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 Is there any front end YouTube that can allow me to still comment? 17 hours ago:
The platform is owned by Google. By using YouTube in any way, watching, liking, subscribing, commenting, searching, clicking, all of it, you’re “using Google”.
So, the answer is that you cannot use YouTube and not use Google.
If Google is broken up, that might change, but I’m not sure if that will ever happen, what form that might take or if it would ever happen at all.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Mathematics and Politics.
There are many more people who are “working class” than rich. The argument is that of you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.
There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.
What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax. This is why the rich get richer and the rest of us don’t.
Running through all that is a thing called “trickle down economics” which claims that the money from the rich ends up in society, but recent reviews of this have proven this to be nonsense.
Finally, the rich can and do shape the narrative. Politicians are essentially elected by the rich through their manipulation of the story through their media empires and social media platforms.
- Comment on Meta is secretly building its own search engine. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, good luck with that. The Facebook bots are so bad, they literally hammer sites into the ground, to the point where they’re actively being blocked.
- Comment on A community statement supporting the Open Source Definition (OSD) 2 weeks ago:
Where is this “community” you speak of?
- Comment on It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? 2 weeks ago:
So, if the author is prominently featured on the cover of a book, how hard is it to not pickup or buy a book by an author you don’t care for?
I mean, you have to at least be able to read before there’s any point in buying a book, unless you need toilet paper in a compact portable form and then the author really doesn’t matter…
Anyone?
- Comment on Australian government pilots Microsoft Copilot with mixed results. 2 weeks ago:
I was recently introduced to a Microsoft focused Managed Service Provider who told me to my face that they absolutely adopted it in their business to “help run it”.
After that I stopped listening to anything they had to say.
Microsoft has very deep tentacles all over the Australian Government, even more after they donated some money for a random new initiative which does nothing for society and in my opinion absolutely benefits the Microsoft bottom line.
We’ve had “Cash for Comments”, this is “Government Bought and Paid For”…
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 weeks ago:
I did originally write that in my post, but deleted it because I asked myself, “What’s the alternative?”
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 weeks ago:
And so the world of WordPress comes to an inglorious ending …
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 3 weeks ago:
AI does not mean Artificial Intelligence, it means Assumed Intelligence.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 4 weeks ago:
The response from the owner just adds the missing ingredient.
- Comment on Why do computer night lights work? 1 month ago:
If you mean automatic brightness correction, most computers have a camera, some have a more generic light sensor.
If you mean night mode, a computer knows what time it is and most know where they are, so they can look up local daylight hours.
If you mean something else, you’ll need to elaborate.
- Comment on Transphobia in the fediverse 1 month ago:
It’s true, but it’s not obvious if you’re new to the fediverse, since until now the closest we’ve had to decentralized communities online is Usenet and that’s only familiar to you if you’re been online for 30 years or more.
- Comment on Transphobia in the fediverse 1 month ago:
I think it depends on where you go. I’ve seen lots of supportive behaviour across the fediverse.
- Comment on WPEngine is suing Matt Mullenweg, Automattic and the WordPress foundation for slandering them 1 month ago:
Wow!
I’m guessing that WordPress will be forked soon …
- Comment on What should I consider before choosing the right tanga or string to work out with leggings? 1 month ago:
If you’re actually working out, nobody cares about what you look like and comfort is more important than any other consideration.
If you’re using the gym as a place to meet people, nobody you would actually want to meet cares about lines in your clothing.
In other words, the lines you’re concerned with have been put there by advertisers wanting to sell you more stuff.
- Comment on How to tell my actual internet speed usage? 1 month ago:
Your modem will likely keep connection statistics which will tell you how much data was downloaded and uploaded.
Ookla speedtest.net will give you an indication of your network speed. I have a cron job that logs the speed with their cli client every 5 hours and I use it to keep my ISP mostly honest.
The resulting data can also be used to map peak network congestion so you don’t end up with network buffering issues when you are watching the latest episode on your favourite streaming service.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance. 1 month ago:
It is again beginning to feel rather dysfunctional…
- Comment on eBay out here with the best shipping options ever! 2 months ago:
I’ve seen this type of issue multiple times. If I’m really interested in the item I’ll contact the supplier and often they’re just as flummoxed as me.
Of course then there’s the "other"response as well, where the supplier has no interest in actually shipping outside their own country, but that’s a whole different thing
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
A.I., Assumed Intelligence
- Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI. 2 months ago:
A.I. or Assumed Intelligence
- Comment on xkcd #2981: Slingshots 2 months ago:
If you’re not considering a gravitational slingshot for hunting, you’re not thinking big enough…
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
It’s staggering to me the number of black cars being sold in hot countries like Australia. Not to mention just how hard they are to see against the background of a bitumen road.
- Comment on Google avoids “link tax” bill with deal to fund California journalism and AI 2 months ago:
Yeah, good luck with that. In Australia they stopped paying and now the media organisations that relied on this income are pretty much stuffed.
- Comment on Reading through English speaking non American political discourse is just non Americans comparing their politics to American politics 2 months ago:
That’s because the United States is the centre of the known universe where all good things originate … obviously.
Disclaimer: This is sarcasm, but since there’s entitled yanks in this part of the Internet, thit disclaimer is required, since neither sarcasm, nor humour translates well for some…
- Comment on what's a polite way to reject a picture with a very thankful patient who was under your care? 2 months ago:
Thank you, that’s very kind, but for professional ethics reasons I’ll have to decline your offer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This reads like an ignorant rant about a transient fault at Google.
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 2 months ago:
Didn’t their previous sponsor, that pillow guy, go to prison?
- Comment on Big if true 2 months ago:
Where did you get the idea that there was a diaper?
- Comment on 🐊🐓🦖 3 months ago:
I was making a joke about statistics not being science, but it’s clear that not everyone got the joke … pretty much the same as the original meme.
(This is humour, laugh.)
- Comment on 🐊🐓🦖 3 months ago:
So really, this is not a joke about dinosaurs at all, it’s a statistics joke … which would put this meme in the wrong community 😇