Magnus Hedemark (he/they)
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Magnus Hedemark (he/they)
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· Oct 22
I hear this is the new Mastodon is the new Twitter. 🤓 Let’s do this!
I’m Magnus. #hamradio KI4OTK, OG computer nerd, #OpenSource geezer, #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #neuroDiverseSquad, SVP Eng in health tech, pretty fly for an AI guy, I have pronouns (he/they). Drive a tiny truck. #introductions
I’m Magnus. #hamradio KI4OTK, OG computer nerd, #OpenSource geezer, #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #neuroDiverseSquad, SVP Eng in health tech, pretty fly for an AI guy, I have pronouns (he/they). Drive a tiny truck. #introductions
Riding my bike to some of the most unsavory places to test out MeshCore and Meshtastic coverage in Raleigh.
December 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Riding my bike to some of the most unsavory places to test out MeshCore and Meshtastic coverage in Raleigh.
What good are all of the new bike lanes if there’s nowhere to park a bicycle safely at the places you want to go to?
(Raleigh specifically, but maybe your town, too)
(Raleigh specifically, but maybe your town, too)
December 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
What good are all of the new bike lanes if there’s nowhere to park a bicycle safely at the places you want to go to?
(Raleigh specifically, but maybe your town, too)
(Raleigh specifically, but maybe your town, too)
All of the journalists must be off un-redacting the Epstein files now. Because this administration replaced the best and brightest with their unqualified loyalists.
youtu.be/H7NsrC5mTIo
youtu.be/H7NsrC5mTIo
How to Unredact the Epstein Files with just Word
YouTube video by Tech Pub
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
All of the journalists must be off un-redacting the Epstein files now. Because this administration replaced the best and brightest with their unqualified loyalists.
youtu.be/H7NsrC5mTIo
youtu.be/H7NsrC5mTIo
Merry Christmas Eve Eve!
Jessferg Christmas GIF
Alt: Old folks by the fire dressed for Christmas. Scene from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Merry Christmas Eve Eve!
No, Apple, I *really don’t* want to subscribe to Peacock. Stop pushing this really mid service on me.
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
No, Apple, I *really don’t* want to subscribe to Peacock. Stop pushing this really mid service on me.
The 1MB limit on MCP tool results is such a drag. Especially difficult to bear with `mcp-neo4j-memory` tool, which almost always returns >1MB results if your knowledge graph has any real content in it. The tool itself doesn't have any kind of rate limiting options, either.
December 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The 1MB limit on MCP tool results is such a drag. Especially difficult to bear with `mcp-neo4j-memory` tool, which almost always returns >1MB results if your knowledge graph has any real content in it. The tool itself doesn't have any kind of rate limiting options, either.
I'm also scheming flying a kite from different sites in February and March 2026 to test mesh coverage from ~300-500 feet altitude. It's easy to attach an ultra lightweight battery-powered repeater to the top surface of a 5-7 foot delta-style kite and blanket miles of area around/below with MeshCore.
Plotting and scheming a more serious attempt at blanketing Raleigh under an umbrella of MeshCore repeaters (kind of like Meshtastic, but better for scaled urban deployments). Definitely going to need to break my #ActuallyAutistic social isolation a bit to recruit well-positioned repeater sites.
December 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm also scheming flying a kite from different sites in February and March 2026 to test mesh coverage from ~300-500 feet altitude. It's easy to attach an ultra lightweight battery-powered repeater to the top surface of a 5-7 foot delta-style kite and blanket miles of area around/below with MeshCore.
Plotting and scheming a more serious attempt at blanketing Raleigh under an umbrella of MeshCore repeaters (kind of like Meshtastic, but better for scaled urban deployments). Definitely going to need to break my #ActuallyAutistic social isolation a bit to recruit well-positioned repeater sites.
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Plotting and scheming a more serious attempt at blanketing Raleigh under an umbrella of MeshCore repeaters (kind of like Meshtastic, but better for scaled urban deployments). Definitely going to need to break my #ActuallyAutistic social isolation a bit to recruit well-positioned repeater sites.
Looking at City of Raleigh's plans for Quail Hollow Drive Green Street Project, I think this could be a lot better.
They have bike traffic in both directions on just one side of the road. So the cyclists closest to traffic will be facing into traffic.
raleighnc.gov/projects/qua...
They have bike traffic in both directions on just one side of the road. So the cyclists closest to traffic will be facing into traffic.
raleighnc.gov/projects/qua...
Quail Hollow Drive Green Street Project
raleighnc.gov
December 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Looking at City of Raleigh's plans for Quail Hollow Drive Green Street Project, I think this could be a lot better.
They have bike traffic in both directions on just one side of the road. So the cyclists closest to traffic will be facing into traffic.
raleighnc.gov/projects/qua...
They have bike traffic in both directions on just one side of the road. So the cyclists closest to traffic will be facing into traffic.
raleighnc.gov/projects/qua...
Someone in my house was eating Fruit Loops cereal and to her horror noticed a FUCKING MAGGOT BAKED IN!!!
December 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Someone in my house was eating Fruit Loops cereal and to her horror noticed a FUCKING MAGGOT BAKED IN!!!
I would love to be more excited about some of my favorite TV shows returning from break, but the break is so long I don’t even remember what happened in the previous season, or why I should care about the characters in the season premier.
Right, Fallout?
Right, Fallout?
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I would love to be more excited about some of my favorite TV shows returning from break, but the break is so long I don’t even remember what happened in the previous season, or why I should care about the characters in the season premier.
Right, Fallout?
Right, Fallout?
Let’s be clear: this is a truck, not a bicycle.
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Let’s be clear: this is a truck, not a bicycle.
American first responders:
- vehicles too big
- sirens too small
- vehicles too big
- sirens too small
December 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
American first responders:
- vehicles too big
- sirens too small
- vehicles too big
- sirens too small
My Autism is on a graphic novel streak. It’s not me.
December 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
My Autism is on a graphic novel streak. It’s not me.
I like how in Norway they make pancakes out of potatoes and roll them up with yummy stuff inside like a burrito.
Best pancake I have ever had came from First Watch. Whole grain, motherfucker.
I will pay you all $0, and this photo of a turtle in a top hat, if you start skeeting about pancakes right now.*
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* Replies to, and quotes posts of, this skeet discussing pancakes do not count. All pancakes must be independently posted.
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* Replies to, and quotes posts of, this skeet discussing pancakes do not count. All pancakes must be independently posted.
December 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I like how in Norway they make pancakes out of potatoes and roll them up with yummy stuff inside like a burrito.
“Welcome to Derry” is borrowing from Tolkien in the latest episode. Big Gollum energy.
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Welcome to Derry” is borrowing from Tolkien in the latest episode. Big Gollum energy.
Worked up to 33 miles on the ebike, mostly on PAS1 but a bit more on the hills of Raleigh if I’m being honest. Battery had like 20% remaining. I weigh a lot more than the ideal rider & was carrying groceries for 2/3 of the ride 😝
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Worked up to 33 miles on the ebike, mostly on PAS1 but a bit more on the hills of Raleigh if I’m being honest. Battery had like 20% remaining. I weigh a lot more than the ideal rider & was carrying groceries for 2/3 of the ride 😝
Any interest in Raleigh in getting an open source off-grid mesh communications network going?
I messed around with Meshtastic for a bit, but like many now I'm taking a closer look at Meshcore, which probably hits the spot.
We need some router nodes. Especially in high places.
meshcore.co.uk
I messed around with Meshtastic for a bit, but like many now I'm taking a closer look at Meshcore, which probably hits the spot.
We need some router nodes. Especially in high places.
meshcore.co.uk
MeshCore - Off grid mesh radio communications system
meshcore.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Any interest in Raleigh in getting an open source off-grid mesh communications network going?
I messed around with Meshtastic for a bit, but like many now I'm taking a closer look at Meshcore, which probably hits the spot.
We need some router nodes. Especially in high places.
meshcore.co.uk
I messed around with Meshtastic for a bit, but like many now I'm taking a closer look at Meshcore, which probably hits the spot.
We need some router nodes. Especially in high places.
meshcore.co.uk
[human]
Good use of AI:
I just uploaded a bunch of screen captures from Garmin Connect + Apple Health from my most recent analog bicycle ride and asked why this 3 mile ride sucked so hard.
It gave me the best possible breakdown of what was going on, and actionable advice to try on my next ride.
Good use of AI:
I just uploaded a bunch of screen captures from Garmin Connect + Apple Health from my most recent analog bicycle ride and asked why this 3 mile ride sucked so hard.
It gave me the best possible breakdown of what was going on, and actionable advice to try on my next ride.
December 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
[human]
Good use of AI:
I just uploaded a bunch of screen captures from Garmin Connect + Apple Health from my most recent analog bicycle ride and asked why this 3 mile ride sucked so hard.
It gave me the best possible breakdown of what was going on, and actionable advice to try on my next ride.
Good use of AI:
I just uploaded a bunch of screen captures from Garmin Connect + Apple Health from my most recent analog bicycle ride and asked why this 3 mile ride sucked so hard.
It gave me the best possible breakdown of what was going on, and actionable advice to try on my next ride.
If you haven’t started watching it yet, Pluribus on Apple TV might well be the best show currently in production.
It has lots of shared DNA with Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and… the Twilight Zone! (Really!)
It has lots of shared DNA with Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and… the Twilight Zone! (Really!)
a woman sitting on a couch talking on a cell phone with the words " when the pluribus episode is over "
Alt: a woman sitting on a couch talking on a cell phone with the words " when the pluribus episode is over "… she falls over into a fetal position
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If you haven’t started watching it yet, Pluribus on Apple TV might well be the best show currently in production.
It has lots of shared DNA with Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and… the Twilight Zone! (Really!)
It has lots of shared DNA with Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and… the Twilight Zone! (Really!)
Yeah, I’m bitter.
At least here in America, Al Gore used his mainstream political notoriety to bring to the attention of everyone the imminent dangers of climate change.
And now we’re literally shutting down every program meant to halt the collapse.
We’re f’d and we deserve what’s coming.
At least here in America, Al Gore used his mainstream political notoriety to bring to the attention of everyone the imminent dangers of climate change.
And now we’re literally shutting down every program meant to halt the collapse.
We’re f’d and we deserve what’s coming.
If I didn’t know any better, I might think that some man-made phenomenon has kicked off a cascading failure of our natural systems. But I can’t imagine what it could be, or that anyone could have seen it coming decades before it would be too late to stop it.
/s
/s
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Yeah, I’m bitter.
At least here in America, Al Gore used his mainstream political notoriety to bring to the attention of everyone the imminent dangers of climate change.
And now we’re literally shutting down every program meant to halt the collapse.
We’re f’d and we deserve what’s coming.
At least here in America, Al Gore used his mainstream political notoriety to bring to the attention of everyone the imminent dangers of climate change.
And now we’re literally shutting down every program meant to halt the collapse.
We’re f’d and we deserve what’s coming.
“Safety is our, ummm….”
[long pause]
“…top priority.”
Your flight attendant is really convincing me, United Airlines.
[long pause]
“…top priority.”
Your flight attendant is really convincing me, United Airlines.
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“Safety is our, ummm….”
[long pause]
“…top priority.”
Your flight attendant is really convincing me, United Airlines.
[long pause]
“…top priority.”
Your flight attendant is really convincing me, United Airlines.
PERFECT night to walk around in downtown Denver.
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
PERFECT night to walk around in downtown Denver.
About to see if Meshtastic is popping over in Denver.
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
About to see if Meshtastic is popping over in Denver.
