mastodon 4.7.2Middle-aged Anglo-Austrian SRE, he/him. In a love-hate relationship with amateur radio since 1985, drummer since 1985 (with a brief interval between 1992-2026).
The daughter made this video explaining her medical condition as part of her illustration class and you should definitely watch it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=VZNX5L1K7TM
Today in "just HF things", the latest revision of the IARU Region 1 40m bandplan:
7000-7010kHz: oldtimers sending morse at 45wpm with a straight key
7010-7018: CW being sent by lesser mortals
7018-7020: Some really brave newcomer calling CQ in very slow, hard to copy Morse. Good on them.
7020-7030: German stations sending impeccable Morse into ruthlessly efficient antenna systems and almost blowing your ears off
7030-7038: Russian propaganda
7038-7047: digital modes, RTTY, oldtimers sending angry morse at all this newfangled stuff intruding on "their" frequencies
7047-7050: FT8 go BWAAAAAAAUUUURRRRRRHHHH
7048: Embittered PSK31 operators still refusing to accept that it's not "their" frequency
7050-7060: Impenetrable R2D2 noises in one of 1000 digital modes which all sound alike but which probably decode to "PUTIN IS AN ASSHOLE" in Ukrainian
7060-7065: Impenetrable R2D2 noises which are probably PACTOR
7065-7200: Italians putting out suspiciously strong signals on phone considering that the legal limit there is 500W
7200-7300: Here Be Dragons. China Radio International. Americans calling Europe and wondering why nobody's replying.
"In somewhat unclear comments, Trump told reporters that the UK had “a long way to go”, adding: “We won’t want another Neville Chamberlain, do we agree? We don’t want Neville Chamberlain.”" - Guardian
I'm not sure that's a comparison he should be making, as the most logical conclusion if he's comparing Starmer with Chamberlain is that he's Hitler in this scenario.
Recently (after the Hungarian elections) these unattributed posters started appearing on sites across Vienna. This one's at our local tram stop.
It's now been discovered who was responsible for them, and the answer is: the ÖVP. Yep, the same party which willingly went into coalition with the FPÖ and nearly went into coalition with them again after the last election. Of course they aren't doing this because they have a genuine concern for the future of liberal democracy and want to resist any movements to autocracy. They're doing it because the FPÖ represent a serious electoral threat to the ÖVP for the same reason that Reform represents a serious electoral threat to the Tories - they're crap and uninspiring enough that even with some gentle cosying up to the far right they're still losing votes.
The whole "marionette with strings held by an invisible hand" imagery is.. yeah, I know what they're getting at there.
August Wöginger, head of the ÖVP faction in parliament, has just been found guilty of abuse of public office after intervening to ensure that a (male) party colleague who it was felt "was owed a favour" was awarded a senior job in a regional tax office over the obvious and most qualified internal candidate (who just happens to be a woman).
His party have loyally stood by him up until now - "innocent until proven guilty" and all that - and have strongly resisted calls for him to resign. I wonder if they'll keep standing by him now he's received a 7 month suspended sentence and a large fine?
I mean, they might. The standard that's expected here of political parties when their members and officers get caught breaking the law is, oddly, much lower than it is in the UK. Probably small-country culture - so much in Austrian politics, especially in the "old" parties, is tied to patronage and making the right friends in order to advance your career that this kind of thing is inevitable.
[note: the sentence and verdict does not have legal effect until any appeals that either party might choose to make are exhausted.]
Guardian: "Portrait looted by Nazis found in home of Dutch SS leader’s family"
Not just that, but as many of DB Fernverkehr's woes are infrastructure related rather than, as it were, their own fault there's no guarantee that other operators will fare any better. They'd have a better chance of making the network more reliable overall if they cut slots completely rather than simply reassigning them to another operator which, among other things, won't have the advantage of being able to scrounge up a replacement trainset that isn't sitting in a siding hundreds of kilometres away.
4.3BSD Taco?
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