Onno (VK6FLAB)

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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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • Here’s some questions:

    • What happens when you die?
    • What happens if your house is burgled or catches fire?
    • How do you protect against pe(s)ts making themselves at home in your server?
    • What happens with a power or internet outage?
    • What happens with hardware failure?
    • What happens if you suffer dementia?
    • How are you dealing with AI bots?
    • How are you mitigating hacking attempts, security, authentication and exploits?
    • How are you dealing with data corruption?
    • How do you mitigate against ransomware having entered your systems?

    Note that I’m not picking on you, nor is this list comprehensive or in priority order. I’m trying to determine if you’ve considered these common issues and concerns associated with hosting stuff that has great sentimental value, if not actual value.










  • Elections generally tilt one way or the other based on fractions of a percentage of the vote, in fact, a single vote can be the difference.

    So, if two candidates are evenly matched, it’s possible that a whole state can go one way or the other based on just a few votes.

    Note that this is not specific to the USA and I’m in Australia.

    As far as “elections” go where there’s only one choice, that’s not an election but a dictatorship and from where I’m standing, the USA is heading in that direction at a breakneck speed.









  • 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.




  • When you watch a movie in public with native audio and subtitles and you speak or understand the audio language, you’ll often hear scattered laughter before the main audience laughs because often the subtitles have a delay for the punchline of a joke, which means that those who already heard the joke laughed at the moment it happened, not a second or more later when the subtitles arrive.

    Most of the time the subtitles match the audio, sometimes they change a cultural reference, or infrequently completely get the translation wrong for no apparent reason which can become a new accedental joke all on its own. Then there’s weird ones where numbers like someone’s age or the time are wrong.

    Source: I speak multiple human languages to various degree … and way too many technology ones. I’m also going deaf, so I have closed captioning on most of the time.