I see your argument as avocating for a flavor of wealth redistribution. Is be interested in hearing more, but would prefer to explore the idea in a less polarizing, more academic way. Any sources?
For what it's worth op, I never saw the criticisms, just the original article. Replying is like a Streisand effect. If you must reply, replying less directly might serve you better.
YNAB (web version) has a pretty excellent web-first experience. And I'm not sure that I want a total web experience if half of my battle is recording transactions at the time they occur, right in the store. This is super convenient, no reason to keep receipts and enter them when I get home.
I use this too. Maybe I like the beancount more, but having my finances available on the web to share with my so is valuable. Too many told are meant for one pers,on and don't support modern ideas like tagging.
It's also nifty that it exposes pretty much all of the functionality via a REST API, complete with the ability to manage OAuth clients/tokens. Not something I expected to really leverage, but have been surprised how frequently it's come in handy.
Does anyone have a good reccomendation for an HF transceiver? It seems like many popular SDRs are receive only or crazy expensive. I've been looking at the RS-HFIQ (https://www.hobbypcb.com/index.php/products/hf-radio/rs-hfiq) but it doesn't seem to be that popular and I can't tell if it's because it's got too much "hacker" in it for the average ham, or if something else is going on. Maybe I should just spend more money?
I've never tried any of them, but [Crowd Supply](https://www.crowdsupply.com) has a lot of SDR projects that look reasonable (like LimeSDR, etc). Maybe others can comment if they've tried any of them.
There is a duality between affordable and performance. For example, the Hack RF is pretty great and has a large frequency range and wide bandwidth for a relatively small cost. But for HF transceiving you need probably need better filtering, which has to be specific to the band and mode, amplifiers both ways, although, with transmission you probably need several stages of amplifiers and filtering in each stage as well. So all of those things would be costly and depending on what you want to do it may be better to buy a regular radio.
I agree with the duality that you describe. Nevertheless, wouldn't the software part of an SDR reduce the need for expensive physical electronic components, while increasing ability? An amplifier seems to be the only additional expense (as you pointed out). It seems like the amplifier negates any cost benefit, yet utility remains superior if one doens't consider multiple components and building blocks a liability. It seems like there are expensive SDR transceivers (e.g. Flexradio) which utilize SDR technology to beat out the competition in specs and performance. To get on the air with a budget SDR, I haven't seen lots of demand for the idea. is the utility of a budget SDR just not better than your basic radio? It seems like it to me but where's the demand?
Yeah I think most big name radio producers see amateur sales as a secondary market. There are some hobby projects like the uBitx and the mcHF, and both are low power. The amplification and filtering are in opposition to dynamic range and total power output. For instance without filtering, a very strong signal will blow out the dynamic range and quieter signals will get lost. If you say were to build a ZetaSDR and plug it into a 192khz 24bit sound card, you would have excellent dynamic range for weak signals, but you'd still want to filter out local FM and AM stations.
I think as more SDR stuff gets reduced to single chips for commerical or military reasons, then perhaps the amateur equivalent will be viable... But filtering and amplification is still something that is difficult to miniaturize due to heat and wavelength.
Well, it wouldn't do a lot of good otherwise, since I'm pretty sure most data breaches aren't committed deliberately. The point is you should have measures in place that prevent those sorts of mistakes.
Not mistakes as such, but it'll probably invite an audit wherein they'll assess what strategies they took to mitigate a potential issue like this. If they're found to be inadequate and it also impacted a resident of the EU then maybe they'll slap them with a fine.
no, but "In the case of a personal data breach, the controller shall without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority competent in accordance with Article 55"
Well, at least they will have to make sure they performed due diligence with testing- because a test would reveal this pretty quickly. You know real testing, not using customers as Guinea pigs
If you do it by accident, you pay a fine. If you do it knowingly someone should go to jail. It's time to hold those tech companies to a higher standard.
You’re restricted to relatively narrow bandwidth, and to no crypto. It’s great for experimenting with the radio tech, but not for designing the next WiFi. (But you can use unlicensed spectrum for that)
Why would it prevent you from designing a new wifi? The encryption is a software layer on top of the physical signal. You can design it skipping the encryption step.
