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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

  • What's your favourite "just works, day after day" Linux software?

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  • grep

  • A Surprisingly Common Mistake Involving Wildcards & The Find Command

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  • Basic habit to get into:

    If you're contemplating doing something destructive, do a dry-run first.

    In this case, remove the -delete flag, run the command and see what you get.

    A good approach is to build a command step by step and test your assumptions each iteration.

    Things might take a few moments longer, but one day it's going to save your bacon.

    As for unexpected globbing, learn the difference between quoted and unquoted, and single versus double quotes.

    Source: Linux user for 25+ years

  • Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses

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  • I figured that a good percentage of the delivery robots would simply "disappear" from the map and be rebirthed as battle bots in some arena with chainsaw accessories.

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  • On my Lemmy Voyager app it's under Settings -> General -> Comments -> New Account Highlightinator.

  • Horror story

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  • At the rate Microsoft is going, by the time we set up a community on Mars, everyone will have migrated to Linux 😁

  • FR#168 – LLMs Join The Fediverse

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  • Let me ask you this.

    If the LLM instance doesn't talk to anyone, you're right, but there seems little point in building an instance that talks to nobody.

    This leaves us with an instance that does talk to other instances, presumably responding to posts, making its own and subscribing to communities. This already costs money for each "touched" instance.

    At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn't want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.

    Even us discussing the phenomenon right now takes server resources across the fediverse.

    In other words, as I said, there is always a cost to everyone.

  • FR#168 – LLMs Join The Fediverse

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  • I understand.

    My point didn't state that all instances would be affected equally, just that there's an effect everywhere.

  • FR#168 – LLMs Join The Fediverse

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  • All of them.

  • Horror story

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  • You don't need to go to Mars to deal with timezones .. plenty of people right here who have absolutely no idea that half the planet is dark at any one time and still schedule global events in their colloquial timezone rather than UTC.

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  • I've been here for a little while and can observe a few things.

    • Your default feed depends entirely on what the people in your instance are subscribed to.
    • There are some instances that seem particularly obnoxious and repeatedly trigger pile-ons and other unkind behaviour.
    • There's a bunch of undeclared bots.
    • Some communities have a particular aversion to people randomly participating.

    To have a better experience, I use a bunch of filter words to stop crap I have no interest in. I also filter URLs for the same reason.

    I use "block" when there's a post with worldviews being expressed that are incompatible with my own views.

    There's a bunch of communities that have content I don't care for and I again use block.

    When I see spam, I report the post and block the poster.

    I have account age turned on which alerts me if an account is "new here" and already obnoxious.

    Since karma doesn't work here, I display the aggregate vote, which helps you determine for yourself if you might want to interact with the post.

    I tend to use the "All" feed, which is what allows me to see posts like yours without subscribing to the community.

    I dip into communities and contribute when I feel compelled, which has me posting all over the fediverse.

    It's a different experience from Mastodon or BlueSky, but there's plenty to like about it and not better or worse than the other platforms.

    When I used Reddit, there was a particular humour that had an interesting vibe about it, but the blackout and mod bans had me leave for the fediverse and while I miss that brand of humour, I don't regret leaving and from time to time I see the seeds of it here.

    You also have to remember, this is by comparison a pretty small community and it's going through growing pains, triggered by regular influx from other platforms.

    On the whole, I'm glad I'm here.

  • We’re making Bunny DNS free

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  • If it's free, you're the product.

  • a mockup of what "trushworthy LM search" could look like [OC, brainmade]

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  • So, a fuzzy search then?

    There's several command line tools for that too.

  • [META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?

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  • I think that unless you have some way to enforce accuracy, it's meaningless and AFAIK automatic detection tools are no better than chance and to my knowledge, getting worse.

    An AI bot operator isn't going to tag their material as [AI], more likely than not they'd attempt to use [NOT AI].

    I'd also point out that while lemmy doesn't (yet) support hashtags, any "tagging" would probably benefit from using the existing method using a #tag.

    Ultimately, you need to ask yourself, is undeclared AI that goes undetected by the community a problem, or the new "normal"?

    I'll note that I'm not a proponent of Assumed Intelligence and think that when the bubble bursts we're going to be in a world of hurt, but with a little luck the billionaires will have lost their shirts in the process.

  • Selfhosted birthday calendar for the whole family?

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  • There's nothing to host.

    Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.

  • a mockup of what "trushworthy LM search" could look like [OC, brainmade]

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  • I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but can this not be solved with one Linux command?

    grep

    The command has a -n option to output line numbers and -C x to provide x lines of context.

    There's no extra software required, doesn't need an LLM, doesn't hallucinate, just a plain search.

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  • Yeah, NetWare and Zen with NAL in full flight was a thing to behold. Instead we got Active Directory.

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  • I used to write the software to refresh and update student labs like that. There's nothing quite as satisfying as seeing the entire lab reboot simultaneously .. and nothing quite as frustrating as seeing all of them fail at the same point in the boot process .. thanks to Microsoft.

    Proof: https://www.itmaze.com.au/articles/zen

  • Singaporean brothers build modern, unbreakable encryption

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  • Unbreakable Encryption .. so .. Snake Oil then?

  • VPNs Promised Privacy. Here's How Several Got Caught Lying

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  • While this video is austensibly about Incogni, you'll soon discover just how much it's about VPNs and who owns them.

    https://youtu.be/JFI1CfnDJxY