Nostr notes by Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

It's said a picture is worth a thousand words. The problem is ...

2026-08-24T09:41:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…tmpd
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It's said a picture is worth a thousand words.

The problem is no one agrees on which thousand, which is vital when people are using them to substitute words. I have no idea why people decided to drop the Latin character set and revert back to hieroglyphics like it's 3000BC Egypt.

Did the sender claim to have "imaged the entire device"? ...

2026-07-28T21:56:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…jc93
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Did the sender claim to have "imaged the entire device"?

I've had a few of those. My laptop has a 2TB SSD. My Internet connection has a 5Mbps uplink. Anyone care to estimate how long a 2TB upload would take over a 5Mbps uplink and guess whether I'd notice my Internet running really f'ing slow for days on end?

No, because `slowrxd` is running on the RPi4, if I did what ...

2026-05-18T19:52:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…8ml6
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No, because `slowrxd` is running on the RPi4, if I did what you're suggesting there, I'd be sending the I/Q data off elsewhere to be decoded, then sending the decoded audio *back* to the RPi4 to demodulate the SSTV transmission.

Utterly pointless.

This is a headless station. There's no phone. There's no laptop. There's no desktop. There's no monitor. Just a radio, a RPi4, and an Internet connection. It hears a SSTV signal, it decodes it, it slaps it up on the Internet via the [@vk4msl_sstv](https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/@vk4msl_sstv ) bot and throws the image up on a website.

Putting a second machine in only moves the problem, because the second machine will be headless like the first.

Sam is well and truly relaxed on #Caturday. #CatsOfMastodon #cats ...

2025-02-28T22:37:25Z

Sam is well and truly relaxed on #Caturday. #CatsOfMastodon #cats