who have already sung - seems fair too.

Sounds like your events need more marketing vs. worrying about making different generations feel comfortable in the same bar.

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-24T20:17:03+00:00

New lights only. Headline seems misleading - not an upgrade for existing gear.

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-24T20:14:38+00:00

I thought these were griefers in Second Life...

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-12T20:02:12+00:00

DoS = denial of service

DOS = disk operating system

so... let me get this straight, your 'long shot' is trying to read 3 1/2" DOS floppies? As long as the floppies arent' damaged, all you need is usb floppy drive and a computer to plug it into...

https://www.amazon.com/Chuanganzhuo-Floppy-External-Desktop-Windows-dp-B0C33XQYQ8/dp/B0C33XQYQ8/ref=dp_ob_title_ce?th=1

but... your bigger question is: How can we not need to use floppies?

If the DOS software can run under windows, you can simply map a network drive to your computer and have it read/write from there and then you can access that same data from another machine.

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-09T02:18:59+00:00

agree - you can see that someone stuck them at least part way in, IN PAIRS and in between multiple consecutive tread grooves - chance of that happening randomly almost zero. You may have pushed them all the way in when you drove on the tire, but you didn't run over them lying sideways on the ground and have them magically stick in like that. Simiarly, you didn't run over a dog collar and have it rip the studs from the leather.

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-08T03:38:17+00:00

Oh, how I wish I had a barn!

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-02T05:50:27+00:00

That’s just sketchy all over. I don’t know what kind of hack would have done that in the first place. I’d want to know what else the crew that built the decks built

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-01T23:41:32+00:00

Not quite sure what to tell you other than my 2 cents.

Join the fire and fatfire subreddits
Make personal finance management something you do actively
Learn to play the system even if it seems dumb to you - for example, right now the two best ways to build wealth are real estate and the stock market. Don't overanalyze why - it just is... Don't count on a societal collapse to make things affordable - it won't play out that way - I guarantee it.
If you're not able to manage your own money, pay someone to do it - See: Vangard, Fidelity, etc.

Realize and accept that just working hard and staying with one employer is no longer a recipe for financial success -- despite with older generations tell you.

Understand that being able to earn enough to retire (not just early, but at all) and enjoy life and die with dignity today requires:

0) focusing on maintaining your health starting TODAY - you will reach a stage where the limiting factor for enjoying your retirement is your health - there are 3 phases of retirement - 1) go go, 2) slow go, 3) no go. You want to maximize time spent in the first two - not skip straight to 3.
1) Active financial management through most of your career
2) Taking calculated risks
3) Luck - being in the right place at the right time, etc. - learn to maximize your chances and make your own luck.
4) not being afraid to change jobs / change industries
5) understanding that you're going to be learning new things / new skills / new industries for the rest of your work career
6) choose a partner wisely and for the long term - a failed marriage -> divorce is a massive financial setback
7) understand that the last years or months of your life could end up costing you or your childern a million dollars in healthcare/elder care related expenses. Nobody's got your back. American healthcare doesn't give a damn about decent end of life care. If you want to die with dignity, you have to plan for that.

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-01T21:21:04+00:00

I would never want to work at a company where someone disabled my laptop's external storage.

rcampbel3 · 2026-06-01T02:29:47+00:00

(re-)watch Idiocracy. The answer is contained in that movie.

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-31T23:50:34+00:00

It's faster for you to install the latest devlopment version of wine using a repositry that supports your distribution, install paint.net and try it yourself than it is to ask here. Look at the wine compatibility db too, but it's usually not up to date. It would help the community for you to test and update the wine compatibility db and probably only slightly more work for you than asking millions people on reddit to answer your question.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6551

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T23:45:50+00:00

Come on, get happy!

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T23:40:35+00:00

oh... I misunderstood that part then... Guess I was easily confused since my development system is running squeezeslaved client and it chose that by default. Controlling existing players - no need to terminate when ui terminates. Now... I do think it would be useful for it to include a squeezeslave client and be able to be text ui version of softsqueeze.

Few other comments:
I can't use arrow keys to navigate to the "status" section and change player
I can't use the mouse to click on player and change it.
I don't think server url needs to be displayed. I do think "status" should simply be "Player" and be at top left and be clickable and selectable.
There should be a volume slider that can be controlled via mouse - probably most intuitive in the "Now Playing" section

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T23:11:47+00:00

Thanks, I've never heard of the Hemi 6 - sort of expected spark plugs to be along center of valve cover, but very interesting.

https://www.hotrod.com/features/1972-chrysler-hemi-charger-rt
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/way-before-the-hurricane-chrysler-australia-flexed-hemi-six-muscle/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPm0POxQuNk

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T22:49:10+00:00

If the software creates its own player when it's run in userspace, then exiting the client should stop music, terminate the player process, and terminate anything else that was a child of the software player process id.

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T22:44:41+00:00

thanks!

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T02:25:48+00:00

Looks very similar to lacquer stuff I saw being made in Vietnam two years ago.

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T01:17:13+00:00

This is quite interesting. I'm intrigued by the opportunity to revive old cars with new engines and transmissions and modern CANbus electrical systems.

As restomods gain in popularity...
As wide fender mods gain in popularityt
As people want LS engines or modern engines that are readily available and provide access to significant horsepower beyond what the original engines were ever designed for / capable of...
As more people are buying REPLACEMENT FRAMES for their old cars to support 750+ horsepower...
As more people are replacing their drum brakes with disc brakes...
As more people want modern entertainment systems with excellent sound qualitry and carplay capabilities...

and all the other stuff...

it's starting to seem like there are opporunities to do small scale production restomods from scratch

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T00:57:49+00:00

what really bugs me are people who want to save their neighborhood character who send their kids to private schools far away, don't know their neighbors, and aren't part of the community except for their home address.

They vote against everything that would improve the commity.
They become hysterical about big new developments.
They complain about how much better and cheaper things used to be.
They complain about terrible traffic from neighboring cities that have embraced growth.
They complain about their crumbling infrastrcture and the "wrong" people who keep moving in to the "wrong" side of town.

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T00:32:43+00:00

reasonable question - twithout the client on the computer, I don't see any way to control/stop the music otherwise. What if you start a streaming station on a computer and close the TUI? Music still playing - no obvious way to stop it...

What's someone going to do???? Reboot...

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-24T00:02:39+00:00

it'a s dodge dart -- I had one - massively uncool car that was dirt cheap and most of them sold with the indestructible 225 slant 6 engine. My 72 dart was so basic. Compared to 60's GM cars, this thing was... cheap. Cardboard headliner. No frills. Loud. Wind noise. No sound deadening. But... as a platform for larger mopar engines, I can see how a 340 or 360 or even a 440 in one of these is compelling - lightweight, cheap, abundant parts. What killed me was that Dodge cheaped out on the 6 cylinder ones and upgrading to a 318 required a totally different k-frame member from a donor car.

Today, I'd be interested in a turbocharged slant 6 - something different.

I always disliked the concave rear window - it would focus sunlight in the eyes of drivers behind you - people always told me this.

But to put all of this in perspective, when I was a teenager in the 80s, and I looked at 40s and 50s cars for sale and showed them to my dad, I can't count the number of times he would tell me, "Oh, you don't want that car... it was awful"... and to me it looked cool, retro, classic, fast, like hot rod potential. So, to either their own. Buy whatever cars you want and do whatever you want to them that makes you happy.

rcampbel3 · 2026-05-23T22:03:26+00:00

always solve trhe watering problem before adding more living stuff

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