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@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
2026-01-04 03:33:17

My friend Brad Bazemore KK4PWJ wanted a totally free — zero cost, 100% open source — comprehensive US Amateur Radio study app. His day job is in testing, and he really knows his stuff.
So he built Open Ham Prep.
I'm super grateful for Hamstudy — it's how I passed all three tests, and I contributed to a bunch of explanations, especially improving ones that were just mn…

Screenshot showing Open Ham Prep in light mode immediately after logging in as a new user.
@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2025-11-28 16:19:02
Content warning: open source whinging

Ugh why is this always the way. I evaluated like 25 authentication servers for a small scale web project — I do want to support things like OIDC and Passkeys, so this is not something I really want to make myself like the old days of “use crypt() on the passwords and just make a simple database”.
5 of them are just dev mode garbage that will never see the light of day as a thing people use.
2 of them are home network nonsense for people who want enterprise login for their family, but where One Nerd controls the whole user-list.
15 of them are freemium "open source" where they withhold features for their enterprise tier and make them so unfortunately difficult to deploy, all requiring postgresql databases and a complex containerization setup and helm charts and oh so much.
and then there's kanidm, which is great except its opinions make it completely unusable for a community project, it's really more trying to fit the ‘enterprise unix authentication' space. Kudos to them for communicating it but it's the wrong tool, even if it is really good.
And then there's rauthy. Which is exactly what I want, well built and delightful, uses a lightweight embedded database, and even has a peer-to-peer sync for scalability. But customizing it is going to be a lesson in building it from source repeatedly, and its configuration is just a bit strange, and its frontend is extremely Backend Developer Wrote A Web UI. I guess I got a second project. And maybe a third to make debian packages of it.
Yet it really is the best of the options _by far_.
NLNet supported projects continue to punch above their weight class.

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-22 14:30:14

Why #MetroLastLight is my favorite game: steamcommunity.com/id/midtsvee

Steam Community
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-12-12 10:22:14

Just shared my WezTerm¹ configuration. It’s not very long and mostly just adds a few keyboard shortcuts that I find more ergonomically-pleasing, specifies light/dark themes and improves colour scheme consistency and also, if you use Helix Editor², automatically implements light/dark mode theme changes for it in line with the rest of the terminal.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-12-23 21:12:47

A this photo from yesterday's location scouting could fit for #thickTrunkTuesday , right?
It's been quite a time since I went to a new location with the clear intent of location scouting. - It took me a while until I was able to "see" something as I was so much in walking/hiking-mode.
But it was a good experience to do it again.

This black-and-white image captures a serene and somewhat mysterious winter scene. A large, leafless tree stands prominently in the foreground, its intricate branches reaching out in all directions. The tree is surrounded by a light layer of frost, adding a delicate texture to the scene. The background is shrouded in a thick fog, creating a sense of depth and obscuring the landscape beyond the tree. The fog gives the image an ethereal and tranquil quality, evoking a sense of calm and solitude.…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-18 23:40:14

New radio observations show that a supermassive black hole shot out plasma jets at a large fraction of the speed of light,
paused for 100 million years,
then roared back to life.
ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/resea

'Reborn' black hole spotted 'erupting like cosmic volcano'
drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } One of the most vivid portraits of “reborn” black hole activity – likened t...

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-12-14 17:23:19

I have no fear of hackers taking control of my machine, thanks to a security feature that repels them: setting my operating system UI to light mode.

@neverpanic@chaos.social
2026-01-14 22:44:09

On a more positive note, my home now features a #vacuum robot running the open source #Valetudo cloud replacement. The guide on how to do that was surprisingly easy to follow. Some light soldering, a bit of flashing that's pretty similar to rooting an Android device, and it's done.
And becau…

A black PCB roughly the size of a USB stick with pin headers, a button, a jumper header, and a micro-USB and USB-A socket. Next to it, a smaller PCB that provides a 90º breakout for the pins for robots that have their debug port mounted in a less accessible location. The PCB layout is available on GitHub at https://github.com/Hypfer/valetudo-dreameadapter/tree/master/pcbs/dreamebreakout.
A screenshot of the Valetudo web interface; the left shows a map of the apartment with rooms in different colors. It is heavily blurred, because you all don't need the floor plan of where I live. The right side shows controls for the robots to set operation mode, fan and water use, issue commands to the dock and show statistics for the last run.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
2026-01-19 19:41:16

Today I released version 0.7 of my print-in place single-paddle Morse code key.
This will function as release notes:

  • The most important practical change is that the slot in the lever for the stabilizer bar is taller, so that it doesn't bind. Previously, it sometimes bound depending on luck, and when it didn't bind, needed to be greased with a light lubricant.
Morse code key inserted into a handle for easier keying. The Morse code key is red, the hardware is brass, and the handle is blue.
The print-in-place morse code key connected to an M32 Pocket Morserino set in decoding mode. The Morserino has just decoded "cq" sent with this key.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-31 20:33:48

#Billionaires #Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #ZohranMamdani

A screenshot of a social media app in dark mode showing two stacked posts. The top post contains a long emotional caption in white text that reads: “She cried before the goodbye even arrived, not because it was ending, but because she loved us enough to feel it early. A star doesn’t shatter to disappear… it explodes so everyone can have a piece of the light,” followed by heart-hands, sparkles, star, crying, and heart-on-fire emojis. Below the text are two side-by-side images from a stage perfor…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-06 03:30:19

Well, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.

A black PC case sitting next to a black couch with a gray cover. A gray cat with a black Goth as fuck cone sits on the couch arm. A skull wearing a headset, and a 6 inch skeleton figure with its legs dangling down the side are on top of the case. You can see the purple intake fans in the side panel. the front panel is glass, with a light color wood accent on the right side.
View from the front glass panel, the purple fans are on the right. You can see through the heat sink fans to the exhaust fan at the back. The Thicc GPU (9070XT) sits under the heat sink.
view from the left corner of the front panel. Not much different from the previous pic other than you get a better view of the mobo, heatsink and GPU.
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.page
2025-12-09 14:09:19

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph
[1/1]:
- Hybrid qubit-oscillator module with motional states of two trapped interacting atoms
Hwang, Xu, Muleady, Pampel, Lubin, Hewatt, Regal, Rey
arxiv.org/abs/2512.06429 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_b
- High-harmonic generation driven by temporal-mode quantum states of light
Juan M. Gonz\'alez-Monge, Johannes Feist
arxiv.org/abs/2512.06602 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_b
- Nonperturbative low harmonics generation in low-frequency laser field
S. A. Bondarenko, V. V. Strelkov
arxiv.org/abs/2512.06816 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsop
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