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 Crunchyroll Confirms Some Login Credentials Were Posted on Social Media; States There is 'No Evidence' its Systems Were Compromised 6 days ago:
… just a sudden influx of people moving continents … nothing to see here …
- Comment on Subaru Starlink flaw let hackers hijack cars in US and Canada 1 week ago:
and was never exploited by an attacker
… that they know of or admitted to.
- Comment on on topic 3 weeks ago:
Constipation … running the game of life in hard mode.
- Comment on when can we expect level 4 self driving to be commercialized? is it near (1-2 years away)? 3 weeks ago:
Depends on who you ask:
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 4 weeks ago:
That does assume that the person wearing the burka is doing so because they are forced to.
This is not universally true and thus the comparison you make is also not true.
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 4 weeks ago:
He did. He made it into a movie. You can watch it. It’s called “Love Actually”
- Comment on Is it normal that I get wet water all over myself when taking a shower? 4 weeks ago:
It depends.
Did you turn off the water mains before you took the shower, or did you just rip it off the wall like a philistine?
- Comment on Yule Tidings 4 weeks ago:
Hmm … this is going to need more thought or more brain altering substances … perhaps both … let me get back to you on this …
- Comment on I knew it. Vaccines got him. 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, I needed that.
- Comment on What is the limiting factor than prevents software discovery of undocumented hardware registers and instructions? 4 weeks ago:
Money.
Doing this type of research is extremely time consuming so research needs funding, to eat food and pay rent and even if you discover things worth sharing, the current legal system often prevents you from publishing it, which costs more money to fight.
- Comment on I knew it. Vaccines got him. 4 weeks ago:
This would be funny if antivaxers weren’t so vocal and misinformed.
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 5 weeks ago:
Part of me wants to know if the author has deliberately set up the time to make it so anyone trying this would start their year very disappointed, but this is the internet, that would never happen … right?
- Comment on Sweet barn find 5 weeks ago:
What was the state of the capacitors on the circuit board, since those are generally the first to go.
- Comment on Sweet barn find 5 weeks ago:
I wonder how long it will take before the majority of them ends up in landfill.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 1 month ago:
Welcome to the “brand new world” of IOT hardware where you are the product and continued service depends entirely on how you can be monetized.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you’re going to have to actually talk to your friends.
Depending on your level of discomfort, you can do it in a group setting, “Hey, how come you guys always use belittling language towards me, it hurts.”
Or, you can ask face to face, but that might be more stressful, or it might not, I cannot speak for you or your friends.
- Comment on Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions 1 month ago:
That seems adequate.
You say that phones and mobile devices stream fine. Os that from your media server, or the internet?
How does internet streaming work on the Google TV and Apple TV?
Essentially you need to keep eliminating causes until there’s one left.
- Comment on Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions 1 month ago:
Which type of Wi-Fi and what type of wired connection?
I suspect that there’s not enough bandwidth available.
- Comment on Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions 1 month ago:
How are these devices connected to the network and how is your media server connected?
- Comment on Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations 1 month ago:
This is the corporate equivalent of “Oops we fucked up and customers noticed.”
I doubt it will stem the flow after already ditching partners like AWS. As an ICT consultant with two decades of experience with VMware, I’m not recommending this platform any longer and this announcement won’t change that. I doubt that I’m an outlier in this view, time will tell.
- Comment on cheap low-profile way to generate six precise clocks 2 months ago:
Can you use a crystal oscillator and multiply or divide the signal as required, rather than use software, or do you need the flexibility that software provides?
- Comment on Is there any front end YouTube that can allow me to still comment? 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Where is this “community” you speak of?
- Comment on It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 2 months ago:
AI does not mean Artificial Intelligence, it means Assumed Intelligence.