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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You don’t think that 3,028 people holding 99% of global wealth is extreme?
That’s an interesting observation.
Given the 3,028 billionaires among the 8 billion people on Earth, that’s the definition of extreme.
Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Technology@beehaw.org•[RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)?
32·4 days agoGiven the massive layoffs happening under the Assumed Intelligence banner, the answer has always been: “cheaper labour”
Apparently people who actually know how to do their ICT job are too expensive, right until the shit hits the fan, at which point it’s “drop everything and help me, now!”
Organisations are no longer run by Founders, instead they’re run by accountants and lawyers who only care about shareholder value, not the societal or environmental impact.
When the bubble finally explodes we’re going to be looking at an altered economic and technology landscape, if we don’t self ignite before that.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When washing, should I turn garments inside out?
6·7 days agoI’ve been washing clothes for many decades and although I was also taught to turn some clothes inside out, I’ve never noticed any difference if I didn’t and these days I’ll often wash with them oriented normally, mainly because that’s how I prefer to hang them in the cupboard or fold them into drawers and turning them when wet or after taking them off the line or out of the drier makes the whole process even more tedious than it already is.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the best most nutritionally complete soup?
51·8 days agoDepends on what your blender is capable of.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the World Wide Web Consortium changed their logo on 1 OctoberEnglish
211·12 days agoThe consortium clearly has too much money.
It means your coffee pod machine just came online and the coffee is currently spewing from the spout … probably.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is the quietest place on Earth still have 7.83 Hz audible?
7·13 days agoVery cool, didn’t know this existed!
For anyone who wants more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Community behaviour around deletion of posts
2·14 days agoIf it’s never happened to you, how would you know that it’s happening at all?
Skin cancer is like an iceberg, what’s under the skin is what will kill you. Go and see your doctor.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you eat farm fresh eggs, you're probably ingesting trace amounts of rooster cum
5·16 days ago… and your point is?
The shoes I’ve seen look like an orthopaedic horror story.
As a fully functional adult, I’ve been eyeing off light up shoes for years. So far, all I’ve seen is gimmick shoes you wouldn’t wear for more than an hour, so I make do with fluorescent shoelaces instead.
This seems like fun, though I’m not sure if I’d be game to walk up a set of stairs on them, perhaps I’m not keen on breaking something when I’d invariably trip and fall.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Attaching one's name to an astronomical survey likely buys immortality beyond the heat-death of the Earth
6·19 days agoUnlikely.
You underestimate the size of the Universe. There’s 8 billion people on Earth, there’s about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and between 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I hate how Apples + Googles Prinz services are fucking my Printer, yet CUPS does it right.
53·22 days agoHow would you suggest I respond in the future?
We have a person, claiming that CUPS doesn’t work and they now uninstall it on every installation.
There is no context, no data, no information that suggests what the issue is, what they tried, when this occurred, on which platform, under which conditions.
In other words, the user was essentially saying “CUPS sux”.
Having used Linux as my main system for over 25 years, that sentiment did not match my own experience, does not help anyone, not me, not the user and not the OP who was trying to solve a problem, let alone anyone else reading along.
I responded accordingly.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I hate how Apples + Googles Prinz services are fucking my Printer, yet CUPS does it right.
74·22 days agoThis has not been my experience … at … all.
Perhaps it would be helpful to discover what exactly doesn’t work for you and fix that, rather than remove CUPS because one time it didn’t work for you seven years ago.










Interesting.
My native phone app also supports call recording, but it needs to be manually activated each time.