🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Was running my new project in demo mode where it just continually increases the phase and magnitude of a load's complex value then plots it on a Smith chart. I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed it produced a Celtic knot pattern.

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just after I got my SWR meter working I decided to move from an ATmega to a Due... of course now everything is broken again. Pretty sure im a masochist

A sneak peek at the first draft for the new UI in V2 of my ROES meter, an advanced SWR meter with VNA capabilities.

I still need to cleanup the location of the axis labels, and I want move around a few other elements. But it is coming along very nicely.

I can stare at this smith chart being generated all day long :)

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Beginning work on a version 2 of my SWR+VNA meter (ROES). Using a new much larger full color touch display. I have some debugging to do but it partly works with existing code, so yay.

I will be completely redoing the UI to add colors and various graphical representations such a Smith Chart showing the complex Reflection Coefficient (Complex SWR).

I will also be adding an extremely accurate frequency counter up to 2 GHz to improve the accuracy of the device and include a frequency readout on the display.

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So earlier today I was talking to a stranger being all buddy and this woman walks by in a low cut shirt he says.

"Wow, she looks like a real slut, her tits are practically hanging out."

To which I replied, rather perplexed

"Why would you complain about tits, tits are awesome!"

Not sure if I'm a hero for saying that or an asshole, but one thing I know for sure, I'm honest.

hmmm, I wonder what changed...

The chemistry lab room. All cleaned just needs to be organized and I'm done.

Cleaned all the labs and the whole house. The RF station is back on the air.

Showing off the freshly cleaned Computer, EE, and Radio Lab. The hard part was organizing ever speck of equipment into a relevant drawer.

Each picture is the opposite end of the same room.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.

To those who don't, Happy Holidays to whatever celebration you honor!

Love to everyone!

Because of my back injury (which is new news to me its so bad and needs surgery).I wasn't able to get those certificate bugs fixed. I was obviously distracted by the news. Now it is Christmas eve so family things going on.

I will however fix that come Wednesday or Thursday if I have the time. I should.

Also I think we should start considering another system admin to bring on board as a backup to myself. We have Hugo who i pay to handle this main server and of course I have credentials there too to admin it if needed. But for all our other servers (like peertube) there is just me.

So that leads me on to the second point, we should start to consider another person to act as a backup system admin for myself, hopefully on a volunteer basis, but if not then I could hire someone affordable there too.

The reason i didn't hire someone for that in the past is I was the only one using it until now. .

@Surasanji @arteteco @absolutus @hashtaggrammar

Jesus criminies! That post I made earlier today is at 56 reshares. and still going. It has only been up 7 hours...

this is an open letter to "Steingard & Testa Medical Associates" located in south philly. Please everyone **reshare** this so it reaches as many as possible. This doctor was my doctor of 5 years and was so cruel and self serving they pushed me to severe risk and trauma because they refused to help me when I needed medical attention most...

While i am very sympathetic to the opiate epidemic and do agree we need to solve it, the problem is the current approach makes it much much worse, let me relay my own expiernce to tell you why.

I recently had a very severe disc herniation. Much of the time i cant make it even one step away from my bed. I needed some sort of pain killer to help until it could be resolved, i also tried all the alternatives first, NSAID, steroids, ice, etc. NSAID did almost nothing for the extreme pain and steroids helped a lot but I wasnt allowed to stay on them for more than a week and the second i was off them I was worse then when I started. I needed some sort of pain medications or else my life felt like constant and literal physical torture.

So I approached my doctor of 5 years, he knew well that I have never asked for any scheduled drug of any kind. In fact the few times he offered Adderall i refused (for my ADHD). He flat out refused me any pain medications because he said i had to pass a drug test to get them, well i live in Holland and only stopped by america to pick something up and got stuck there. I told him "I would pass on all drugs but marijuana, but it was legal where i smoked it". Hearing that he refused me any medication and told me he could not since i couldn't pass a drug test.

Later in dire pain i called the office and begged and pleaded in tears. On the spot he dropped me as a patient all together and told me i could not be seen by him again (in the middle of a major injury). I then went on to call at least 20 doctors to get help and they all said under no circumstances would a new patient be prescribed a controlled substance. Now keep in mind i had an MRI and an X-ray to confirm the severity of my condition.

Now all i really needed or wanted was Tylenol II (basically Acetaminophen + codeine). While it is an opiate it is the absolute weakest form of opiate you can get. Since I was refused, and since i will not accept others abusing me or telling me what i can or cant do with my own body, my only solution was to scavenge drugs. I called every drug addict and family member i knew to try to get some pain killers to help. I finally got a nice collection together but since all drug users want are the strong things like morphine, oxycodon and hydrocodone all i had was a pile of stuff 10x - 100x stronger and more addictive than i needed. I did manage to get 4 codeine pills but they only last 4 hours each so that only held me over for a day.

In the end due to a pathetic attempt to address the drug epidemic they forced a non-addicted suffering patient to take drugs far riskier and more addictive than needed and drastically increased my risk of addiction, all in the ironically vain attempt to prevent my addiction.

Luckily as of yesterday I managed to reduce my swelling through use of a ketogenic diet enough that the pain is lessened and I stopped taking morphine. 2 days in with no morphine and I am not addicted, but I am one of the lucky few who isn't very easily addicted.

Long story short it NEVER pays to dictate what people can do with their own body, even drugs. Provide advice and support and leave the power with the individual.

@arteteco @absolutus @Surasanji @hashtaggrammar

I was thinking about our 1000 character limit rule regarding required CW.

I want to propose an exception to this rule. It should only apply to original posts. Replies should be exempt of this rule (or at least have a much higher limit like 3,000).

The reason for this is replies do not show in federated timeline, local timeline, or even home for anyone except the person specifically being replied to. Therefore the consequence of "blowing up" the timeline of bystanders no longer applies and thus the exception should be reasonable.

Thoughts?

@Gargron

BUG I just noticed...

I went to view my own profile by clicking on it while logged in. It showed my posts but only two pinned toots were shown out of the 4 i had set (though all the other posts that arent pinned showed after it as normal).

I hit the refresh button and when it refreshed all toots displayed as usual. this is the first time i ever saw this happen.