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I agree with your thought process. Factoring in antenna type and reflections also causes difficulties when explaining concepts like super position. The sinusoid is a good illustration of what a given receiver might detect at some location (X,Y,Z). A more accurate way to show that may be a light source fading on and off to match some frequency (below THz). Then factoring in the speed of light, at time zero, the light will be off, at some arbitrary time 1, the light will be illuminated at 0.25 (scale goes up to 1 here). The light energy peak at time 1 is at the light. Then at time 2, the light goes up to 0.5. That means that the 0.25 light is now 1 unit away from the light while the 0.5 is at the light. Step to time 3 and the light goes up to 0.75, meaning 1 unit from the light, the light is at 0.5 and 2 units from the light, the light is dimmer at 0.25. This repeats with the light hitting 1.0 then falling back to 0.75, then 0.5, etc. The movement of light is key and I think that's what is often either misunderstood or just not considered enough.


I really enjoy posts like this one because I always learn something. Sure the whole program can be written using bitwise comparison or modulus, but that's not the point. The thing I learned is how to map that into address space! That's a cool trick!


I don't understand how to use this, but it does touch on an interesting topic. I want to create interactive and animated diagrams. I normally use either Draw.io or plantuml. My goal is to better teach folks about the systems I'm building, through better visualizations. Something like IcePanel (which is way too expensive) sort of shows flows, but I'd like to have full control. Does this tool claim to support something like that? If not, are there options out there that I don't know about?


Honestly, if it ran Affinity photo and SilverFast, I'd be happy to pay that. Same goes for Linux, whatever can run those!


I've been running Affinity Photo on Fedora for a while by running this installation script[1]. Works flawlessly and they recently upgraded the script to install Affinity 3.0. I haven't encountered/solved your second use-case, but I'm /sure/ someone has.

[1] https://github.com/ryzendew/AffinityOnLinux


This brought back a lot of memories!


YES! This project, this is what the internet is for!


I agree with the comments, that's a pretty lame excuse. But I've gotta understand where others are coming from here. I just don't see why Apple is in such hot water here - they created a gadget (well multiple) that people like. We're not forced to buy those gadgets and we have alternatives. Sure Apple has made a butt load of money on this, but it's not like other players are prevented from making similar gadgets. I guess if I made a thing, say a new type of keyboard and I also make a motherboard and ultimately some new type of computer - then isn't it my prerogative to decide that I'm only going to support that keyboard with that computer? Or is that thinking too simple: instead is the problem that Apple isn't allowing others to take the device they bought (keyboard in this example) and on their own make it work with their Asus computer? eh, maybe a lame example but happy to hear thoughts and feedback.


The lawsuit alleges Apple uses their control over iOS to push users away from Android compatible watches to Apple Watches. Specifically, by adding restrictions to third party watches that don't apply to Apple Watches.

The DOJ views this as a way to deter iPhone users from switching phones. To do so they would need to buy a new watch.

They reference an Apple VP who wrote Apple Watches, "may prevent iPhone customers from switching.”


This is awesome! About a year ago, I switched to a Moonlander keyboard. At that time, I figured why not try a different layout while I'm at it, how hard could it be? I compared a bunch of layouts and finally went with Colemak-DHm. I'm nowhere even close to my typing speed on a QWERTY layout, but absolutely loving it! This typing game will really help me get more comfortable with that new layout!


I gave up with the Moonlander after a year. I just couldn’t get to the same regular keyboard speed and when there was a tiny bit of pressure it got way worse. I have it a good stab but had to move away sadly.


For ham operators, there's Winlink, which is an email system that uses ham frequencies to exchange messages. And yep, there are rules where you need to say your call sign periodically, and Winlink does that on your behalf.


Neat, but I wish there were more information. I'm an active ham but curious about how much space I get, are my emails encrypted or readable on the server, etc.


They are using Mailcow, so no, your emails are not encrypted.

In general, unless you're using PGP, email is not reasonable to assume that it's encrypted ever. I use Protonmail, and I still don't trust it at all.


Indeed they are encrypted [1], just not with user-supplied credentials.

[1] https://docs.mailcow.email/manual-guides/Dovecot/u_e-dovecot...


Storage is 1GB by default (you can ask for more when you reach that limit), and emails are sorta encrypted. I find it weird that emails are ‘encrypted’ with a key pair that are on the same email server. I’m going to attempt to find a way to make emails encrypted with your own key/pass combination.


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