Anybody who finds this interesting should look into tughras.

You were rused. Any ham can look at that spectrum and instantly tell you why it’s fake. You just helped Vice to spread disinformation, lad.

What? lol I was literally there watching the waterfalls on three different online receivers at the same time.

You want to die on this hill? Or would you like me to dig up the recorded footage for you?

Yeah give me the IQ file, while a screen shot has proof of what I’m saying the IQ data will have it in spades.

You are very welcome to tune to 4625kHz USB yourself, or use a suitable European WebSDR if you're in the US.

I am a ham and I have a pretty good antenna farm going. Being a ham with plenty of time behind my own SDR is how I know this is fake.

You've been very vocal about how this is supposedly fake so far, but you've been very mysterious. You say it's so obvious that any ham can instantly tell why, yet you treat the reason like some kind of secret that only you must hold. I can't help but think you may be the one spreading misinformation. You're welcome to prove me wrong though.

I’m going to wait a while and see how many more fake news articles come out about this before I describe exactly why these reports are fake. In the mean while you’re welcome to try to locate I/Q recordings of the incident. Trust me, none will be offered.

I’m mostly a radar guy so I’m missing it — is it the fact that we only see the upper sideband, as though the signal is analytic? I don’t know this software (only a bit of GNUradio now and then) so I don’t know if the green bar up top is just the filtered passband or what. If it’s supposed to be the passband, I get that some of the spectra (“demo2,” for example) creep out of it, which is fishy. Any insight is appreciated!

You're not a very good HAM then.

This has to be a prank article.

This was actually a hoax that Vice fell for. Pretty sad.

Which part is a hoax exactly? I've observed and recorded some of this myself and I even messaged the pirate on Telegram after he drew his handle through spectrogram painting. It was hearable on multiple receivers in various places in Europe.

He didn’t make any transmission. If you’re a radio person you’ll see instantly how and why this is fake. Since you’re not, and neither is your purported pirate, I won’t tell you the critical error which was made. You should be careful that you don’t get rused, or worse - spread misinformation intentionally.

Roughly 30min ago there was music being played at 4625kHz in various receivers around Europe. Am I wrong in my understanding that if you can hear a radio signal, there is something being transmitted?

The only possible scenarios I can imagine where this is fake is either A) there is no transmission and the signal is somehow being directly injected into these WebSDRs who have all conspired; B) there are transmissions but they're very low-power and local near each WebSDR; or C) the transmission is actually coming from Russia's buzzer transmitter.

I find A to be extremely unlikely as it would require some kind of grand conspiracy. B might be possible with enough motivation but I fail to see one. C seems unlikely as I found the music's signal strength to vary differently based on location than the buzzer.

I tried to pick up the music with my own SDR at home and a shoddy antenna setup. I was able to pick up the buzzer and not the music, while some WebSDRs had loud music, so I don't consider C to be true. I do live in what could be a skip zone for the pirate's transmission.

If there is a critical error in my assessment, it would be helpful to point it out if you truly wish to curb this supposed misinformation.

B sounds the most logical but even that is a stretch. Whoever hoaxed this forgot one essential thing about radio which I won’t say, because I suspect we haven’t seen the end of these hoaxes. All in due time though.

I don’t think they will fix it, isn’t it searching for and proxy ink for AirTags?

And you aren’t getting any security patches? Is that a good thing?

How tough was it to get running on a laptop?

How did you get Photoshop and Final Cut Pro to run?

I just can’t support Panic after they burned me and so many other Mac users with Unison.

Are you talking about Panic end-of-lifting a product but releasing a final free build?

I’m curious about which aspect you see as burning.

I bought it years before they EOL’d it and bugs were never fixed.

Same with Coda. I used it maybe four times, forget the price I paid but let’s say $40; probably came out to $10 per use. It was nice. I was happy with the purchase, or thought I was until they pulled the rug out. I thought it would have long term value. Planned to use it much more in the coming years when I get into some web projects. And now it’s orphaned. Why did they ask for my money if they were going to do that?

Coda 2 was released in 2012. Nova came out in 2020. Is eight years of free updates not “long term value”?

Presumably they thought you wanted to use it as it was and when you bought it.

Coda still works, so what's the issue?

>menu bar

I never leave it enabled any more. When I was a beginner it was helpful but as time goes on you learn more of the system and better ways of finding commands.

One thing I suggest is building emacs without dbus and using only Athena widgets. Both contribute to overall emacs stability.

I’d use CVS, it’s old but very well tested, it’s easy to use, and you can avoid dollar-sucking platforms and services easily with it.