Die Saat geht auf... Team #Hfwago

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This is one of the things that frustrates me about #Meshcore in my neighborhood: I'm in a shallow valley and the nearest repeaters are over the ridges. I can hear them, but they can't hear me. Y'know, like regular ham radio. And I have an antenna on the roof of my 2nd floor apartment, no less. I have to go downtown to chat. #AustinMesh

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Screenshot of the meshcore app where I'm transmitting, yet nobody hears me. But I can hear them. "How goes the propagation today" "nobody hears me, that's how"

Hmm, I wonder why I modularized this scrap video capture (?) card.
I guess somebody had already pulled the main chip from it.

But I don't recall what I used the voltage regulator modules for.
Which is a shame.
But I did come across this image in my archives.

Interesting: this startup has demonstrated the use of electricity to extract carbon and water from the air to make gasoline at a rate of one gallon per day. The amount of electric energy used is roughly double the energy contained in the gasoline in the end, so it’s nowhere near as good as directly powering an EV, but still, it’s interesting that carbon capture can be done for gasoline cars, which could allow ICE vehicles to become carbon-neutral faster than converting every vehicle to an EV.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2083556/new-york-startup-builds-machine-that-makes-gasoline-from-air/

Video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728808

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

There are thousands of independent weather stations publishing their conditions over APRS, some via radio and some via the internet. You can grab the raw stream of data from any APRS server, or see it visualized on a site like https://aprs.fi

CC: @xan@xantronix.social

My memory of the "personal web" at that time is that it felt like it was a linear progression from BBSes, gopher, Usenet, and IRC. More graphical and more widely accessible, but with a lot of the same community spirit.

CC: @Mnemonic@hackers.town

Farmers in Bastrop, TX were hopeful when Elon Musk bought land nearby, but now he’s turning the area into “an environmentally hazardous industrial park.” Authorities won’t do anything because they’re understaffed and “intimidated by their powerful new neighbor.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-vs-organic-farmers-bastrop/

#elonmusk #spacex #tech #texas #boringcompany