LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@qoto.org

My favorite fun fact about the US military is that some old Navy FLTSATCOM satellites have been abused by Brazilians as free CB radio relays, e.g. by truckers to chat on the road.

These vintage 1980s satellites are nothing more than analog linear amplifiers without any authentication. It's open to everyone as long as long you can point an antenna at it, with a RF mixer at the right frequency. The military can't do anything. This audio recording is absolutely hilarious: https://www.solarix.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/260.625-US-Military-Channel-Warnings.mp3

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/3guxco/brazilian_satcom_pirate_transmitting_sstv_images/
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/listening-brazilian-fleetsatcom-pirates-rtl-sdr/

@KagroX Spotted at 1/2 Price Books in Fremont California America #COVID19 #COVID

How I feel building stuff Vs how I feel baking stuff

How it started: How it's going:

I2P On The Pinephone / Pinetab?

Sure Can! 🧄 🔒

Mostly Recognize I2P For Anonymity / Privacy Purposes, It's Also An Easy Way To Add end-to-end #encryption to apps (#security)

(now shared first on blog, next #Tor friendly Peertube in advance of non-tor friendly vid platforms)

#tutorial #HumanRights #OnlineSafety #Netsurf #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity #I2P #Pinephone #Pinetab #Pine64 #hardware #Java #TILvids #peertube #federation #decentralized

https://tilvids.com/w/pj6yCJoacjLtAPUHCLo79d

Saw this 3 years ago - made me laugh

Food chain

Sines, sines, everywhere there's sines. Here's sined multires value noise with sined color postprocessing, for #Genuary15's prompt "sine waves". I love the shimmery look that RGB colors take on when they go through a sine function.

#Genuary #Genuary2023

Hello Mastodon

#generativeart

A friend of mine posed the following puzzle:

> You have 12 marbles, which all have the same weight except one, which may be either heavier or lighter. How can you find the different one in three weighings on a balance scale?

I know I've seen it before, but it still too me a while to work out a solution. Then I wanted to visualize the solution, and cobbled together haskell, graphviz, and a couple shell scripts.

Then, of course, I saw my solution was wrong and had to re-work it.

Spoiler, of course:

https://github.com/bwbeach/puzzles/blob/main/weigh-twelve/README.md

AI has won. It's too late for us. #AIart