#radio #Shortwave #InternationalBroadcasting #HFUnderground #DXing Regarding my previous comments about HF Underground's bot, fanbot, being stuck in the 49 meter band then suggesting that the 25 meter band should have something on it, well, for those of you who are just discovering this medium, RN da Amazonia should provide good music listening right about now (1630 UTC, 7:30pm Central). Prior to this specified time I heard them play the classic Sergio Mendes "Mas Que Nada".
Reception conditions change over the course of the day, subject to daylight/darkness patterns, but if you're looking for a good place to start, here ya go. Shortwave radio is a great place to find pirates, such as what Radio Free Trumpistan might be someday.
“There is a movement afoot in America that says in order to protect and ‘save’ young boys and men, they must become disciples of the movement of White Jesus. Unlike Jesus Christ, White Jesus is on a violent quest for naked power and influence and wealth.”
~ Angela Denker, Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Minneapolis: Broadleaf, 2025), p. xii
A comprehensive look at the rise in radicalization among young white men in America, especially focused on the role of right-wing Christianity in the increase of religious-based hatred and violence.
An adult scrub cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) photographed with my iPhone 15 Pro and a lens over the main camera so I could focus close. I like the effect achieved by the shallow depth of field.
Un grillo de matorral adulto (Phaneroptera falcata) fotografiado con mi iPhone 15 Pro y una lente sobre la cámara principal para poder enfocar de cerca. Me gusta el efecto conseguido por la escasa profundidad de campo.
Eine ausgewachsene Laubheuschrecke (Phaneroptera falcata), fotografiert mit meinem iPhone 15 Pro und einem Objektiv über der Hauptkamera, um nah heran zu kommen. Mir gefällt der Effekt, der durch die geringe Schärfentiefe erzielt wird.
This proposal essentially ends U.S. leadership and dominance in space research and space-based astronomy.
"NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions."
Does it really? Or does it just open up direct contracts to Space X cutting out NASA? After all there is spending with SpaceX that is not affiliated with NASA and is affiliated with DoD and of course their private contracts. So does this really have an effect on Space X? Is this just a ploy to make it appear that Musk's Companies are not being favored?
Maybe I a full of it, though I cannot help but speculate.
note: Though I am no Elon Musk fan I still will not deny the good that SpaceX or the Open Source EV plans he shared have done. Just because an individual is an arse does not mean nothing they have done has helped us. I believe people tend to forget that.
@Unus Nemo Well, if a cut opens up contract opportunities for Space X, Space X still has half a budget that can be spent on it, so I don't look at it that way. In order for Space X to benefit, then more---not less--money would have been made available for it to exploit.
That cut is in NASA's budget right? So no it would not mean that there was less money for Space X, just NASA, right?
What I am pointing out is that if DoD orders X amount of rocket engines for missiles from SpaceX, that is their current supplier, then it does not come out of NASA's research budget. It comes out of DoD's budget. etc...
Although Bill Maher swears he “didn’t go MAGA” during his visit to the White House, he seems to have a new favorite dinner host. On Friday’s episode of Real
I was on the Instance off and on last night at work on breaks. When I got home I noticed the site was down again due to a HTTP 500 Error. I have done some more massaging to the php-fpm config though I will need to get some rack before I can dig into it and find out what optimum setting would be for my server giving its memory.
Sorry for any inconveniences still trying to tune the server. I am not sure at all how long the server has been down.
@Unus Nemo I know that it went down around 8:30pm Central, which is about when I'm playing hashtag games, which places me as Prime Suspect as to why, I'm afraid. ======== Oh--I also typically select Global, Other Servers; not sure if that helps either.
@plan-A @Unus Nemo Here it is hours later, as I post this comment, that it just now occurs to me that "HTTP 500 errors" in Friendica might very well be analogous to the "Internal Server error 500" I keep running into on the Mastodon instance Qoto. Previous snags on that is the main reason I thought I might be at fault here because my accessing other servers was causing some kind of other traffic errors, which admin fixed but that's when I started getting frequent 500 errors...thing is, Qoto was never unfunctional--it was still running once the error cleared itself. Hmmm....
Yes, an Internal Server Error 500 is a HTTP Error 500 though keep in mind that if something you are doing is causing the error then it should not. So that is my fault as the Server should be able to handle the issue. I will tweak the configuration until the issue is resolved. If the server does go down while you are doing something then it helps greatly when you tell me when and what you were doing at the time it went down. As you have been doing, thank you. Please note that I am the only administrator on this Instance and no one else can answer questions about it, no matter how well their intentions may be. Only I have the access to the logs and configuration that tells the tale and provides the answers. To fix and see what the problem might be. There is noway another user without administrative access could possibly give you meaningful answers regarding the instance.
Yes, an Internal Server Error 500 is a HTTP Error 500 though keep in mind that if something you are doing is causing the error then it should not. So that is my fault as the Server should be able to handle the issue. I will tweak the configuration until the issue is resolved. If the server does go down while you are doing something then it helps greatly when you tell me when and what you were doing at the time it went down. As you have been doing, thank you. Please note that I am the only administrator on this Instance and no one else can answer questions about it, no matter how well their intentions may be. Only I have the access to the logs and configuration that tells the tale and provides the answers. To fix and see what the problem might be. There is noway another user without administrative access could possibly give you meaningful answers regarding the instance.
The Error may happen because something you do, though the fault will always be mine. The maintenance and configuration of the server is my responsibility not anyone else. Just keep working with me and we will get this resolved.
Thanks for your help and sorry for the inconvenience.
I know you have the best of intentions though there is noway you can know that. You do not have access to the server side were the faults are. This is not a failing script issue as I initially thought it might be. It is the PHP-FPM configuration.
In fact it is likely the Hash Tag games that are causing the issue. At the end of the day, yes, it is my responsibility to fix this type of error and the poor configuration that allowed it to happen is my fault not the users. So it is my fault and no one else. Though, that does not eliminate that it was something a user did that took the server down due to the configuration issues. I need them to give me feedback to fix these issues. So please do not tell users of this Instance that what they did or did not do had any effect on the problem. There is noway for you to definitively or even accurately answer those type of questions..
@Unus Nemo Noted, and thank you for all the work you do. I hadn't gotten your email addy at the time, but as soon as this came back online, I looked for the...well, equivalent to About Us page....and now have that information pasted to a text file so upon the occurrence of a next-time, I will definitely email you. Happy to be of help.
Judge allows Trump administration to deport Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil over pro-Palestine activism independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
America is dead. "The Constitution" is meaningless, and the rule of law is once again nothing more than a pipe dream. #uspoli #uspolitics #trump #fascism #mahmoudkhalil
I think California and Canada should make a new country of 80 million people called Canafornia, which had a booming film industry, free healthcare, no trade wars, and a sane president.
I suspect dismantling VOA, Radio Free Asia and the media are in fact accurately reflecting the position of the US against our adversaries. You know, like Canada, Greenland and the EU. We are sending messages, to be sure.
Sorry but I don't trust email because of the #RIME Space Moose. Everyone else has a bit-bucket, but RIME has Space Moose. |\/\/\O_O/\/\/| Let's continue this conversation by #SnailMail please. #BBS #Compuserve #SubGeniusSIG
I just did a Google search on "Nibi-Nibi" and its AI came up with wrong answers. I then did a Google search on "Nibi-Nibi" shortwave. FINALLY got the right answer on The SWLing Post...so...for those of you trying to figure out the Rep. of Nibi-Nibi reference, this one is the correct information.
"Source was “Short-Wave Report” by Hank Bennett, Popular Electronics, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., New York, p. 86, March 1959."
Image of Popular Electronics announcement; text : Nibi-Nibi Islands "A few months ago there appeared in the bulletins of various clubs and organizations an item about a new station located in the Nibi-Nibi Islands. Additional reports on this station have been received from time to time, with the latest report containing information on new programming. The National Geographic Society claims that
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I just did a Google search on "Nibi-Nibi" and its AI came up with wrong answers. I then did a Google search on "Nibi-Nibi" shortwave. FINALLY got the right answer on The SWLing Post...so...for those of you trying to figure out the Rep. of Nibi-Nibi reference, this one is the correct information.
"Source was “Short-Wave Report” by Hank Bennett, Popular Electronics, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., New York, p. 86, March 1959."
Image of Popular Electronics announcement; text : Nibi-Nibi Islands "A few months ago there appeared in the bulletins of various clubs and organizations an item about a new station located in the Nibi-Nibi Islands. Additional reports on this station have been received from time to time, with the latest report containing information on new programming. The National Geographic Society claims that there is no such island. And investigation into the situation by several veteran DX'ers has failed to locate the original source of the information. It is believed now that the entire episode was a hoax. While it may have begun as a harmless prank, it has, nevertheless, consumed the time and efforts of the editors of many clubs, organizations, and DX programs. This sort of thing has no place in short-wave listening. It is sincerely hoped that all DX'ers will be on the lookout for such obviously phony reporting and will do all they can to discourage any repetition of this kind"
Boeing, helicopters, airport close calls...I who was once an enjoyer of Southwest Airlines' Fun Fares when they had them now have a fear of flying. As in absolute NOPE.
#Trump & #Musk #FAA firings seem to be going really well. 🤦🏼♀️
All three people on board a small plane were killed when the aircraft crashed in #BocaRaton, Florida, on Friday morning, according to local officials and the Federal Aviation Administration.
This will be a "Pot-Luck" affair, so bring something if you're handy in the kitchen. If you have some folding chairs, it would probably help if you could bring a couple of them as well.
32/50....... Hammarlund Comet Pro HELP Name........ Andy Wallace #6 @9201 From........ WWIVnet - TANSTAAFL [508-250-0826] Location.... Massachusetts
I just picked up a Hammarlund Comet Pro, variation 5, which dates to about 1935.
I desperately need these things for my restoration:
-- MANUAL or SCHEMATIC, a.s.a.p.! -- I need to know what kind of speaker I can use with this -- will buy your early Hammarlund speaker! -- My receiver is MISSING the coils which go in the two cans in the center of the receiver. They have five-pin ceramic sockets. I will have to buy original coils or else homebrew my own. DATA ON THESE COILS is needed! I would also like to get appropriate coil forms for this. Since it's a 4-band receiver (1.5-20 [SPACEBAR TO CONTINUE] Mc/s) I will need 8.
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^^ Yessir folks, that's the one and only "Why Is There Air" Bill Cosby in the mid 1980s plugging the legendary Texas Instruments personal computer--and yes, he was also doing Picture Pages for Captain Kangaroo. And just before Compuserve got eaten by AOL, you're seeing that right: SIG = Special Interest Group and yes I had an actual account and was member of WITSIG, which is the name that NETWITS changed to, so yes, I'd been online for quite some time even in the 1980s.
The name I used in an earlier post in this vein was also an actual WITSIG account, and that was the wittiest handle I found on there: Mahatma Coate. <lessa> was the group's head, and that was her handle until she donned earrings, thus: <*>lessa<*>
Welcome to the Wildcat EMAIL downloader. Your QWK packet will be processed by the packer you selected in your account settings (ZIP, ARJ etc). You will need a QWK reader like SLiMR, Blue Wave and the like. Eclipse won't work.
Whoopee Tai Yai Yay, git along li'l DOGE It's your misfortune and all of our own Whoopee Ty Yai Yay, git along li'l DOGE I hope that Wyoming will be your new home (and don't come back).
I went in and reconfigured my php-fpm pm.start_servers values as it appears default pool was too small and would get busy quite quickly. I am hoping this cures the issue. I found no other PHP errors to deal with so I hope this is the culprit. So I am hoping that getting this fine tuned and all will be well on the Instance, or so I hope. 😀
note: The default is really low which is 50. If I can exceed that limit with only 3 active users I am sure it will have to be much higher. I will have to do more research to see what a good value should be.
@Unus Nemo Nice! ...but that reminds me of a bot I love but haven't seen in a while, and that's the ANSI Art bot. Actually there are more of those, quite possibly ASCII art too. You just reminded me of how much I miss those.
On all my systems, even my server, I use a common MOTD scheme. I use figlet for the banners and cowsay for the dragon and fortune for the text and a Perl oneliner to capitalize the user name in the banner.
note: lolcat will use -b on some versions and -t on others. Use lolcat --help to see which is applicable to your version. When I login in to either my server or my workstation if the MOTD strikes me at that moment as interesting I share it here 😉.
I could likely make a Bot that could reproduce this though that is a project for later 😉.
@Unus Nemo Well, you've hit on something else I like about Friendica in particular and that its editors handle BBCode. It would be nice if text formatting on Friendica would successfully translate to Mastodon and Diaspora, but it doesn't (Diaspora uses Markup). Somebody somewhere would do well to adapt ActivityPub to effect that intertranslation.
The problem is that all CSS is stripped when it arrives at most non-friendica nodes. This would not be a hard fix though the concern is they want a common interface for their users. The only way to ensure that is to eliminate all formatting and display it by local defaults.
Take that as speculation. I still have a lot to learn about Activity Pub & DFRN. What would make sense to me was if the un-transpiled bbcode was transfered. Though I am pretty sure it is the html.
@Unus Nemo I am delighted to discover that this instance is working in time for 9 O'Clock Hashtag Games! Now if only rapid interaction was possible. Still, good show!
@Unus Nemo ...and now I must make a point to add that tonight's activities with HashtagGames was a delight on your site. I guess if you've read my entries, you also are more familiar with my technical background. I've been online ever since there was an online to be on, but as far as coding goes, I simply haven't kept up with the times because it's all like one huge tech firehose at this point.
I woke up today to find my Instance was down. I am not sure why at this point. It is a work day today and I will be busy this weekend so not sure when I will be able to investigate further as to why this is happening. I have my suspensions though there will be no easy fixes for this I am afraid.
note: The VPS was still up and running so it was not the issue. Restarting httpd & MariaDB only brought it from a 500 to a 503. So I will have to rummage through the logs to see what is going on.
note: Some preliminary research shows this is going to be a PHP related issue. Which is good and bad. As it means it is code base, as I have a pristine code base (no alterations) this is an upstream issue. It may be in an Addon? That would be nice disable the Addon problem fixed. Though I am not often that lucky. I will look through the PHP logs and see which process jammed the system 😉.
That's the least of its "faults". Both Friendica instances I'm on go offline at the worst possible time, and that's when 9'O'Clock Hashtag Games commence then ramp up to peak. Since Monsterdon begins at that same time on Sundays, same problem. I'll have to schedule that time to be on Mastodon somewhere instead.
I think it would be good to have a moderation system similar to Mastodon where you can report problematic content, an admin will be notified and decide what to do with that reported post: warn the ...
When they get a full fledged moderation system then it would be nice if administrators used it to moderate. The issue is gong to be that you have a lot of kids playing around with their instances that only use moderation as a way to help their friends and punish their enemies. I have noticed this on other Fediverse Instances. Not to say this means we should not strive for a better moderation system as there are those that need and will use it. Though I am concerned that it will go largely unused and greatly abused.
@Unus Nemo Excellent point, that. I signed up for a Mastodon instance that I only later discovered was heavily moderated by many other instances because of the conduct of the admin. He's caused no issues for me and as long as that's the case, we live/let live, but propagation is a major problem over there. We who register often have no prior knowledge of any given instance's global reputation. OR how widely in the Fediverse it's been blocked.
kids can moderate all they like on their instances, makes no difference to anyone. All moderation does, is local to that instance.
Larger instances however would benefit from a good moderation system, as it’s also more about moderating your own userbase and content going in and out of your instance. Not moderating ends your instance unfederated from other servers. Also if your membership is open, you want to prevent illegal content, as you are responsible.
It is not like Friendica has zero moderation. It has the ability to report abuse and for the administrator to take action. If you look at the OP it is criticizing Friendica for not having a Mastodon level of moderation, not none at all.
There is no problem with eliminating illegal content, passing it on the LEA and removing the abusive user.
I am well aware that the kids abuse only effects their own Instance. Until they get blocked by enough Instances that their Instance has near zero propagation.
I was not belittling moderation I was stating that I suspect it will not be widely or wisely used based on what I see on other types of Instances that already have more sophisticated moderation in place. That goes unused or abused.
oh all good, my apologies. I should have read the full conversation and not just reply direct to yours post (it’s all I saw in my timeline!). I agree, most moderation is not used widely, or wisely. I’ve not used Friendica as yet either.
Even for mid sized servers, the weakness of decentralized servers is most are run by regular you and I’s who aren’t professional moderators and don’t run social media as a business. Hobby servers with limited funds.
@Unus Nemo @Samuel Lison I wouldn't go that far, though. If a Mastodon instance displays a Mastadon-generated post, then comments, they DO provide a link to the Thread as such. That's something else that doesn't propagate to non-Mastadon instances. Neither Friendica or Diaspora even offer that sort of feature.
yeah, I am replying and reading through micro.blog and there is a link to “conversation” which I can click and see the whole conversation and should have done that initially before responding. I am new to this #fediverse thing 😁
Maybe replies shouldn’t automatically show up in all your followers feeds by default as they are not really part of that specific conversation.
same boat here. Annoying that all I see in my timeline is a response to someone’s post. Because I follow you and not the OP. I either have to click directly on your response or click on “conversation” (in micro.blog) to open the full thread, or at least, what’s loaded on this instance.
Confusing, if you ask me.
It’s like listening in to your conversations and not actually being a part of it - then jumping in!
@Samuel Lison @Unus Nemo Actually, jumping in on a conversation is one of the delights of the Fediverse. Last year, I think, during MastodonMigration's influx of Twitter refugees, somebody posted a poll about which key did you click first: Home or Federated. I daresay I was in a tiny minority of people who responded "Federated", but then again, Mastodon posts both postings and replies individually but provide a link to a thread.
Friendica displays posts and their subsequent comments together, but your Settings determine how those are displayed, so you have a choice in the matter.
Can you tell me what time, your time, that the server was down. When I got up today it was down. I believe I have figured out the issue but it still may need some fine tuning.
@Unus Nemo Roughly 8pm central--that's when I found it down, and it was down this morning too. I suspect it went down earlier than that. Strangely enough, it's the same time Friendica My Portal frequently goes offline, though it doesn't do that consistently. Just mostly.
I went through my logs and found that fpm-php was having issues. I have made some adjustments and I hope they are fine though I will not have time to further research and adjust until next Monday.
@Unus Nemo Understood, and kudos to you to at least keeping your users posted on what's going on when you find it. The one major issue that caused me to move off of Friendica My Portal is that it was taken down by the admin and the admin didn't announce the fact other than to render the messaging editor unfunctional. I understand the need for periodic maintenance of any given site, but making a site look usable when it isn't, and not announce what you're fixin' to do in advance of the fact....or, better, a "This site is not available at this time, check back later"...is just outright rude and abusive.
I do my experimental work on a test server not this production server. I will have to take it down from time to time for updates though that will not be too often and I will announce ahead of time. At the moment I have not time to do any updates, not even ones that are needed 😉. Though this version appears fairly stable so I am not pressed to go cutting edge at the moment.
After I get past a lot of changes in my personal life I will have more time to work on the site. Though as it is just a hobby really I do not have the time to commit to keeping it cutting edge.
I decided to make my instance OPEN so that others can benefit from its existence. No need to be greedy. Though ultimately this is not a for profit endeavor so I can only commit so much time to it as I need to make a living elsewhere.
I appreciate you letting me know when things go wrong. My email is in the site
I do my experimental work on a test server not this production server. I will have to take it down from time to time for updates though that will not be too often and I will announce ahead of time. At the moment I have not time to do any updates, not even ones that are needed 😉. Though this version appears fairly stable so I am not pressed to go cutting edge at the moment.
After I get past a lot of changes in my personal life I will have more time to work on the site. Though as it is just a hobby really I do not have the time to commit to keeping it cutting edge.
I decided to make my instance OPEN so that others can benefit from its existence. No need to be greedy. Though ultimately this is not a for profit endeavor so I can only commit so much time to it as I need to make a living elsewhere.
I appreciate you letting me know when things go wrong. My email is in the site Information tab so if something goes wrong and I have not attended to it try to email as well. During work cycles I may go days without logging in. Be sure to put Something like Friendica Site Down in the subject line. The first time you email it may go to junk though I will fix that as soon as you email once.
When protesters converged this past weekend across America, they seized on two central villains: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. On this episode, host and Vanity
Long ago there once was a crude Brit Who was accused of refusing a lewd bit Benny Hill said "'Twasn't me!" Red Skelton shouted "SEE! I admit it was me--yes, I DOOD IT!
For those who don't know, HF Underground covers all things shortwave radio. This posting is in regard to the schedule of the new broadcasting season. Propagation peculiarities of HF (high frequency) demands seasonal schedule changes to accommodate seasonal propagation changes. #HFradio #ShortwaveRadio #InternationalBroadcasting
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Does it really? Or does it just open up direct contracts to Space X cutting out NASA? After all there is spending with SpaceX that is not affiliated with NASA and is affiliated with DoD and of course their private contracts. So does this really have an effect on Space X? Is this just a ploy to make it appear that Musk's Companies are not being favored?
Maybe I a full of it, though I cannot help but speculate.
note: Though I am no Elon Musk fan I still will not deny the good that SpaceX or the Open Source EV plans he shared have done. Just because an individual is an arse does not mean nothing they have done has helped us. I believe people tend to forget that.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •Well, if a cut opens up contract opportunities for Space X, Space X still has half a budget that can be spent on it, so I don't look at it that way. In order for Space X to benefit, then more---not less--money would have been made available for it to exploit.
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That cut is in NASA's budget right? So no it would not mean that there was less money for Space X, just NASA, right?
What I am pointing out is that if DoD orders X amount of rocket engines for missiles from SpaceX, that is their current supplier, then it does not come out of NASA's research budget. It comes out of DoD's budget. etc...