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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.

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  • Ads in New York must now label AI-generated 'synthetic performers'

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  • Not at all.

    A law that isn't enforceable or actually enforced is stupid.

    This is in my opinion a good example of a stupid law.

  • Ads in New York must now label AI-generated 'synthetic performers'

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  • Yeah, that'll work.

    Edit: Truth in advertising .. there's a novel concept.

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    You walk into a restaurant and see this. What’s your first thought?

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  • If I saw this I'd report them to the local labour department for underpaying their staff, then I'd report them to the health department because there's no way that they're preparing safe food if that's how much their staff needs to get tipped, then I'd report them to consumer protection for ripping off their customers, then to the tax department for tax evasion and finally I'd share this photo far and wide and write as many poor reviews as I can find locations to post them.

    This is a criminal enterprise and should be treated as such.

  • LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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  • Give it time. My software career is also affected. At the rate they're spending money at an order of magnitude higher than they're making. They've also all borrowed money from each other. It's going to collapse in a big heap. Hopefully before it sucks in mum and dad investors.

  • TIL “The Front Fell Off” is from Australian comedy news duo Clarke and Dawe

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  • If you know the answer, do you know the question?

  • Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts

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  • Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones

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  • It appears to me that this globally sustained effort to control the internet and anything connected to it, is a good indication that the politicians billionaires are afraid of their voters subjects.

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • We need this in Esperanto and the lost languages of Lutruwita.

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • So, in UQL?

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • You don't need to shout!

    Also, camelCase:

    TurboPascalForLyfe

  • Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN threaten to exit Canada if metadata surveillance law passes

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  • Of?

  • Mormons outraged after Hegseth military policy no longer counts LDS as Christian

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  • .. as you sow, so shall you reap ..

  • US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason for cuts by US employers: report

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  • US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason excuse for cuts by US employers: report

  • Satya Nadella ‘Not Sure’ Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI, Is Looking for Guy Who Did This

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  • Mirror mirror on the wall .. who doth protest too much?

  • AI Has Ruined the Job Market

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  • My experience with this is receiving emails with "we will not proceed with your application" and absolutely no indication what or why, for positions that I'm uniquely qualified for.

    I'm still looking, don't use Assumed Intelligence, and want to work, but it's not going well.

    I suspect that your needs for human written applications is being thwarted by bots filtering your applicants before you even see them.

  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • GitHub Microsoft just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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    AI agents lag far behind human workers. Why are tech companies laying off the humans?

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  • Bean counters too stupid to understand Assumed Intelligence bought into the hype and thought that they'd save money. Just like with drugs, the first one is free, now that they've fired all the expensive experienced employees, they're in for a serious amount of hurt, which they'll pass on to us as "increased operating costs", which they did to themselves.

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  • You are not comparing like for like.

    Twitter is pretty much 20 years old, so are Facebook, Reddit and YouTube.

    In addition, they were essentially first of a kind in their niche.

    The fediverse is not even a teenager and the growth spurt hasn't set in and may never. In addition, the fediverse is utilitarian by comparison, not much beyond proof of concept. Apps, platforms and instances are fragile and evolving.

    Basic things mostly work, but it's not "cool" enough to tempt organisations to join, media companies, etc.

    We barely agree on how things interact with each other, for example, Mastodon uses hashtags, Lemmy doesn't.

    Lemmy has communities, Mastodon doesn't.

    It's not that one is better than the other, it's still being worked out by the community.

    You also have to remember that there have been many "failures" along the way. Geocities, MySpace, Usenet, AOL, bulletin boards and bang path addressing. The fediverse might succeed, whatever that means, or it might not.

    I'm a user on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, they're evolving day by day. I'm not sure if I could tell you what I like or dislike about each, they're just different.

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    Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Alleges Altman Showed ‘Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life’

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  • I suspect that this is about to get very interesting.