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For when you want to spend more on a key than a Begali

This is an interesting challenge, would be a great homebrew project.

(If I wasn't already neck deep in interesting challenges I would consider picking this one up)

Combination of Koch and Farnsworth is how I've learnt morse code in the last year. Has been a challenge at times, but keeping the speed up makes a huge difference. The struggle I still have is catching words my just listening.

Also worth pointing out CWops https://cwops.org/cw-academy/ and the Long Island Club (it's all online) as a classed based way of learning. CWops is intensive but very effective

Very fair question, I had the same thinking two years ago. Since then I got interested in amateur radio, and in particular low power, portable operations as well as homebrewing transceivers.

Using only 5W when conditions are right can work from Australia around the planet using a $30 radio and a 20m wire antenna thrown in a tree.

Also, while its definitely possible to homebrew equipment that transmits voice, morse code is much simpler as you are approximately connecting power from an oscillator to a small amplifier (a couple of garden variety transistors works just fine here)

Yep, just have A and AAAA records for the hostname the MX points to

I'm not certain I know what you mean, but have a look at https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

Yep, you can do one without the other.

The bigger hassle seems to be different zigbee hubs that have varying levels of compatibility, so while you can pair the devices you can't get the data you want.

I've just been down the research rabbit hole, and about to try using zigbee2mqtt to bypass this nonsense (this also then means the only internet connectivity will be through a device you control)

As someone living in Melbourne it's been frustrating to see this same nonsense spread locally by a very vocal minority, followed by "lockdowns don't work".

I'm celebrating that following the science here has taken us from > 700 new cases per day, to our second consecutive day of zero (and lockdown ending less than 3 hours from now)

From the same episode of Gruen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUYbI64QHI

It's actually very hard for Kiwis to get citizenship, because the special category visa that lets them live here permanently isn't actually permanent residency, and so there isn't a path to citizenship.

(Source: Kiwi friend who was trying to get citizenship for himself and his kids who were born here)

I'm curious where this is a thing more specifically, never heard of this living in Victoria and Queensland

ATSB investigation https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2...

Which points out that the incorrect configuration was on their second go around

Interesting story: Sully actually lost a copy of one of Sidney Dekker's books in the forced water landing that he'd borrowed form the library.

NPP is on it's way to being really handy, but it still sucks that I have to hack things to force NPP for some payments

(ie. CommBank will only use NPP for PayID payments, but banks like Up will use NPP for transfers for a BSB/Account number if the receiving banks supports it, not all banks are fully on the platform yet)

The downside is my teenagers can now shake me down for cash remotely

When pay TV first came here, part of the deal was they weren't allowed to show ads for a certain amount of time. I remember 'ads' for other TV shows like the ABC does, but that was it.

I have no idea why someone in Australia would have Foxtel now if they don't watch sport

How can the under construction image at the bottom of the page not be a gif?

I use a Yubikey + my phone for storing copies of TOTP codes

Means I don't have to worry about phone upgrades and such, and if the Yubikey were to stop working I still have it on my phone

The TWSBI Eco is an excellent introduction pen. Nice and smooth, the triangle grip means you hold it correct without thinking.

Only downside is no cartridges (not that I find this a downside)

Getting a license to take deposits in Australia isn't easy. And then there was the banking royal commission which isn't going to speed things up.

If you are after this sort of thing, have a look at Up

Once you get south enough, it flips. Queensland for example.

No, they have just been having traffic issues, DDOS and of course can't use any US based services.

One of the founders wrote about it yesterday https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-r...

Bit of a chance there they might, considering they have the rights to it in at least Australia

Australian degrees are typically three years

Dunno why but Australia has moved to selling them refrigerated, but maybe 10 years ago they used to be sold at room temperature

Nah, most Australians live in a major city, and we don't have that many, and they are on average 1000km apart, so we do plenty of flying

Removing the HSTS header won't help, as your browser will store this data, and IIRC it's not stored in cache, so clearing won't help.

You can however send the HSTS header with max-age=0 which will start clearing it for existing users

Send me an e-mail, alan@gocasts.io

Sublime Text 2 + gosublime

Really?

From a number of australian providers, on links up to 30Mb/s, I have found this to be impossible.

Can easily get 2MB/s from an Australian site, but getting over about 200KB/s once I go international is about the best I can do. Multiple connections does get around this issue though