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Onno (VK6FLAB)

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Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

#geek #nerd #hamradio VK6FLAB #podcaster #australia #ITProfessional #voiceover #opentowork

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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  • 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.

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    Does anyone know how to make the Arch text bigger?

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  • More likely than not you're confusing modifier keys.

    On the Mac, the zoom is [Command] + [+].

    In Linux it's [Control] + [+]

    This is pretty much true across the board. It's sometimes non-obvious because wrappers like UTM try to "help".

    The alternative is to ssh into the VM and continue to use the MacOS shortcuts you're used to.

    Source: I've been using Linux on MacOS guests for a very long time.

  • I think Inky is waiting to ask me three questions

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  • It's dinner time and why haven't you fed me yet?

    I'm clearly starving, why haven't you fed me yet?

    I'm not kidding around, why haven't you fed me yet?

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    You're welcome! :)

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  • Nothing says "I don't care about my data." more than the examples in the screenshot.

    What happens when two different files in different directions have the same name?

  • A previous post of mine has totally disappeared

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  • Have a look at the modlog.

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
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    Foundations of Amateur Radio - I have a problem .. with logging. #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251130.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3

  • The open source projects I helped bring onto my job!

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  • Fair question.

    What it boils down to is: Become part of the OSS community.

    In my experience, there's no other way, since the alternative is to be automatically part of the Microsoft (or Apple) community.

    In other words, you need to make the investment into the implementation. As I've said elsewhere, license costs are insignificant.

    The community is where you get help, where you find others with the same issues. You can pay the likes of Canonical and Redhat, but I've never been impressed by either.

    Ultimately any solution requires support, just like any other tool. You just need to make it explicit, rather than assumed.

    One thing that Microsoft does to ensure that you have support infrastructure is to continually break backwards compatibility in subtle ways that require you to open your wallet and pay for support.

    OSS will likely run for years without adult supervision, but that doesn't mean it can continue to work without requiring support from time to time. If you don't prepare for this, you're going to be very unhappy.

  • Average Debian system update experience:

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  • Kali ≠ Debian

    I did not see an apt-get update

    In my experience, unmet dependencies are unlikely to happen on a stable version where you only installed from the official repo.

    The LZMA decompression errors point at a much more fundamental issue. I'm suspecting that the repository URLs point at non standard locations or downloads were interrupted, though I'm not sure exactly how, since AFAIK, apt checks the checksum.

    If you must have something that's not In your distro, do yourself a favour and install Docker and run your package inside there, much less chance of killing your system.

    Source: I've been using Debian for over 25 years.

  • The open source projects I helped bring onto my job!

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  • I'm talking about the reality of an organisation digging itself out of the hole created by projects such as described by OP.

    I get the call from such organisations to help fix their issues and sometimes I can even help, more often than not it's a time consuming effort (ie. expensive) to get to a point where the systems are in place to avoid the next catastrophe.

    The reason that Microsoft keeps getting mind share and revenue is because there's so much of that expertise around.

    There's loads of OSS professionals, myself included, but we're a drop in the ocean by comparison.

    In many cases an OSS deployment is the equivalent of "my nephew helped set this up" and it's not helping the overall picture in the wider community.

    If you're going to deploy OSS, then you must consider the support implications before you start, anything else is unprofessional. License fees are insignificant by comparison.

  • The open source projects I helped bring onto my job!

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  • Here's three:

    • A server with nobody supporting it for 13 years. It had a MySQL database with 743 columns. There was no documentation, served three organisations and hadn't been backed up for at least 7 years.
    • A server running a CMS for a dozen organisations that was running on failing hardware. No idea who built or didn't support it.
    • A server built by an employee 15 years ago, then supported by a "web company" who didn't update it for 12 years, then "supported" by a Windows shop which was happy to charge the customer but hadn't actually updated the server.

    You'll notice that I'm being deliberately vague.

    All these share the exact scenario that the OP outlines. The organisations involved didn't know that they were in deep trouble until well after the project instigator departed. No documentation, no updates, no training, handover, nothing beyond a set of credentials.

  • Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

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  • Er is er altijd wel eentje ..

  • Won't find what you don't try!

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  • I think that you're describing human evolution and missing the sheer scale at which people died learning what was safe to eat and what wasn't.

  • Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI

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  • 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.

  • NDP calls for A.I regulations after errors found in Deloitte healthcare report

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  • The open source projects I helped bring onto my job!

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  • Right until your PostgreSQL server goes down and you can't call your IT department and have to start hunting for a contractor, find a budget, get it signed off by management and HR, then on-board the new staff member, that is, after you advertised the position, did job interviews, after first filtering through the 700 .. or two, applications, each plausibly generated by a ChatGPT session. Give it something like six months in a big organisation, less in a nimble one.

    Does an "entrenched" anything sound "nimble" to you?

  • I guess my marriage is history

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  • Have you told her this, just like you have here?

  • Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI

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  • 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.

  • The open source projects I helped bring onto my job!

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  • And that right there is why Windows is so entrenched.

    If you want this for real, adoption of open source, then treat it properly. Consider the business impact of your absence, document the systems, train others, otherwise this is just another timebomb waiting to go off and with it any hope of weakening the Microsoft stranglehold on the company and its C-suite.

    I've lost count of the number of such "projects" I've encountered in my professional career.

    This is not doing anyone any favours, least of all yourself.

  • MPs ‘speechless’ after Stellantis fails to show up to hearing, citing technical issues

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  • Reading the article, that sounds a lot like: "The dog ate my homework."

  • The open source projects I helped bring onto my job!

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  • Given the "deeply entrenched windows" in the company, together with a presumably similarly equipped ICT department, how are you protecting your department and the company against your absence?

    In other words, what happens if you get hit by a bus?

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
    FoAR

    Foundations of Amateur Radio - How to make our hobby and community resilient? #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251123.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
    FoAR

    Foundations of Amateur Radio - A new year with new services to the public .. in 1905 #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251116.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    Scientists find a surprising twist in Earth's magnetic field

    www.space.com /astronomy/earth/scientists-find-a-surprising-twist-in-earths-magnetic-field
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    How do you pronounce in words the following two references to money: "6½d" and "6s. 6d." from a 1904 text?

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
    FoAR

    Foundations of Amateur Radio - What do you call that .. radio? #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251109.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
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    Foundations of Amateur Radio - On the origins of the RF circulator #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251102.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
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    Foundations of Amateur Radio - Going around in circles, one-way. #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251026.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    Community behaviour around deletion of posts

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
    FoAR

    Foundations of Amateur Radio - Bald Yak 13, Monitoring the Sun .. small steps #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251019.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    Detection of Strong S-Band Emissions from the Starshield Constellation — Observations and Regulatory Context

    zenodo.org /records/17373141
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    GitHub - vk6flab/pluto: Docker container containing the applications used to interact with an ADALM PlutoSDR

    github.com /vk6flab/pluto/
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
    FoAR

    Foundations of Amateur Radio - When your hobby revolves around electricity ... #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251012.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    How are you supposed to synchronise the packaging of medication that comes in different quantities?

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
    FoAR

    Foundations of Amateur Radio - Preparing for an outing #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20251005.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    Owner switches off solar farm powering area twice the size of Tasmania

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-10-03/normanton-solar-farm-turns-off-after-ergon-energy-negotiations/105843958
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio
    FoAR

    Foundations of Amateur Radio - Where is the fun in that? #podcast

    podcasts.itmaze.com.au /foundations/20250928.foundations-of-amateur-radio.mp3
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    Australian Under 16 media ban is censorship by stealth and data harvesting by law

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
    Onno (VK6FLAB) @lemmy.radio

    The Sun Was Supposed to Enter a Deep Sleep. Instead, It’s Ominously Waking Up.

    www.popularmechanics.com /space/solar-system/a66434683/sun-activity-increasing/