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 Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads 4 days ago:
I’m guessing that if you set your DNS to AdGuard a lot of this nonsense would go away.
Another alternative is to remove the internet access from your fridge.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 1 week ago:
I’ll add it to the list:
- AI is Assumed Intelligence.
- AI is autocorrect on steroids.
- AI is a Dunning-Kruger accelerator.
- AI is a classic case of Gell-Mann amnesia.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 1 week ago:
What you’re describing is a general experience with LLM, not limited to the C-level.
If an LLM sprouts rubbish you detect it because you have external knowledge, in other words, you’re the subject matter expert.
What makes you think that those same errors are not happening at the same rate outside your direct personal sphere of knowledge?
Now consider what this means for the people around you, including the C-level.
Repeat after me, AI is Assumed Intelligence and should not be considered anything more than autocorrect on steroids.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 3 weeks ago:
Well, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that the answer to that is … as soon as openai collapses … hopefully.
- Comment on 220-ton flywheel generator in Germany 3 weeks ago:
The article explains precisely what it is and why … it’s even written in English.
- Comment on Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM? 3 weeks ago:
What is your budget?
What size do you want?
What screen resolution?
Which GPU?
And if you want warranty, which country are you in?
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 3 weeks ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 3 weeks ago:
None of the above.
ARABIA POTTERY, Finland. 1960s RUSKA
Absolutely indestructible. Drop it on the tiles, cracks the tiles.
You can have it in any colour, as long as it’s Brown.
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 4 weeks ago:
That’s interesting, since my list of addresses contains numerous ones that don’t exist and nobody here has ever used.
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting.
I see a list of email addresses.
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 4 weeks ago:
I am not sure what you are talking about.
I have a domain registered and can see exactly which addresses have been compromised by what, without payment.
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 4 weeks ago:
You don’t think that 3,028 people holding 99% of global wealth is extreme?
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 4 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting observation.
Given the 3,028 billionaires among the 8 billion people on Earth, that’s the definition of extreme.
Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been washing clothes for many decades and although I was also taught to turn some clothes inside out, I’ve never noticed any difference if I didn’t and these days I’ll often wash with them oriented normally, mainly because that’s how I prefer to hang them in the cupboard or fold them into drawers and turning them when wet or after taking them off the line or out of the drier makes the whole process even more tedious than it already is.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It means your coffee pod machine just came online and the coffee is currently spewing from the spout … probably.
- Comment on Where can I buy used computers, and are they on a discount now because of Windows 10 end of life? 1 month ago:
In Australia:
- Comment on If you eat free range eggs, you're probably ingesting trace amounts of rooster cum 1 month ago:
… and your point is?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Unlikely.
You underestimate the size of the Universe. There’s 8 billion people on Earth, there’s about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and between 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s likely not about tennis, unless the CEO is a dick, it’s about an excuse to meet you and evaluate how you are as a human being.
Unless there’s a specific dress code requirement, I’d arrive in comfortable clothes, smart casual, clean and with a smile on my face.
When you’re asked about your lack of racket I’d point out that not only have you never played, you didn’t think it would be prudent to spend money on gear you know nothing about.
Remember, this is about people, not about hitting a tennis ball.
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 2 months ago:
This seems at first glance at least potentially doable.
Create a website with content that’s only rendered with JavaScript and embed a miner.
Your challenge is to get the work product back, but you might be able to create dynamically generated URLs that show up in your logs as the work result.
You’d have to find a way to chunk the work and make it such that the work required is enough to be valuable to you, but not so costly as to stop the crawlers from using your site.
I suspect that in order for this to actually happen you’d have to have a significant infrastructure to deal with the crawler load, which you could instead be using to do the actual work.
Ultimately I suspect that this is the software equivalent of a perpetual motion machine, cute in theory, physically impossible.
Good luck!
- Comment on Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Kick, Roblox, Steam, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord and even dating apps 2 months ago:
The comments here seem to be missing a salient point.
In order to determine if a user is under 16, you need to determine that for every single user … including you!
This means that your personal data will be harvested in order to determine if you are over 16 or not.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 2 months ago:
So … you are basing you hypothesis on an article about Pedophile hunters written in German (or Swiss if you want to get frisky) that you linked using an English headline and summary in a software development community?
I’m surprised that your post wasn’t removed.
I’m mentioning this because it hardly seems like a genuine attempt to learn anything and any assertions you make about voting behaviour has to be suspect at best, not to mention that it’s based on a single example, hardly ever the hallmark of solid statistical analysis.
Let’s move on to the attempted “fix”.
You’re attempting to achieve what exactly?
A relationship between votes and comments?
How do you know how the users decide what to read, vote or comment on? You see a relationship with ordering by votes, I read whatever comes past on my “All feed” and vote when I think the pod warrants it. The two are not the same.
In other words, your proposal seems based on a very poor foundation and I’m voting accordingly.
- Comment on Easy fix for tile lines showing? 2 months ago:
Potentially cleaning with diluted white vinegar will make it less visible, but it won’t fix the underlying issues.
- Comment on Notice is now open source 2 months ago:
The open-source alternative to Mailchimp, Brevo, Mailjet, Listmonk, Mailerlite, and Klaviyo, Loop.so, etc.
That’s the first paragraph of the project page.
- Comment on YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file. 2 months ago:
How does this improve on “Print to PDF” built into every browser and/or OS?
- Comment on Notice is now open source 2 months ago:
Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.
You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.
Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.
The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.
- Comment on tractor 2 months ago:
… takes one to know one 😇
- Comment on tractor 2 months ago:
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.