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  • JackbyDev@programming.devtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your best 'strange noise from the woods' stories?English
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    2 days ago

    I’ve only been camping in a tent three times as an adult. I heard some interesting things. Never anything ur am legend worthy.

    One was a bachelor’s party. Some of the folks got into some things, I didn’t partake. I was super anxious about the trip already. It was in the southern most part of the Appalachian mountains. Honestly probably not really even in the mountains. Maybe more in the Blue Ridge area. Anyways, it’s quiet. I hear a weird noise. I immediately recognize as a helicopter. With no other sounds and being surrounded by hills and trees they sounds WEIRD! You can hear them from way further. It sounded so ominous. I jokingly turn to the group and ask “Is that the trumpet?” Implying the trumpets that will sound during the rapture. I think I sort of got a few of 'em before they realized what it was!

    From that same trip I remember finally being in my tent alone. First time being in a tent alone. As a kid I always had a buddy in bot scouts or parent. I was so fucking cold. I forgot a mat to put my sleeping bag on. As I’m laying there cold, cold as hell, trying to not panic about being “alone” (because my friends are so close! Just in the other tents!) I just hear the wind. Again, in the middle of a quiet forest with only the wind creeping along my imagination takes over. I imagine it as a giant air serpent creeping along through the trees, weaving and rustling all the leaves.

    The last one was with my wife for a friend’s birthday party. We hear leaves crunch near the tent and hear little sniffs by our heads outside the tent. Based on the sounds I think it was a racoon or a opossum. So cute!

    The other time we went camping was with my parents. They were in their RV and my wife and I just slept in the tent outside lol. It’s the only time we brought our dog camping. She was such a good watch pup. Just sat on the bed, very alert. I think she was nervous. If she could talk she probably has weird stories about that night. It’s interesting to think that all the noises you hear at a large campsite with RVs that you know are just folks doing stuff probably freak the dog out. She doesn’t know. Even if she does, she knows she’s supposed to protect us from people. Or at least thinks she does.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CETEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There’s no restriction to purchase this stuff, so licensing will only stop accidents, not intentional bad actors. Even Baofengs can be put into a “ham mode” so they don’t transmit out of band. I don’t think we’d see it happen, but a license class under technician targeted at getting people legally able to use lower power handhelds super quickly would be nice. Even the technician question bank has questions about things that ultimately don’t really matter for making sure people operate in band as they should. The metaphor I give folks is like if your driver’s license test asked you questions about how to build engines. (And part of the reason we won’t ever see that is because amateur radio licenses allow you to construct and use your own equipment, as opposed to things like FRS where the part itself has to be certified.)