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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  • In Australia it depends on whom you ask.

    The Greens say it’s a catastrophe.

    The Labor party says it’s a problem, but not enough of one to actively do anything about.

    The Liberal party tell you what you want to hear, but support the fossil fuel lobby while saying that it’s not manmade.

    The National party wants more nuclear power because apparently it’s “better” … for some reason that nobody understands.

    One Nation blames the immigrants

    The Trumpet of Patriots blame One Nation.

    Fringe dwellers blame COVID, or grasshoppers, or kangaroos … it’s hard to keep track.




  • I have previously looked at this as one potential solution, BUT it requires that bitwarden exists when you die and the page that you link to states: “If your premium features are cancelled or lapse due to failed payment method, your trusted emergency contacts will still be able to request and obtain access to your vault.” – what it doesn’t do is state for how long, or what happens if they access it before you die, let’s say while that you’re on holiday away from the internet for a period exceeding the “wait” time, which is an issue in its own right, how do you deal with access where you’re no longer available, since you’re dead, but the access needs to happen NOW, to pay the electricity bill, or something else.

    Additionally, the system requires a level of skill that’s not evident in most non-computing users (from the same page): “Trusted emergency contacts must be existing Bitwarden users, or must create a Bitwarden account before they can accept an invitation.” – which means that now they need to get a “computer person” to help, which introduces even more risk.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that attempts at solutions are non-existent, it’s that they are clunky at best and in my experience horrendous in general use – for example, look at what happens when one of the signatories of a joint account dies – the account is automatically locked – sometimes for years – even if that account is what’s paying for food and lodging for both parties. All because we haven’t made systems that make sense, despite the guaranteed event of our death.


  • As I get older this conversation has become increasingly bewildering. We are all guaranteed to die, but we still treat it as an exception, which as a programmer makes no sense to me at all. I’ve seen the fallout of people dying for much of my life and we still get no better at it. Why is that?

    I’ve been attempting to come up with a way to do something “simple”, create a foolproof way to share my credentials with appropriate people in such a way that they can access what they need to after I die. So far an actual solution has eluded me. This is just one example of what I’m talking about.

    The article raises questions about what end of life might look like for an individual, I think that’s part of the conversation. Ultimately after your death, it’s not your concern any longer and anything you can do to alleviate the stress would, at least in my opinion, be a good thing. Having a good time, well, a the best time you can have until then, is absolutely part of the equation.

    Anyone?





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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic, observant, or something else. There have been many a meal where I was asked what I wanted to eat and it’s rare that I go beyond the words “surprise me”, knowing full well that the person asking would eat the same as I was offered, making the “surprise”, less of a risk and more of an adventure.

    In this case, OP asked a completely unanswerable question to which there was absolutely no reasonable answer, since we know nothing about the person, their interests, their experience, the hardware they have access to, or anything remotely resembling a needs analysis.

    So, even my answer, generic and random as it might appear, was based on how I use a computer, namely, to be productive. I’ve been using them for over 40 years, mostly like that, with some sojourns into art and personal expression, not nearly worthy of public scrutiny, but not specifically “productive” as such.

    So … what were you attempting to say?



  • Thank you. Glad I’m not alone in this quest with that kind of history.

    My current desktop is Wheezy inside a VM - also across several platforms, but VMware, by design , doing the heavy lifting.

    Anything of note, essentially everything except Audacity, is running on a Bookworm Docker host with X11 forwarding and reverse mount sshfs, so all the container “sees” is the directory I give it.

    I’ve made several attempts to move away from Wheezy, but there’s too many scripts in my ~/bin directory to make that simple.

    The “fresh paint smell” experience for me comes from a docker pull or docker build, but it does require hardware capabilities that died eight months or so ago, when my 64 GB RAM iMac died. No data loss, just endless frustration.

    At the moment I’m exploring EC2 on demand. I suspect that for the $10k I previously spent on hardware, I can always have the latest on tap, but I’m still trying to get real-time audio editing to not be a weekly disaster. Getting closer, but not quite there yet.

    I’ll have a squiz at NixOS, seems like an interesting approach.

    Much obliged for sharing your experience!








  • I’ve been using Linux for over a quarter of a century. Initially I spent hours attempting to come up with the best partitioning scheme but these days I pick LVM and use the defaults.

    If I run out of space, I add a drive (or grow the virtual one) and gow the filesystem into the extra space.

    Sometimes I need temporary space and use sshfs to mount a directory from another machine.

    In other words, today you have infinite options to adjust according to need, partition schemes are not nearly as important.

    Even swap space can live as a file on a normal partition if required.

    That said. If you have specific use cases, check what’s required. Specifically because different uses need different attributes, it pays to check.