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zikduruqe··on Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page
You'd love the Grocery App for iOS and Apple Watch. It learns based on which items you check off on your grocery list and puts them in order.

I'm like a caveman hunting my prey using it. I'm in an out with no meandering around.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grocery-smart-shopping-list/id...

zikduruqe··on An SR-71 Blackbird Has Vanished (Updated)
This is always good copy pasta.
zikduruqe··on HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances
You have to encrypt it.

NASA requires any of its propulsive spacecraft within 2 million kilometers of Earth to protect their command uplink with encryption that is compliant with Level 1 of the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 (10). The FCC has also considered requiring encryption on the telemetry, tracking, and command communications as well as mission data for propulsive spacecraft, but decided not to incorporate a specific requirement at this time. A satellite with an amateur license cannot encrypt transmissions in any way and must consist of open information. The eligibility rules are listed in 47 CFR Part 97.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.211

zikduruqe··on HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances
> except in very narrow circumstances

Usually it is for the uplink control for satellites. That you'd like to keep encrypted, so that someone does not hack your bird.

zikduruqe··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
Or; don't be everyone's cup of tea, be someone's shot of whiskey.
zikduruqe··on Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance?
The Matrix wasn't a movie, it was a documentary.
zikduruqe··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
> I started contributing to OSM recently after a bike trail was built near me

I started after one long day of cycling, I ran out of water before I could get home. It was bad. After that, I have been updating OSM with all the water sources I run across. Drinking water in parks, bottle refill stations at stores, water fountains that I run across.

It's not much, but it's honest work.

zikduruqe··on Eating Fruit Skins
> ate entire apples-- core and all

If you eat it from the North Pole to the South Pole, there is no core.

The core is only there if you eat around the equator.

Give it a try.

zikduruqe··on Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)
This was my first time cussing on HN. I'll know next time to let the words flow freely.
zikduruqe··on Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)
I failed. I guess I don't know sh*t.
zikduruqe··on An overview of how our family is prepared
We've been trained to do this activity twice a year. Why not add a couple of more checkboxes?

    - Check the air pressure of your spare tire in your vehicles
    - Take inventory of your home
    - Test your sump pump
    ..
    ..
I have a small checklist, but those are some examples.
zikduruqe··on An overview of how our family is prepared
Every daylight savings time, I rotate my stored water. I empty out my containers, refilling them with, then add 7 drops of bleach per gallon.

* Edit * I've been asked before what the best survival book is. Honestly, it is One Second After by William R. Forstchen. It's probably the best description scenario that could occur.

It is not those regurgitated line drawings that everyone copies from Euell Gibbons, or rehashed rule of 3's survival books.

zikduruqe··on Keep Our Servers Running
And my local grocery store sponsors Indycar racing and has a track they sponsor. They also throw away produce that looks bad, although it is perfectly edible.

I am not going to cry because the CEO cannot afford a yacht payment next month.

zikduruqe··on Keep Our Servers Running
Just like my local grocery store.

They'll ask me to round up my purchase to help feed the hungry. Why can't they not invest in all the infrastructure and systems to support this, and just donate a few nickels and quarters themselves. Plus they have the food to give.

zikduruqe··on Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?
Maybe checkout morels.com forums next spring to gather some intel on the conditions.
zikduruqe··on Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?
Morels are starting to make good progress in being farmed.

But, I still enjoy the hunt every spring.

zikduruqe··on Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?
There are old mushroom hunters, and there are bold mushroom hunters.

There are no old bold mushroom hunters.

zikduruqe··on State of the Map 2026
It's community driven, so I highly doubt the public will change it.

Now, I'd love for each geographical region to take their very worst area, and rename it after a certain politician for the lulz.

zikduruqe··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
Yes. Default location on your linux computer will use geoclue2, which will give you a location based on your IP address. My location is about 30 miles away since my IP is associated with Google Fiber.

https://github.com/deepin-community/geoclue-2.0/blob/master/...

Using a cheap USB GPS receiver you can get to meters level resolution, could use it mobile as a navigation device, and NTP timing too if you want.

zikduruqe··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
Yep. When I was screwing around getting geoclue to play around with NMEA sentences, I ran across beacondb. I might replace geoclue's back end with it next time I feel like messing around.
zikduruqe··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
You can also do it directly from CoMaps if you have an OSM account.
zikduruqe··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
Even neater, I use CoMaps on my linux laptop, with a USB GPS receiver.

It beats using IP based Geocoding.

zikduruqe··on Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
> it's a pain in the ass to configure it

Public/private key pairs are hard? It's no more terrible than other projects that require configs.

zikduruqe··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Outstanding. That's a super idea.

Migadu has been on my radar also, and at $19/yr it is worth giving it a try.

zikduruqe··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Thanks. I really don't use email that often; I might get 20 emails a month, and those are just notifications versus actual actionable communications that require a response.

I have been looking at Fastmail, along with Purelymail ($10/year), which seems to have similar features.

zikduruqe··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
This past weekend, I finally have purchased my own domain and was contemplating using it for email.

I had thought about a catch all, but was worried about bots. What is the best option?

Do you create addresses such as:

    eyeball@customdomain.com (for the eye doctor)
    tooth@customdomain.com (for the dentist)
    bank@customdomain.com 
    realfirstname@
    reddit@
    ...
    ...
I would like the ability that if I am in a situation that someone says "give me your email for..." and I would like the ability to just hand them something that is disposable. Would I just stand up say 10 addresses like:

random1, random2, random3... then delete them at some point in the future?

I really like Cloud's Hide My Email, but have been looking for alternatives since I am not sure where Apple is heading post Tim Cook.

zikduruqe··on Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
> Nor any visible control to quickly take you to "Today".

Nor any way to view the week, starting with Today.

zikduruqe··on Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents
On the webpage - "Learn more in your parent account: About."

So I click About and it asks me to login or create an account.

Instant nope from me.

zikduruqe··on Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
Maybe HN will like this, 100 Rabbits.

https://100r.co/site/home.html

It is a mix of sailing, low tech, art.

zikduruqe··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
This is a really good video explaining it. There is a good opportunity for someone more enterprising than I to stand up some infrastructure to support it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32j6ZA3byI

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