I have released version 0.5 Beta of my #HamRadio single-paddle #Morse key.
I added optional stabilizer bars for which I recommend 3mm stainless rod, to counteract torque from the center of pressure on the grip being above the spring. (That twisting has been the main thing about the key that has caused me to inadvertently send wrong code as the head of the center contact screw bounces off the edge of the dit or dah screw.)
I made the lever more compact, which required adjusting the range of default spring force from the integrated springs. I also removed the heaviest weight that no one liked.
The README has instructions, information on options for required hardware, and complete documentation for all the parameters that drive this single key system.
This is a release candidate for version 1.0. If you like CW / Morse code and 3D printing, and either like single-paddle keys or would like to try one, please give this a shot and tell me how you like it! It's been successfully tested with PLA, PETG, and ABS, so it should work with most common filaments. Just don't leave it in a hot car if you print with typical PLA! ☺
Feel free to ask questions in a 🧵 thread here!
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Das Video zeigt eine lebhafte Szene auf einer belebten Straße, wo eine Gruppe von Menschen zusammenkommt, um eine Frau zu beobachten, die auf einem Straßenbollwerk tanzt. Die Szene beginnt mit einer Gruppe von Menschen, die sich um eine silberne SUV-Garage versammelt hat. Eine Frau in einem weißen Oberteil und dunklen Hosen springt auf einen Straßenbollwerk und beginnt, eine auffällige Tanzbewegung zu machen. Die Menschen um sie herum beobachten und filmen das Geschehen, während sie lachen und applaudieren. Der Text "Living her best life 😂" (Lebt ihr bestes Leben 😂) ist über die Szene gelegt, was die fröhliche und amüsante Atmosphäre unterstreicht. Ein Mann in einem schwarzen Shirt und dunklen Hosen steht in der Nähe und beobachtet die Szene. Im Hintergrund ist ein "Give Way"-Schild und ein Bus zu sehen, was die städtische Umgebung betont. Die Szene ist voller Energie und Freude, mit Menschen, die die Frau anfeuern und ihre Leistung genießen.
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Sometimes 3D printing is just so satisfying. Gonna hide this li'l guy in the kids' Bluey-inspired bedroom and see how long it takes them to notice.
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ああ美味しいなぁ．さわやかとかビクステだって美味しいんだけど，学生時代に食べてたのはフラガなのでやはりこの味なんよ．と言っても当時は貧乏学生なので若鶏のうまいうまい焼きとかで，いいことあったり講義が午後からしか入ってなかったから朝昼とも自炊とかのときしか笑顔の名人とか元気の鉄人とかは食べられなかったんだけど．
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北関東のソウルバーグ！ご当地ファミレス「フライングガーデン」で食べる"爆弾"の名をもつハンバーグ
いま注目を集めるローカルチェーン郊外に観光などで行った際、有名なファミレスや牛丼チェーンに混じって、見慣れない名のチェーン店を目撃したことはないだろ…刈部山本（かりべ やまもと） (Retty)
ビデオは、熱々の鉄板料理を特徴とする、美味しそうな食事のシーンを捉えています。鉄板の上には、カツカレーの定番であるカツとハンバーグが、濃厚な黄色いソースで覆われています。カツカレーの特徴である、カリカリとした衣とジューシーな肉質が見事に表現されています。また、カボチャのカットや、鮮やかな緑色のブロッコリー、黄色い玉米が添えられており、彩り豊かで食欲をそそります。背景には、白いご飯が盛られた白い皿が見え、食事のバランスが取れていることがわかります。鉄板の縁には「FLYING OVEN」の文字が刻まれており、この料理が鉄板で提供されていることが示されています。全体的に、ビデオは食事の魅力と美味しさを強調し、視聴者に食欲をそそるものです。
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Putin Sees Only US Weakness in Ukraine
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-01/ukraine-war-putin-sees-only-trump-s-weakness?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Where wings meet petals, memory takes flight.
One of the many flowers in my garden last spring. Spring is almost here.
Photographed and edited by Kev.
© All Rights Reserved by 2 Peeps and a Camera
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Wave catcher
Surf coach and mental health advocate, Blakey Johnston, broke the world record for the most waves ridden in a month, at Sydney surf park URBNSURF. He caught 4,097 waves in 253 sessions, over 25 days, with each day as physically challenging as running a marathon.
Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian
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Xi, Modi and Putin Huddle at China Security Summit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-09-01/xi-modi-and-putin-huddle-at-china-security-summit?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Doubts cast on Kemi Badenoch’s claim of US medical school offer
Stanford University staff and academic experts raise questions over Tory leader’s claim of place and partial scholarship offered at 16Jessica Elgot (The Guardian)
All of the plot points in the movie Grizzly were dropped, and never brought up again other than, kill the bear.
Who needs writers.
All you need is a bazooka.
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Indian Investors Focus on Companies With Exposure to China After SCO Summit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-01/india-market-buzz-jio-ipo-plan-disappoints-gdp-beat-puzzles?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Somewhere in Napa.
(Still trying to decide if I like Fuji Acros II)
(Yashica Mat 124G, Fuji Acros II, DDX, scanned on Nikon CoolScan 8000ED)
#BelieveInFilm #California #Photography #BlackandWhite #Napa
Australia's teen social media ban can be 'effective', report says
However a trial of the technology enforcement options found shortcomings and risks with all of them.Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
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Osaze De Rosario helps Sounders blank Lionel Messi and Inter Miami 3-0 in Leagues Cup final
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GAP STOPPER. A whoremaster.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
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Vibe Shift in AI Coding: Senior Developers Ship 2.5x More Than Juniors | Fastly
Fastly’s survey shows senior developers trust gen AI tools enough to ship 2.5x more AI code, while juniors stick to traditional coding and caution.Fastly
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Pakistan uses thermal technology for first time to rescue 490 flood victims
LAHORE – For the first time in Pakistan, over 490 people stranded during floods were rescued and moved to safe locations using advanced thermal technology. In Okara, Jhang, Athara Hazari, Shorkot, and Ahmadpur Sial, rescue operations were carried out in the darkness of night with the help of this cutting-edge technology. From Jhang City Bund, […]
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Over 90% of July incidents at Ukraine’s territorial recruitment centers found to be fake or manipulated
In July, 198 out of 218 incidents (91%) related to Territorial Recruitment Centers (TRCs) were found to be fakes or manipulations. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
New Zealand Opens Luxury Home Market to Golden-Visa Holders
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A female and male northern cardinal enjoy a spot of tea.
#ChalkDrawing #ChalkArt #StreetArt #DrivewayArt #Birds #NorthernCardinal #PájaroCardenal
Ukrainian Armed Forces officer: Kupyansk is under enormous threat
The situation in Kupyansk has become critical for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Russian troops have bypassed Sobolevka from the northwest and reached the road that is key to supplying the enemy's Kupyansk garrison.Александр Чернов (Военное обозрение)
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Das Video zeigt eine animierte Geschichte mit Bienenfiguren, die auf einer Blattoberfläche und in der Mitte einer Blume spielen. Die Bienen sind in traditionellen Bienenfarben mit schwarzen und gelben Streifen und haben kleine Flügel und Antennen. Im ersten Teil des Videos sind die Bienen auf einem Blatt zu sehen, das mit Wasserperlen bedeckt ist. Eine Bienenfigur steht auf dem Blatt und scheint mit einer anderen Bienenfigur zu interagieren, während zwei andere Bienenfiguren unten im Bild fliegen. Der Hintergrund zeigt eine Blattoberfläche mit Wasserperlen. Oben im Bild steht der Text "Es spielt keine Rolle wie alt du bist," und unten steht "Wenn dieses Lied kommt singst du mit." Diese Texte sind in deutscher Sprache und betonen die Botschaft der Unabhängigkeit von Alter und die Einladung zum Singen.
Im weiteren Verlauf des Videos wechseln die Bienenfiguren ihre Positionen und spielen in der Mitte einer Blume, die mit einem Uhrwerk im Zentrum dargestellt ist. Die Bienen scheinen die Uhr zu betrachten und zu interagieren. Der Hintergrund zeigt die Blumenblätter und das Zentrum der Blume. Der Text bleibt gleich, und die Bienenfiguren sind immer noch in Bewegung, was eine dynamische und lebendige Szene schafft.
Schließlich zeigt das Video die Bienenfiguren auf einer großen Blume, die mit einem blauen Hintergrund und weiteren Blumen im Hintergrund dargestellt ist. Der Text "Nach den Geschichten von Waldemar Bonsels" erscheint im Bild, was auf die Quelle der Geschichte hinweist. Die Bienenfiguren sind immer noch in Bewegung, und die Szene ist lebendig und farbenfroh. Der Text "Wenn dieses Lied kommt singst du mit" bleibt gleich, und die Bienenfiguren sind immer noch in Bewegung, was eine dynamische und lebendige Szene schafft.
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"This past Wednesday, the Seattle Times reported that Customs and Border Patrol agents interrupted two crews of firefighters working to control the Bear Gulch wildfire. They lined them up, checked IDs, and ultimately arrested multiple men."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #CBP #ICE #chaos #destruction #fascism
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Let It Burn: What an Immigration Raid on Washington Firefighters Can Teach Us About MAGA Fascism
MAGA is not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists.Alan Elrod (Liberal Currents)
In the Western World Government Only Serves Private Interests
Paul Craig Roberts- We only have enemies of our own choosing. Russia, China, and Iran have no interest in war.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
I used to keep this card sleeve on my work desk before the pandemic made my job WFH that had a Balloon Lizard from Yu-Gi-Oh!! and an Inflation Station card from Magic The Gathering.
I wonder if anyone ever suspected anything about me from it, I think I only ever had one side of it visible so it must’ve seemed like I just enjoyed one of those card games (I don’t really play either, but enjoy YGO)
#balloon #inflation #tcg #yugioh
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分久必合，合久必分，是為常態
我們去中心化了嗎？ arewedecentralizedyet.online/
這個網站以經濟學中的赫芬達爾-赫希曼指數 (Herfindahl–Hirschman Index, HHI) 來衡量社交網路的去中心化程度，重點觀察兩個生態系：Fediverse（如 Mastodon、Pixelfed）與 Atmosphere（如 Bluesky、WhiteWind）。Fediverse 目前有超過一萬八千台伺服器，用戶數的分配相對平均，最大伺服器佔約 24% 用戶，其餘仍分散在眾多節點，代表去中心化程度相對理想。而 Atmosphere 的情況則完全相反，在 1,600 多個伺服器中，幾乎所有用戶（超過 99%）都集中在最大的一個伺服器，顯示出高度的集中化，接近壟斷狀態。
網站說明 HHI 指標的意義：值接近零代表市場高度競爭，大家分散在不同實體，值越高代表集中化嚴重。實務上若低於 100 屬於高度競爭、1500 以下代表分散、不超過 2500 算可接受，而超過 2500 就是高度集中。從這個角度來看，Fediverse 的分佈屬於「相對健康」、Atmosphere 則極度集中。站長也表示未來會探索更多衡量方式，不侷限於單一維度的統計數據，並公開程式碼與資料，鼓勵社群提出改進。
在 Hacker News 討論中，不少人認為 Bluesky 雖然對一般用戶來說像是 Twitter 的替代品，但由於基礎架構 (ATProto) 的伺服器設置門檻高，造成小型運營者難以承擔成本，用戶自然集中到大伺服器，導致去中心化表現遠遜於 Mastodon。有些人指出 Bluesky 雖然由技術人員主導時還算真心維護去中心化，但背後有投資人與公司壓力，未來很可能因為商業利益而推回集中化模式。部分開發者社群相信，最終仍會出現小眾分支維繫真正的去中心化，歷史模式不斷重演。
另一批人則提出更廣的觀點，認為所有平台最終都會趨向集中化，原因在於大眾對「聯邦」或「去中心化」架構不在乎，多數用戶只會想在最大的平台上找得到朋友。正因如此，像 mastodon.social 這種大型實例總會成為首選，無法靠關閉註冊或推廣其他小型實例就扭轉趨勢。部分討論者回顧 Usenet、IRC 等去中心化工具的歷史，指出它們在小規模同溫層社群中仍有效，但一旦用戶規模擴散到跨文化、跨群體，就會引發分裂，最終被能提供「一致體驗」的平台取代。
也有留言提醒，去中心化和可發現性仍需平衡：太分散會導致搜尋困難、沒人用；太集中則容易形成壟斷和審查。這個「鐘擺式平衡」常常不穩，技術與社會習慣最終會推動系統向兩端擺盪。因此，雖然 Mastodon 當前的分散效果值得肯定，但能否長期維持還取決於用戶習慣、商業利益以及資訊搜尋方式的演化。整體而言，討論呈現出對去中心化的理想與現實之間的矛盾：技術上可行，但社會與經濟結構往往將力量推向集中化的一端。
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Are We Decentralized Yet?
A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web servicesarewedecentralizedyet.online
Hummingbird drinking nectar from an agapanthus flower. Photographed last week at the Japanese Garden in Hayward California.
#BirdsOfFediverse #photography
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> stations based in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Giving local news breakouts and taking a RNZ National feed for news and other programme content
Couldn't agree more. I said something very similar about TVNZ last year;
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TV can't compete with online video, whether hosted or livestreamed, by trying to be more like it. It has to lean into the things it can do that they can't.
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A Future for Television in Aotearoa?
If it has one, the future of television lies in live broadcasting.Danyl Strype (Disintermedia)
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@jeremy_pm
> is it has not only failed to attract a larger more diverse audience
Not true across RNZ services as a whole. They've massively grown audiences for their website, podcasts, web video, etc.
> dumbing down of content
IMHO that's more perception than reality.
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@jeremy_pm
> [RNZ] has lost a very large number of loyal listeners.
The only number that declined -a bit - was (broadcast only?) live radio listening. From a lockdown-era high. It's grown again in the latest stats. But it's hovered around half a million for years.
But really how many people under 50 own an AM/FM radio receiver and listen to it regularly? Even if you include listening live via the website, or some app, how many of us listen to anything in realtime?
That's the wonderful thing about opinions, anyone can have them and it seems to me RNZ has adopted a passion for opinions.
Microsoft Removed WMR Headset Support? No Problem!
In late 2024 Microsoft removed support for WMR (Windows Mixed Reality), and they didn’t just cease development. As of Windows 11 version 24H2, headsets like the HP Reverb and others by Acer, Samsung, Lenovo, and Dell stopped working at all. But the good news is developer [Matthieu Bucchianeri] created the Oasis driver for Windows Mixed Reality which allows WMR headsets (and their controllers) to work again.
Oasis is available as a free download from Steam and involves a few specific setup steps in order to get working, but once the headset and controllers are unlocked and room setup is complete, the hardware will be usable again. Note that while SteamVR is handy, one’s headset and controllers are not actually tied to SteamVR. Any VR application that uses OpenVR or OpenXR should work.
It’s an extremely well-documented project, and anyone willing to read and follow a short list of directions should be off to the races in no time.
Now that there’s a way for folks to dust off their WMR hardware and get back in the game, it’s a good time to mention that if you have ever suffered from VR sickness, we’ve covered ways to help deal with and adapt to it.
We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
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What Every Argument About Sideloading Gets Wrong
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in reply to Michael K Johnson • • •Here is my current morse code key with all its parts prior to assembly, as well as after assembly. In addition to these parts, you need:
I have sources for all the parts except the (commodity) stranded wire linked in the README.
One of the main things in the way of publishing this as version 1.0 is taking all the pictures I just took (far more than these) and assembling them into an assembly guide.
README.md · main · Michael K Johnson / Single-Paddle-Key · GitLab
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in reply to Michael K Johnson • • •Here is a video of me sending CQ POTA DE KZ4LY at 20WPM with my new key. Well, it's a video of my radio while I'm sending with my new key. ☺
It sounds very clicky in the video because of the quiet environment and the phone taking the video "enhancing" the audio. It's actually very quiet in real use. It's the quietest key I have; quieter than my Kent or Putikeeg for example.
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in reply to Michael K Johnson • • •I have released version 0.6 of my single-paddle morse code key system with only a tiny change: the swivel block "interference" with the key is slightly smaller, in order to have a better fit. In 0.5, they were too tight and too hard to pull apart to move the key from one fixture to another.
The stabilizer bar in the key lever is a huge winner, but it does want to be greased. I used SuperLube for this, but really probably any grease will work.
v0.6 · Michael K Johnson / Single-Paddle-Key · GitLab
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