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’s fascinating to me that this looks like half a dozen or so radio stations I’ve been in. It’s especially fun at 1am in the morning… (*)

    Only one station I’ve been at looks completely different, ABC Radio in Perth, but that was purpose built 20 years ago and it’s also a TV station.

    (*) I have scared the crap out of myself and others on more than one occasion because radio studios are sparsely populated and sound dampening is essential.








  • Until just now I had never heard of this team and their contribution to FreeCAD. Reading the article I think it outlines what they did and it sounds excellent.

    As far as their success or failure of achieving their aims, I don’t have any information to make a judgement either way.

    I will say that making a business out of open source software is not something for the faint of heart and not something that has a track record of success, let alone a documented one. Mostly it seems to follow the pattern: “How do you make a small fortune from open source?” “Start with a large fortune.”

    I say this as a quarter century user, developer and advocate of open source solutions.


  • The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.

    In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.

    Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.

    Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.

    Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.

    Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.