Can IPv6 play a role in resisting internet censorship?

This will just be a quick post to share the cable I built for interfacing PC audio with my Xiegu G90 for digital radio modes.

The homepage for the EveryHam Amateur Radio Contest is now live at EveryHam.org!

A trial contest was run on 18 April, thanks to the help of KD3BTG, M0CUV, N3VEM, N3CAN, and K3QB. I would consider the trial contest to be a success; it helped expose some bugs my ADIF parsing script and taught me some important lessons.

I love the concept of radio communication; from playing with 27mhz “walkie talkies” as to kid, to CB and LMR as a teen, and then finally licensed amateur radio as an adult.

I’m just a nerd; learning about and experimenting with radio frequencies is just plain fun.

I just recently returned from Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) East this past weekend and just wanted to share a bit of my experience. This was my 5th or 6 PAX event, with my first being back in 2010 when PAX first came to the East Coast.

I relocated last year. During the process, I tried to add my new mailing address to a banking application, however, I encountered a slight problem: the bank uses a very popular online Maps service to validate addresses and my new address was part of a newly developed neighborhood. No problem, I thought: I’ve been a Maps “local guide” for about a decade, I’ll just add the street myself. The street was even visible in the satellite image, so I just carefully traced the street and submitted the path and name to Maps. It went into the usual pending queue…

Note: Welcome to a post in my “Ramblings” category. This is category is reserved for the occasional semi-off-topic post. Today’s entry is a look at the “W” social media platform, specifically the narrative and messaging around its announcement. I typically focus on my personal hobbies and interests on the blog and avoid political topics like the plague, but occasionally the two will cross paths in way where it becomes impossible to talk about one without the other. This might be one of those times.
If you’re not interested, that’s fine. I’ll be back to my normal stuff next time!

What is “W”?

Officially known as “W”, wsocial.eu was announced in January of this year (2026). The social media platform was introduced as not just another twitter “X” competitor, but as a “strategic instrument for democracy” and a cornerstone of European “digital sovereignty” ¹.

For the past couple years, I’ve fiddled with multiple programmable keyboards and various remapping software like Piper to try to customize my input devices to work they way I wanted them too. All the while, I had a RPi Pico sitting, unused on a shelf. Finally, in 2026, I discovered HID Remapper.