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 fun anti-monopoly law and anti-enshitification measure would be that once you hit 50% of market share you are forced to link to alternatives on your page 5 days ago:
Nice idea, but the monopoly laws already tried to address this phenomenon and companies just restructured to avoid them.
In your scenario, a company just has to split their market in half, rename the product for half their customers, and they’re no longer holding 50% of the market.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 3 weeks ago:
And how will Instagram know who my parents are?
- Comment on Since AI companies don't care about Copyright, que should incentivize model distilation, just so we can laught at their hypocrisy. 3 weeks ago:
You mean like this:
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 4 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s by subscription only…
- Comment on What do you recommend I carry in my first wallet? 5 weeks ago:
In my experience, as little as possible.
The more you pack into it, the more you carry around, the higher the risk if it’s lost, or worse, stolen, not to mention the more it affects wear and tear on your clothing.
Less is more!
- Comment on Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people. 1 month ago:
Pretty sure that you can use it with a CloudFlare custom error page.
- Comment on Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic 1 month ago:
So … a company that despite decades of effort, can’t make a competitive web browser with all the help in the world, is now going to distract itself with even more non-essential rubbish with absolutely zero chance of success … can’t wait to hear what the excuse is going to be when this CEO leaves to pursue other opportunities.
Meanwhile the Assumed Intelligence Ponzi scheme will have collapsed, taking with it a significant portion of the economy, let alone the ICT industry.
This timeline needs some tweaking…
- Comment on What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable? 1 month ago:
Build a website on your preferred platform, you’re already using WP.
Create a static version of it. There’s plugins for exactly that purpose.
Put the static files on a web host, I use s3, but you can use whichever you prefer.
When you update the site on WP, run the static extraction again and update your actual site.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Fellow computer geek here … also a radio amateur.
No idea what the availability of circuit diagrams is for your gear. In amateur radio equipment the user manual regularly has them, sometimes as big foldout sheets. I’d be surprised if they didn’t exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d see if you can find a circuit diagram for the equipment, then compare it against what you actually have.
It might be that there was a genuine issue with the equipment that was fixed, or it might be that the fix was actually something else entirely.
There’s no way for us to know what you’re dealing with.
- Comment on Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy 1 month ago:
This is the job for the OS.
You can run most Linux systems with stupid amounts of swap and the only thing you’ll notice is that stuff starts slowing down.
In my experience, only in extremely rare cases are you smarter than the OS, and in 25+ years of using Linux daily I’ve seen it exactly once, where
oomkillerkilled runningmysqldprocesses, which would have been fine if the developer had used transactions. Suffice to say, they did not.I used a 1 minute cron job to reprioritize the process, problem “solved” … for a system that hadn’t been updated for 12 years but was still live while we documented what it was doing and what was required to upgrade it.
- Comment on Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy 1 month ago:
Linux aggressively caches things.
4 GB of RAM is not running out of memory.
If you start using swap, you’re running into a situation where you might run out of memory.
If
oomkillerstarts killing processes, then you’re running out of memory. - Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 month ago:
No, of the due and payable one.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 month ago:
I suspect that the house of cards will come tumbling down as soon as one of the companies in this massive Ponzi scheme fails to pay their bill.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
So the net of obligation, ownership and mutually assured destruction continues tighten?
At some point this is going to explode … right?
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 months ago:
AFAIK Google owns the vast majority of advertising online and is the one making all the money.
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- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 2 months ago:
… and anyone else who should not have access to your data.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 2 months ago:
And now you know why you should encrypt your data on any cloud provider.
- Comment on Fair's fair. 2 months ago:
Perhaps we should treat our politicians like athletes and expect a top performance free of doping.
- Comment on Fair's fair. 2 months ago:
How about drug testing all the politicians every week?
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 months ago:
I wonder … will it be another case of “Too Big To Fail” … or will it be … “Let The Market Decide”?
I’m guessing the answer depends on how many medals the CEO of Oracle can bestow upon the Orange.
Me … cynical … no … just been here for a while.
- Comment on Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Yup.