Indeed. Just to set the record straight here, I am A HUGE proponent and unofficial cheerleader of free, open and decentralized protocols. Free as in freedom, jot necessarily free beer, as that saying goes. Normal people probably don’t think about these things, but they underpin an internet that maintains a low barrier to entry and exit. Meaning, it’s made for ordinary people to use, participate in, and even help build with their own services. Things like Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix and the other tools you can host yourself are amazing and personally interesting to me. I mean, email is decentralized…we sort of take that one for granted but that’s a side topic discussion right there.

However, I don’t get recreating closed walled off systems that don’t do the job as well as I mentioned, and require you to be licensed in your country to use it to boot.

These networks are run by centralized authorities, or sometimes just one or two people. I’m assuming this app is another scenario like this.

To me, this the worst of all combinations.

Hello. I also continue to grapple with LLM use in software development myself, and I have so far found it most useful for me for research, documentation discovery, reading and summarizing RFCs and docs, as well as brainstorming and building smallish snippets of code.

Can you describe what you mean by pair programming with LLMs?

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I got licensed because I like the “radio” part of ham radio.

Computers? Cool…hook them to radios.

Networking protocols? Cool, how can I use radios to build networks?

Packet radio? Still has radio involved.

All-star node? Great! It’s hooked into a dedicated radio.

Just got my first HF amplifier for my…you guessed it, HF radio.

OK I’m starting to sound like an ass. I don’t understand why anyone would go through the trouble to test and get licensed only to get involved with things that have…no radio?

Hi there. I used to get migraines really bad when I was younger. I also have a sensitivity to artificial light. Natural bright sunlight does not have the same effect. Unknown why this is. Warm diffused light is my preference. I’ve noticed friends and family can sit around with what I consider horrible bright lights during the evening.

I guess I’m a bot now.

It looks like the link to the story is broken. When I click on it, I get taken directly to MSN.com homepage.

I’m wondering about the future of Matrix. I run a home server myself, but it seems that it hasn’t reached critical mass. Do you mind explaining the kinds of trouble you had with what you say was technical and abuse issues with Matrix?

Hah. At one time I swear I had this in a poster form.

Thanks for posting this.

You silly grey duck.

Are new users appearing on the fediverse in larger numbers during September?

I had to reqd that Wikipedia article to get the reference. I think I’m totally missing your point, though.

Can you explain it another way?

“every radio operator should also be willing to hang a sign which encourages passersby to come ask questions and engage”

I thought about this EXACTLY! We travel a good bit in our bus conversion. I’m working on building some semi permanent radio equipment in here. Often we find ourselves in parks and other natural areas, which I plan on setting up antennas for fun.

I was thinking that I should put up a little sign that says come talk about radios!

This was my favorite edition of this game. I wonder if I’d still find it fun to play after…20 something years.