AI6YR Ben

Oooh, they were turning on evacuations left and right yesterday, wonder if they were having a problem figuring that out.

Alerts, Warnings & Orders

I wonder if it's this one
socoemergency.org/emergency/wa...

That bot monitors wildfire evacs (and other evacs) in California. Automated...I think someone in Sonoma County was toggling some computer stuff and didn't realize they were turning evacs on/off.

Ah, more corrosion in there than I would have expected. I'm sure you'll get it moving in no time though.

Lots of issues here w/ownership and privacy of information. Feel free to request a Mastodon account on my server!

This (somewhat suspicious) recall was for some reason targeted at Halal/muslim food distributors in Minneapolis only. I have great suspicions of why this exists.

President Trump Orders Decertification Of All Canadian Made Aircraft, Likely Affecting Numerous Wildfire Platforms. Scoopers, Twin Otters, Beavers, Q400s could all be affected.

This evening, President Trump put out a statement on social media saying he will decertify “all aircraft made in Canada.” This statement could have wide reaching consequences for the wildfire aviation world.

open.substack.com/pub/thehotsh...

Goons: "Are you a citizen?" Me, channeling Ricardo Mantalban: "CORINTHIAN LEATHER!"

Let me know if you create an account on my server and I will approve

AI6YR's Mastodon This is the personal Mastodon server of Ben, AI6YR. Friends and friends of friends welcome (I personally approve everyone who joins here, so it might take some time!).

If you guys want an account, you can put a request on my server at m.ai6yr.org

Yes, that was it... prefer platforms where those kinds of folks aren't allowed. I'm lurking here, but I am not bridging from Mastodon, especially since I am posting heavily on what's going on in Minnesota, etc.

I was playing with Meshtastic and just switched to Meshcore, meshcore has far better success at me reaching and communicating with people...

Having great success with Meshcore, as of yesterday, looks like that is the technology to pursue for mesh communications. (Meshtastic, not so good).

No, just lurking again. Not bridging my Mastodon posts.

Mastodon The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Hi all, I have cut the Bluesky bridge on my Mastodon instance. If anyone wants my posts, you can create a Mastodon account elsewhere (mastodon.social is the biggest instance).

Yikes!

Yeah, that's my bridge to Mastodon. i also have a direct here, though I only use this one to reply to people who aren't bridged back.

We've been jammed in "Santa Ana wind" mode for a week, which luckily is not a fire danger, but it's freakish as well. Usually it's at most a day or two... a week is unheard of. Heatwave too.

Wow! Nope. Hadn't heard that one!

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Wow, that's accurate.

It's pretty clean over on Mastodon...

Woohoo! Anyway, glad you are a real person, the last two dozen have been AI bots, LOL.

This is enough, will approve.

Oops!

There's a feed on Mastodon at @GiftArticles@tomkahe.com which posts all the gift articles posted on BlueSky (and Mastodon too I believe, not sure) so people can latch onto them and see what people are reading, too.

I'm getting sick of this dystopia, I would like to get off, please.

Way to go antivaxxers!

That was considerably before such a thing as "drone pilot school". Probably just as drones were getting off the ground... I think it was a $10K drone even.