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Pretty awesome that satdump has a pipeline that allows it to be a drop-in replacement for goesrecv

SMA connector broke on the nooelec SDR receiver on my GOES receiver Pi, so I replaced it with an RTL SDR v3, but goesrecv wasn't happy with it.
August 11, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Ham radio crew on here?
October 1, 2023 at 11:39 PM
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73 Magazine (April 1967), a amateur Ham radio magazine.
illustrations by Wayne Pierce aka K3SUK
August 1, 2023 at 9:32 PM
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And disturbingly on this day we hear that Orwell's archives could disappear into private collections. We need them!
‘It could disappear for ever’: Anger over sale of George Orwell archive
Businesses are selling off priceless documents piecemeal, after publisher gave the order to ‘get rid of’ them
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Yet another security issue caused by #Microsoft. This time with #MFA being overwritten if you use a QR code and have duplicate usernames, like your email address. Also, it's been broken since 2020. At some point someone with deep pockets is going to sue .. right?

www.csoonline.com/article/3480...
Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
Microsoft stands out from the authenticator crowd by annihilating accounts when new accounts are introduced via QR code. Despite user complaints for years, no fix has been issued, leaving IT experts w...
www.csoonline.com
August 18, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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About 30 different products you can buy online today collect data from your brain.

Colorado recently became the first state in the country to pass legislation protecting neural data in consumer products.
New Products Collect Data From Your Brain. Where Does It Go?
An array of new products monitors users’ brain waves using caps or headbands. That neural data has few privacy protections.
buff.ly
August 18, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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Without archival work, we stand to lose the history of social movements online.
Save your Twitter Account
Amid reports that the site formerly known as Twitter is dropping in value, hindering how people use the site, and has had controversial removals of accounts. It has never been more precarious to rely
www.eff.org
January 27, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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Vertical Antennas-A Complete Guide.
Vertical Antennas-A Complete Guide.
www.simplehamradioantennas.com
January 27, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Why is the public domain important for creators? Because every year, classic (& forgotten) works of art become free to remix & reuse! See this in action with our Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest submissions: blog.archive.org/2024/01/26/l...
January 28, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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A state-sponsored disinformation campaign is unlikely to be so polite as to watermark its AI output.
AI Watermarking Won't Curb Disinformation
Generative AI allows people to produce piles upon piles of images and words very quickly. It would be nice if there were some way to reliably distinguish AI-generated content from human-generated
www.eff.org
January 7, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Structural inequalities affect whose data is purchased by governments. And when government agencies have access to the vast reservoir of personal data that businesses have collected from us, bias is a likely outcome. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Corporate Spy Tech and Inequality: 2023 Year in Review
Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Throughout 2023, corporations have continued to collect our personal data,
www.eff.org
January 8, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. 🥳 So what does that mean for our shared culture? Free-range archivist Jason Scott takes readers on an enlightening tour of copyright, the creative ecosystem & film preservation in a thoughtful new post: blog.archive.org/2024/01/05/m...
January 8, 2024 at 6:16 PM