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Onno (VK6FLAB) @ vk6flab @lemmy.radio
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  • Export to HTML, use pandoc (or sed/awk) to convert to markdown.

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  • Interesting question. I suspect that it's similar (but different) to asking, should you watch a movie made by someone who later was found to be a criminal at the time that movie was made.

    I suspect that the answer depends on your personal moral compass, the norms, values and standards you shape your life by.

    There's a famous speech by Australian Lieutenant General David Lindsay Morrison AO, who said:

    "The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept."

    Source: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Morrison

    In other words, I think it's up to each individual to decide how they feel about it and act accordingly.

    But you asked how I feel about it.

    In short, I think that we live in a civil society where the regime in that country is not representative of a world I want to be part of. As such, travelling there under the current regime is not something I'd contemplate.

    I'd also point out that I feel the same way about visiting the United States of America under its current regime.

    Finally, I suppose there's an aspect of risk associated with visiting either country. I have no way to evaluate how that might compare with other extreme sports, but I suppose there's a thrill that draws in some individuals, overriding any moral considerations.

  • I didn't say that it was a valid KPI 😇

  • I think that this is the result of a KPI.

    At some point there was a fight inside Google between engineering and marketing about how to proceed with product development. Engineers wanted a better product, marketing wanted more eyeballs.

    As a result, search became about "engagement", or "Moar clicks is betterer".

    Seen in this light, your triggering of the assistant four times increased your use and thus your engagement. An engineer would point out that this is not a valid metric, but Google is now run by the marketing and accounting departments, not by engineers.

    Another aspect that I only recently became aware of is that in order to get promoted, you need to make a global impact. This is why shit is changing for no particular reason or benefit and has been for a decade or so.

  • Well, unless you're talking about a different transponder, the Marine Traffic sites all show that the oil tanker that was hit was at anchor and her location is still being reported live by the transponder onboard.

    I also am fairly sure that there are heavy fines for turning it off, but I'm not a mariner and don't pretend to be one on the internet.

  • Try me .. I dare you ..

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  • Can I also please have your favourite colour, the name of your first pet, your first car, the place you were born and a copy of your passport?

  • Wonderful idea. Love that you've figured out how to pay for it right off the bat.

    Several suggestions:

    • Add Australia as a country
    • Add System76 as a supplier
    • Add Operating System as a filter
    • Add a way to highlight differences
    • Add a way to export the data into a spreadsheet
  • Set-up a cellular modem on your network and set your phone to WiFi?

  • Skirting the edge of self hosting, I was faced with this question last month. I ended up with a Ubiquity UCG Ultra. It has all the network management tools on-board and for the first time in a long time I can manage my network from anywhere on the planet.

    Access can be via a web UI, or an app.

  • I now write a date on them, so when I next lay eyes on it, I can decide if enough time has passed.

    I recently returned an item purchased four years ago in its original packaging. No doubt I'll milk that experience for the next 20 years to justify my box hoarding 😇

  • I wonder if there's other "offensive" terms we can find to highlight the absurdity and offensive nature of this action.

    Teddy is the name of lingerie, so Teddy Roosevelt needs to be wiped out of history.

    I'm sure there's others ..

  • Well a jailbroken device is "open", and the exploit has been well documented, so as a user and developer of open source software for several decades and knowing just how poorly open source software is generally documented I thought I'd make a little joke.

    Of course, this is the internet and not everyone has the same sense of humour.

    In other words, it's a joke .. laugh.

  • There's going to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for this .. right?

  • Well, that's "fun" .. not.

    I specifically backed this up within Google Maps to ensure that I kept this information.

  • To save money and storage, you can use the bricks of cocaine intercepted at the border .. silver lining.

  • You'll know when it hits mainstream when it's referred to on the nightly news and every media outlet is running at least an account for each program, but hopefully an instance for each organisation.

    We're nowhere near that.