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Yeah, that's the Nagravision that the article mentions at the end. There were programs that could use a TV capture card and decode it in real time on a 486DX2. They worked pretty w…

Draw, draw, draw, draw. Don't try to be good; just draw. Look for one thing you can improve on, then practice until you get a little better at it. Then look for the next thing and …

You know, this is funny because QBasic did not use EDIT.COM. Instead, QBasic was the editor and EDIT.COM was a simple program that called "QBASIC /EDIT" :-)

Modern smoke detectors, at least here in the US, have a 10-year sealed non-replaceable battery.

Ah yeah, E4000 tuner, those were hard to come by even 10 years ago, so I didn't support them. Only R820 and R828 and compatibles...

I don't have a dedicated place for announcements and such, but I post on my Bluesky whenever there's a major improvement (@jacobo.tarrio.org). And you can always star it on GitHub:…

If you don't know, it probably isn't; they brand it quite extensively both outside and in the USB manufacturer strings (it appears as "Blog V4" in the device selection window.) If …

Yes, next up is frequency/band management. Recording will come later. Later still, who knows :-)

Is your stick an RTL-SDR Blog V4? Because it looks like the failure happens when accessing a R828D tuner, which should be supported.

There are lots of RTL-SDR applications, but you have to install them. I used the HTML5 USB API that exists in Chrome (did you know about it?) to build one that you can run straight…

Naturalized citizen here: it's not hard at all. You've had the green card for 10 years so the marriage is not even a consideration. For once, you'll be on the "friendly" side of US…

I'm Spanish too, so hopefully I can explain. The problem is that everyone treats the SSN as if it were a secret number known only to you, so they use it as both an identifier and a…

It's just a convenient way to define a unit of length. Look up the original definition of the metre and you'll see that it's basically the same except for some constants.

The nautical mile is the length of a minute of arc along a great circle on the surface of Earth. I think the 14.4m figure is wrong; that should be 15.4m, which is the distance cove…

Depending on your educational background and working experience, you go into one or another category. Most people here will fit in EB-3, EB-2 and EB-1. If you are in EB-1 you can g…