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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

  • Interview via MS Teams? How about NO.

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  • Around the turn of the century I built a "middleware" layer for an Oracle to MySQL bridge which enabled legacy systems to keep running while modern and open source tooling could be built.

    The biggest challenge was moving from columnar to row based data .. that and compiling Solaris tools using Oracle libraries.

    Oracle is like sendmail, user friendly, just very picky whom it makes friends with.

    I'm getting flashbacks to debugging an Oracle connection file.

  • Hardening Rocky Linux with DTAP test protocol

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  • Wow, smash bugs, be in the running for prizes, including a skateboard .. might give that a pass.

  • Woman discovers a hidden AI camera in her rental car recording her and warning about unsafe driving

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  • there isn't a big privacy issue as compared to the benefit in the health and safety and property of others.

    So, now we're measuring invasion of privacy based on "the health and safety and property of others"?

    I strongly disagree with your assertion that "there isn't a big privacy issue" here. From the top of my head:

    1. Did the rental company advise the customer before they got into the car?
    2. What other details were recorded?
    3. What is the process to erase the data?
    4. Who has access to it under which circumstances?
    5. How long is it retained?
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    How do you track visual changes on competitor websites?

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  • Puppeteer and Chrome were my go-to, but that was before AI bots started hammering sites, and Cloudflare and others started offering blocking processes to stop them.

    I'd be surprised if the service you're currently using will be effective for much longer.

    As for text comparison, lynx -dump will give you the text and diff will show you the changes, but as you mentioned, that won't show you the graphics and banners, unless the site actually uses accessible content.

  • How does one code by themself?

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  • Writing software is about problem solving skills which improve with practice. Often the process involves breaking down a problem into smaller pieces and breaking each of those down, until you know how to "solve" each problem.

    Writing down each "solution" and stringing them together is then the actual "programming" part of this activity .. which brings with it a whole new layer of "problems" to "solve".

    It's as much art as it is accounting and the more you do it, the better you get at it.

    Source: I've been writing software since 1982.

  • Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains

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  • Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets [🎁 nytimes gift link]

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  • We're going to need a lot of popcorn.

  • How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

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  • Did you try it?

  • How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

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  • Factory reset?

  • SOLVED: Is it in any way incorrect to interpret a downvote as a "fuck you" in a 1-on-1 convo?

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  • How about thinking of voting behaviour as being unrelated to what you wrote, instead it being a reflection on what they read.

    One on one in a public forum is never private and people will throw their vote just for giggles with no input whatsoever from the other person.

    If you want to really know what another person thinks, you're essentially shit out of luck because nobody really knows what anyone else is thinking.

    In other words .. voting and breathing are life affirming and uncontrolled processes.

  • Sparrow plugin to run compliance checks on Linux infrastructure

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  • Ssh access should be passwords only

    What are you basing this on?

  • Sparrow plugin to run compliance checks on Linux infrastructure

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  • Yeah .. voting around here is interesting from time to time.

    On a positive note, I hadn't heard of the Linux Security Audit Project, looks interesting, thank you.

    I only briefly skimmed through the readme so I might have missed it, but I wonder how they're able to claim compliance with specific standards.

    It was my understanding that it's typically a drawn out expensive process with a certificate to hang on the wall after the fact.

  • Just one more ID pls

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  • I can't wait to read the explosion of breathless media reports and "expert" commentary discussing the sudden spate of compromised ID systems and the subsequent finger pointing between politicians blaming each other for this entirely foreseeable outcome while the professionals who kept raising concerns have their uncredited "I told you so" moment.

  • Ruth Ellis: last woman to be hanged in UK gets pardon 71 years on

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  • Paywalled

  • Sparrow plugin to run compliance checks on Linux infrastructure

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  • Compliant with what?

    "Security compliant" is a completely meaningless phrase, right up there with "locked door" or "secret code".

  • Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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  • Perhaps Windows users are finally learning about privacy and hiding their identity.

  • What's your setup for capturing screenshots of web apps automatically?

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  • An extra observation, if you're doing QA and you're running out of memory, there is a good chance that the actual users will experience the same issue.

    If you're running this inside Docker, you can specify exactly how much memory it has access to, which can also act as a data point for your QA process.

  • What's your setup for capturing screenshots of web apps automatically?

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  • Puppeteer is the tool. It takes some getting used to.

    You can set a bunch of triggers that determine exactly when the screenshot fires, and you can simulate mouse movement and scrolling to deal with lazy loading.

    There's even time delays that differentiates between human time and machine time, allowing you to have the software act as if it was running for longer than it actually was, which deals with other weirdness seen in web apps.

    You can run it inside Docker which might simplify things for you.

    I ended up writing a node.js app to control puppeteer precisely how I needed to.

    Source: I spent 48 months or so using it for a project that required all of that.

  • OnlyOffice removes Android repo and makes claims against EuroOffice

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  • I read "OpenOffice" and was very confused too, but eventually my brain caught up. Now I'm just bemused.

  • How do you keep track of articles/web pages/etc. you want to refer back to?

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  • I email them to myself.