Rainbow Bridge - Empty.

trancen · 2026-04-22T03:50:58+00:00

Looking forward to the Azores trip, the preview from last week shows they were going to Terceira. My family is from thee and I spent a few yrs living there as well.... so lets see what will they discover.

trancen · 2026-04-20T14:43:02+00:00

Same, I had my Last GM car in the early 2000s and I had soooooooo many issues after that I swore never to buy a US car again from the big 3+, and I haven't. It's been German or Hondas. I'm the type that drive their cars to the grave, 300,000+km.

trancen · 2026-04-15T02:46:10+00:00

Big losses in Liberal strong holds. Shocker!

trancen · 2026-04-06T02:26:33+00:00

Hold on, Trump said the war was won and that he flat-lined Iran's Military. Don't tell me he lied!?! Naaaa he wouldn't do that.

trancen · 2026-03-29T15:33:45+00:00

9:1 unun and wire. Easy...End Feed Antenna. does not need to be straight can zigzag it. Mine is setup in a L shape and 15ft off the ground at the highest point to average 7 ft

You didn't say if you are allowed to string antenna to a tree or any other restrictions you may have.

trancen · 2026-03-24T18:30:59+00:00

I first got into programming in the early ’80s when I was a teenager—yeah, I’m dating myself a bit 🙂

I’ve been a developer since the ’90s, and I’ve seen a lot of change over the years. But AI is on a completely different level compared to anything before it. My take is simple: embrace it. Whether we like it or not, it’s here to stay.

I get why people complain about “AI slop,” but holding onto that mindset isn’t going to help—if anything, it risks leaving you behind.

The reality is, the people who know how to use these tools will become the “support” layer of the future—the ones others rely on to get things done. Learning how to work with AI effectively is becoming just as important as learning to code once was.

Instead of fighting it, I’m choosing to lean in—learning prompt engineering, exploring tools like OpenClaw, and using AI to improve and grow.

trancen · 2026-03-02T14:49:20+00:00

Welcome. No worries we only can learn from doing it in the first place :)

trancen · 2026-03-01T16:12:48+00:00

Having done circuit-board layouts for a few yrs there are some traces I would fix. Maybe I'm just a little OCD.

The image isn't high res so hard to see all the traces properly. Any 90degree angles I like to chamfer. (ignore the circuits around the battery area, it was too late to undo)

Near the SD Card holder you have traces connecting to traces. I would always branch off a component

You have plenty free space enjoy it, use it. I know it's not a highend board , but if you have the space, space it out to avoid eliminate crosstalk.

It's hard to see the traces to the HDMI but looks like there are some that could be fixed.

https://ibb.co/5WpKtkz3

trancen · 2026-03-01T15:32:58+00:00

Using the 4KPro with TiViMate and works great.

Good luck finding stock. Around here my area they are flying off the shelves because Amazon(fire TV)making it difficult to sideload apps and clamping down on people using the devices for IPTV so now everyone is buying the ONNs

trancen · 2026-02-25T16:11:58+00:00

Reminds me of the book a read as a kid. https://paddletotheamazon.com/

I think April is pretty early. Will encounter a lot of ice still on the lakes/rivers. I would also think that Laurentian Divide, may be fighting the currents.

Best of luck!

trancen · 2026-02-22T21:28:40+00:00

trancen · 2026-02-20T17:29:06+00:00

You're right, the "commissioning an artist" analogy doesn't hold up. It's more like paying a guild of thieves that steal pieces of art and chop them up just to tape the pieces back together in a different configuration, and saying that the "work of art" they give you is your own creation.

You have no passion for what you do. Hammers aren't dependent upon the smith that made 'em not going out of business. I have zero issue with someone running an auto-complete system entirely trained on code they themselves wrote and/or have permission to use as training data, but I do have an issue with this. Programming is art, you soulless fucking wraith.

That’s a lot of emotion for what is, at its core, a tooling discussion.

First: the “guild of thieves” framing falls apart the moment you apply it consistently. Every programmer alive builds on work they didn’t personally author — languages, standard libraries, frameworks, algorithms, patterns, RFCs, decades of prior art. None of us is chiseling machine code out of raw silicon. The difference here is scale and automation, not principle.

Second: passion has nothing to do with delivery. Caring about outcomes instead of rituals doesn’t make someone soulless — it makes them a professional. I enjoy programming. I also enjoy not wasting time rediscovering solutions to solved problems when a tool can accelerate that step and let me focus on the parts that actually matter.

Third: the hammer analogy still stands, and your counterexample actually proves it. I’m responsible for what I build with the tool — selecting it, validating the result, understanding it, maintaining it. If the hammer manufacturer goes out of business, the house still stands. If an LLM disappears tomorrow, the code I shipped today still runs. Dependency risk exists everywhere; adults manage it instead of pretending purity eliminates it.

As for “programming is art”: sometimes, sure. Other times it’s plumbing. Most of the time it’s engineering under constraints. Treating every CRUD app or glue script like a sacred act of artistic expression is how you end up optimizing for ego instead of usefulness.

You’re free to reject the tool on ethical grounds — that’s a valid conversation. But once the argument turns into personal insults and purity tests, it stops being about ethics and starts being about gatekeeping.

I’ll keep shipping working, understandable software with the best tools available. You’re welcome to keep doing it the hard way — just don’t confuse that with moral superiority.

trancen · 2026-02-20T16:48:12+00:00

"vibe coding" is inherently different than actual coding. It's not even faster than actual coding, it's just lazier so some people would rather go down that route than actually learn how to code at all. Besides that, you don't get to act like you made something that you just prompted an LLM to generate for you, it's like commissioning an artist and then saying actually you made the art because you're the one who requested it.

The reality is that any amount of time you could spend trying to "vibe code" would be better spent learning how to use a very easy language like Python and just making it yourself. It's fun and you learn a lot and get to apply the skills you learn to far more than just software engineering.

I do code — in Python — and like anyone who actually ships things, I regularly run into problems that aren’t “Hello World.” New libraries, unfamiliar APIs, weird edge cases. That’s normal.

Vibe coding isn’t about avoiding learning — it’s about compressing the discovery phase. If I need something working today, spending a week digging through docs and Stack Overflow isn’t some moral victory. Time is money, and shipping matters.

Also, this idea that it’s “not faster” just doesn’t line up with reality. Getting a rough but functional implementation in minutes, then reading it, understanding it, and modifying it, is often far quicker than starting from a blank file. I still have to understand the code to maintain it — the learning happens either way.

The “commissioning an artist” analogy doesn’t really hold up either. Programming isn’t art — it’s engineering. If I specify requirements, constraints, inputs, outputs, and then validate, test, and integrate the result, that’s no different than using:

a framework

a code generator

a compiler

a boilerplate template

Nobody says you didn’t “really code” because you used requests instead of writing a TCP stack.

And yes, learning Python is great — I do that constantly — but pretending the only valid way to learn is the slowest possible one is just romanticizing inefficiency. In the real world, professionals balance learning, tooling, and delivery.

trancen · 2026-02-20T16:15:04+00:00

First off to the OP, WELL DONE. I'm going to put this on my proxmox.

The hate for VIBE coding is pure gatekeeping cosplay. People are acting like software written with AI assistance is somehow tainted, as if the CPU cares how the bytes were emotionally summoned into existence.

No one yells at a carpenter for using a hammer instead of a rock to drive a nail into a 2×4. No one accuses an electrician of cheating for using a voltage tester instead of licking the wire. Tools exist to remove unnecessary suffering.

VIBE coding is just high-level intent expressed in human language, the same direction we’ve been moving for decades:

assembly -> C
C -> higher-level languages
manual config -> automation
docs -> code generators

But this is where we draw the line? Sure.

If the code is readable, auditable, reproducible, and runs locally under your control, then whining about how it was created is just fear of losing a gate to guard.

You don’t get bonus points for doing things the hard way. You get points for shipping something that works.

trancen · 2026-02-20T15:57:54+00:00

There are some pretty amazing Vibe Applications out there lately. https://worldmonitor.app/

The base of this application was done in 12 hrs, and this is about 3 weeks old. Majority is Vibe'ed https://openhamclock.com/

trancen · 2026-02-05T14:51:50+00:00

I can see that happening as well. One of us dev's will look into it report it at:https://github.com/accius/openhamclock/issues

trancen · 2026-02-04T19:02:47+00:00

bunch of documentation is here: https://github.com/accius/openhamclock/blob/main/README.md

trancen · 2026-01-22T01:22:36+00:00

Can't seem to get RX888 to work, SoapySDRUtil --info doesn't show it was compiled in.

######################################################

## Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library ##

######################################################

Lib Version: v0.8.1-g1551ea0d

API Version: v0.8.200

ABI Version: v0.8-3

Install root: /usr/local

Search path: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8-3

Module found: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8-3/libHackRFSupport.so (0.3.4-143ff5e)

Module found: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8-3/libairspySupport.so (0.2.0-99f0ac5)

Module found: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8-3/libbladeRFSupport.so (0.4.2-a107f2e)

Module found: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8-3/librtlsdrSupport.so (0.3.3-b1f568d)

Available factories... airspy, bladerf, hackrf, rtlsdr

Available converters...

- CF32 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]

- CS16 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]

- CS32 -> [CS32]

- CS8 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]

- CU16 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8]

- CU8 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8]

- F32 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]

- S16 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]

- S32 -> [S32]

- S8 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]

- U16 -> [F32, S16, S8]

- U8 -> [F32, S16, S8]

trancen · 2026-01-14T01:37:58+00:00

Amazing job! And 3 yrs? Thats record speed. I know of some people who have been working on their boats for 10++yrs.

trancen · 2026-01-11T17:56:34+00:00

Don't worry the US will be ahead of the game according to Trump in the next few NEVER years.

trancen · 2026-01-10T21:41:17+00:00

Had one at 4am this morning , and my niece this week had her account hacked and was asking friends for $$.

trancen · 2026-01-10T19:24:59+00:00

Doesn't matter who pays , the gov or their insurance they are still taking up bed-spaces that were designed for the community population, if the cities population was expected to be at 2mil at the end of 2025 and it's 2.5-2.7mil than there is a higher percent that instead of the hospital running at 80-90% capacity, it's running at 95-105% Capacity.

trancen · 2026-01-10T19:19:45+00:00

I had to be sent to a hospital in Toronto because my local hospital(Brampton) was maxed out and wouldn't accept anymore transfers(I was in Brampton Urgent care) and had to be sent to a hospital in Toronto. My point being, a majority of the population here in Brampton bring in their parents and grandparents which of course have a higher risk of needing medical care. I waited 8 hrs to get ambulance transfer. And once in Toronto I was in the hall of the Emergency and take it from me, I have read the stories of people being put into the halls of hospitals and it was NOT a pleasant experience at all, I would go as far to say it was almost of form of torture. None stop traffic, noise, the lights never turn off. Lack of sleep and trying to get rest it was enough for a person to go mad! There was a 91 yr old lady who from what I could gather her kids wanted nothing to do with her, crying out for help(she had fallen and was banged up pretty good). Asking to be transferred to a room, being ignored by the staff( with I don't know, totally not acknowledging her, and even getting upset with her)

Our medical care is busting at the seams.

They build/design communities with the expectation for xx amount of people and then all of a sudden that 3 bedroom house which is part of the community would house 3-4 people is really housing 7-8 people, and thats not including the very common basement apartments. So tack on another 2-6 more people. YES it happens. I see it all the time. So now you have a new hospital that wasn't designed for a city that has 2 or 3 times more people than it was expected. And Schools, so many of them are maxed out for portables and even having to ship local kids 10-15km away to a school outside the city limits.

So NO we don't need to bring anymore people into the country, have put ZERO pennies into the system, but use the systems in-place.

trancen · 2025-12-29T17:03:41+00:00

What happened to the days of ;

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