You’re most welcome. Have fun!

Inspired by your question about how to start in the hobby of amateur radio, I’ve started a new project to answer your question.

Brickbats and Bouquets welcome.

https://github.com/vk6flab/getting-started-in-amateur-radio/blob/main/README.md

In addition to my earlier comments, here is a link to a discussion that goes through some of the considerations associated with becoming an amateur, and, yes u/vk6flab is also me.

https://old.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/noydho/tips_for_starting_out/

Perhaps it’s time for me to collate some of this information.

Good luck and feel free to ask questions, I’ll answer if I can.

Welcome to the community :)

As for how to start, much depends on which country you’re in. So let’s start there.

From an overview perspective, essentially you can start playing with (free online) receivers immediately, lots of online resources. To transmit you’ll need to do some studies and pass a test to get an amateur radio licence because all radio spectrum is regulated, since radio waves don’t stop at borders. No Morse Code required in most countries, and in many cases there’s an introductory licence class which you can often do in a weekend.

You talk nicely to their boss, get appointed, then tell your old boss your thoughts on the matter.

Depends entirely on whether you still want them to be your boss afterwards.

This is GOLD!

Source: Debian user for 25 years.

While reproducible builds are a good thing, for a bunch of reasons the whole stack is built on top of someone else’s microcode running on someone’s CPU, running someone’s BIOS, etc.

During an Linux Conf in Australia I attended a talk discussing the chain of trust and the point was made that when you buy something from a manufacturer, it is assumed that it comes to you unaltered, but the question is, how would you know?

In other words, you need to trust something somewhere and build on that.

If you’d like to see a working example of a backdoored compiler, because to compile something, you need to also trust your compiler, here’s a good discussion and show and tell:

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

This is by far the fastest, safest and most complete option.

One tip: Make sure that all the things you want to export are ticked because by default they’re not.

You can even set this up as a regular process if you want.

Source: long time user

There’s hardly any cost to a bot operator, malicious , opportunistic or legitimate, to hit your end-point, so once they found a reason to hit it, hitting it a million more times costs cents.

Operators like Meta seem to make it a sport, trying to hit you with multiple parallel requests from multiple sources, across both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously, resulting in an effective DDoS for small and medium end point owners and increasing costs significantly for anyone trying fruitlessly to stay ahead of their onslaught.

The malicious traffic by contrast, attempts to sneak in a request with dynamic rate throttling as part of their attempts to stay hidden.

Between these two extremes are the opportunistic operators who hit the same 404 endpoint day after day, hour after hour, minute by minute, for weeks with specific blocks the only remedy.

There are plenty of legitimate bots that quietly go about their business, hitting you every couple of seconds, leaving you alone for long stretches, incrementally crawling, honouring the robots.txt file and generally acting the way a considerate adult might. They’ve been getting lower and lower in numbers over the years.

Source: I have logs.

You don’t think that cron and grep is sufficient?

I worked for a now long defunct company with half a dozen of each, no idea which revision. My job was to crack and re-enable copy protection to create master tapes for bulk duplication.

I was told (as a teenager) that we had agreements with the copyright holders, but I never saw them. We also had an Orange…an Apple ][ clone, a Sinclair QL and a few Commodore and MSX machines.

My own computer was a VIC-20.

I’m surprised that the Spectrum didn’t reset when you put your feet up. 😁

For those not familiar, both the ZX81 and Spectrum were notoriously fickle when it came to power supplies … often resetting when you looked at it funny.

Source: I’m that old.

Also, nice socks!

I have no evidence that LinkedIn provides work, I attempted to use it for several years to find work and was entirely unsuccessful.

Among the quagmire I left, all I saw was Assumed Intelligence slop and bots attempting to harvest contacts.

There was a time when LinkedIn was useful as a tool to grow and interact with your network, these days it’s Xitter with more characters.

While I understand your point, before I left LinkedIn I spent several years looking for work, nothing changed after leaving, other than not having to deal with the “offers” from “agents” who didn’t reply, let alone look at my experience before making a stupid “job offer” in exchange for my contacts.

Leaving LinkedIn increased my quality of life significantly, even though I’m still looking for work.

You have the option to stop using LinkedIn altogether.

There was a time when it was useful, then it started harvesting data and accessing your contacts without your permission, then Microsoft bought it, then it became an influencer swamp, then it demanded that you turn off 50+ individual permissions hidden away in a deep preferences hierarchy, then it opted you in to feed the Assumed Intelligence black hole, which is where I opted out and stopped using it.

Job search has always been a joke, recommendations absurd, direct applications ignored and non-existent filters to make job search relevant.

In other words, do yourself a favour and leave.

I run my browser in incognito mode. Each launch a script creates a new profile directory specifically for that launch. When I quit the browser it deletes that profile directory.

For every activity, email, a specific search, an online purchase, an issue report, accessing personal information, etc., I’ll launch a separate instance and within that instance I’ll restrict my tabs to only that purpose.

I don’t save passwords or bookmarks, both of which are stored elsewhere.

I’m not particularly worried about tracking by being fingerprinted, I’m much more concerned about data leakage, either inadvertently or maliciously.

Rebooting is an utter pain in the arse, but I put up with it and use the opportunity to clear my slate.

Edit: I don’t create the profile directory manually, it’s a little bash script.

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.

I suspect that Meta suddenly requiring that the family Messenger account has a PIN is unrelated … right?

In other news, bananas are found to have human-like attributes.