You don’t need to go to Mars to deal with timezones … plenty of people right here who have absolutely no idea that half the planet is dark at any one time and still schedule global events in their colloquial timezone rather than UTC.
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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Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?English
173·12 days agoI think that unless you have some way to enforce accuracy, it’s meaningless and AFAIK automatic detection tools are no better than chance and to my knowledge, getting worse.
An AI bot operator isn’t going to tag their material as [AI], more likely than not they’d attempt to use [NOT AI].
I’d also point out that while lemmy doesn’t (yet) support hashtags, any “tagging” would probably benefit from using the existing method using a #tag.
Ultimately, you need to ask yourself, is undeclared AI that goes undetected by the community a problem, or the new “normal”?
I’ll note that I’m not a proponent of Assumed Intelligence and think that when the bubble bursts we’re going to be in a world of hurt, but with a little luck the billionaires will have lost their shirts in the process.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Selfhosted birthday calendar for the whole family?English
8·12 days agoThere’s nothing to host.
Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Firefox@fedia.io•That's one way they can use their resources
26·16 days agoI think that this is symptomatic of a much larger issue at Mozilla, leadership, or rather, lack of leadership. AI, tracking, privacy, funding, the list of crazy coming from there appears to be just ballooning.
I see no evidence that they deal with actual bug reports, no evidence that they care about users and no clear path being forged, unless they want to enshitify their business, in which case, that appears to be going swimmingly.
This is GOLD!
Source: Debian user for 25 years.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Hackers used Meta's AI support system to hijack over 20,000 Instagram accounts - Help Net SecurityEnglish
1·27 days agoI suspect that Meta suddenly requiring that the family Messenger account has a PIN is unrelated … right?
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Red Hat npm Packages Compromised to Spread a Credential-Stealing Worm
12·1 month agoI can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.
I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.
If it helps, it’s the only thing I think of wherever I encounter it, bus lines, taxi numbers, number plates, street numbers, you name it.
So, yeah, I think it’s funny.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender VulnerabilitiesEnglish
61·1 month agoHow do you secure a Windows PC from hackers?
Turn it off and unplug the power.
But, then you can’t use it.
Precisely.
But …
It’s the only way to secure it.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Proxmox Backup Server verifications stupidly slow on S3 storageEnglish
4·2 months agoI apologise, I saw S3, never even noticed the “OVH”, nor had I ever heard of it.
I’ll leave my original reply as is with an added disclaimer for anyone who follows down the same path.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Proxmox Backup Server verifications stupidly slow on S3 storageEnglish
41·2 months agoHave a look at your AWS billing console, since data egress is charged and downloading to verify is considered egress.
AWS S3 supports data checksums where a checksum is calculated at AWS, which you can compare against a checksum that you calculate locally.
This is an article that goes into how it works, but I’ve not (yet) tested it, but I’ll be following in your footsteps pretty soon.
As an aside, make sure that versioning is OFF on your backup bucket unless you specifically require and understand it, because even when you delete objects, they persist as a previous, all but invisible, and charged(!), version.
My former backup software “helpfully” enabled versioning and I was left with a $600 monthly bill for six months while there was no actual backup being done due to a local hardware failure, until I figured out what was happening. I used that software for years and shudder to think just how much extra it actually cost.
I will note that while I had a catastrophic hardware failure, I didn’t lose any data.
Finally, if you’re storing data in Glacier, retrieval is charged at different rates, depending on timelines of access, so it might be that your backup software is using the slow tier to “save” you money.
Edit: OP advises that they’re not using AWS, instead they’re using OVH. The object storage solutions appear to be mostly compatible, but I was unable to discover if the OVH implementation supports checksums.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Server vs miniPC dilemma for homelabEnglish
2·2 months agoI faced pretty much the exact same choice, except I was given four of them, each with 8 GB of RAM.
Unfortunately they were two different hardware revisions, so the most I could achieve was two servers with 16 GB each.
They sound like a Jet taking off when powered up and the BIOS doesn’t support lower fan speeds.
Instead after months of deliberation I decided to go with a SFF Lenovo, 32 GB, 2 x 1 TB NVME, Ryzen 7, and bought this:
It’s whisper quiet and running Proxmox.
To get VM video passthrough to work I installed an extra video card, though, you could install a desktop on the host OS instead if you prefer.
The video card I used to fit inside is this:
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Critical vm2 sandbox bug lets attackers execute code on hostsEnglish
2·2 months agoCVE-2026-26956 - vm2: WASM Sandbox Escape (Node 25 only)
vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. In version 3.10.4, vm2 is vulnerable to full sandbox escape with arbitrary code execution. Attacker code inside VM.run() obtains host process object and runs host commands with zero host cooperation. This issue has been patched in version 3.10.5.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Linux@lemmy.ml•How do you feel about distributing small Linux tools via GitHub and Gumroad?
32·2 months agoIf you’re not going to show the source code, there’s absolutely no point in using GitHub.
As for getting paid, I hadn’t seen gumroad before, nice, but failing the access to the source, it’s unlikely I’d buy/pay for unknown software and install it sight unseen on anything I care about.
From a security perspective, in my opinion this is a disaster waiting to happen.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•A developer in our team sent me a full presentation without using a slides tool.English
10·2 months agoPandoc will convert markdown to a PDF in portrait or landscape and there’s even “beamer” support, aka data projector or presentation support.
Why run Docker Desktop when it’s installable as a cli service?
What are you actually trying to achieve?
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Proxmox audio for all guests solution?English
2·3 months agoTah. I’ll have a look see.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Proxmox audio for all guests solution?English
1·3 months agoNot sure how, or if, I’d want to install an Arch package under Debian, but it’s my understanding that the package I’ve raised a bug for under Debian implements, or is supposed to at least, the functionality you’re describing.
What I haven’t found is a recipe that documents exactly how it’s supposed to work (not to mention, in a Debian way).
I’d love to discover something that doesn’t start with instructions to remove all pipewire packages and install from source, since that completely defeats the purpose of running Debian Stable as the host.
Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Proxmox audio for all guests solution?English
3·3 months agoIn my adventures I did look at this, but it appears to require that you install support for this inside the guest, which is possible for modern guests, but not for ancient ones like say Debian Wheezy or Win98se.




At the rate Microsoft is going, by the time we set up a community on Mars, everyone will have migrated to Linux 😁