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Comment Radios? (Score 1) 26

II had not heared of that program. erroneously thought that a program so named would have something to do with radios.

I've released some radio related things on github.

Necfull: Because NEC the antenna element solver from the Us governement costs money. This is better and free.
YagiYagi: A much quicker antenna design program with pre-baked antenna models for common antenna types.
Morsey: To learn Morse code with several different learning models (because I learned some things from my wife with the education PhD).
Hamchannel: An OFDM+LDPC packet data link over FM radio program with support for file transfer and live chat. Meets US amature licensed band rules.
remez: An FIR and IIR digital filter design tool that generates C, System Verilog and VHDL implementation code.

https://github.com/dj-on-githu...

Comment Re:Was under a day for me (Score 1) 201

Nowhere did I blame renewables. I was replying to someone talking about the huge price spikes pointing out that they applied to people lucky enough to have power.

We were out 5 and a half days for the derecho. We were in a hotel out in Sealey.

We had a generator for Beryl, but hadn't had it wired into the house yet. We had a lot of extension cords.

Later, I got the inlet and subpanel wired in. We ended up powering the house on gasoline pretty regularly without any named storms until we moved away from Houston.

Comment Re:We have battery storage in Texas (Score 1) 201

*** for customers who can still receive power.

During the freeze in 2021 or so, we had rolling blackouts. Myhouse was without power for 26 hours, 14 hours, 11 hours, 5 hours, 5 hours, 7 hours, 3 hours, 1.5 hours, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 12 minutes or so that week.

Comment Re: Linux Domestic Everywhere (Score 1) 151

I prefer a PoE hat and PXE booting. I have about 14 of them doing different jobs all booting and running from a NAS. Makes remote updates easy too.

That sounds like a fine solution for a working network situation. My needs are more in line with putting Pis in places the network is spotty and I need them to survive for a while on battery and restart from local storage and keep on doing the thing when power is lost for too long. So a UPS hat and NVME seems to do the trick.

Comment Re:Linux Domestic Everywhere (Score 1) 151

> random number generators replaced by domestic designs.

Do you have any information on that? Like which domestic designs? Is there a link?

I've designed the RNGs in several chips including the RdRand/RdSeed one in Intel CPUs. The AMD one was a bit weird but I have no information on it. In my current role we sell a couple of RNG silicon IPs to whoever wants one (a big fast one and a small slow one) and I've left behind a trail of RNGs in other places.

A thing I've noticed is that a number of the RNG IPs out there are not great, but they are for sale and people buy them, including national bodies looking for their own national secure silicon designs, but they're getting the RNG from a chop shop in Bangalore, except for India who's getting theirs from outside India.

Comment Re: The long-term impact of this on the US (Score 1) 195

Actually, Trump is not a singular cause. He was not the first. Back under reagan, he killed a great deal of our civilian oriented R&D saying that private business can do it , while moving some to DARPA. Thankfully, DARPA still funded basic science.
Then W did more cuts, but pushed a lot of DARPA spending in UNI over to companies and forced cuts in basic science.
Biden also did major changes and pushed funding to go from merit based to DEI.
Trump is just a continuation of this and not even the worst ( reagan or W were the worst ).

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