things that bounce from ionosphere. shortwave radio, AM broadcast, some military communications. couple of radiooperators will take a break for a day or two until space weather gets calm. unlikely that satellites would get fried

if you’re lucky, you might see aurora tomorrow, even if you’re in area that usually doesn’t have them (easier for southern hemisphere)

can you pull ethernet cable along power cables, wherever they are?

regular ethernet should work on this kind of distance, but it means digging

Mate do i have just the right thing for you, but it requires some soldering. It’s also probably cheapest solution working over longer range than you need

First you need two directional antennas. Use this https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html the 13cm design specifically. Design of the dipole element is on another page https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/sbfa.html They’re using hard to get semirigid coax but you can really just use common RG178 with braid tinned to make it stiff. This way you don’t have to leave D section they way they did, you can just solder core to the shield at the end while preserving total length (or ~1-2 mm less, because wifi is slightly higher frequency; 53-52 mm total). That dummy cable thing can be just any stiff piece of wire. Good way to get this would be getting a pack of u.fl-SMA pigtails, which you can also use for connection.

You also don’t need special aluminum housing like they do, cookie tin of the right size would be sufficient, or any other container of similar nature. If you can’t weatherproof it, putting it inside on windowsill is also fine

Then, plug TL-WN722N into it, or some other single-antenna thing, and you’re set. This one connects over USB and has removable RPSMA antenna, so you can connect it easily with correct cable (SMA plug - RPSMA plug)

to your new directional antenna. This thing works well over 200m distance, provided clear line of sight, and probably more than that

it could be this https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63689-4

it’s lowkey crazy how fast has she adapted to being a conservative grifter

In America, if you make fun out of president’s favourite podcaster, you go to jail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium_Management_and_Disposition_Agreement

in my country it used to be like this for 50 years, you get flat rate per day, counted up to fractions of day, separately for accomodation and food + everything else. you only have to keep transportation tickets

behold, disruption

i mean it would be hard to imagine 20 years ago precise ways things could get worse, and then

you know, in comparison dubya at least tried to have this kind of diplomatic subtlety that is nowhere to be found in current administration

behold: vibe driving (or maybe it’s just DUI for silicon)

there were reports of roombas not getting up because us-east-1 was down, don’t be so surprised

the same way they did in 2021

it’s straight up still not good enough

right after fusion power goes commercial, which also will power it all

ah yes chatbot seller says these things will become so capable, they’re gonna destroy the world, just you wait and see, but need trillion dollars in financing first. op have you eaten your daily recommended pebble today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrbětice_ammunition_warehouse_explosions ?