Onno (VK6FLAB)
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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501·5 days agoIs it just me, or does that seem … abrupt?
9·7 days agoCharging him with a crime sounds like a good start … though I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
So … the US Congress can just summon a citizen from a different country … and the citizen is compelled to … do what exactly?
ProTip: the Ubuntu version number includes the year and month of release. 26.04 will be released in April 2026. 26.10 in October 2026.
What they’ll do when they hit 2100 is left as a rollover issue for the next poor sod.
46·11 days agoProTip: push your knee(s) against the sink for extra support. Initially you’ll feel a little weird, but you won’t care after your back stops hurting. You can also use this when brushing your teeth and washing your hands.
Source: Taught to me by a physiotherapist who specialises in pain management.
32·11 days agoGiven the massive layoffs happening under the Assumed Intelligence banner, the answer has always been: “cheaper labour”
Apparently people who actually know how to do their ICT job are too expensive, right until the shit hits the fan, at which point it’s “drop everything and help me, now!”
Organisations are no longer run by Founders, instead they’re run by accountants and lawyers who only care about shareholder value, not the societal or environmental impact.
When the bubble finally explodes we’re going to be looking at an altered economic and technology landscape, if we don’t self ignite before that.
2·12 days agoWhen I did events, I’d wear two pairs of socks, thin pair against my feet, then thick pair over the top of that.
I’ve also used moulded sole inserts from time to time.
8·13 days agoYes. Look up LOGO.
In other news, Aussie Influencer discovers that the UK has an even stricter social media ban…
6·14 days agoI’ve been washing clothes for many decades and although I was also taught to turn some clothes inside out, I’ve never noticed any difference if I didn’t and these days I’ll often wash with them oriented normally, mainly because that’s how I prefer to hang them in the cupboard or fold them into drawers and turning them when wet or after taking them off the line or out of the drier makes the whole process even more tedious than it already is.
4·14 days agoIn the vast majority of operating systems the person who installs the system is by default the highest privileged user, in the case of some of those systems, that user is called root.
However, the word root is also used to describe the basis of several file systems.
No.
Secure boot is about trusting which (signed) software is running.
On a positive note, a Dev responded to that post indicating that the behaviour of the platform is being reviewed.
13·15 days agoWhich counties voted what and what was their voting record over the last 33 years on the issue condemning the USA blockade of Cuba?
51·15 days agoDepends on what your blender is capable of.
The difference is in having a shower first …
Fun Fact: The number of teats on sows varies.
Source: I worked in a piggery.