marxy's musing on technology

For more than a year many web sites have reported a dramatic decline in traffic, pointing to a broader structural change in how the web is b...

Paul is an inspiring QRP home brewer. Great interview on a recent podcast.  https://youtu.be/Rkd1o2PQI9M?si=gzKmEFHAueIDsdYK Recommended.

As you might guess, I'm really getting in to using the Raspberry Pi PICO for embedded development. If I can do a job in MicroPython I wi...

Before the days of FreeDV RADE (which uses multiple machine learning models to turn speech to features, transmit data over HF, and turn the...

  Made me chuckle browsing AliExpress. (Seems a little over priced if you ask me).

I just saw the announcement of NetBSD 11. Software that has been around for many years. What struck me was this comment: As you are probabl...

Nice net this morning with VK2, VK3, VK4 stations participating. A few new stations which is always good to hear. Again I ran the net using ...

Artificial Intelligence was one of the focuses of the Labor Party conference, with disruption to employment, education, the arts and the imp...

When I purchased my M4 Mac Mini I chose 512GB of SSD thinking that would be more than enough. (I'm old enough to remember running on a 2...

I had a simple display that monitored my solar generation, usage and net some years ago but the company updated the software to require HTTP...

My wife hasn't driven her Toyota Yaris hybrid for some weeks and today when she tried to start it was shown a series of alarming errors....

Another good FreeDV RADEV1 net on Sunday. My macOS client was acting up so I used the official client this week. As is often the case there ...

In this morning's news a great piece about the Zilog Z80 CPU chip turning 50 . This triggers many happy memories. I had a Tandy/Radiosha...

This week on ABC Nightlife Tech we discussed how the recent Telstra network outage which affected all sorts of things including country trai...

The uSDX transceivers are not great but it's amazing that they work at all. An under-powered Atmel processor being able to demodulate an...

Once again I had to move frequency to avoid analog traffic. Not a problem with the Reporter though and we had 17 stations on the frequency t...

I highly recommend the feature essay in the latest Quarterly Essay titled "The God we made - the threat and promise of artificial inte...

Work continues on my little FreeDV RADE V1 native app for macOS. Feedback from some users bemoaned the lack of fancy visualisations so I...

This week on ABC Nightlife we discussed new data from a study by the University of Newcastle, published in the British Medical Journal, that...

A PDM (Pulse Density Microphone) and a Raspberry Pi Pico. It appears on the computer as an audio input (I changed the name from the original...