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I am not associated with this project at all but I thought it was pretty cool to find a Canadian Linux distro.

Maple Linux Website

Maple Linux is Canada’s only active Linux distribution which puts privacy, performance and ease of use first. Powered by Debian, this desktop is free (yes really ...

The release consists of 421 Microsoft CVEs

Not as many as last month's 600+ but still a pretty big number. Make sure you update your systems.

More info here

If you use WSL you may have noticed that it can eat up a ton of disk space. In my case I use it for some regular backup jobs for remote systems and it tends to get very large. After searching for a bit I found that if you clean up the space in the WSL filesystem (you must do this first) and then run ...

This seems to be a pretty decently moddable radio.

You can buy it just about anywhere you can buy other Baofeng radios.

It will do 1.25m and some claim it will do CB as well. I am not sure about that as I don't actually have one but if anyone does it please feel free to post your thoughts ...

I've got a second location that might be suitable for another CATS and / or APRS node. I just need a TNC and an antenna. We shall see.

I've been spending a lot of time in FreePBX lately and I came across this module called Dial Plan Visualizer.

It gives you a easy to understand visual representation of you call flows, queues, IVRs etc.

You can find it on Github here: https://github.com/madgen78/dpviz
dpviz-example-1-scaled ...

I finally got myself a decent server for my homelab set up. My friend gave me a Dual Xeon Dell T620 server a while ago. I ordered an 128GB of ram for it so with the 16GB that was in it there is now 144GB.

I've installed Proxmox VE and have been playing around with it. Currently it has two 600GB ...

I've now got a CATS I-Gate running at home with my APRS I-Gate on the same Raspberry PI and same antenna (using a duplexer). This works well because CATS is on UHF (430.500 MHz) and APRS is on VHF (144.360) so a cheap-ish duplexer (sometimes called diplexer) can be used. I got mine off Amazon (not ...

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The line of Quansheng UV-K5/K6/5R are becoming very popular with radio hobbyists. They are highly modifiable with custom firmware. Here I'll post some info and links to various resources to mod this radios. If you have anything to add please do so as a reply to this topic.

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