vk6flab

vk6flab, 3 days ago

Consider the impact of donating to one or more clients as the main project.

• People donating did so to the main project, not a client.
• What happens if the donation goes to a client that you feel is unworthy for whatever reason.
• What happens if your preferred client doesn’t get a donation?

vk6flab, 5 days ago

It doesn’t. I recall an experiment a few decades ago where they turned the world upside down. Didn’t take participants long to “normalise” the image.

When they removed the experiment, took even shorter to flip back.

I seem to recall it being done in a train carriage, as art, but I’m not sure.

vk6flab, 8 days ago

The 2FA codes are just images. You can save them where you like. No requirement to backup your 2FA “to the cloud”.

Just make sure that your storage is backed up.

vk6flab, 9 days ago

You realise that this is because Microsoft spent billions of dollars on what amounts to a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.

If you’re unfamiliar with the abomination, it’s a dumber version of Copilot.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

vk6flab, 9 days ago

Yeah, “Microsoft helpful”, not actually helpful.

vk6flab, 9 days ago

ARRL statements:

• www.arrl.org/…/arrl-systems-service-disruption

Suggestions that the ARRL “incident” is considerably more significant:

• w2lj.blogspot.com/…/interesting-speculation.html

LoTW status page:

• status.lotw.arrl.org

I also note that I received a response from the ARRL that instructed me to read their announcement linked above.

vk6flab, 9 days ago

You used to be able to run Apple Music on Android. I used it for a while. Not sure if it still exists.

vk6flab, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Are the people who work at OpenAI smoking crack?

“Over the last year and a half there have been a lot of questions around what might happen if influence operations use generative AI,” Ben Nimmo, principal investigator on OpenAI’s Intelligence and Investigations team, told members of the media in a press briefing

Here’s a clue, look around you.

ChatGPT isn’t the only fish in the sea and state actors using a public service like it deserve to be caught. Running your own system privately, without scrutiny, without censorship, without constraints is so trivial that teenagers are doing this on their laptops, so much so that you can docker pull your way into any number of LLM images.

Seriously, this is so many levels of absurd that it’s beyond comprehension…

vk6flab, 10 days ago

A magnetic loop is literally just a loop with a tuning capacitor at the feed point.

There should be several to be found on the ftroop website. ftroop.vk6flab.com

vk6flab, 10 days ago

Wow, those comments are a dumpster fire.

Not sure what Derek 's best response might be. I’m thinking that this video will likely be taken down and replaced by one without a sponsor.

vk6flab, 11 days ago

Not just burnout, opportunism features with several users I’ve spoken with. The level of ignorance surrounding ChatGPT is staggering.

One egregious use I know of was a developer who used it to write software to analyse a government dataset despite their department having put in place specific and targeted restrictions specifically against any such activities.

Their workaround was to use their private email to exfiltrate data and subsequently introduce the code.

Their rationale was that it didn’t harm anyone and their ICT department would vet any code. They were not concerned about this private data showing up on the ChatGPT public log, nor were they concerned about the accuracy of their code.

I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg and I think it’s going to take a serious data breach of identifying information before people lose their jobs over this type of misuse.

vk6flab, 11 days ago

For a period the interactions you had with ChatGPT were public and a live stream was available.

At the time when I looked at it, there was an astonishing amount of non-english traffic, but that might have been due to the fact that my UTC+8 timezone in Perth is the same as mainland China.

I had a quick search just now to see if I could find a link, but all I can locate is posts about new privacy controls, so perhaps that "feature"went by the wayside at some point.

vk6flab, 10 days ago

I’m fairly certain that it was ChatGPT, but I’m going from memory. I have a hunch that I saw a Hacker News show and tell post.

Update: It was in my bookmarks.

www.kaggle.com/…/89k-chatgpt-conversations

vk6flab, 9 days ago

www.kaggle.com/…/89k-chatgpt-conversations

vk6flab, 11 days ago

I’d email it as an attachment.

In Australia the local post office has fax facilities.

vk6flab, 11 days ago

The comments here in relation to the arcane nature of fax machines might not be aware that often this relates to legal requirements to receive physical proof.

Interestingly, nobody has to my knowledge challenged the wisdom of this requirement in court. At the end of the day, there is no real way to prove your identity using either a letter or a fax.

Using email, you could exchange an electronic key in person and know that the sender has the agreed key. Note that it still doesn’t prove the identity of the sender.

vk6flab, 12 days ago

Yes and no.

At the frequencies that HDMI operates, the path a signal takes can interfere with that signal. It’s why sometimes a cheap HDMI cable causes issues, where one certified for 4K or 8K doesn’t - the requirements to carry more information, means higher frequencies and thus better shielding.

A connector is a potential location where signal can be affected if the connection between two conductors is poor.

In general, less connectors and less joins will give you a higher chance of success and less chance of interference, but it depends entirely on what type of distance and signal you’re trying to send across it.

In general, the shorter the connection, the less loss.

It might be that a single longer cable is worse than a connector and a short cable.

If you already have a connector and a HDMI cable, try it. If you have issues, start by reversing the HDMI cable. It won’t make the electrons reverse or anything like that, but the connection might be slightly different.

If you have neither, I’d get a cable without a join. Buy from people who take returns.

Budget will be the determining factor for most people.

TL;DR; try it.

vk6flab, 12 days ago

Your last sentence is the answer.

Posting and sharing your experiences is how this gets fixed.

vk6flab, 13 days ago

A better headline:

“Visitor to Taiwan attempts to break biosecurity law and is hit with a fine”

vk6flab, 14 days ago

I doubt that anyone has researched the origin of such junk in detail.

If it doesn’t fit in your rubbish bin, generally it costs time, effort and money to properly dispose of things. Tossing it off a bridge is efficient.

Likely there’s a not inconsiderable proportion of anti-social behaviour, like stealing a bike and throwing it into a waterway afterwards.

vk6flab, 16 days ago

So, after you build this Bat Roost, how do you tell the local bat population that you’re open for business … asking for … a friend, purely for … educational purposes.

vk6flab, 17 days ago

DRM is one potential reason, but not the only one.

Content is licensed under specific conditions, resolution, audio tracks, closed captions, etc. Two organisations might have licensed the same title, but not the same conditions.

You can see this clearly during the Olympics where some channels only have secondary rights, or only certain events, but only free to air, not online, etc.

Added to that are marketing and exclusively deals and in the end it’s anyone’s guess what you actually end up with.