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Here’s what fuel costs in Western Australia, changes daily, next day prices are published at 06:30 UTC (14:30 local time).

https://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/

That’s a whole lot better than your cat gagging whilst looking you in the eye.

No idea. I have two accounts, one on Lemmy, one on Mastodon. Presumably somebody is mirroring this community to Mastodon, or perhaps the other way around, I’m not sure.

I’m typing this on Lemmy, not Mastodon.

The issue is not packaging, it’s users circumventing security out of ignorance, willful or not, still ignorance.

As Linux gains popularity, the users will need to learn, often the hard way, how to go about installing stuff. Running a random script off the internet is not how it’s done.

Uhm … no.

Linux had permissions from day one, neither Windows nor Apple did until much more recently.

I use Apple, since there’s many versions of its OS and only¹ the one based on BSD has permissions.

The entire Linux ecosystem is permissions based, it’s baked into the kernel and while bugs continue to be discovered and patched, they’re visible to everyone, where that’s not the case with either Windows nor Apple.

Permissions aren’t new. Unix has had them from the early days, as have operating systems like VMS, BSD and OS/400 to name a few.

As for exploits, the level of user social engineering exploits is exploding with the growth of Linux, since most new users come from operating systems with poor security.

In my opinion Mac OS is hurting itself by making inexplicable security choices, causing pain where none is required, resulting in people actively disabling security to their own detriment.

As for actual exploits, they’re getting more and more ubiquitous since more and more operating systems are running the same code, think python, nginx, bash, etc.

Finally, I’d point out that your attempt at dispelling what you call a myth does not appear to be backed up by facts or sources.

I’ve been in this industry for over 40 years and while it’s far from perfect, I am comfortable stating that Linux is more secure than many operating systems and I suspect that it will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.

I also note that it has a significantly larger user base than any other OS. Don’t believe me? Heard of Android, same Linux kernel.

¹ There was a brief A/UX hybrid OS that had permissions, based on Unix System V and BSD. It was discontinued in 1995.

5 Watt is plenty to be heard. A more important question is, when are you trying to make contact?

I don’t know your experience level, so make sure that you’re doing this when the band is noisy, not when it’s quiet, especially on 40m.

Also make sure that you are aware of solar storms and geomagnetic disturbances, but if you can hear others, that’s a great start.

Think of making contact as flyfishing, it takes patience and practice!

Good luck.

https://xkcd.com/927/

Not sure what you mean. When I click the link on my post, it goes to where I intended. Note that I removed an errant period at the end of the URL about an hour ago.

Edit: Well this is getting weird. I tested it three times, now it goes to a redirect page that does require the period.

Edit: I think I nailed it third time around.

Thank you, fixed.

I think that it’s going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:

“Speeding. No one thinks big of you.”

It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.

In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps “The bigger the trick, the smaller the …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.

Edit: Removed stray period.

Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.

I’m sure I’m not alone in asking:

1. How do you set a SIM PIN on a modern smartphone?
2. Can it be more than four digits?
3. What’s to stop it being brute forced?

If 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.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31431

A very tiny rocket, or a massive frog?

Pandoc will convert markdown to a PDF in portrait or landscape and there’s even “beamer” support, aka data projector or presentation support.

Very interesting. My licence only permits a maximum of 10 Watts and I’m generally playing with half that, or less, sometimes much less, like 10 mW, so will you be considering low power entries?

Why run Docker Desktop when it’s installable as a cli service?

What are you actually trying to achieve?

You can live in hope.