Guns & Radio

MNGunTalk has a thread on free trusts mentioning Dakota Silencer, Ben Rust, and GOCRA.

qrz.com has a thread comparing the Kenwood TM-V71A and Yaesu FT-8900.

EMP

The EMP Commission reports, both the 2004 and 2008 editions, can be found at the EMPact America website.

mods.dk

For ham radio hacking, there's mods.dk.

SHTF Channels

Another post on Slack #radio was for SHTF channels to program into radios.  I need to do this.

Amusingly enough, the site has a list for militia channels, too.

Disks for Data Centers

Google released a whitepaper on their wishlist for HDDs.  It's somewhat amusing that they appear to think that ECC is still used.

"An obvious question is why are we talking about spinning disks at all, rather than SSDs, which have higher IOPS and are the 'future' of storage. The root reason is that the cost per GB remains too high, and more importantly that the growth rates in capacity/$ between disks and SSDs are relatively close (at least for SSDs that have sufficient numbers of program-erase cycles to use in data centers), so that cost will not change enough in the coming decade."

Updated PiFM

One of the guys on Slack #radio at work tried PiFM on his RPi2 and found that it didn't work.  Apparently the project's been abandoned.  He found an updated project, rpitx, that does work.  His interest was using it as a foxhunt transmitter, which is also pretty cool.

DIY Foxhunt Hardware

Using an RTL-SDR and four switched antennas to direction-find: link and paper.

Can Comparison

On the Minnesota NFA FB group, a guy posted a link to an Arfcom thread and YT video of a comparison of a bunch of popular rifle suppressors.  Very cool.  Apparently the Rugged Surge, Dead Air Sandman, or Silencerco Omega are the ones to consider.