My area is pretty good, but I went to a hamfest a few towns over and heard some awful stuff being spoken like the most casual thing in the world.

On mastodon, I see people organizing a few leftist nets out there. Might be worth checking for d-star or fusion nets that would let you dial in over internet.

I wouldn’t trust anything like that to the open internet. It would be better to access the system over a VPN when you’re outside the network.

Barony is fun as hell. Engine is FOSS, but the default game assets require purchase.

You’ve laid out one potential development cycle: FOSS from the get-go, and open collaboration welcome.

However, that’s not the only way that a FOSS game might be developed. The code could be freely licensed, but the upstream developers refuse to accept outside patches. In that case, there’s one “original” and then if you don’t like it, build your fork.

Alternatively, a game could be developed entirely in-house under proprietary licenses, and then only made FOSS upon commercial release. Contributor patches could improve the project, but conception of the game would be entirely the domain of its original developers.

By default, the minimum step size between freqs was too big for me to program my local repeater. Had to lower it in the settings before it was accessible.

Burning bridges, lost forevermore

The man is a monster. I don’t know how many of my build jobs have been murdered by this fiend.

How about writing a script to automate the deletion, thus minimizing the chance of human error being a factor? It could include checks like “Is this a folder with .git contents? Am I being invoked from /home/username/my_dev_workspace?”

In a real aviation design scenario, they want to minimize the bullshit tasks that take up cognitive load on a pilot so they can focus on actually flying. Your ejector seat example would probably be replaced with an automatic ejection system that’s managed by the flight computer.

I use a fuckload of soap and hope it keeps the grease from re-forming. Is that still bad?

I would try again with another SD card, if I had one.

My plan was to use asymmetric encryption where the secret key is again encrypted using something like AES

I think your terminology is off. AES is an example of symmetric encryption: Decryption requires the same key as encryption.

An example of asymmetric encryption would be public-key cryptography: You encrypt a message with the public key, but only a private key can decrypt the result.

AES should be fine for encrypting large blocks of data.

I believe that for systems like TLS, asymmetric encryption is only used briefly to negotiate a symmetric key between client and server.

Given that The Prisoner is one of my favorite shows, I immediately read it wrong so that the sign made complete sense.

I think multiple comments would reduce clarity. It is rare for any signle point in an opinion to stand on its own as an atomic unit. A reader would need to jump through a thread to follow your line of reasoning in its entirety.

Single points of an argument may be valid or true on their own, but it is the mutual reinforcement of several points in agreement with each other that will educate or convince someone.

Yeah, I believe there’s some kind of bridge mode you must enable on the host’s interface.

As others have said, a reverse proxy is what you need.

However I will also mention that another tool called macvlan exists, if you’re using containers like podman or docker. Setting up a macvlan network for your containers will trick your server into thinking that the ports exposed by your services belong to a different machine, thus letting them use the same ports at the same time. As far as your LAN is concerned, a container on a macvlan network has its own IP, independent of the host’s IP.

Macvlan is worth setting up if you plan to expose some of your services outside your local network, or if you want to run a service on a port that your host is already using (eg: you want a container to act as DNS on port 53, but systemd-resolved is already using it on the host).

You can set up port forwarding at your router to the containers that you want to publicly expose, and any other containers will be inaccessible. Meanwhile with just a reverse proxy, someone could try to send requests to any domain behind it, even if you don’t want to expose it.

My network is set up such that:

• Physical host has one IP address that’s only accessible over lan.
• Containerized web services that I don’t want to expose publicly are behind a reverse proxy container that has its own IP on the macvlan.
• Containerized web services that I do want to expose publicly have a separate reverse proxy container, which gets a different IP on the macvlan.
• Router has ports 80 and 443 forwarding only to the IP address for my public proxy

Yes, it’s the ratio of how much of the power that you transmit is reflected back towards your rig due to impedence mismatch of antenna <-> radio.

Ideally you want SWR < 2, but for simple voice modes at QRP power, it’s not the end of the world if you end up in the 2-3 range. However digital modes need a good SWR because they transmit at 100% duty cycle. If I don’t get SWR < 2 for my IC-705 during a digital transmit, the reflected power causes my computer’s USB port to reset. At higher powers it could damage my rig or my computer, so it’s definitely a thing to avoid.

1. Hard to recommend, because it will depend on preferences. I went with a QRP Icom IC-705 because I knew I wanted to go hiking and do POTA with it. I will say that 10W can feel very limiting, and it can be tough to make the same contacts that others can easily hit. If down the line you want a stronger transmitter, you’d need to get an amplifier. The overall cost of QRP rig + amp might be more than a “base station” type model with higher xmit power out of the box. Again it all depends on your preferences. At the very least, I’d recommend something with good voice and digital mode performance. Plugging right into WSJT-X or JS8Call for digital is super fun, and I like it a lot more than talking to folks.

2. Never done a build project for xceiver, so I couldn’t say. All those 10W systems can always be amplified for more output.

3. That’s called a random wire antenna. It’s what I currently use when taking my rig out on the go. It consists of an antenna line and a counterpoise joined by a 9:1 unun (not balun). Keep it away from other metal parts like roof gutters or fences. The wire length isn’t actually “random”, but you can find tables online where people test for a length that gets ok SWR on several bands. You will still need an impedence matcher (aka “antenna tuner”) to actually get a usable SWR.

“Still stands” means that there is no known way to achieve it. Not that it’s known to be impossible.

Until the discovery of the virtual console glitch for BitFS a few years ago, the A button challenge “still stood” for all cases.

For anyone wondering, this was done on the virtual console version, so the floating point glitch that lets you skip the climbing pole from Bowser in the fire Sea is available.

The A Button Challenge still stands for the console versions.

Did you mean source-available?

I guess? Always thought there was some pedantic Stallman-esque argument for the differentiation between FOSS and OSS, independent of the Open Source vs Source Available distinction.