FoxByte

Once you've been silently perma-banned on many mastodon node for just having an opinion that is more nuanced than the prevailing thoughts of the day, you realize how important it is to have more control over your communications. I welcome people to block me if I annoy them, however I don't think I have such strong or radical opinions to be quietly and permanently silenced on many nodes. I consider myself rather rational in my opinions, and I'm not out to damage anyone. I also welcome feedback, and I'm OK with disagreement. If your argument requires silencing others in order to stand... Than maybe your argument can't stand on its own merits... That isnt my fault. Do better, be better. Im saying it again, I think I'm ready to leave the #fediverse... At this point, there isnt much holding me there. #nostr has been a welcome breath of fresh air. #plebchain

Rumors of my death have been greatly exagerrated.

Latest blood tests are in... And its time for me to make some changes. High cholesterol is expected, I have the northern European gene for that, my liver just makes too much cholesterol, but my triglycerides are very high, and my Homeglobin A1c makes me prediabetic. So I've cut out sugar and breads and most cheeses. I also started fiber supplements to bind to the cholesterol in my gut. Tonight was my first treatment of 500mg of niacin. The flush is a bit uncomfortable, it feels like an acute suburn with hot flashes. It made me as red as a lobster. Niacin (vitamin b3) is water soluble, so your body doesn't hold onto it. It helps cholesterol by boosting HDL. Part of HDLs job is to break down LDL.

Legal Tender When?

My fellow hams... Please help save me. I've fallen into the trap of BNC. I want to BNC everything and get away from that god awful "UHF" connector so-239/pl-259. Please tell me why I shouldn't switch completely to bnc. I can do it on the G90, doesn't look that hard. My window pass through is all "UHF" connectors, I would have to build a new one. I can probably switch all my coax over time. #hamshelpinghams #hamradio #amateurradio

I'm not sad for TikTok. I'm sad for America. Fear has once again found a way to slowly remove freedoms from our people.

Winter field day is coming this next weekend! For all you #hams out there. Winter field day is more an exercise than a contest. Operators can setup in harsh conditions and operate in cold weather environments. For me, its an excuse to take my girls camping and have them play a little radio while we are out. I have a lot to do to prepare. I just changed the oil on the generator and have it running. I have a couple new dipole antennas to build, and I need to get my Trusdx prepared for digital modes and practice #js8. I also have a new stand for my HF vertical antenna which I need to do some setup on. My G90 will mostly do SSB. I also have to put together and test my big 2m/70cm antenna for local comms. #hamradio #winterfieldday

GM plebs, timechainers, thinkers, and doers. Over coffee this morning, I want to talk about value. But not the way everyone seems to talking about value today. The true measure of bitcoins perception of value is perhaps better represented anyways by number of hodlrs, and how fervent their hodling. People trading around millions of dollars probably have little concept of what finite supply actually means, because they are used to dealing with a currency which comes fresh off the printer. The closer they are to the printer, the further their perception of reality differs in terms of what scarcity actually means. We will see what happens next. TBH, I'm not hodling for $, I'm hodling out of faith in thermodynamics Hodling is hard, but so far I am doing it despite the lawsuit. I've bet my net worth. Have you? A brighter tomorrow awaits. I'll let the price do what it does. How much work can a Satoshi achieve in the market? How much steak does 1 Satoshi buy me? When we know that answer, then perhaps it's time to not hodl so hard. #coffechain #timechain #plebchain #hodl

Fixed up my TruSDX. Somebody was careless and left an adapter connected to the SMA port last year at the end of field day....me... And the SMA connector broke and ripped out some pads on the circuit board. Anyways, I soldered a new SMA connector on. It works like a charm again! I also 3d printed a little support which hopefully helps protect that connector in the future. #hamradio #radio #qrp

Proof of work. Not suggestion of work. Not promise of work. Politics is "promise of stake”. Whoever has the political capitol decides what happens with the network. It takes AT LEAST 4 years to verify a block on the political timechain in the U.S. However, It could take as many as 16 years... Until the balance of power has changed, maybe longer. Even still, previous blocks can be modified with enough political capitol. I trust proof of work on immutible chains. I ride the true timechain, not the politics chain. #bitcoin #plebchain #timechain #politics

GM roasters, toasters and nostrs. Sipping my morning #coffeechain Its cold in the house. And it sounds quiet... Too quiet... #Bitaxe gamma shows hash rate 0!!! Go to webui, click restart! 0 hash rate still! Check logs, work is getting dequeued! Perhaps I missed a required update!? So I update the darn thing and click restart. 0 hash rate. Alarm bells are ringing, I'm missing out on blocks!! I need to do my part!!! Check the physical device. A bit dusty... But otherwise fine apart from 0 hash rate!! Ok, well, perhaps I'll just unplug it and plug it back in... 1216.01Gh/s Ladies and gentlemen, we can stand down, we only missed a few blocks, or maybe more than a few, who knows how long it was like that, but we are back online. And next time, just try unplugging it first!

Happy #newyears. We have drank a large amount of gin and are off to the dog park. Wish us luck. This is peak middle age misbehavior... Getting minimally sloshed and runinng amok at the dog park with our 3 pooches. Making chicken paella and unbottling some champagne await our return. #plebchain #bitcoin #ginnyginny

Ohhh nooo. Broke my phone. Its a pixel 4a5G. I was listening to nostr:nprofile1qqsgt0d4sa0pz0wvn9yck36xxezf3qhwzksu0q254vruqed5wvuavuspzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumtfde5kymmvwshxjmnxdu4ryj8q and it fell off the counter while I was making my GM coffee. The screen is shattereted. Guess its time to upgrade.A friend likes to get new flagship phones, so he gave me his old pixel 6. I've got #lineageos already installed. Working on ensuring a complete backup of the old to move to the new. #plebchain #android

I'm toying with the idea of building a nostr based amateur radio logging client. I love the idea of having QSOs public and decentralized, and I wonder if this could be used to synchronize all the centralized logging platforms (LOTW, clublog, hrdlog, etc etc). Would be cool to build in some sort of confirmation system, where if two QSOs match, they are both marked as confirmed. Might need to figure out a way to link public keys with callsigns, and need to also consider callsigns can be prefixed or suffixed depending on certain situations hams operate in (operating in a foreign country) or they could utilize a club callsign. #hamradio #nostr #software #amateurradio #ham