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21 hours agoI suspect that this is about to get very interesting.
Onno (VK6FLAB)
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6·1 day agoI can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.
I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.
Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It’s not good.
With a little luck it will experience a “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” before the IPO 😁
I want to make sure that the schmucks who financed this abomination in the first place pay dearly for it, rather than fleecing the subsequent hapless small investors and the rest of society who don’t understand and will buy into the hype.
Can we please have the bubble burst before the IPO?
So if we all stop buying Starlink … the music stops?
Good to know.
41·15 days agoNo.
Bambu Studio is forked from PrusaSlicer, licensed under the AGPL.
PrusaSlicer is a fork of Slic3r, also licensed under the AGPL.
Next time the company will write their own code and not steal it from the community, or they’ll comply with the licence under which they’re building their business.
What’s particularly troubling is that this is not the first time that Bambu Labs has done this.
Milk comes in 1.5 litre bottles, there’s two of us, we have it in coffee, tea, omelets , and occasionally in porridge, we shop once a fortnight, you do the maths.
Sometimes they’re visible from the other side of the room, other times you need either a magnifying glass and a bright light whilst holding the bottle upside down.
Consider the amount of strength required to make either movement. It might turn out that one way requires more strength than the other.
We buy milk every fortnight and the date ranges vary wildly, which results in expired milk if we’re not careful.
1·20 days agoAccording to this source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2021L00617/latest/text
460 – 470
FIXED
MOBILE 286AA
Meteorological–satellite (space-to-Earth)
287 289 AUS98286AA The frequency band 450–470 MHz is identified for use by administrations wishing to implement International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) — see Resolution 224 (Rev.WRC-19). This identification does not preclude the use of this frequency band by any application of the services to which it is allocated and does not establish priority in the Radio Regulations. (WRC-19)
287 Use of the frequency bands 457.5125–457.5875 MHz and 467.5125–467.5875 MHz by the maritime mobile service is limited to on-board communication stations. The characteristics of the equipment and the channelling arrangement shall be in accordance with Recommendation ITU‑R M.1174‑4. The use of these frequency bands in territorial waters is subject to the national regulations of the administration concerned. (WRC-19)
289 Earth exploration–satellite service applications, other than the meteorological–satellite service, may also be used in the bands 460–470 MHz and 1 690–1 710 MHz for space-to-Earth transmissions subject to not causing harmful interference to stations operating in accordance with the Table.
AUS98 The harmonised frequency ranges in the 400 MHz band are used for national security, law enforcement, and first and second responder agencies. These agencies include police, fire, ambulance, and emergency rescue. These agencies are normally consulted about use of this spectrum for government purposes via the Commonwealth, State and Territory representative arrangements established by the National Coordinating Committee for Government Radiocommunications[1]. The harmonised band comprises the following frequency ranges:
- 403–403.98125 MHz,
- 405.01875–406 MHz,
- 408.64375–410.54375 MHz,
- 412.46875–413.43125 MHz,
- 414.46875–415.44375 MHz,
- 418.09375–430 MHz,
- 457.50625–459.9875 MHz,
- 467.50625–469.9875 MHz.
Welcome to the community!
Apparently the petition went up in November 2025 and has a year to get enough signatures. Last I saw it was near to the halfway point of acceptance.
I came across it because I saw a post announcing that Inkscape was supporting it.
https://inkscape.org/news/2026/05/13/inkscape-supports-german-petition-to-recognize-ope/
Basically two choices:
- Find a project you’re interested in and make a contribution. Many projects tag certain issues with something like “Good First Issue” as a way of lowering barriers to entry. Other things are updating documentation, fixing typos, then you can branch out into patches and pull requests.
- Make your own FOSS project.
2·25 days agoI faced pretty much the exact same choice, except I was given four of them, each with 8 GB of RAM.
Unfortunately they were two different hardware revisions, so the most I could achieve was two servers with 16 GB each.
They sound like a Jet taking off when powered up and the BIOS doesn’t support lower fan speeds.
Instead after months of deliberation I decided to go with a SFF Lenovo, 32 GB, 2 x 1 TB NVME, Ryzen 7, and bought this:
It’s whisper quiet and running Proxmox.
To get VM video passthrough to work I installed an extra video card, though, you could install a desktop on the host OS instead if you prefer.
The video card I used to fit inside is this:
If you’re not going to show the source code, there’s absolutely no point in using GitHub.
As for getting paid, I hadn’t seen gumroad before, nice, but failing the access to the source, it’s unlikely I’d buy/pay for unknown software and install it sight unseen on anything I care about.
From a security perspective, in my opinion this is a disaster waiting to happen.
Pandoc will convert markdown to a PDF in portrait or landscape and there’s even “beamer” support, aka data projector or presentation support.
You are not comparing like for like.
Twitter is pretty much 20 years old, so are Facebook, Reddit and YouTube.
In addition, they were essentially first of a kind in their niche.
The fediverse is not even a teenager and the growth spurt hasn’t set in and may never. In addition, the fediverse is utilitarian by comparison, not much beyond proof of concept. Apps, platforms and instances are fragile and evolving.
Basic things mostly work, but it’s not “cool” enough to tempt organisations to join, media companies, etc.
We barely agree on how things interact with each other, for example, Mastodon uses hashtags, Lemmy doesn’t.
Lemmy has communities, Mastodon doesn’t.
It’s not that one is better than the other, it’s still being worked out by the community.
You also have to remember that there have been many “failures” along the way. Geocities, MySpace, Usenet, AOL, bulletin boards and bang path addressing. The fediverse might succeed, whatever that means, or it might not.
I’m a user on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, they’re evolving day by day. I’m not sure if I could tell you what I like or dislike about each, they’re just different.