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 [deleted] 1 day ago:
Unlikely.
You underestimate the size of the Universe. There’s 8 billion people on Earth, there’s about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and between 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s likely not about tennis, unless the CEO is a dick, it’s about an excuse to meet you and evaluate how you are as a human being.
Unless there’s a specific dress code requirement, I’d arrive in comfortable clothes, smart casual, clean and with a smile on my face.
When you’re asked about your lack of racket I’d point out that not only have you never played, you didn’t think it would be prudent to spend money on gear you know nothing about.
Remember, this is about people, not about hitting a tennis ball.
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 2 weeks ago:
This seems at first glance at least potentially doable.
Create a website with content that’s only rendered with JavaScript and embed a miner.
Your challenge is to get the work product back, but you might be able to create dynamically generated URLs that show up in your logs as the work result.
You’d have to find a way to chunk the work and make it such that the work required is enough to be valuable to you, but not so costly as to stop the crawlers from using your site.
I suspect that in order for this to actually happen you’d have to have a significant infrastructure to deal with the crawler load, which you could instead be using to do the actual work.
Ultimately I suspect that this is the software equivalent of a perpetual motion machine, cute in theory, physically impossible.
Good luck!
- Comment on Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Kick, Roblox, Steam, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord and even dating apps 3 weeks ago:
The comments here seem to be missing a salient point.
In order to determine if a user is under 16, you need to determine that for every single user … including you!
This means that your personal data will be harvested in order to determine if you are over 16 or not.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
How does this improve on “Print to PDF” built into every browser and/or OS?
- Comment on Notice is now open source 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
… takes one to know one 😇
- Comment on tractor 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Incoming tenders with prompt injection in … Three … Two … One.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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......." 5 weeks ago:
That depends …
- Comment on discord 5 weeks 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? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 1 month 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.