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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  • It goes well beyond bother.

    In my opinion, the biggest issue is that software with a GPL licence is not permitted to be distributed without making the source code available, which Red Hat restricted to only paying customers, and in doing so added a licence restriction which is not permitted by the GPL.

    They are now profiting off the work of every developer who ever contributed to the software they’re selling and none of those people are getting paid.




  • I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I’ve been using it for 25 years.

    I’m not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.

    Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.

    Never used OpenSUSE.


  • Whilst that does create a more pleasant atmosphere, it also creates echo chambers and I believe that’s not a good thing.

    I try to only block those who are explicitly being antagonistic, rather than just those whom I disagree with.

    It would be great if Lemmy had a way to tag a user, so you could tag a borderline account, then decide after several interactions if they warranted blocking.

    I also block several key words, rather than accounts.

    I actively search for, report then block spam.















  • No, you didn’t “edit” your mistake, you completely changed the meaning of your response which makes anything after it look absurd.

    You originally stated that an algorithm was intelligence, the implication being that using your logic, you thought that a calculator was intelligent.

    As far as the meaning of AI, you clearly don’t understand the landscape surrounding the hyperbolic assertions made by ignorant journalism about the topic.

    Machine learning is one aspect of the landscape, useful as it is, intelligence it is not.

    LLM emissions on the other hand appear to emulate enough grammatically correct language to fool many people some of the time, leading to their mistaken belief that what is happening is intelligence rather than, at least from their perspective, magic.

    (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke)

    So, intelligence it is not, Assumed Intelligence is what it is, or autocorrect gone uppity if you prefer, an algorithm either way.



  • I’m an industry professional in ICT with 40 years experience.

    I’ve come to form the view that industry certification is a vendor lock-in process created solely for the purpose of generating a guaranteed income stream for that vendor.

    If your employer wants to spend its money on certification, by all means go for it as a learning experience.

    If you have to pay for it yourself, I’ve yet to see any evidence that they represent a return on investment of any kind in your career.

    That’s not to say that learning should be abandoned, quite the opposite. In this industry, if you’re not learning, you’re going backwards.

    Stay curious, read verociosly and try to figure out how stuff works and more importantly, how it breaks.