vk6flab
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
The title of your post is:
Have anyone seen any Chinese tourists behaving properly before?
This implies that nobody has seen any Chinese tourists behaving properly, in other words, they’re all misbehaving.
Your body text says that you know people from the mainland, which I presume means China, and that this idea of badly behaving tourists makes you sad.
The two are in disagreement with each other.
I think you meant to ask:
“Has anyone seen any Chinese tourists behaving improperly before?”
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
Your title and question don’t appear to make sense.
Do you mean “improperly” ?
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 day ago:
Refer to Ambience Adjustments in your research proposal?
- Comment on Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office? 1 day ago:
If that’s how you want to run your server that’s your choice, but if it were me, I’d think long and hard about the legal implications of doing this.
So far you’ve not said anything about what you’re trying to achieve and that’s not helping.
- Comment on Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office? 1 day ago:
What specifically are you attempting to achieve, because right now, what little you have shared sends up red flags and rings the alarm bells … loudly.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 days ago:
They just got fired, together with anyone who might begin to fix this.
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
Source?
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
Understood.
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
Rant:
to speak, write or shout in a loud, uncontrolled, or angry way
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
That’s interesting. The Encyclopaedia Britannica appears to contradict this, stating:
However, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence in reference sources to support this theory.
Source: see the reply by @Nougat@fedia.io to you.
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
You show me a pair of jeans with one leg and I’ll think of a name.
So far I’m thinking “a leg of jeans” … needs some work 😇
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
What about a brassiere?
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
Apologies if this was perceived as a rant … I’m genuinely interested in discovering why we refer to a pair of jeans.
As for glasses. In the time of monocles that might have made sense, but I’ve never seen anyone wear two of them.
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
That’s a whole image right there … got any evidence of this?
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
😂
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 2 days ago:
You have jumpers with one sleeve?
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- Comment on With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before 3 days ago:
Where I am, that day started 13 hours and 54 minutes ago … so far the news is indistinguishable from any fake or real news.
- Comment on What ongoing projects are you working on? 5 days ago:
The never ending project to find the next paid project to pay for food … the life of being self-employed.
- Comment on Are Zambonis right-side drive in countries that use right-side drive cars? 5 days ago:
I’m guessing that they’ll be on whatever side Frank Zamboni decided it should be on.
I’ve only ever heard an Ice Resurfacer being referred to as a Zamboni in the USA. There’s not a lot of ice to resurface in Australia and in the Netherlands we used to skate on the river or canal when conditions permitted, no machines there either.
- Comment on "Police said the man is not wanted for a crime but believe he may know something about what happened." Ok... 5 days ago:
Was the person wearing knuckle dusters … oh wait, a sneeze could dent that narcissistic hunk of stainless steel.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 5 days ago:
That looks interesting, but it’s not ringing any bells.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 5 days ago:
There was also a system where some TV screen pixels were used to send data, but I’m struggling to remember how you were supposed to get it into the computer.
I suspect that you needed to build some light sensor with a serial cable, that you held to the screen, but I’m not sure.
This was in the Netherlands, not sure if it was done elsewhere.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 5 days ago:
Are you referring to Teletext, or something else?
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 1 week ago:
It’s on purpose and AFAIK for two main reasons:
- To confuse the buyer
- To be able to trademark and protect the brand
- Comment on Skill issue 1 week ago:
Source?
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 1 week ago:
In my opinion, pretty much spot on.
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 1 week ago:
In my experience, the single biggest bully on the internet are the servers controlled by Meta which in my experience literally perform DDoS attacks whilst crawling, hitting sites several orders of magnitude more than all the others combined.
Actively blocking them was the only option left.
- Comment on AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness, a first for the AI industry. 1 week ago:
With the likes of massive companies like Disney and Paramount running the show … it’s going to be a while.
Also, you do realise that these massive wages come from the obscene profits made by movies, in other words, if you want to make money, you need to spend it.
- Comment on Life Without a SIM Card 1 week ago:
Hmm … the author uses a hotspot connected with a SIM. Their whole argument hinges on not being tracked, but their hotspot is with them all the time. Seems like a massive hole in their privacy argument.