Jim Tittsler 🗼 @jimt@mastodon.oeru.org

Blossom season is starting in Shizuoka.

Updated XLX936 (NZ) and XLX626 (JP). I've been using YSF->DMR, but now have the option using YSF directly.

Contributed to the (very ambitious) rooftop shack revitalization fund at the MIT UHF Repeater Assoc. http://w1mx.mit.edu/giving/

From a simpler time when carrying around surplus HT200s with rebuilt Ni-Cad packs made us nerds. #W1XM #W1MX

_Finally_ got around to uploading a couple of keys to https://keys.openpgp.org/ to simplify life for Enigmail-using correspondents.

Impressed by the polish shown by a release candidate of #Armbian 20.02 running on my #PinebookPro Early exploration of the provided XFCE4 18.04.3 makes it look quite functional.

After last week's Mozilla dev Roadshow, I am experimenting with #WebThings Gateway to tie together my WEMO, TP-link, and Ikea gadgets. https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/

Spent Culture Day at #VimConf 2019, a day's worth of presentations devoted to the cultured text editor. Talks ranged from philosophical to practical. https://vimconf.org/2019/

An inexpensive Open Source FIDO2, U2F security key that slots into a USB port is in its final days on Crowd Supply from @SoloKeysSec crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu

(I am already playing with #Tomu and #Fomu in this cute form factor.)

It is election campaign season in Japan again... where candidates presume that saying their name over and over from a loudspeaker truck is enough to distinguish themselves... from all the other loudspeaker trucks.

My neighborhood is having a lightning bug festival this weekend. The bugs are shipped in from the countryside. I missed out not growing up to be a lightning bug farmer.

Nice to see #WikiEducator mentioned as a repository of open education resources in COL's Sanjaya Mishra talk at Fiji National University. https://fijisun.com.fj/2019/03/13/academic-calls-for-embracing-of-open-educational-resources/