Thursday, November 06, 2025

Lemons Can be Turned into Lemonade

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  A Lesson from Pacificon 2025 At this year's Pacificon, I witnessed something that's bothered me ever since. I’ve used MMDVM for m...
Friday, October 17, 2025

The Song Remains the Same

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Situation: (Man in Amateur Radio Organization) behaves unprofessionally. He claims in writing that work doesn't exist when it clearly do...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Hardware vs. Software

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The mission at ORI ( https://openresearch.institute ) is educational, personal, and professional advancement through open source digital rad...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

In Answer to a Question

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Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) s old a bunch of internet addresses that belonged to the amateur radio community. ARDC was suppo...

How to Learn Python

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Casually considering learning Python; do any of my friends use it? Yes, all the time. Any recommendations for someone considering learning i...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Would I Trust This Person with a Nail Gun? Or, How to Manage a Team

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In the Burning Man Community (drink!) we do a lot of big, often bad, experimental installations of art. Often, we burn these pieces down in...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Great Scott Gadgets Story: More ARDC Interference

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Below is a first-person account of how ARDC corrupted some promising amateur radio work. It does have a happy ending, but isn't a fun re...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

XZ

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 I'm sure many of you reading this have heard about the xz vulnerability. To be very brief, a backdoor was discovered in the xz Linux ut...