[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 4 days ago

As it happens, Lemmy is a person and if everything is as expected, they're still where they were after their funeral service, at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 4 days ago

They have like 20 employees and are a public benefit corporation with profit motives to benefit society rather than maximise shareholder value.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 4 days ago

If you're going to ignore physics, you can decide specifically what the impact will be.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 days ago

The most people live in the southern hemisphere, India and China. August is winter here.

Radio waves are the same as light, so if radio stopped working the way you envisage, light would too.

Electricity, electronics and electrons are deeply connected with radio waves, so anything electronic would likely cease to function.

Any flying plane with fly by wire would likely crash, traditional linkage type planes would need to land because their engines would cease to operate.

Helicopters would probably auto rotate to an immediate landing.

People would likely starve pretty rapidly, since society is built around electricity.

The phenomenon most like what you describe is called an EMP, Electro Magnetic Pulse.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 5 days ago

Given that W. E. B. du Bois died in 1963 and the state of the planet today, it appears that this quote unfortunately made no impact whatsoever on society..

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 6 days ago

For every item in that drawer, ask yourself: "When was the last time I used this?"

If it's more than a year ago, it's not in the right place.

If it's less than a year ago, it's also not in the right place.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 15 points 6 days ago

Who's asking?

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 173 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to the "brand new world" of IOT hardware where you are the product and continued service depends entirely on how you can be monetized.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 210 points 2 months ago

The response from the owner just adds the missing ingredient.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 159 points 3 months ago

In my opinion it's criminal just how often this happens. Big business making obscene profit off the back of volunteer work like yours and many others across the OSS community.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 162 points 7 months ago

A better headline:

"Visitor to Taiwan attempts to break biosecurity law and is hit with a fine"

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 130 points 9 months ago

I love the notion. The marketing "better than DDG" is a little janky. Perhaps consider a positive statement, like "finally find what you're looking for".

This is a crowded landscape. I've been here since Gopher and seen plenty of services come and go. With that in mind, here are some questions you might want to consider:

How does it compare with products like SearXNG, specifically their ecosystem of plug-in search types?

How do you plan to pay for it?

How do you expect to protect the index against spam?

How will you scale it to a global audience?

How will you handle language?

Good luck!

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