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 A Fair Delicacy! 1 day ago:
Three fiddy a pair … we’ll throw in extra fries.
- Comment on A Fair Delicacy! 1 day ago:
You should put them in contact with the customer service team at Uber.
An Uber drove away with her kid. Then Uber wouldn’t connect her or police with the driver Toronto police found 5-year-old, with the unwitting driver, without company’s help
- Comment on BK's new promotion is frozen water 2 days ago:
In Australia most petrol stations and liquor stores sell ice in 5 kg bags. I’m not sure if you can even buy it here at Hungry Jack’s (the name of the Burger King franchise in Australia).
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Why do you care about votes?
What makes you think that a defederated instance votes are still captured?
Why do you care about what happens on another instance?
- Comment on Online trolls take over Hope Florida virtual board meeting with slurs, hate symbols, and adult images 5 days ago:
Obviously not everyone learnt from the pandemic…
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 5 days ago:
You’re welcome.
I understand that being able to write software and be deliberate about accounting gives you a closer relationship with your financial situation.
For me the issue is that there are no guardrails around the plaintext accounting model, which means that you have the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot.
My current accounting software as rubbish as it is, stops me from making stupid mistakes, credits instead of debits for example. Plaintext accounting won’t.
So either you need to never make a mistake, or have a way to figure it out.
All that kind of safety net doesn’t exist. You can still make the books balance, but at some point you’re going to find a hole and spend weeks fixing it, or the taxman will and you’ll be paying a fine.
I exported the line items from my current software into plaintext accounting, even made it balance and match my actual accounts.
Then I needed to write an invoice and had to make my own, from scratch and manually enter the data twice, once into the invoice, another into plaintext accounting, giving me the chance to make an error twice, perhaps even a different one on either process. And that’s just one invoice.
I have considered writing my own accounting software from scratch, or forking something, but that’s not going to pay for food, so I kept looking instead.
It’s not a great place to be, either from a business perspective, or a mental one, but that’s where I’m at.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 6 days ago:
Plain text accounting (and all the variants) sounds great, right until you need to use it to generate invoices, or depreciate assets, or do a monthly Business Activity Statement, or convert a currency, track repayments, etc.
All of those things require that you write software to achieve that, which means that now instead of solving problems and writing software for my clients, I’m burning hours writing software so I can run my business.
Even if I did that, I’d have no way to validate the processes, short of becoming an accountant.
GNUcash, held up as an example by anyone you ask has no documentation for importing data, has no sample company datasets, has no Business Activity Statement, continues to prefer using an XML file as a database and is unreadable on a 4k monitor.
Kmymoney is fine for home users, but specifically not for business.
Odoo, Adiempere, ERPnext and the six or so other ERP tools have poor or non existent documentation, same issues as GNUcash in relation to data and import, and have a poor track record in solving basic issues that are completely unacceptable in a business setting. For example ERPnext didn’t do currency fractions properly (ERPnext uses Centavo instead of Cent for the USD fraction: github.com/frappe/frappe/issues/13445, took 13 months to fix).
Last week I evaluated Apache OFbiz. It looks like a product from 1995, and trying to find anything is impossible. For shits and giggles, try setting the global date format to yyyy-mm-dd. There are three different repositories and the Docker installation instructions don’t even bother to include which one to clone in which order. It starts at: “run the docker build command”. Not to mention that it uses a database called Derby. I’ve been writing software for over 40 years and until last week I’d never heard of it. That’s not something you want in business software.
I could go on, I’ve tested dozens. This is just from memory.
Why did I test all these?
Because I’m still running a 25 year old accounting package that doesn’t run on current hardware, isn’t supported, doesn’t run under Linux and has all my data hostage.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 6 days ago:
Business Accounting software under FOSS is abysmal. Poor quality, poor documentation, poor functionality, limited locale support and limited local support.
CAM software under FOSS is limited to three axis at best, but most is two and a half axis.
Office functionality is covered with LibreOffice. Your assertion that it’s 20 years behind is in my experience not based in fact.
Source: I’ve been using FOSS for over a quarter of a century.
- Comment on Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters 6 days ago:
With Google maps on many phones you should be able to get a good idea if this true or not.
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 1 week ago:
Listening to the Wiggles over and over again will do that … 😁
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
I came across this just now.
The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA. Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. We appreciate our partners’ and stakeholders’ patience.
- Comment on A reminder that the majority of anti-Reddit *hardliners* went back crawling to Reddit like the bitches they are 1 week ago:
So how is this “I told you so!” posting by you a shitpost, or are you just bragging or lost?
- Comment on The real questions 1 week ago:
Because the only thing coming out of them is shit?
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
What’s the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.
- Comment on A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data 1 week ago:
It’s “possible” … really, that’s the word you’re going for?
How about “likely”, “obvious”, “certain”, “duh”.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall AI Tool Is Making an Unwelcome Return 1 week ago:
Why are people acting all surprised? This is the company that brought you Clippy and the Zune.
On 14 October 2025 they’ll give you the final incentive to kick them to the kerb and install a different OS when your perfectly fine Windows 10 PC stops getting security updates.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial 1 week ago:
As far as I can tell, the promise of a substantial donation seems all that’s required, that and genuflecting … pro tip, don’t mention the hands.
- Comment on I too like to live kind-of-sort-of-dangerously 1 week ago:
Living dangerously would mean that you print the same part 20 times at slightly different orientations, put them all in a bag and pick one at random for a structured part.
Any reason you didn’t print them lying down?
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s assault of a minor.
- Comment on Google will stop restricting competition in connection with Google Automotive Services and Google Maps Platform in Europe. 2 weeks ago:
Google Automotive Services?
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 weeks ago:
The ones running the country!
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 weeks ago:
While it’s true in the majority of cases, it’s not a one to one relationship.
There’s a few billionaire numpties who will eat regardless and see it as a way to reduce wages even further whilst charging more for their products … profit!
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 2 weeks ago:
Should I be worried that I know precisely what you’re referring to?
Also, report and block is all fine and well, but my client and the web client both automatically load the image, so the miscreants know precisely which account opened it.
Not to mention that I have to open the account to block it.
Is there a better way?
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 2 weeks ago:
Can your detection method be automated and federated?
I’m asking because this is probably the thin end of the wedge and is likely to increase exponentially, especially since anyone can set up an instance and do whatever they like with it.
- Comment on Sometimes I think the primary purpose of having two hands is to pet two cats simultaneously. 2 weeks ago:
Only sometimes?
- Comment on UK Court Rejects Government Secrecy in Apple's Fight Against Backdoor Request. 2 weeks ago:
A right to privacy is not at all the same as the right to know, in many cases it’s the exact opposite.
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had the same phone number since 1992. It’s public, on my website. It’s in everyone’s database. Yesterday I spoke with an organisation that I hadn’t dealt with since 1998, they had it and knew my name (and when I got licensed, the reason for my call).
My phone is on silent 100% of the time.
All blocked caller ID goes direct to voicemail. The only time I actually get a voicemail from these calls is when it’s a stupid robot or a human who actually needs to speak with me, the rest of the time I get nothing.
I can see a future where we get to the point where we’re uncontactable because there’s so much spam and fraud.
I think that the onus is on telcos to stamp this out, but it’s all income generating, so they don’t have any financial incentives to fix this.
- Comment on 🗂️ ChartDB – Open-Source Database Diagrams | Self-Hosted Alternative to dbdiagram.io & DrawSQL 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never used the tool, but I’m guessing that your Oracle database can create an SQL dump of its schema which presumably is how this tool ingests a database to chart.
- Comment on UK Court Rejects Government Secrecy in Apple's Fight Against Backdoor Request. 2 weeks ago:
Do you?
Where is this right enshrined?
I’m asking because you seem to believe that such a right exists, where I’m observing that the political leadership across the planet seems to be heading in the opposite direction at an alarming rate.
- Comment on How do I turn my tv on? 2 weeks ago:
Props for a shitpost with such depth of depravity, especially since even a single response here will increase entropy more than you getting up and turning the TV on multiple times a day for the rest of your life.
And here’s the kicker, that pales into insignificance when compared with watching a twelve hour video.