Inductor
@Inductor@feddit.de
I'm a programmer and amateur radio operator.
- Comment on Morse post 1 month ago:
Fun fact about that: in morse code, SOS is a prosign. This means it gets its own special rules.
Rather than being three seperate letters (… — …), it’s one letter without any letter spaces (…—…). This is something that applies to all prosigns in morse code, though most of them are just two letters long.
Also, when sending it on repeat you just continue the pattern without any spaces. Instead of …—… …—… (with a letter space) or …—…/…—… (with a word space), you send …—…—…—…—… and just keep continuing the pattern. iirc SOS is the only prosign where this is a thing.
Other prosigns are for example HH (…) to indicate a correction to something previously sent, and SK (…-.-) (silent key) to signal that you have finished with the current conversation and the frequency is now clear.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 2 months ago:
It automatically replies when it can read/summarize a site, but that isn’t always possible (maybe it has problems with some paywalls).
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 4 months ago:
Replaying Death’s Door
- Submitted 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 118 comments
- Comment on You guys need to stop 7 months ago:
Nope, at least afaik. Prototyping and building cars by hand (without a whole factory set up to build it) is hard. Not to mention extremely expensive. And you have to build multiple (identical) copies of the prototype to get it street legal, because of crash testing. And you have to be able to guarantee that what people build with your kit remains identical to your prototype. Or everyone assembling such a kit would have to build multiple copies of the car and go through the certification process individually.
And of course there are very few people that would want to assemble their own car, so you wouldn’t be able to make a business out of it.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 7 months ago:
I’d like to elaborate a bit on why DNS can be used to track you.
Nearly all web traffic is encrypted (https), you can check by looking at the padlock next to the URL in your browser. But DNS requests aren’t encrypted by default. This means anyone, most likely your ISP our the admin of your home network, can see what domains you’re accessing. That means just google.com, lemmy.world, etc. and not lemmy.world/post/… This isn’t a huge amount of info, but it does tell anyone who’s looking approximately what you’re doing (googling something, looking at lemmy, etc.).
To fix that there are a few different ways to encrypt DNS requests, the most common of which (afaik) is DNS over HTTPS, which will encrypt DNS requests like any other web request your browser makes. I don’t know why this hasn’t been made the default yet. Firefox has a setting for DNS over HTTPS, it calls it secure DNS.
- Comment on Any tools out there to simulate planetary orbits in a binary star system? 8 months ago:
I would use Universe Sandbox, it lets you do exactly what you described.
- Comment on new adaptor just dropped 8 months ago:
While, as you said, both wires will conduct electricity just fine, they will have different AC impedance.
I would guess this wouldn’t make much of a difference if you go Audio->Ethernet->Audio, since sound is at fairly low frequencies. But Ethernet->Audio->Ethernet might have problems with really high data rates, like GiB/s.
- Submitted 9 months ago to programmer_humor@programming.dev | 86 comments
- Comment on Intuitive UI 9 months ago:
I don’t know, I didn’t make this.
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- Comment on The difference 9 months ago:
Thanks, I didn’t know where it came from.
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- Comment on Phone/computer screens in movies and TV series 10 months ago:
Found one !itsaunixsystem@lemmy.federated.club
