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 On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 4 hours 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? 8 hours 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 8 hours 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. 8 hours ago:
How does this improve on “Print to PDF” built into every browser and/or OS?
- Comment on Notice is now open source 8 hours 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 3 days ago:
… takes one to know one 😇
- Comment on tractor 3 days ago:
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
- Comment on UN Scientific Advisory Board adopts landmark statement on Open Science 3 days ago:
The statement highlights open science as vital for research, for connecting science with policy and society, and for tackling global inequality, while warning that its benefits are at risk as barriers to international collaboration grow. The SAB urged the global community to actively advance open science for the benefit of all.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 4 days ago:
This whole thing was already played out on the TV series “The West Wing”, and I’m fairly sure that Aaron Sorkin got it from somewhere else.
- Comment on The entire teenage population is different every five years. 4 days ago:
13 … 14 … 15 … 16 … 17 … 18 … 19
Pretty sure that you’re a teenager for seven years, not five.
- Comment on [Looking for advice] Searching for a small slim twistable connector 5 days ago:
If it’s not breaking due to movement, but only due to strain, putting the joint at the power bank seems like the logical choice. You can use cable sheathing or heat shrink where the damage currently occurs as strain relief and abrasion protection.
One other thing.
You mention a pouch. Have you considered how to deal with your power bank if it suddenly self-ignites?
- Comment on [Looking for advice] Searching for a small slim twistable connector 5 days ago:
If you make the wire (much) longer and put the connector in a location where there is less movement will solve both the restricted space and disconnection due to movement.
- Comment on is there a way to run openwrt and debian at the same time without virtualization? 6 days ago:
Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.
A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.
You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.
In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 week ago:
My “smart” phone is rarely used as a telephone. It’s set to silent, all notifications turned off, blocks unknown numbers, transcribes voicemail and spends most of the day as a window to the world.
I’m not sure what, if anything, a “dumb” phone would add to my life, except more interruption, more administration to keep contacts up to date, and yet another device to charge and maintain.
- Comment on Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion? 1 week ago:
Use a bash command line:
- Comment on Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption 1 week ago:
Incoming tenders with prompt injection in … Three … Two … One.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
At best it’s a way to see the world and experience new things, at worst it’s sex slavery.
I’d be extremely careful, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 1 week ago:
I suspect that the answer depends entirely on who reports on it first. By the time the rest of the world has had time to catch up, the tone is already set.
For a related concept, consider the use of the phrase “domestic terrorism”.
- Comment on Is it just me or does this look more appetizing than a watermelon? 1 week ago:
It’s just you.
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 1 week ago:
I moved country as a way to see the world. I left Nederland and started with Australia because I had an Australian passport. I was going to give it a year. I worked six months, was unemployed for 18, then got a three day gig that lasted for six and a half years.
That move was 35 years ago. I’m still in Australia. In the meantime I met my partner, travelled around the country for five years and started my own business 26 years ago.
I visited Nederland four years in, but it didn’t feel like home.
It took many years for this to feel like home, from time to time I’d love to hug my family, but never felt homesick, I love watching YouTube videos of places where I grew up. I’ll visit the local Dutch Shop to remember smells and tastes and to bullshit in Dutch, but otherwise I’ll be doing my Aussie life.
I was born here, but grew up in Nederland.
- Comment on I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it 1 week ago:
With the quality of Assumed Intelligence detectors, this is unlikely to ever come to pass, especially since humans are involved.
- Comment on If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. 1 week ago:
This is like banning H₂O, NaCl and C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ from your life because “you don’t like chemicals”.
(Water, Salt and Sugar)
- Comment on There is no good way to answer a request beginning with "do you mind if I......." 1 week ago:
That depends …
- Comment on discord 1 week ago:
So … if you’re not allowed to announce that, is it okay to alert the community that you need to let fluffy off the chain, drop off the kids at the pool, dig for gold or need to go see a man about a horse?
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 2 weeks ago:
I agree. I’m a software developer and absolutely love OoenSCAD.
It would be great if it supported things like fillets and chamfers, otherwise I’m very happy with it.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 weeks ago:
I understand.
I was making a joke about secretly introducing a metric tape measure.
I realise that my sense of humour is not universal, like the use of SAE … or Fahrenheit 😇
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 weeks ago:
You don’t even need a custom one. Readily available is the universal tape measure where the relationship is marked as 2.54 units, equals 1 inch.
It means that a 2 x 4 is actually 5.08 x 10.16, which leaves you with a margin for surfacing and sanding.
- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 2 weeks ago:
Well that deteriorated quickly from oops to premeditated environmental vandalism.
- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that at one point the water was frozen.