vk6flab
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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 What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 17 hours ago:
Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
- Comment on [deleted] 21 hours ago:
Perhaps you don’t understand how the fediverse actually works.
- You posted in a community which has rules that are enforced by its moderator(s).
- That community itself lives on an instance which also has rules, enforced by its admin(s).
- The instance lives on server infrastructure also subject to rules.
- The countries where it’s posted, hosted and published also have rules.
In other words, a post is never made in isolation. Just because it was removed is not evidence of censorship.
Providing a single example of a post you made in an unknown context is not evidence.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 22 hours ago:
Solitaire, 2048, Chess, Zork
- Comment on [deleted] 22 hours ago:
What is your evidence of the fediverse being censored?
- Comment on ice treat 1 day ago:
Green Booze … just like nature intended … bit late for St. Patrick’s Day … there’s always next year.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 days ago:
It’s an interesting stance, but ask yourself, where is the line between advertising and promotion or sponsorship.
I think that requiring that advertising is factual might be a better way to address the issue.
Ultimately as a society we haven’t come up with a better way to communicate the existence of products and services to each other, and we’ve been using advertising for 5,000 years or so.
- Comment on self hosted system for managing donations at museum 3 days ago:
A till.
And an accounting package.
No hosting required.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 days ago:
Here’s the thing … as crazy as a notebook with passwords sounds, it’s not accessible to someone across the internet.
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 4 days ago:
Watching the various motorcycle touring series that Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman made hints at some of the realities of this intersection between life and acting.
There’s several references to skills that Ewan picked up to make one or other movie and how those skills are now part of “life”.
I do seem to recall that Ewan also pointed out that these skills were incomplete, pretending to be a chef convincingly requires some actual skills, but not decades of background training.
I doubt that it’s substantially any different from learning a new hobby and moving on to the next one and starting again. You don’t forget the first hobby and are likely to use some of it in the next one. Other than being taught by an actual expert, which seems like a potential unexpected perk of acting.
In short, the journey of life is peppered with things you learn, regardless of your chosen profession.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 5 days ago:
WTF … that’s So. Not. Cool.
- Comment on If I had a hammer … 6 days ago:
If you’re at the WTF stages from reading this, you should know that this saying applies: If all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.
The author appears to be attempting to draw a parallel with AI, but it seems somewhat lost in translation.
Mind you, AI, or as I like to call it, Assumed Intelligence, is prone to uttering perfectly sounding gibberish which in the industry is known as Hallucinations.
- Comment on I want to know! 1 week ago:
This is not NSFW and tagging it thus makes it less effective, eventually meaningless.
- Comment on Is this soldered controller repairable by an amateur? 2 weeks ago:
I would be extremely careful, since it failed for a reason and you were very lucky not to set the house on fire, which looks like it came pretty close to.
- Comment on Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a whole range of cli tools to extract and query structured data like that, but you might consider loading it into something like sqlite3 and treating it as a database because those formats are really not intended for queries, they’re designed for sharing data.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
For some workloads it’s true that you can do the heavy lifting on a more powerful remote machine and transport the results back to an endpoint device like a phone. Websites are a good relatable example of that, as are services like YouTube.
It’s not universally applicable for many activities that computers are involved with, data analysis, record keeping, simulations and a myriad of other processes.
Blurring of the lines between these different orders of magnitude is made possible by faster and faster networks, but that’s physically not able to beat processing done inside a single device.
The more powerful we make computers, the more complex problems we use them for. I suspect that this is unlikely to change as computers evolve.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
One of the fundamental differences between phones, laptops, desktops, and beyond is size. While that sounds obvious, it also means that the amount of processing within the device is constrained by that size.
The constraints relate to how much energy can be used by each device and more importantly, how much cooling is available for the system.
It means that there’s a physical limit on how much work each device can do without being unusable.
While miniaturization is a factor, it’s not linear and you can only get so small before you fail.
So, depending on what you want to do in any given time, the device you use will dictate what’s physically possible.
- Comment on If every minority group came together under the same banner they would be the majority, and rights would be much easier to attain for everyone. 3 weeks ago:
This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running the USA have weaponised.
- Comment on Is there a service to check for reposts? 3 weeks ago:
A search engine?
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 4 weeks ago:
There is a lot of hype in this article and precious little in the way of verifiable facts.
Does anyone have any links to something more credible?
- Comment on Should I be worried about "Prompt injection" attacks on my gmail? 5 weeks ago:
I work in ICT. Leaving Gmail is much easier said than done. It has the best spam filtering bar none and integrates with a whole host of other services that I use daily, like the mobile phone I’m writing this on for example, the one that integrates my calendar, tasks, contacts, photos, websites, YouTube channel, spreadsheets and, oh yeah … that other thing … Gmail.
So, if wishing made it so.
What I’d like is a Google Workspace tier that is entirely without AI.
- Comment on Alternative to PrusaSlicer on Linux/ARM64 5 weeks ago:
Orca Slicer is open source and as far as I know a fork of Prusa Slicer. I suspect that you can compile from source with whichever version of OpenGL you want … if any.
Disclaimer: I’ve only just started looking at it for a different use-case, but it seems like it will do what I’m suggesting.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 1 month ago:
With?
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 1 month ago:
I run projects inside Docker on a VM away from important data. It allows me to test and restrict access to specific things of my choosing.
It works well for me.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 1 month ago:
Oh … you’re a dick … thanks for self identifying.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 1 month ago:
- I’ve been here for almost six decades.
- I don’t know what the topic of “procreation genetics” means outside this thread where I was attempting to answer OP’s question and put those two words in sequence to explain myself.
- I think that life has an imperative to procreate and has done so since it started.
- Life, as we currently know it, appears to revolve around genetics.
- I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 1 month ago:
I’m guessing that being gay doesn’t turn off the part that’s looking for a beautiful mate.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure that it boils down to successful procreation genetics. As in, the more attractive you are the bigger the selection of mates you have access to. It’s been happening for as long as life has existed here.
No doubt this has across history been heavily distorted by culture, art and religion and in more recent times by fashion, marketing, advertising and media.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is it for Clickbait purposes?
- Comment on Sweet pic 2 months ago:
Further down the article it talks about why it’s that colour.
- Comment on Sweet pic 2 months ago:
What’s even more remarkable is that someone actually did that, in January 1998.