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psim1··on Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up
I might be oversimplifying, but isn't this the perfect argument for certain digital voice modes? DMR for example uses TDM to put two voice channels in a 12.5 KHz band.
psim1··on Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up
Where are the amateur bands so crowded that this is a serious concern?
psim1··on Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up
AM (CW) -> AM voice -> SSB -> FM wide -> FM narrow -> Digital

Modes have to evolve and the amateur radio community needs to do more to educate. The harrumphs of the old-timers can be discouraging, but amateur radio needs to push through that in order to stay current.

psim1··on How I encrypt my data in the cloud
I'm considering a Cloudberry Labs (freeware/personal) + BB B2 combination for encrypted cloud backups and would like to hear opinions specifically on the Cloudberry part. I love the command-line suggestions in this comment thread but need something that "just works" as a Windows service for my wife's pc.
psim1··on Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
Title should read, "Cloudflare Outage."
psim1··on Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
The amount of posturing and blaming in Cloudflare's response is breathtakingly unprofessional. If the article was just a few sentences longer, you could have squeezed in a few more statements of blame. We know, they messed up. But Cloudflare isn't making itself look any better by rolling the bus over Verizon again and again.
psim1··on Your ‘recycled’ laptop may end up in an illegal Asian scrapyard
“I’ve been investigating these guys, and they look just like normal businessmen. So, what makes them stand out? No matter which [illegal factory] we raid, we always find the owner is from China.”

Chinese opportunists can no longer get away with it in China, so they are exploiting nearby developing nations to do their dirty work.

psim1··on High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment
I have found that by paying the same amount as the premium of the PPO into my HSA that I come out even, if I end up spending the whole deductible, or ahead (i.e. building savings), if I don't. In other words, I don't see any disadvantage to HDHP+HSA vs. PPO plan.
psim1··on Plprofiler – A Handy Tool for Profiling PL/pgSQL Code
Original article title is "plprofiler – Getting a Handy Tool for Profiling Your PL/pgSQL Code." What is the implication behind the title used here, "If you still write stored procedures in a Database, you may need a profiler"?
psim1··on Museum of Failure
> - OS/2 WARP

Failed to beat Windows as a desktop or server OS, but succeeded in other ways. It was widely used as an embedded OS for ATMs and distributed as a support software for IBM mainframes.

Did it fail because it is no longer around? (Cf. other operating systems such as IRIX or Solaris, which is basically dead now, but strong for a time) Or because it did not fulfill a certain purpose--though it did fulfill another?

psim1··on We Must Revive Gopherspace (2017)
Why not just serve static text over HTTP? At least then you'd have the ability to inline images. This--the use of Javascript and other technology for tracking purposes--isn't a problem for Gopher to solve. It's a problem for web content creators.
psim1··on What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA
I will recommend the 2018 book "Habeas Data" which explains a lot of the case law that got us to this point. (https://www.amazon.com/Habeas-Data-Privacy-Rise-Surveillance...)
psim1··on Ham Radio – CQ: Personal Mastery Through Hobbies
I have found the best part of taking up amateur radio as a hobby to be the book learning aspect. The world of electromagnetism is fascinating.

When I started communicating locally, my thrill was squashed by uninterested complaining old men who thought my equipment was not expensive enough.

But radio theory and engineering, that's great stuff worth learning.

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