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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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Not to alarm you, but things like that make me wonder if that's because it fell on the floor and the employee just stuffed it back into the loaf, or did the bread cutter lose several cutting wires, and if so, where did they go?

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If it's like any other Facebook monstrosity, the processes that "detect" such things are purely based around USA morals and values, such as they are.

In other words, show a nipple and the thing is gone. Show something racist and it's fine as long as it doesn't show a nipple.

In Australia FB doesn't care one iota about highly offensive content towards first nations people, perfectly fine with permitting the Australian equivalent of the USA "N" word, just as long as it doesn't show a nipple.

Oh, yeah, the banned nipple has to be attached to a female, preferably white caucasian. The rest seems fine, especially in an "indigenous setting".

In other words, FB only cares about its USA morality police and is perfectly fine with extracting money from everyone else, regardless of local sensitivities.

LinkedIn is the same. Not sure if that happened after Microsoft bought it, because until then it was not really a social media site, even if it did horrible things with extracting contacts from unsuspecting users who discovered that everyone in their address book had been invited, even if they were on the address book block list.

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I love the (currently one) down vote on your post. Clearly not a connoisseur of René's work.

Your shower thought on the other hand is on point!

Nicely done.

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For those wondering why. vim is the name of a popular text editor.

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.. cue surprised Pikachu face in November when the GOP candidate wins ..

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Spare ribs.

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The Romans used bread and games to entertain the masses. Looks to me that this has been fine tuned for the past 2,000 years, only now we call it takeaway and surfing the net.

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Why?

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Okay. I'll bite.

Why does it need to be implemented by Proton, why specifically on Ubuntu Touch, why a VPN?

I realise that the last question might seem odd, but then so does this research: "Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose"

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

I might add that this affects most VPN implications since 2002, so, 22 years of oops...

So, I'll ask again, Why?

trying to fix a wifi antenna need some help 😅...

Hy I bought a cheap Yagi wifi antenna need some help cause the previous owner broke it and tried to fix it red neck style... It didn't work ... I hope I would be able to add a picture here is a breaf description anyway it's the cheapest brand you can find online the main element is formed into an oval shaped metal ring and here...

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Give us a link instead. That said, read on.

In general, antennas are not like a "normal" circuit where things need to connect to each other to work.

Most antennas are made of two halves or poles, hence the name, dipole.

A Yagi antenna is a dipole with separate elements to focus and reflect the radio waves. These elements are normally not connected to each other.

In a typical Yagi only one pair, the dipole, is the driven element. The many (shorter) elements are directors, the one (or two) behind the driven element is the reflector.

A coaxial cable has two conductive elements, the core (the middle bit of metal) and the shield (the outer braid). These should normally not connect to each other.

You connect each coax conductor to its own dipole element. It generally doesn't matter which coax conductor connects to which dipole element.

Source: I'm a licensed radio amateur.

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I don't know what your specific antenna looks like.

Generally you connect close to the centre of the antenna, where the two elements are closest together, again without touching each other.

That said, there are antenna designs where this is not true.

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In trying to understand "the rules", you are attempting to understand human nature. In the fediverse there are no "rules", there isn't a governing body, instance owners and moderators essentially have "root" permissions.

Some use those for the greater good, some don't. Some react in ways that are unexpected and unfamiliar.

In other words, be kind to your community and find a place where you can enjoy yourself. Don't fret about the things that you cannot control.

If you absolutely need an answer, set up your own instance and be your own boss.

In the meantime, have fun.

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Manufacturer warranty?

Predatory forcing of circular dependency?

I think ---DOCKER--- is doing this. I installed based, and userspace(7)-pilled liblxc and libvirt and then this asshole inserted a dependency when I tried to install from their Debian package with sudo dpkg -i. One of them was qemu-system, the other was docker-cli because they were forcing me to use Docker-Desktop, which I would...

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Which version of Debian are you using?

What version was it before you did this update?

What action did you take that prompted this dependency?

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Okay. Couple of things.

  • Pop_OS is not Debian and any issues should be raised with the maintainers of that distribution.
  • Doing a dist-upgrade is the only thing that can remove packages if a newer package has different dependencies.
  • I don't know why you did a dist-upgrade, but likely it was because some packages were held back, which was probably because they removed something.
  • You guys is you. If you want something to change, the first step is lodging and issue with the correct maintainers. If you were to lodge this issue in the Debian BTS, I'd be surprised if it survived 24 hours without being closed as being not related to Debian.
  • Your approach is unlikely to win you any sympathy or friends. For the most part, we're all volunteers here.
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These are the required elements for making steel:

  • Iron
  • Carbon
  • Manganese
  • Chromium
  • Phosphorus
  • Sulphur
  • Nickel
  • Molybdenum
  • Titanium
  • Copper
  • Boron

Source: https://www.cliftonsteel.com/education/11elementsfoundinsteel

So, iron is only step 1. Humans are carbon based lifeforms, so I'm guessing that carbon is also sorted, that's step 2.

There's plenty of other elements in the human body, like phosphorus and sulphur, but I'm guessing that it's going to take more than 300 adults.

Source: https://sciencenotes.org/elements-in-the-human-body-and-what-they-do/

Source: https://sciencenotes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PeriodicTableHumanBody.png

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Mind you, those might not all be human..

vk6flab ,
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These are the required elements for making steel:

  • Iron
  • Carbon
  • Manganese
  • Chromium
  • Phosphorus
  • Sulphur
  • Nickel
  • Molybdenum
  • Titanium
  • Copper
  • Boron

Source: https://www.cliftonsteel.com/education/11elementsfoundinsteel

So, iron is only step 1. Humans are carbon based lifeforms, so I'm guessing that carbon is also sorted, that's step 2.

There's plenty of other elements in the human body, like phosphorus and sulphur, but I'm guessing that it's going to take more than 300 adults.

Source: https://sciencenotes.org/elements-in-the-human-body-and-what-they-do/

Source: https://sciencenotes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PeriodicTableHumanBody.png

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Yes

vk6flab ,
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I searched for ingredients for making steel. I'm obviously not a metallurgist, nor do I pretend to be one on the internet :)

The meme triggered my interest into discovering just what might be involved.

Clearly I've just scratched the surface ..

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Me, nope, just bored.

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As opposed to the real apps that .. steal your data?

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Yeah. I can just picture it. Survivalists doing an appendectomy in their barn using a pocket knife and some whisky..

Seriously, if the shit properly hits the fan, there's no "survival" scenario, it's extinction and homo-erectus goes the way of the dinosaurs.

Anything less than that means the rich get richer and the poor die.

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This information is ancient in terms of solar activity.

At this time the geomagnetic storm arrived four days ago and finished a day ago. We're all still here.

Sunlight has NOTHING to do with this phenomenon.

This is what happened - note also that this is a wrap-up and is at this time a day old:

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Until I read your post, I hadn't even clicked on the link. Wow, that's a whole lot of rubbish.

vk6flab ,
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Watching a couple of Dashcam videos is the perfect way to explore this phenomenon in full HD colour and often colourful sound.

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I've noticed a sharp increase in spam and I've been reporting each one simply as "spam".

I then block the user

Many of these posts have dozens of down votes.

Several go back months, which I discover when a new variant turns up.

I'm unsure if what I'm doing is helping or not, and as an ICT professional, I'm not sure why this obvious spam isn't caught earlier.

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Is this not a slightly selfish action? It solves the problem for you, but doesn't make the community better for everyone. I feel like blocking users should be reserved for issues like harassment, not spam.

This is an aspect that I had not considered. Even thinking about it now leaves me unsure of the best way forward.

Specifically, whilst it's a valid argument that blocking the user only solves this for me, and not blocking would help me see if the issue was dealt with, I feel that leaving the user free to roam across my screen is impacting me directly and if I'm not a moderator in a community, it's not my place to second guess their decision to leave such a user and post in place.

In other words, I'm stating to a moderator that I think that this post is spam and should be dealt with accordingly, but if you leave it alone, that's your choice.

I moderate several communities outside of the fediverse and spam in my communities is a one-strike ban. That's not what everyone does.

Having now thought through this again, now in more detail, I'm comfortable with blocking the user.

What reading style do you consider more tedious to read, A) short, concise, and precise, but using non-layperson vocabulary, B) using layperson vocabulary, but it's longer, drawn out, and not precise?

I've seen a lot of people on here be teased for difficulty expressing themselves. Either people complain "you're using big person words to describe mundane things" when they're aiming for precision or "woah, we don't need that damn wall of text" when they're aiming for clarity. It's like people just want to complain.

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There are many quotes that describe this phenomenon:

"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." -- Henry David Thoreau, 1857 [1]

I picked that version because it was short. In other words, it takes time to remove superfluous text, something that takes practice. Previously I found that Xitter character limit helped hone the skill.

I have written a weekly podcast article about the hobby of amateur radio for 13 years and I've learnt that the better you understand a topic, the more concise you can formulate your thoughts.

Einstein put it like this: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." [2]

[1] Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
[2] Source: https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/albert-einstein-if-you-cant-explain-it-simply-you-dont-understand-it-well-enough

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Why?

It's a serious question. What features are you missing, what do you dislike, etc.

Otherwise the answer might easily be: search for "NFC payment" in Google Play and that's not helpful.

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That's understandable, perhaps even desirable, but OP didn't include that in their requirements.

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It's ironic that Apple's single largest user base is the creative community and that as a company they haven't done anything creative since Steve Jobs died over a decade ago...

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Yes

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I'd be sharing that footage with your bank, their bank and the police.

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The term has been embraced and extended by the bandwagon of popular "journalism" in exactly the same way as "artificial intelligence", "block chain" and plenty of others before then, "interactive multimedia", "internet ready", "plug and play", "desktop publishing" and "turbo" to name a "few".

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You mean the information superhighway?

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It's right up there with random requirements to upload government photo id to suppliers in a different legal system. Hard Pass.

(I'm looking at you, PayPal, Airbnb and Stripe)

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Here in Australia, they were attempting to force us to provide Government Photo ID on Airbnb several years ago, we stopped using them instead.

There's a Know Your Customer (KYC) legislation that keeps being interpreted by numpties as requiring that they store these documents, rather than identify the user, create an account and dispose of the documents, which is making these companies rich hunting ground for infiltration by groups wanting to monetize personal data and provide identity theft services.

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What can you tell us about your cat and what made it special to you? When was the last time it made you laugh?

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Note that there is no calibration of audio hardware, so the level of usefulness of any such software would be strictly limited.

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I don't know, but I doubt that the frequency response of a mobile phone microphone is either linear or consistent across sound level.

I don't even think you could compare two sounds with different frequencies, but I don't know.

I suspect that calibration of any such thing would require a whole lot of infrastructure, consider for example the angle of the phone in relation to sound and the impact of holding the phone in how it affects vibration and noise damping.

You might be able to use a calibrated sound level meter and pair it via Bluetooth with your phone, but I think that's going to be as close as you might get.

In the past I've tried a wired USB microphone, but the OS isn't real-time, so the jitter was horrendous. A pi would give you a more consistent result.

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The only reason that LinkedIn is doing this is money. Not yours, theirs.

By jumping through the hoops, you prove that you are you and suddenly your data is more valuable to people marketing on the platform.

Remember, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft.

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Nothing quite like different shades of the same colour to get your point across.

Perhaps you might select distinct colours instead.

Shades of colour are best used for indicating a scale, like on a heatmap for example.

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You can change how long a phone rings for. Talk to her telco for both landline and mobile.

In my experience, if someone doesn't want to answer the phone, strapping it to their arm is unlikely to make any difference and in my experience they're more likely than not to leave it on the charger.

Long battery life and tiny battery are on opposite ends of physics. Pick your poison.

Health monitoring is unlikely to be transmitted to emergency services, except iOS fall detection.

iOS and Android are both tracking as much as they can get away with.

Remote management is likely only with devices used in corporate settings.

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WTF?

Turkish Airlines has more revenue than Qantas?

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Looks oversized to me, that's 3.25 cm x 3.25 cm, looks like they could take it down by 40% and still call it a 2x2 😇

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Australia doesn't even have that many officers in total, "only" 65,000.

However, it turns out that the USA appears to have less police officers per head of population when compared to Australia.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_police_officers

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Who cares?

Facebook is a cesspool of spam with an owner who in my opinion appears to think that "Soylent Green" is an instruction manual..

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