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.
#geek #nerd #hamradio VK6FLAB #podcaster #australia #ITProfessional #voiceover #opentowork
- Comment on tractor 2 hours ago:
… takes one to know one 😇
- Comment on tractor 5 hours ago:
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 9 hours ago:
Here’s how we fix a society that’s already drowning in advertising … more advertising.
Russell Howcroft would think that this was the Duck’s Nuts!
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 1 day ago:
This whole thing was already played out on the TV series “The West Wing”, and I’m fairly sure that Aaron Sorkin got it from somewhere else.
- Comment on No thanks 1 day ago:
Thank you for supplying your birthday, please upload a copy of three photographic government identification documents.
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- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Amateur Radio has literally changed my world view #podcast 4 days ago:
Welcome to the community!
Among us you’ll discover an eclectic mix of humanity with a particular disposition towards the somewhat odd hobby of amateur radio, which we can’t help but discuss, sometimes even argue about, but don’t let that put you off!
Thank you for your kind words about my weekly contribution to the hobby, there’s plenty more to catch up on. I started this adventure in 2011, called it “What use is an F-call?” and renamed it after 200+ episodes to “Foundations of Amateur Radio”
It’s home is here: podcasts.vk6flab.com
Have fun and enjoy this exciting hobby! If you ever have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
73 de Onno VK6FLAB
- Comment on Totally me 5 days ago:
Age 57, never want to leave the house to go to a party again.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Amateur Radio has literally changed my world view #podcast 5 days ago:
Excellent example. I hadn’t even considered electronics coming from a software background.
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Amateur Radio has literally changed my world view #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 6 days ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 5 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
At best it’s a way to see the world and experience new things, at worst it’s sex slavery.
I’d be extremely careful, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 1 week ago:
I suspect that the answer depends entirely on who reports on it first. By the time the rest of the world has had time to catch up, the tone is already set.
For a related concept, consider the use of the phrase “domestic terrorism”.
- Comment on Is it just me or does this look more appetizing than a watermelon? 1 week ago:
It’s just you.
- Comment on Same, I don't get this sport at all ha ha! 1 week ago:
I can’t help myself.
Which lie?
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 1 week ago:
I moved country as a way to see the world. I left Nederland and started with Australia because I had an Australian passport. I was going to give it a year. I worked six months, was unemployed for 18, then got a three day gig that lasted for six and a half years.
That move was 35 years ago. I’m still in Australia. In the meantime I met my partner, travelled around the country for five years and started my own business 26 years ago.
I visited Nederland four years in, but it didn’t feel like home.
It took many years for this to feel like home, from time to time I’d love to hug my family, but never felt homesick, I love watching YouTube videos of places where I grew up. I’ll visit the local Dutch Shop to remember smells and tastes and to bullshit in Dutch, but otherwise I’ll be doing my Aussie life.
I was born here, but grew up in Nederland.
- Comment on Thanks Kubuntu, I hate it. 1 week ago:
A bug is a bug. Someone needs to deal with it. The forum is for discussion, a bug report is to advise developers that there is a problem.
As a developer, I’m not looking at forums for bug reports, I’m looking at bug trackers.
- Comment on Thanks Kubuntu, I hate it. 1 week ago:
Lodge a bug report.
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- Comment on discord 1 week ago:
So … if you’re not allowed to announce that, is it okay to alert the community that you need to let fluffy off the chain, drop off the kids at the pool, dig for gold or need to go see a man about a horse?
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- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 2 weeks ago:
Well that deteriorated quickly from oops to premeditated environmental vandalism.
- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that at one point the water was frozen.
- Comment on Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services. 2 weeks ago:
I have no problem with the idea of self-hosting, there’s a time and place for it.
What I have an issue with is proclaiming the idea of getting away from “Big Tech” under the banner of “Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services.” and jumping into a corporate VPS without any self awareness around the reality of that, let alone a hint, nevermind a deeper discussion, around the far reaching implications, such as legality, payments, administration, outages, getting hacked and myriad other “would have been good to know before I jumped”-scenarios.
Is paying for a VPS part of self-hosting, sure, for some, but is it “Buck the Billionaires” … hardly.
Is the article good for promoting self-hosting … I would argue … not.
- Comment on Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services. 2 weeks ago:
This is drivel of the highest order.
The solution proposed by the author is to host your own fediverse instance on a … wait for it … corporate VPS.
There’s no discussion about terms and conditions that apply to hosted content, no discussion about legal liability, no discussion about credit card company censorship and what happens if you host something objectionable.
The author proudly proclaims that they’ve been booted off multiple platforms.
Here’s a thought:
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” - Elmore Leonard
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Bald Yak 12, getting raw data from a remote receiver #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Public List of programs that manage activations, the act of setting up an amateur radio station for the purpose of making contact with other amateurs. 2 weeks ago:
Timezone differences permitting, you can always join F-troop at midnight UTC on Saturday (about one and a half hours from now) and start the discussion. The net runs for an hour every week.
See ftroop.groups.io for details.
- Comment on Public List of programs that manage activations, the act of setting up an amateur radio station for the purpose of making contact with other amateurs. 2 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see!
- Make a program
- Write down the process
- Publish it
- Submit in a patch
- Job done!
😇
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There’s a thing called an Advanced Health Directive in Western Australia, legally outlining who and under what circumstances is permitted to make decisions on your behalf.
I would talk to your medical team and ask them how this works in your country. It’s also when you discover what the cultural beliefs your team has and if they align with yours.
I’d be doing this sooner rather than later.
- Comment on Just reheating my pizza 3 weeks ago:
This is also how you can flow surface mount solder paste …