A buddy of mine uses one and it is effective. Most of your noise will come from buck converters and other cheap power supplies in the near field. Cell phone chargers, 120ac to 12vdc PSU, computer PSU, and fluorescent lighting ballasts are big culprits. Plasma TVs will generate more noise as they age. Pole-mounted cable repeater PSU go bad and start heating up, generating a shitload of noise. Any arcing on cracked insulators will generate RFI and can be easily located by driving around with a clear AM channel on your car stereo. Report these as they must also be repaired. Cheap solar panel inverters are also noise generators. A process of isolating house circuits helps identify the offending devices if they are in the home. In most cases, it is unlawful for devices to generate spurious emissions. In the case of solar panel inverters, they must fix/replace them if you complain. Another thing to check is cable tv leakage, which is less of a problem today, but can still cause interference. Unterminated cable coax can radiate lots of noise in the 144mhz band, and also on other channels. Great article about RFI hunting and elimination: https://www.arrl.org/files/file/RFI/Thompson%20Noise.pdf
If the so-called "total collapse" threat was real, then Obama, Gore, DiCaprio and all the other ocean-front mansion owners wouldn't have 1) bought the home or 2) been able to insure it.
So why cripple our economies, ruin our lives, increase our food, transportation, and energy costs? Because of faith? Dire climate-related predictions from the church of climatology date back to the 1960s. Hundreds of them. Not a single one has ever come true. Not one. But we should believe it now?
Catastrophic changes happen over geologic time. There isn't a tax which can stop a natural process, so why bother?
Even if the stated sea level rise is accurate (0.12 inch per year), that isn't exactly a flash flood. Places like New Orleans demonstrate that you can live at or below sea level and manage it with engineering.
If it came down to it, we'd build or we'd move 1000 feet inland and be good for another 5,000 years.
The calamity and chicken little shit is overstated because it is about the money; always is.
Catastrophes happen to many species and civilizations. Many have gone extinct. For example we kill many species. They never expect it. Smart or rich people, including insurance companies aren't special enough to be an exception.
Many predictions about industrialization have come true. Our cities are dirty from smog, and dumping. It is simple to see that we are damaging nature on a big scale, and we need the natural balance to survive.
Might as well try and stop our self-destruction. Unless you want to just give up now. In the end the world keeps on turning.
Pushing a trailer doesn't really work. You'd need an apparatus big enough to hold magnets and FOD, and allow you to steer unobstructed. A purpose built vehicle with a cab-over design would be easier to control.
That said, those are a lot higher off the ground; the video shows the sweepers are only an inch or so over the ground. If something catches, it's more likely to just make the cart buck instead of sending the driver.
Source: am Dutch, rode into a rock once, that was pretty bad.
Breaking down the word "trailer" pretty implies that it will be something behind. Attempting to use the word trailer for something that is in front just seems like an extreme abuse of the word
FYI, it seems to me like all your comments might be automatically "dead"? I don't know if there is some auto moderation process in the background or if they're all getting organically downvoted or something? But every time I see one of your posts, in any topic, it's gray and dead.
I vouched for this one because it seemed reasonable. I know I struggle with making time for practice.
Rivers change their natural state constantly. What the guy or group did shouldn't be criminal insomuch as it only takes one storm to cut a new channel. I take issue with government putting the lives of little birds and mounds of dirt over the lives of its citizens and their livelihoods.
Sure, but if we're going to have any public property at all -- roads, buildings, parks, whatever -- surely we need some sort of democratic process to manage them, not "whoever has the strongest shovel gets to remake the land in their image"?
I can't just go out to Yellowstone with an axe and make myself a nice meadow to relax in, divert a nearby stream to make it more convenient, dig a big ol' cesspool and then scream IT'S MY LAND TOO! I mean, that'd make a pretty entertaining YouTube episode, but I would expect a small fine...
IMO a criminal charge does seem a bit heavy-handed for this. They should've just made him shovel it all back, lol; that would've been punishment enough.
Democracy is hell on earth. Whether it is a system of government, or a means by which groups make decisions or peddles their wares. The majority tends to encumber, enslave, and/or murder the minority. The eventual outcome of any purely democratic state or process is tyranny. This is why the founding fathers choose a republican form of government that uses democratic processes. Recall that Socrates was sentenced to die by a majority vote. With that in mind, then yes, the faux value assigned to "tech influencers" is a form of democracy that's just as poisonous as people who seek to "save democracy."
You are right my man. I can not say I understand democracy as well as Bitcoin, all I can say that cryptography field is among the least trivial things in the Universe.
I wish I had it when I was having an RFI issue in my neighborhood. I ended up with my RTL-SDR hooked up to my mac with a homemade copper-on-tape-on-cardboard yagi, and I looked like I was a tinfoil hat away from being needing to be put away.
Still would have looked nuts with the TinySA, but... less so.
Had this issue before and having new more advanced ones now. Gotta say one life saver has been Cisco Meraki’s Air Marshall for detecting at least Bluetooth and WiFi interference. Still hard to tell the source - with just a handful of neighbors there are a ton of unidentifiable devices (just MAC addresses) as the internet of things landscape continues to grow.
I was attacked quite deliberately in another city and was unable to find the source. It was in a high rise, and GSP with Kismet was marginally useful. Precision was not possible.
I was able to stop the rogue attacks with Cisco Meraki. This was extremely beneficial.
Since I moved, I have had to change channels a few times due to interference. The dashboards in the Meraki, are great at visualizing and identifying sources.
I also made it a point to look ridiculous and walk around to meet the neighbors to understand what is not “rogue” and tell them I was having problems. This was to build an inventory and ensure I didn't accidentally jam something thinking it was a rogue attack. I let them know to inform me if they experienced problems.
Clearly someone was sending waves of wireless hackers my way as a poorly defined joke. Despite efforts to get inventory of my surroundings, there are still a ton of unknown devices in the area I cannot identify with precision, and the area is not highly populated. No one knows how many access points and devices they are running any more for smart lights, cams etc.
Finding the source as far as I can tell may be more feasible here w GPS receiver - yet I have not had a need.
I narrowed it down to something around my next door neighbor's house. The issue was there was something broadcasting a signal that covered the same range that my car key fob did, so I couldn't lock/unlock my car unless I was right up on it.
But the signal was intermittent, and I talked to all the neighbors in all three units, and none had anything that sounded like it could be the culprit. It eventually just stopped happening, so I never tracked it down.
The United Auto Workers union just a month ago won a 33% raise for GM workers and a 30% raise for Ford workers.
Unifor just won a 25% raise for Stellantis workers 2 months ago.
Just 2 months ago the Writers Union just won raises to compensation, health benefits, pensions, and protections against AI.
Just a few weeks ago SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal to secure compensation increases, benefits, improvements to royalties & residuals, and protections against AI.
So literally in the last 3 months we've seen unions win major compensation improvements for nearly 2 million workers.
Yes, however you're not thinking of the bigger picture here. How are the executives and the shareholders supposed to afford their next superyacht if they're forced to pay their underlings more!?!
Nope, it's the early 21st century, and inequality in this country is higher than it's been since the Gilded Age. Not exactly a comparison we should want to be making. And the trajectory is still moving primarily in the wrong direction.
The wealthy nations with the lowest levels of inequality also have the strongest trade unions. If it is not working in the US, we need better unions, not fewer.
If you want to change someone's mind about unions then one-off links to court cases is not going to work. You'll need to really target the idea of unions themselves instead of finding bad PR. For example, I could go find PR of "corporation bad" but it would not turn someone into a communist.
I'll happily get rid of unions once we also get rid of corporations ruled by wannabe-dictators. Until then, unions are a necessary counterbalancing force to keep executive behavior in check.
Exactly. And, just like governments, they themselves need checks and balances more than anything. However groups of people organizing for collective power is difficult to argue with, imo.
Sounds like those Walmart propaganda training videos got to you. I suggest doing your research on what unions are doing in the 21st century to protect employees.
Come on. Don't fall for American brainwashing. Some unions abuse their power. But most don't.
But there aren't any unions here anyway - this is a federal agency that facilitates unions.
Frankly this case seems pretty silly on all sides. Some employees sent an open letter to everyone in SpaceX... what did they expect to happen? I think SpaceX was fully within its rights to fire them, and I also support unions.
But also SpaceX's legal argument here is kind of insane. It's predicated on their assertion that the president would definitely have intervened in this dispute if he could have! The law says he can't and that's apparently unconstitutional. Maybe so but it'll probably get dismissed as irrelevant because how are they going to show that the president would have intervened?
