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@labcat73.bsky.social

Maker, Nerd, Ham Radio / Amateur Radio operator and cat daddy YouTube: https://youtube.com/@labcat73 Mastodon: @labcat@mstdn.social Check out TEHRS - The European Ham Radio Show: https://hamshow.eu

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Good morning!
Remember the most accidents happen at home. Also your life depends on a small injection mounded plastic cap. Avoided electrocution when trying to make coffee in the morning. โœŒ๏ธ

04.02.2026 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...DEF? Wouldn't it be better to do it like this and that?
-> You are absolutely right. I made the changes for you.
4. Check once again that the current code works now. Is lock x required / missing ?
-> well spotted lock x is not required / absolutely required.

Etc... ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

04.02.2026 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My standard interaction with AI models in GitHub Copilot is unsatisfactory and goes like this:
Usually N steps:
1. I want to do XYZ... epic explanation
-> Try this
2. Great, but won't that break complete functionality on the existing code because of ABC
-> Very good point: Try that
3. What about...

04.02.2026 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Achwas, der Plan Groko mit der AfD ist auf einem guten Weg! Bevorzugt als kleiner Koalitionspartner, damit man nachher sagen kann: Wir haben ja alles versucht das Schlimmste zu verhindern und moderierend eingegriffen. ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

03.02.2026 08:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...due to the lack of really filthy rich people behind the scenes interested in Germany and orchestrating it, the AfD will fall flat on its face due to incompetency before they can successfully do a power grab. The obscenely rich ones are busy in the US right now, so nobody to invest here, right?! ๐Ÿค•

03.02.2026 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...considerably brighten up. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿคฎ *groans in pain*.

Just saw that a quarter of all people in Germany would vote black (CDU/CSU) and a quarter the nazis (AfD). Guess we are in the falling world order / empires phase. Hope we still have a few years without war in Germany. My only hope is that...

03.02.2026 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...alternative and won't in fact be the small men's worst nightmare. Alas I guess when we finally can blame it all on bloody johnny foreigner and immigrants again and hunt them down in the streets Gestapo / ICE style and put people in detention / deportation centers or labor camps things will...

03.02.2026 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh dear... We are just a few baby steps behind the USA in terms of dismantling democracy I think. The right wing ruling party is doing everything to loose the next election and people are so naive to believe that the far far far far right wing party "the alternative for Germany" is in fact an...

03.02.2026 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So... You wanna be a HAMTUBER - with Marion W1GRL YouTube video by The European Ham Radio Show

In case you missed it: We had a really great show last Sunday and Marion did a fantastic job asking us all the tough questions.
www.youtube.com/live/shj2J_a...
#hamradio #amateurfunk

03.02.2026 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes very niceโ€ฆ. I immediately ran out of matching screws of course. ๐Ÿ˜

02.02.2026 13:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This! ๐Ÿ‘‡

02.02.2026 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hm my sense of smell is still screwed 3 months post COVID: While it is no longer completely gone and I can briefly smell strong smells properly, the really strong stinks -Burnt stuff in the kitchen, bathing salt, the cats litter box all smell the same a very weird burnt earthy idk wtf that is smell.

31.01.2026 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have questions.... ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

31.01.2026 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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30.01.2026 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17486    ๐Ÿ” 3754    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 424    ๐Ÿ“Œ 194
The gutting of the C62 | HamRadio
YouTube video by LabCat The gutting of the C62 | HamRadio

Boring video how to harvest parts for the LinHT project from a Retevis C62
youtu.be/hpi36EucGiI?...
#hamradio #amateurfunk

30.01.2026 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stellwerksstรถrung / Weiche vereist / Personen im Gleis? ๐Ÿ™ƒ

29.01.2026 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ok I need distraction from the state of the world or all my posts will be pre-apocalyptic rants:
I managed to try heat inserts for 3D printing the first time yesterday. That worked quite nicely, though not really necessary for a small box. Friction fit lid would have done as well. #3dprinting #prusa

29.01.2026 05:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

..people. *sigh* Can I please retire right now and enjoy a few good/ok-ish years before I have to queue up for food rations in ragged clothes freezing my arse off when society has finally collapsed?! I do sooo understand Gen Z who does not give a fuck anymore...

29.01.2026 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...job I am encouraged to use AI tools that produce 90% of the time more work overhead and slop than they save time and 10% they are accidentally brilliant. Without "old" engineers to distinguish the two, I can only imagine what disasters will unfold, e.g. when your vibe coded SW starts killing..

29.01.2026 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...dies of hunger or illness or gets killed. Am I just getting old and can't cope anymore? Is it just my perception that things have gotten gradually worse and worse in the last two decades? The spineless chancellor of Germany is also talking shit 24/7 to distract from "something". And on the day...

29.01.2026 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

..thin veneer of democracy while the rich and powerful manipulated the running of the state to their advantage. I wonder what's the advantage of America collapsing? Is a civil war followed by WW3 so lucrative? Do they think they will be even more obscenely rich when everybody else suffers and...

29.01.2026 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good morning! The Matrix has been calibrated to new levels of despair by your tech bro overlords. It's 5:15am in Germany and my timeline is flooded with a dystopian 3rd Reich unfolding in the #USA. This is how empires fall! I ask myself why now? From a cynical point of view there always was just a..

29.01.2026 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a frozen cat giving a thumbs up sign ALT: a frozen cat giving a thumbs up sign

Sagt mal #Merz hat sich mental auch schon von der Kanzlerschaft verabschiedet oder?! Das ist entweder die Bewerbung fรผr den nรคchsten Aufsichtsratsposten bei Black Rock oder die Vorbereitung als kleiner Partner mit der AfD zu regieren... Als Enforcer fรผr das faule Pack in Deutschland oder so...

28.01.2026 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

27.01.2026 04:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7986    ๐Ÿ” 2514    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 102    ๐Ÿ“Œ 92

๐Ÿ˜‚ Ok I made it to the Daily Show: You don't even have to be a genius. You can put Bovino into any 3rd Reich movie set today and he doesn't even have to change his clothing. Hello !!!??? Wakey wakey!!!! Do you honestly think there will be another election where the outcome is not "Hail the Fuehrer"?

27.01.2026 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

to get to your stash and throw those ICE ejits out of your cities. Unfortunately it looks like the yokels have already joined ICE and enjoy their time as enforcers and suppressors before Donald declares himself Fuehrer of the American Nation; Property ownership and a nice fat bank account required.

27.01.2026 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OMG and WTF... I really can only cope with the clusterfuck that is going on in the US through Colbert and Kimmel clips on YouTube. US citizens are now getting disarmed and then executed on the streets and the government spokes minions are covering it up... Honestly you gun nutters now is the time...

27.01.2026 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No luck... Looks like I am running out of memory inside docker inside WSL2. Memory leak or 12GB not enough?! ๐Ÿค”

26.01.2026 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bluesky palette cleanser: Best 7โ‚ฌ ever spent... Amy loves her new blanket.... #catsofbluesky

26.01.2026 20:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
LinHT - M17 Foundation Wiki

Trying to compile LinHT wiki.m17foundation.org/index.php?ti... source in WSL2 in docker and failing... 1h40m since start of compilation of package nodejs. Yocto Linux with Bitbake is always testing my patience... Time to iron some washing.

26.01.2026 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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