GitHub uptime showing 89.91% uptime

GitHub back to two nines of uptime from only one, lets gooo

.... wait not like that

gqrx's settings menu showing a list of attached SDRs. Two of which are "RTL-SDR" devices (rtl=0, rtl=1) with obviously bogus product strings, which talk to my rust radio code instead.

Due to life decisions, I use my SDRs over the network with my own protocol.

Existing programs don't support it, so it was high time to do what any normal person would do -- convincingly implement librtlsdr .so off my rust sdr codebase (sparky) and make it work. Obviously

k3xec.com/sparky-rtlsdr/

I had a bit of an own-goal in picking a 20 minute form-factor, so the talk is paced wrong (it feels like it went way too fast). Hopefully being able to see the slides and pause the video is helpful.

I've posed my slides and linked to the video recording from my talk "Paging All Radio Curious Hackers!" at @districtcon.bsky.social Year 1 just now at k3xec.com/paging-all-r...

All in all, the session was great - It was truly humbling to see so many folks interested in hearing me talk about radios.

jon "gzip" johnson likely has a deep bag of tricks depending on access patterns

cc @jon.dag.dev

Oh! Very cool! Enjoy WA! Feel free to send my thermal printer a hello (ask @mako.cc how!) next time you're at ELS!

I mean, 10/10 would try

This batch is about half the heat as last years and I think it's better for it but hey - really wanted the peach to come through at least a LITTLE this year

if I can only be known for one thing let it be I ferment deliciously

yesssssssss! I hope you enjoyed ❤️🌶️🍑

gqrx screenshot of the spectrum plot and waterfall plot. the waterfall plot is, hilariously, a recognizable image of the "doge with gun" meme, sitting next to a large looking ham radio receiver captioned "I lied, I don't have netflix" "take off your shoes, we're gonna listen to Russian numbers stations on shortwave radio"

happy to report i'm very much back on my bullshit

The Promised LAN https://tpl.house/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661682

I have a problem

In response to the interest in the technical aspects I stood up this small pile of HTML tpl.house covering some of the basics of how The Promised LAN works

A site dedicated to info about it / how to set up your own: tpl.house 👀

When I was sending this draft around to houses on the LAN two folks sent this along -- i feel it all so deeply. ❤️

Remembering the LAN Learn more about the early days of LAN.

A lovely post. It reminds me a bit of this: tailscale.com/blog/remembe... which was the inspiration for Tailscale.

❤️❤️❤️

"The Promised LAN" - a lament from my friend @pault.ag on the internet as it is today, as it was, and as it could/should be, if you answer the call-to-action and link up with your friends ❤

notes.pault.ag/tpl/

tldr on the tech aspect is IPSec IKEv2 PSK (AES 256, SHA2 512, curve 25519; ESP chacha20poly1305 curve 25519), using bird (debian)/bgpd (openbsd) to exchange routes

You can read long-form thoughts at notes.pault.ag/tpl/ where I tried to capture as much as I could into one place.

This is on my blog but I was just the one to put keyboard to markdown here. I am exactly one of many. I hope this represents our thoughts well. It definitely represents mine.

We know we can't scale this. We can't even get all our friends on the LAN. I don't know how long that will take -- nevermind letting anyone outside that group in.

However -- this is my call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Have fun with computers.

We’ve grown our own culture and fads - around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each other’s counters.

There’s a 3-node IRC network, exotic hardware to gawk at, LAN only email, and even a SIP phone network of redphones.

We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.

In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together.

The idea is simple - fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things.

After around 4 years, I wrote down a manifesto for a project a handful of us participate in called "The Promised LAN".

Feels a bit self-congratulatory, but this is the sort of thing I'm particularly proud to spend my time on earth helping with.

Some personal #debian news here

I'm incredibly grateful, humbled and excited to have been entrusted with the opportunity to serve on Debian's technical committee. I'm looking forward to a lot of listening, learning and careful work.

lists.debian.org/Z88nbv5t36I8...

started to try and recreate this photo but the pagers kept going off

you think that's bad, just imagine spending $2k for a brand new b210 to get your table and spend $10 on dinner