Scott VE3QBZ

FN03ef, situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas

Interested in CW, Hellschreiber, RTTY, PSK-31, APRS, and Packet

Naval Communicator, Royal Canadian Naval Reserve

Chips: Ketchup

Public Key

npub1zc42kpgy58er7wxplu9yj9knet4n04626a0dfct6gfp22j0l8mksjwn8qu

NIP-05 Address

ve3qbz_at_mastodon.radio@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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relay.nostr.bg

Author Public Key

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2025-05-02 20:54:00 UTC

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Thanks! So same as I am used to, I can live with that :) Or come bug you on how to patch (or research it, now that I know)

2025-05-02 20:48:00 UTC

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Were any of those tweaks env vars or parameters at deploy time, or can they be adjusted via the admin interface once the instance is up and running?
I am trying hard to get a sane, liveable deployment working before I do anything serious with it.

2025-05-02 20:21:14 UTC

Experimenting with deploying my own Mastodon instance. It's not..terrible? Need to get a SMTP service set up though before I consider doing anything "production" with it.
If anyone has any tips/suggestions for things to think about up front that are hard to fix later, I'm all ears. Using helm and the chart provided by Mastodon. So far the only thing I tweaked was setting up ElasticSearch as a single node / all-role master, since I only have one k8s node.

2025-04-24 16:43:11 UTC

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Which looks more and more like gopher haha now that we discuss it, but I remember gopher has some pretty odd markup, so on the backend not quite the same thing. But same idea for sure.
It's been a long time since I've played with Gopher.
I also confess I haven't tried kiki yet (I will now!) That will help inform my replies.

2025-04-24 16:40:17 UTC

you are aiming for this interaction:
packet node> kiki
Connecting...
1. Weather
2. News
3. Vegetable of the day
> 1
It is currently 16 degrees and sunny
1. yesterday's high temp
2. back to main menu
> 2
1. Weather
2. News
3. Vegetable of the day
>

2025-04-24 16:31:43 UTC

Maybe this will give you an idea of what we need - it's the wall command on my node (Daria's code, not mine, but I run it).
Now obviously, it handles the user input as well as the data, but it gives you an idea of how simple this can/needs to be:
https://github.com/juniberry/NodeWall/blob/main/wall.py
What happens is you connect to my node, and issue the wall command, and my node telnets to localhost invoking this script via a systemd socket daemon, and just passes the I/O back and forth to the node's AX.25 stack.

2025-03-20 17:36:05 UTC

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I might have misremembered - I was looking at cadvisionlegacy.com and it was a CDROM :)
Wild how many customers they had heading into the 2000's, quite a large outfit by the time they were purchased.

2025-03-20 17:27:10 UTC

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I can remember arriving in Calgary post-University for full time work and going down to the CADVision office downtown to sign up for internet access and to get the software stack needed to get internet - I don't remember if it came on CD or floppy at that point; I feel like it was probably just enough to get connected to CADVision, at which point it pulled down a browser and whatnot from their setup utility.
A different era to be sure.

2025-02-27 15:24:54 UTC

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I'd like to get back to experience that as well! I think there must be a period of time in the spring when people are emerging from winter, the boats are being prepped for the season, and energy levels are up that must be exciting.

2025-02-27 05:02:27 UTC

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It was tremendous. The place is unbelievable, it's like the foothills of the Alberta side Rockies crashed into an ocean. We were driving out to Bonavista, and the running joke in the car was "are we in Kananaskis yet?"

2025-02-27 01:34:43 UTC

I'm sure everyone has their own picture of The Battery neighbourhood in St. John's, but this one is mine
#Newfoundland
https://mastodon.radio/system/media_attachments/files/114/073/269/117/213/078/original/07301780c25e17b9.jpg

2025-02-16 16:35:36 UTC

My shovel your own snow farm is open for business despite the near blizzard conditions. Special today - shovel one bushel, get your second bushel FREE!

2025-02-16 00:58:47 UTC

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This thing: https://mastodon.radio/@ve3qbz/113972015997632980

2025-02-01 20:48:14 UTC

Wife and I just cancelled our February vacation together to Arizona. Our first trip without the kids in like a decade.
We'll travel domestically where we feel welcome. When the tariff announcement came down today, neither of us felt like we could go anymore. (actually, my wife sprang up from her chair and said "mobilize!", I was kinda delighted to be honest)
So....Tofino or St. John's?

2025-01-12 20:12:39 UTC

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That's pure ham radio territory lol

2025-01-12 20:07:52 UTC

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Bingo, if it can work with a simple NNTP client, that could be the way to connect it to packet :) Looking forward to learning more as you progress this.

2025-01-12 20:07:18 UTC

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Packet needs extreme economy of throughput - part of that is a CLI driven interface, it cannot be interactive at all, really, because comms are simplex. I can't even ask you to stop sending me text until you are..done sending me text
The other component of that economy is the ability to ask for the minimum amount of information I am interested in - asking a packet BBS to send you a list of all the bulletins it is holding is..very suboptimal. You always ask for something like "last 10"

2025-01-05 03:07:14 UTC

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I pulled my NIC and used a browser that did not have any of the CloudLog content cached, and the only thing it stalls out on briefly (and unsurprisingly) is the openstreetmap tile data.
I can navigate around, create and edit QSOs, pull stats, look at my logbook, etc. just fine with no internet connection.

2024-10-09 17:27:26 UTC

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I don't think the stock D75 antenna is any worse than any other stock HT antenna, but I agree with you completely - for packet operation, the performance goes way up with a longer antenna. It's quite a shocking difference.

2024-09-08 15:32:19 UTC

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memory hungry though. I'm not sure if it knows when to stop eating RAM.
But overall pretty great, I agree

2024-07-09 20:37:10 UTC

N0FX is a valid US callsign, and I'm kinda jealous