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Back in my Navy days, we were taught HF is the less susceptible to jamming so is used for critical comms like these in serious situations. My ship performed in one exercise related to a doomsday scenario. We sat all day listening to an HR receiver until we heard these same messages, and we would then record the characters spoken. The message was repeated so we could make sure what we wrote was accurate. We never responded. Instead, we then repeated the same messages on an HF transmitter, presumably as part of some relay.
Re:VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @04:21AM (#46299848)
Been running Fedora on Dell XPS 13 for a couple years with zero problems.
Re:Matt's Script Archive (1995) on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:49PM (#43235547)
WWWBoard is such a nostalgia hit. My local music venue's forum was where my early internet persona originated. Sometimes I nostalgic and use Wayback machine to see what all my fellow teenagers were talking about 25 years ago.
Re:Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:07AM (#43231832)
I tried both models. I could easily tell Maya was AI, but Miles sounded so lifelike that I felt that initial apprehension like hopping on a conference line with strangers. I even chuckled at one of his side remarks. It was strange knowing it wasn’t a real person, but it was very hard not to feel like it was.
Re:What is 'AI washing' and why is it a problem? on Monday July 01, 2024 @07:37AM (#40844780)
Then I suppose AI laundering is where you slightly modify, or manually reproduce, the results of AI chatbots so there’s no trace that AI was used.
Re:The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @05:28PM (#40229722)
What would you hope to gain from a “more reliable” source when the DailyCaller article links to the sources of its claims? Do you not even bother to read something if it’s from a source you don’t frequently read?
If not vertical farming, weed killing lasers, an ze bugs, where is innovation needed in AgTech?
It would only take a few of the 17 companies that own nearly everything to affect hundreds of millions of products worldwide.

https://buildremote.co/companies/own-everything/

Ask HN: Has anyone hacked the Hydrow rowing machine?

I purchased a Hydrow rowing machine for $2500 during the pandemic. It comes with a built in monitor that streams rowing sessions but it requires a subscription. Using it without the subscription is so limited it’s pointless. It seems just restrictive enough that it would have piqued the interest of someone with way more reverse engineering ability than myself.

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Re:White House warns it might break patents of high-priced drugs on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:24PM (#38559856)
Couldn’t you just say not enough Democrats support it without somewhere interweaving blame on Republicans?
Re:An/PSQ-42 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:03PM (#38559575)
How many people tried to intentionally make themselves vomit once they heard the rumor?
Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars? on Thursday November 30, 2023 @09:07AM (#38473670)
I love my Toyota and will always recommend them as a reliable brand. Their replacement parts are relatively cheap and they’re easy to maintain.
Re:U.S. Naval Institute Fleet Tracker on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:58PM (#38382592)
We also have a number of pre-positioned ships, forward-deployed supply ships just chilling in the Pacific, waiting for something to pop off.
Re:Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:08PM (#38225799)
Just want to add to the positive voices wishing for Woz’s speedy recovery.
I use Phind daily, including the VSCode extension, and I love it. Much better than anything ChatGPT is able to come up and the code it generates requires little-to-no modification to work properly. Very big fan!
I think similar when I read stories like “police investigating use of slurs in local high school” or “police are investigating racial flyers” or some such…when did any of this become illegal? It’s not illegal in the US to have unpopular and or bigoted views.
Re:This Japanese Town Sorts Their Waste into These 45 Categories on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:12PM (#37851578)
Used to live in Japan and separating trash is no joke. If I didn’t use the right bag, or didn’t separate things properly, the trash bag would end up back on my porch with a big old yellow sticker. It was effective as I was really diligent with sorting my trash afterward.
VBScript helped me out of so many jams when I would have been otherwise hindered by government/military IT policies. Thanks for the memories.
Re:Netflix is planning to raise prices again on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:30PM (#37760166)
Both Hulu and Peacock recently increased their prices by a dollar or something. Then Spotify did it. They’re just squeezing the last little bit of revenue they can before we’re all completely broke.
They weren’t previously misdemeanors, which is part of the problem. They made a felony on par with jaywalking.
Not that I would do it, but would I live longer if I just started eating naked mole rats?
The ultimate hacker hero of the ‘90s. RIP Kevin.
Re:Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:10AM (#36733339)
I’m guessing they paste a portion of the website’s source then tell ChatGPT to generate a script that can generate an RSS feed from that site.
> with participants obsessive but aging, very few young people entering the scene

I believe amateur/ham radio is experiencing a similar aging out of interest as well.

Re:Reddit Strike Has Started on Sunday June 11, 2023 @09:27PM (#36287489)
This is the reason I mod subs. Mods love to come up with new things they feel is ban-worthy. I try to remind them that we already have rules and just have to enforce them without creating additional work. It’s not fun always feeling like the dissenter, but I do it respectfully. So far so good.
If it makes you feel better to think I’m fringe and not just the more vocal portion of the vast majority of people, then you keep living in your bubble.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1815090/

The content itself isn’t toxic just because he community.
I don’t hate anyone and the sub has nothing to do with autogynephilia.
I mod a sub of 2M but our community is so toxic, we don’t think any of the users give a shit. Most of us mod on Apollo so I’m sure the sub will get a little less moderation (which is probably a win for users anyway). Most of the mod complaints about their automated power mod tools not having API access have been resolved according to spez.

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