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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  • Except that in civil discussion with experts, other ideas are what helps people arrive at a solution suitable for them and their situation.

    I’ll also add that I’ve been a Linux user for 25 years and the toxicity you claim in relation to the Linux community is in my experience not evident as a “major reason”, instead I’ve found it to be innovative and flexible with a wide perspective and approach to problem solving.

    Are there dickheads in the Linux community? Yes, just like there are everywhere in society.


  • What are you attempting to achieve by opening this list of urls?

    What is the difference between running this script and setting this list as either a bookmark, or the homepage in your browser?

    What does your network have to do with the reachability of these sites?

    If you’re managing the privacy of your own network, why are you not monitoring those services?



  • Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.

    You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.

    Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.

    The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.


  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiotoLinux@lemmy.mlPrinters for Linux
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    I’ve run my business for over 25 years, and I haven’t had a printer in over two decades. I have needed to print something less than half a dozen times since making the decision to not replace it. Instead I print to PDF and if I need actual physical paper, I’ve put a PDF on a USB flash drive and taken it to my local office supplies store to print on demand.

    I have a scanner, it’s been used perhaps a dozen times in the same period.

    In other words, have you considered not buying a printer?












  • I’m a software developer with over 40 years experience. Much of it with FOSS.

    Your argument in relation to GitHub does not take in the reality of the effort involved with migrating to a different platform, effort that is likely unpaid, has no logistical upside and stalls the development efforts of a project, not to mention breaking every single source code repository link across the wider internet, links that represent publicity and community engagement.

    It’s one thing migrating after a service vanishes, it’s an entirely different thing to migrate due to the philosophical differences perceived by the ownership change to Microsoft. In my opinion, chanting FOSS is insufficient as an argument.

    I have several projects and clients that use GitHub and while I detest copilot and the enshitification that the new ownership represents, I’m also aware that it’s likely that the sale provides financial security to the continued existence of GitHub.

    I think it’s admirable that a project is asking its community if it should stay or move and I wish the developer(s) wrestling with this all the strength and patience in the world to work through it.

    I know I’ve struggled with the same considerations and I’m still using GitHub … for now.




  • It’s like “sugar free” and “green”, meaningless unless it’s regulated, policed and prosecuted.

    As others have said, the best labelling system we currently have is the licence that’s attached to the software.

    Mind you, that in and of itself is not sufficient, since the source code needs to come with it, and arguably the ability to actually compile it, neither of which are guaranteed, again more requirements for policing and prosecution.

    Also, when I say policing, I’m not talking about the law enforcement community, I’m talking about developers and end users paying attention and calling out breaches.

    Whilst contemplating all that, this costs money, something that is in very short supply within the wider open source software community and what little there is, goes to pay for food and lodging for a very very very small group of developers.

    Fix funding and you can have all the stickers in the world, in the meantime, nope.

    So, somewhat disappointedly … no.