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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  • The question is even more fraught than you might have considered.

    What if you report them to your rideshare company and they do nothing?

    As a passenger of a private vehicle where you observe or experience dangerous behaviour, are you required or obligated to report the behaviour to the police?

    What if that driver came to collect your teenage child?

    I don’t envy your situation, but their income is not your responsibility, your personal safety is.



  • 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.









  • 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.


  • Mathematics and Politics.

    There are many more people who are “working class” than rich. The argument is that if you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.

    There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.

    What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax. This is why the rich get richer and the rest of us don’t.

    Running through all that is a thing called “trickle down economics” which claims that the money from the rich ends up in society, but recent reviews of this have proven this to be nonsense. Politicians use this as an argument for the status quo.

    Finally, the rich shape the narrative. Politicians are essentially elected by the rich through their manipulation of the story through their media empires and social media platforms.






  • Seriously? From the README:

    I would like to first fix the kernel headers issues that break the UAPI for C++ compilers (because they use C++ keywords that break C++ code) and the Windows filesystem (Windows filesystem is case-insensitive, so some headers cannot be stored on Windows filesystems).

    I can’t wait to see this kernel become dependent on .NET

    If you’re wondering, this is what embrace, extend and extinguish looks like.