vk6flab
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio
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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- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 6 hours ago:
In security, resilience and disaster recovery discussions with your client, how do you go about threading the needle between “scaring the pants off them” and “she’ll be right mate”?
When I look around me, the weight of discussion seems to be towards the latter, rather than the former. I could conclude that the client has been getting advice from idiots and charlatans, but that might be considered uncharitable, not to mention potentially career limiting.
I’ve had to read the riot act on a couple of occasions in my 40 year career, whilst it gets the job done, it’s never fun.
What is your winning strategy to get the client to go, oh, Oh, ooooh, fuck, without running a mile?
- Comment on [deleted] 10 hours ago:
Gotta say, the down votes on this comment are deeply disturbing. Do those people think that this is acceptable behaviour?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 hours ago:
That’s sexual harassment in a nutshell.
- Comment on Are there any Amateur Radio charities? 17 hours ago:
First pass at a list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/…/pubhtml?gid=0&…
- Comment on Would not adding a stamp and return address on a letter give you free postage 17 hours ago:
My experience on eBay does not match yours. I have numerous times had packages not be delivered with the seller giving false tracking numbers, not responding, outright lying to eBay and as I said, not putting enough postage on the item. At one time there were honest sellers there, but it’s been overrun with scams and fraud, including listing the item location as being in a local warehouse, only to discover that this is a drop-ship location that is being fed by container from China.
I no longer use or trust eBay. My experience with eBay vs. PayPal is no better. There was a time when they worked together to resolve issues, but now they just point the finger at each other. I also don’t use PayPal any longer.
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- Comment on Would not adding a stamp and return address on a letter give you free postage 19 hours ago:
The post office has been alive longer than you or I. I suspect they’ve seen and dealt with anything you dream up.
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 20 hours ago:
I’m waiting for the word Orange to be banned by executive order.
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 21 hours ago:
Welcome to totalitarian regimes.
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 21 hours ago:
The Orange is now in charge.
It’s not limited to a single Department either, here’s NASA:
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- Comment on Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots 22 hours ago:
If you build a static website, you can host it on AWS S3 and it will likely cost you cents to run. S3 on its own will handle a lot of traffic and you’re unlikely to hit that threshold, but if you do, you can add AWS Cloud Front and have a site that can handle more traffic than you can imagine.
- Comment on Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots 22 hours ago:
This will not work. It sounds great, it sounds plausible, even realistic at some level, but this will not work.
Here’s why.
The bot operator has more money than you do. If the efficiency of one bot decreases on one website, they’ll throw another boy at it, rinse and repeat until your website stops responding because it’s ground to dust.
Meta bots are good at doing this, hitting your site with thousands of requests a second, over and over again.
Meta is not alone in this, but in my experience it’s the most destructive.
Source: One of my clients runs a retail website and I’ve been dealing with this.
At the moment the “best” - least worse is probably more accurate - “solution” is to block them as if they’re malicious traffic - which essentially what they are.
- Comment on Would not adding a stamp and return address on a letter give you free postage 22 hours ago:
In my experience the recipient gets a card in their letterbox to collect mail from the post office. When they go and collect it, they’re required to pay for the missing postage before they even get to see the item, let alone inspect it.
Source: eBay senders had a brief habit of doing this. I no longer buy from eBay.
- Comment on I mean, that's literally the opposite of what I want 1 day ago:
I see this in Australia.
- Comment on How can I determine how much to contribute to charity to reduce US federal taxes? 2 days ago:
Talk to a tax accountant.
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 3 days ago:
That’s an interesting approach that I’ve not encountered.
If you do remote only and want to talk to someone with over 40 years ICT experience, hit me up. I’m in UTC+8.
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 4 days ago:
How do you validate the responses here?
I’m asking because job search is in my experience a cutthroat endeavour dominated by unscrupulous agencies and employers, mixed with incompetent human resource departments muddying the waters in relation to actual positions for the purpose of restricting wages and opportunities for potential employees.
- Comment on So the flurry of flying embers that were blowing around in California, is that commonly how fire spreads? 4 days ago:
As I understand it, in Australia it’s not uncommon. I don’t know if it happens elsewhere.
- Comment on So the flurry of flying embers that were blowing around in California, is that commonly how fire spreads? 4 days ago:
I’m not an expert, just living in a country that has lots of bushfires, Australia.
Fire spreads in all manner of ways. Embers can be picked up by the wind and transported kilometres away from the firefront. Birds can pick up embers and drop them away from the fire. Burning materials can get stuck underneath a vehicle, or fire can race against the wind up a hill.
Something to keep in mind is that fire is a chemical reaction that needs fuel, oxygen and heat.
- Comment on Why does it seem like every TV series I've ever watched gets cancelled/rushed/incomplete ending, while movies (even those in a film series/trilogy) rarely face the same problem? 6 days ago:
Money.
TV is like making cheap movies. As an investor you can calculate your return on investment every time an episode goes to air. If you’re on a winning streak, you’ll make more, if not, you’ll pull out and the show is cancelled. Many TV shows never get past the first pilot episode.
Making movies gives you potentially a bigger payout, but only if it’s a hit, so an investor will do everything to maximise the chance of success. Massive budgets, known stars, etc.
In the end it’s all legalised gambling. If you’re lucky, something interesting comes from it, more often than not it’s Waterworld … yes, there are worse movies, but you won’t recognise them … and yes, it made a profit … eventually.
Worst performing movies of all time: …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs
- Comment on Sounds wonderful 6 days ago:
This is the first “shitpost” I’ve seen in a very long while that’s absolutely a shit post for some people and the absolute truth for the rest of us. Gold!
- Comment on ~118% of players support LAHF [Steam Survey] 6 days ago:
¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on ~118% of players support LAHF [Steam Survey] 6 days ago:
Same user, more than one computer?
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- Comment on If everything went to plan, my 10 dBm #wspr beacon is QSY to 15m. 1 week ago:
I can confirm that it’s on air and on the right band.
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- Comment on Behold, the peak of Twitter (formerly renamed to X) 1 week ago:
Why do we have to trawl through the bottom of Xitter?
I thought that we all left them behind to come here so we could get on with making a better global community.
- Comment on Spooky flappy boys 1 week ago:
If you’re looking for a renewed sense of respect for a crow, here’s Mark Rober, (of glitter bomb and squirrel fame) with eye opening crow activity.
- Comment on Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me 1 week ago:
This is now what spammers are doing. I’ve got about 50 different “companies” offering their services complete with follow up, meeting bookings, reminders and encouragement to sign up now, then come the threats or request for acknowledgement, then they change their email address and start from the top.
Come to think about it, it’s probably more like 100 different attempts, each with their own repeating thread.
99% automatically land in my spam folder, but it’s just ludicrous. It also makes actual commerce via email pretty much impossible.
I’ve had offers for lead generation, appointment setting, transcript services, SEO, website redesigns, app development, social media marketing and management, investment opportunities, offers for speaking engagements, conference sponsorships, purchasing and product offers, the list is endless.
