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 NYC Mesh: The Future of the Internet 15 hours ago:
How do you think that the internet works?
How do you propose to connect such a mesh in New York to New Jersey, or Chicago, Los Angeles, or Sydney?
- Comment on [deleted] 15 hours ago:
None of the following questions will give you a specific answer, but they might give you some food for thought to help you figure it out for yourself.
What would happen if the company was sold?
What would happen if you were injured in an unrelated accident, like say during a holiday?
What would happen if the company lost its largest customer?
What does retirement look like for you?
What do you want to achieve in your life?
What does career progression look like?
What happens if you got or lost a life partner?
- Comment on [Question] Which prosody docker image are you using and why? 3 days ago:
I rarely use a docker container in production that I didn’t write the Dockerfile for. Once you understand how it works, you can write your own and install exactly what want in the way you want it.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 3 days ago:
For my shack where I move stuff around, testing gear, radios, switches, etc. I’ve standardized on SMA, on my feed line which hasn’t changed or been disconnected for a decade, F-type.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 3 days ago:
I saw that chart too. When you click on the F-type link you learn it’s rated up to 4 GHz. The summary table is off for several connectors.
You cannot argue that the mating is poor if it’s rated to 4 GHz.
There is nothing wrong with using the centre pin of the coax, it’s one less join in the chain and it’s rated at over 500 matings. It’s not for lab equipment, but if you want to connect something and leave it there for the next decade, there’s nothing better.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 3 days ago:
What’s your beef with the F-type connector? The centre pin is the coax core, compression tool to terminate the coax, solid connection, rated to some absurd frequencies, all round easy connector, no soldering or extra pin required.
Source: I installed two-way satellite dishes for a time and still use those connectors on my HF antennas as a radio amateur - yes, I know, 75 Ohm - can’t say it’s ever stopped my 10 mW beacon from being heard 13,945 km away.
- Comment on See highest paying hourly jobs in my area 1 week ago:
In my experience Indeed is a very poor source of information. Picking the name of your city will invariably select all instances of that city name on the planet, making the quality of the result suspect if not outright misleading.
Source: I live in Perth, scattered across 17 cities in 7 countries.
- Comment on is telling an employee how he has to speak micromanaging? Is it toxic? 1 week ago:
You understand that this series is fictitious and intended to initiate self reflection in subtle and indirect ways.
- Comment on If I microwave my balls, will it dry them faster or just make them taste weird? 1 week ago:
Yes
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 week ago:
Now that it’s free, are its users the product?
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 week ago:
A hosting provider always has the ability to change what’s on their infrastructure. The Kindle store is no different.
As it happens, they’ve been doing this for years. For example, the price you set as an author is not fixed nor is how it turns up on the page or how and when it’s promoted.
The standard ebook format is essentially a zipped up series of text files.
Source: I sell my “Foundations of Amateur Radio” ebooks on the Kindle store
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 2 weeks ago:
At one time I received an unexpected email from a shipping company that turned out to be legitimate, despite it having several red flags and being marked as spam by my email provider.
The point being, investigate and confirm before either condemning a message to the bitbucket or paying.
For example, if I received such a message, it would be ignored because I’ve not been near a toll road for well over a decade, but that might not be the case for every recipient, some of whom might not have paid their bill.
It’s that edge case that scammers are targeting.
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 2 weeks ago:
… from Hotmail … the known origin of all official government notifications …
- Comment on This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection 2 weeks ago:
The radio station I worked in put the next item at the end of the shelf with a label containing the next sequential number and added the metadata to the music library database.
In essence the sort order was age.
Yes, this predates the prevalence of digital audio from an era of vinyl, CD and DAT.
That said, cool article, but it bears keeping in mind that one solution does not fit all cases.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve been using AWS for many years. I’m familiar :)
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 2 weeks ago:
In my case, I’m not a fan of running unknown code on the host. Docker and LXC are ways of running a process in a virtual security sandbox. If the process escapes the sandbox, they’re in your host.
If they escape inside a VM, that’s another layer they have to penetrate to get to the host.
It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s better than a hole in the head.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 2 weeks ago:
I realise that you are making a joke, but here’s what I used it for:
- Debian VM as my main desktop
- Debian VN as my main Docker host
- Windows VM for a historical application
- Debian VM for signal processing
- Debian VM for a CNC
At times only the first two or three were running. I had dozens of purpose built VM directories for clients, different hardware emulation, version testing, video conferencing, immutable testing, data analysis, etc.
My hardware failed in June last year. I didn’t lose any data, but the hardware has proven hard to replace. Mind you, it worked great for a decade, so, swings and roundabouts.
I’m currently investigating, evaluating and costing running all of this in AWS. Whilst it’s technically feasible, I’m not yet convinced of actual suitability.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 2 weeks ago:
I used it for virtual machines and Docker containers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
So, you are attempting to “solve” analysis paralysis by using invites?
That doesn’t appear to make any sense. It doesn’t really matter which instance someone joins. The whole network is federated. You can access all the content from anywhere.
- Comment on Apple MegaDrive 2 weeks ago:
So … 1.44 Mb, upgradable to 6 Pb?
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 2 weeks ago:
In my experience the last accessed account within a streaming service is what shows.
Source: I’ve been using Apple TV for years.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 weeks ago:
Ignorance and apathy.
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 2 weeks ago:
Warfare and invasion are not the same thing.
- Comment on Should I DIY this? (Electrical) 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know what the electrical code is where you live, but where I am it’s illegal to do what you propose.
Consider what would happen if your modifications were found to be the source of a fire at some point in the future.
Pay the sparky.
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm.
When were Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain , Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria or Romania invaded by the British?
- Comment on Comedians 2 weeks ago:
Not just children … I can think of a few adults who would steal this idea … be right back.
- Comment on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000. 2 weeks ago:
The email address?
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 2 weeks ago:
That looks a lot like ground and congealed SPAM.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 2 weeks ago:
Plot twist. It never even made it to the dump. His former partner saw the drive and took it before they split up.
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 3 weeks ago:
This site provides absolutely no evidence of any of its claims and even includes the following little gem in the FAQ section on that page:
Is PayPal Safe?
Yes, all Paypal transactions are encrypted. Plus, it has two-factor authentication and fraud protection.
Safe for its customers, or safe for PayPal?