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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  • Between the clickbait, YouTube “enhancements”, exploding AI slop videos and the atrocious search facility, the platform is rapidly becoming completely unusable for finding relevant information when you’re looking for answers.

    As an entertainment platform it’s forcing creators to make long form content and making viewers sit through more and more low quality content.

    It’s evolving, but I’m pretty sure it’s heading towards extinction, rather than greatness.





  • There’s a common but persistent misconception that Docker is like running a virtual machine. This is understandable but incorrect.

    A better way to think of it is as a security wrapper around an untrusted process.

    If you look at your running processes whilst a container is running, you’ll see the processes inside the container running on your “host” machine - remember, it’s not a host - guest situation.

    There is no relationship between the user inside the container, unless you start mapping the UID and GID.

    The only exception to this is the root user which shares the UID/GID with the actual root user.

    See: https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/why-processes-in-docker-containers-shouldnt-run-as-root/

    Edit: I suspect, but don’t know for sure, that the root user inside the container is actually the same user as the one running the Docker process, which is typically the root user on the “host”.





  • I think all public funds that generate data and/or software needs to be public.

    The notion that maintenance is an issue is a red herring. Proprietary software purchased by government requires ongoing support contracts right until the vendor discontinues the product and leaves the public funds to prop up another billionaire.

    Open source would also stimulate the economy since businesses could benefit from the project and use or apply it to their use, something which currently requires more investment with the same vendor.


  • So … you are basing you hypothesis on an article about Pedophile hunters written in German (or Swiss if you want to get frisky) that you linked using an English headline and summary in a software development community?

    I’m surprised that your post wasn’t removed.

    I’m mentioning this because it hardly seems like a genuine attempt to learn anything and any assertions you make about voting behaviour has to be suspect at best, not to mention that it’s based on a single example, hardly ever the hallmark of solid statistical analysis.

    Let’s move on to the attempted “fix”.

    You’re attempting to achieve what exactly?

    A relationship between votes and comments?

    How do you know how the users decide what to read, vote or comment on? You see a relationship with ordering by votes, I read whatever comes past on my “All feed” and vote when I think the pod warrants it. The two are not the same.

    In other words, your proposal seems based on a very poor foundation and I’m voting accordingly.