Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir
Hi all, Perhaps a less contentious approach would be to write a separate app that uses the Twitter and aprs.fi APIs to create tweets from the APRS data. That would save modifying individual APRS apps to provide the APRS- Twitter functionality. 73 Richard VK2SKY ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir
NO NO NO THIS CAN ONLY LEAD TO PIRACY AND SYSTEM CORRUPTION If this gets added to the code it well destroy ham radio. The damb TWITS can go play in the twitterverse and leave us alone. I do not Twiter/Tweet, nor do I facebook, ect. In my opinion... if you need twitter you need help from a shrink. Just my 2 copper disks. Dave On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:29 AM, jecksons jecks jecks...@gmail.com wrote: Hai Is Xastir already added twitter capabilities? There's Ben Sinclair code at attachment Regards Jeckson -- David A Aitcheson david.aitche...@gmail.com david.aitcheson on google and skype ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Peter Gamache wrote: Seriously, this is APRS--Twitter, not the other way around. It's a novelty for one particular user to be able to update his Twitter account from his APRS-enabled HT. I think it's a nifty idea, if not exactly a mainstream feature. It does NOT allow random (or even specific) tweets onto RF or APRS-IS. If it did, I'd be up in arms, too, as twitter.com isn't known for policing spammers very well, and that's the last thing we need. Another thing to be concerned about is popping our heads up above the noise level and getting shot at. Our infrastructure is not bulletproof but I won't go into details 'cuz that would be shooting myself in the foot. Hmmm... Enough shooting references in there? If updating personal twitter accounts could cause non-hams to target the APRS infrastructure then I'm negative on the issue, else I'm neutral. I have no personal experience to go on. -- Curt, WE7U. http://www.eskimo.com/~archer APRS: Where it's at!http://www.xastir.org Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir
Security through obscurity has never been a solid practice. Postel's Law says: Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others. If gating APRS uni-directionally TO twitter will bring down APRS, there are bigger issues. That being said, I find APRS-Twitter to be somewhat useful, with a layer of abstraction in between See http://twitter.com/vwwxnet WX data is collected via APRS over RF, massaged and gated to Twitter periodically. Very useful to the non-ham who most likely would have a hell of a time decoding W8FY-10APW284,W8FY-1,qAR,N1ICS-2:_06282017c306s025g025t082r000p055P014h53b10054wDVP Shoot I do. Hoaglin Twp House 02:59PM EDT T:74F DP:47F H:39% P:30.07 W:3G13mph D:NNW R:0.00/0.00/0.00 http://bit.ly/duldpo #vwwxnet is a little more friendly. (and no, same station, different times). Even with that, cramming useful info in to 140 characters is a pain. See http://bit.ly/duldpo for what that tweet means. Why do we care? A lot more people have smartphones around here with a Twitter client than have APRS enabled HT's (just guessing, but at least 34 of them). And ANYONE ANYWHERE can follow it. Twitter is a useful hammer if you define the nail correctly. It is not, however, a universal hammer. Look closely and you will see Xastir in there also for Doppler screen caps. EKG N1ICS On Tue, June 29, 2010 13:16, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Peter Gamache wrote: Seriously, this is APRS--Twitter, not the other way around. It's a novelty for one particular user to be able to update his Twitter account from his APRS-enabled HT. I think it's a nifty idea, if not exactly a mainstream feature. It does NOT allow random (or even specific) tweets onto RF or APRS-IS. If it did, I'd be up in arms, too, as twitter.com isn't known for policing spammers very well, and that's the last thing we need. Another thing to be concerned about is popping our heads up above the noise level and getting shot at. Our infrastructure is not bulletproof but I won't go into details 'cuz that would be shooting myself in the foot. Hmmm... Enough shooting references in there? If updating personal twitter accounts could cause non-hams to target the APRS infrastructure then I'm negative on the issue, else I'm neutral. I have no personal experience to go on. -- Curt, WE7U. http://www.eskimo.com/~archer APRS: Where it's at!http://www.xastir.org Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- === Eric K Germann ekgermann (at) cctec (dot) com Phone: 419 605 4026 Fax: 419 567 2053 PGP/GPG Fingerprint: B047 5EFD 3851 6D79 A851 709B 07FC 9F13 7496 9066 Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. -- Martin Luther ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir
I would respectfully suggest that before any attempt at linking APRS to any non-Ham system that the people proposing this link post their idea to the national APRS email list and let it be discussed there. Not only are the maintainers of the infrastructure there but also many others who have significant ideas about how things like this idea will break other things. If it passes muster there then Xastir could be the first program to support it. But, please, not before it is fully hashed out. Dave KD7MYC -Original Message- From: xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of jecksons jecks Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 01:29 To: xastir@lists.xastir.org Subject: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir Hai Is Xastir already added twitter capabilities? There's Ben Sinclair code at attachment Regards Jeckson ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
