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Morsewalker has an Attempts column in the results table, but how many attempts it reasonably takes to copy a call sign depends in part on how big the pileup is. And copying a call sign on the first try is more satisfying if I do it out of a pileup. So I added a new feature to my fork that prints out how many stations were in the pileup after how many attempts it took.

FYI: If your #Mastodon #domainverification doesn't work, check if you do have upper case letters in your URL as this won't work as of this #bug report from 2022:

In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era,
many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form
– and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them.
Instead, we are stuck renting them,
subject to all kinds of terms and conditions.
And because the content is digital,
reselling it,
lending it,
even preserving it for your own use
inevitably requires copying. 
Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media,
US copyright l…

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US copyright law has pretty much lost the plot.

Say goodbye to the frustrations of copying and pasting data to and from R with Datapasta from @…! Get the package now: https://milesmcbain.github.io/datapasta/

Win11 is filled with tiny little bugs.
This piss me out more than all the big stuff like Co-pilot that I can just not use or disable.
For example:
-Ctrl-C not copying.
-File that refuse to be dragged and dropped unless I close the file manager and restart it
-File that auto-revert to their old name
after I renamed them.
And all kind of other small weirdness that just make my day more painful.

A fun trick I learned recently is Scooter Software's Beyond Compare can be used to extract many archive files such as RAR and 7z without requiring additional software to be installed.
Beyond Compare can treat an archive file as a directory, and it allows copying files from one directory to another. Voila.
#BeyondCompare

If you want a roadmap of the UK's internet regulation, just look at Russia's.
The UK has been copying Russian internet policy for years, and then describing their own approach as "world leading".

Read the redactions of many documents from the Epstein Files (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search) simply by copying & pasting them into a Word doc.
Adobe Acrobat was used to black out the documents, but without restrictions around copy/paste.
(courtesy of Jakebroe on Threads)

A damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive.
In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data,
not “learning” from it.
Specifically, four prominent LLMs
— OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet
— happily reproduced lengthy excerpts from popular
— and protected
— works, with a stunning degree of accuracy.
They fou…

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.

I find it really amuzing that IT-departments around the world is just plainly copying the example DNS-records in my blog-posts about DMARC.
Resulting in me getting reports about their domain to my inbox
#dmarc #email

When copying a directory recursively to another machine which runs ssh, do you…

Russia establishes Unmanned Systems Forces, Ukraine says it's just 'copying our successful approaches': https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/russia-establishes-unmanned-systems-forces.html

Been on another kick of reading Soviet history lately and boy-oh-boy why does every other page I read make me realize how much the current US administration is just copying the good old Russian autocracy playbook?
I need to write some essays about this, because the parallels are worth examining if for nothing else then simply for learning from the past.

I just saw the term "self plagiarism" in some search keywords. Can you get in trouble for copying yourself? Hmm.

Customize what happens when you start R: #rstats #environment

Russia advances through the literal fog in Ukraine.
In the "Fog of War" we find that Russia is copying Ukraine's efforts with drone warfare - and they are enjoying robust support from China, and in some cases, the west as well.
Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine. He reports the ugly truths that corporate media choose to bury. He provides evidence of war crimes that will be used in court someday.
Giorgio shares the friend link so the worl…

Into the Fog That Shrouds Ukraine
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

#infosec
They've mindlessly set it to be a password entry field so it can't be seen, but the 2FA app I'm copying the code from displays it in a nice large font.
They're checking the box for the sake of checking the box, not because it adds any security.
But at least it's inconvenient for all the users, so the policy has that going for it.

Is there a #UNIX style tool with which I can do any or all of (some are equivalent when combined with other tools):
* Turn absolute symlinks into relative ones or vice versa
* Increase or decrease the number of `../` segments in symlinks during/after copying/moving them
* Get me all a tree's symlinks in a text file so I can edit/sed them and turn them back into symlinks
* Full…

SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/12/government-shutdown-deal-snap-medicaid/
The Intercept infuriatingly put this article behind an email wall so I'm copying it …

Whoever at Apple thought that "Copying shared cache symbols" every new beta was a good thing should be made to deploy a watch app to device with a new beta every day (without their fancy connection cables!!)
#iosdev

PUTIN REPEATS HITLER'S FATE! Kremlin destroyed its own army, copying the Nazis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/putin-repeats-hitlers-fate-kremlin.html