It's actually quite simple. I always thought it was difficult and you'd have to learn from a code sheet, but I found an app which teaches you and you actually just recognise the sounds like you'd recognise any other sound. You generally don't even need to decode it- you just get used to what a letter sounds like. I've been learning since Saturday and can already key my name out.

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[–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There’s a site called “morsle” which has a daily test (like Wordle, and all the other daily games that are going around) where it starts out playing you a 5 letter word in Morse code and you can replay it a bunch of times and every time you do it slows down the sound a bit, starting at 40 words per minute. It’s amazing how quickly you can learn to discern one sound from another. I only found it a day or so ago but I am finding it’s coming quite quickly to me. It feels almost like remembering a short musical riff or drum beat. It’s intriguing.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I only ever knew "SOS". Learned it in Cub Scouts.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago

    Apparently SOS isn't actually the distress call. •••---••• just means a distress call, SOS is how people remember it. The difference between the distress call and SOS is that SOS would have a short pause to denote the beginning of s new letter, the distress call wouldn't.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I was playing this game with my friend called Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, where basically a bunch of us have to solve a bunch of mini puzzles in time. One of us has to convey what the puzzle is, while the rest of the team has to decipher and solve the puzzle without looking at the screen. One of them is straight up just decoding morse code from a blinking light. I felt the need to learn morse code then but we've stopped playing the game.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Get yourself a morse coin and always keep it in your pocket

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    That shit is hilarious. Did you make that yourself, or did you find the picture?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    How would you rate your experience using the google AI, compared to using the regular old search?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago

    The fact that it gives a different response each time to the same query from the same user shows it's unreliable

    My dad and I have googled the same question and the AI said completely different things (on a yes/no question)

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Morse Toad is another learning app that's fun because it gameifys it a bit. It's a little limiting as you can't adjust the code speed, but still a fun entry-level learning tool.

    If anyone is wondering what real world use you could get out of learning the code, look into CW (continuous wave) ham radio activity as a hobby. It requires a license that isn't too difficult to get and there are some pretty low cost options for getting into the hobby if you only plan on using morse code rather than voice transmission.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    •••• −−− •−− •−−−−• •••   −•−− −−− ••− •−•   •−• • •− −•• •• −• −−•   −•−• −−− −− •• −• −−•   •− •−•• −−− −• −−• ••−−•• 

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    one year for global game jam i made "morse code hero" which is exactly what you'd think, but i also added a "chaos" slider to shake the camera at an adjustable intensity every time you tapped the screen. it had a text to morse converter to build out your own levels but had famous morse code transmissions already built in.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I've already started to make a telegraph system in Minecraft on my singleplayer world 🤣

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Well, what's the app called?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Had to learn it as a kid to get my ham license, now apparently its not part of the exam process for the license. I'd fit right in today because ill be damned if I can remember any of it.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)