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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Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPto
Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•SDR Enthusiasts - GitHub repositories
3·6 days agoIt’s a collection of repos for different aspects of using SDR to decode, collate and distribute to all manner of different projects.
There’s plenty of documentation and a set of wikis.
Essentially it’s like walking into your nearest hardware store with the instructions to “build a house” … some assembly required.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you manage PHP edits across application upgrades?English
2·8 days agoPHP is written in text files which can be managed using any number of version control systems. Pick your poison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_version-control_software
As someone else said, you can document your patches with a Docker file, but you’ll still need to track your changes.
Ultimately, what you’re essentially doing is maintaining a local fork of the code and keeping it synchronised with upstream.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPto
Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•[FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Global Ionospheric Maps #podcast
1·12 days agoIf you missed it, this is the video: https://youtu.be/CJZyh2EqvkU
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPto
Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•Near Real Time Global Ionospheric Map for 2026-08
2·13 days agoTomorrow my weekly podcast goes into how this map is created. It’s quite the journey.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPto
Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•Article: Meshtastic vs MeshCore: I Run Both, Here's the Honest Truth (2026)
0·20 days agoWhat is your evidence of this?
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Technology@lemmy.world•Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College CampusesEnglish
21·3 months agoI figured that a good percentage of the delivery robots would simply “disappear” from the map and be rebirthed as battle bots in some arena with chainsaw accessories.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Whats do you consider the best choice for private mobile browsing?
2·3 months agoFirefox Focus with AdGuard DNS
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers.
852·3 months agoMicrosoft … the poster child for Linux migration
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?English
112·3 months 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.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiotoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you speak another language besides ENG, are the subtitles terrible?
0·3 months 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.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiotoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Has anyone else noticed how search quality on YouTube and Google have worsened?
0·3 months agoBoth 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.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Technology@lemmy.world•This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stabilityEnglish
192·3 months ago… and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux …
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google director René Mayrhofer, for Android platform security resigned, citing the company's military deals: "management has lost its moral compass"English
21·3 months agoOver the years I’ve seen people in high profile roles resign in protest, but I’ve never understood it. I still don’t.
Is the whole point to bring attention to an issue and then what, hope for the best?
Is it not being able to look at yourself in the mirror and resigning with extra steps?
Is it a public dummy spit?
How does resigning actually fix something, or is that not a consideration?
As I said, I don’t understand.
Anyone?
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Need advice to store all my Gmail offline while still using the service
2·3 months agoThis 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
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Technology@lemmy.world•Facebook and Messenger go down as users report major outageEnglish
241·3 months ago… and nothing of value was lost …
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Technology@lemmy.world•AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flawEnglish
107·3 months agoNothing quite like creating a specific incentive for researchers to seek “alternative” sources of income as payment for their research efforts.
Microsoft tried this … seems to be working out for them … not.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•I used to think I'd stay on my entry license forever, but then a mentor changed my mind.
1·3 months agoCongratulations on your new responsibilities!








This is not limited to CompSci graduates and gets worse the older you get.
It’s also not limited to CompSci.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/17/over-50s-reveal-trying-to-get-a-job-applications-interviews