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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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If it’s free, you’re the product.
8·1 day agoDoug as in we Doug ourselves a hole.
I’m convinced. Time for a career change. Where’s the Forest Ranger jobs?
1·2 days agoSo, a fuzzy search then?
There’s several command line tools for that too.
173·2 days agoI 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.
There’s nothing to host.
Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.
I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but can this not be solved with one Linux command?
grepThe command has a
-noption to output line numbers and-C xto providexlines of context.There’s no extra software required, doesn’t need an LLM, doesn’t hallucinate, just a plain search.
6·3 days agoYeah, NetWare and Zen with NAL in full flight was a thing to behold. Instead we got Active Directory.
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.
3·4 days agoVery exciting!
Which field day are we talking about? There’s amateur radio activity across the planet and events pretty much every day.
Edit: Not everyone hears my voice in my head and my reply didn’t convey the smile in my words.
422·5 days agoUnbreakable Encryption … so … Snake Oil then?
It would be significantly more interesting to see what happened to each of those. Are they all still profitable, in business, etc.
Just because someone makes a splash, doesn’t mean that they’re important, useful or ethical.
4·5 days agoSo … was this a test to see if it behaves the same as a Cyber Truck, or a Ford Focus?
1·5 days agoWhen 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.
14·5 days agoSeems like these revellers are remarkably tall at 2m height. I wonder how many there are.
Both have been prioritising “engagement” over “results” because it allows them to advertise to you more.
In case you didn’t realise, if the product is free, you’re the product and both have been doing an amazing job out of extracting value from your eyeballs.
Unsurprisingly, they’re both owned by the same company.
Algorithms where?
There’s not one algorithm to rule them all … yet, but the platform and your interactions with it amplify over time, mainly in an attempt at creating “engagement”, ie. more opportunities to sell you shit, achieved by creating outrage and clicks.
91·5 days agoWhile this video is austensibly about Incogni, you’ll soon discover just how much it’s about VPNs and who owns them.
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.