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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  • There’s a common but persistent misconception that Docker is like running a virtual machine. This is understandable but incorrect.

    A better way to think of it is as a security wrapper around an untrusted process.

    If you look at your running processes whilst a container is running, you’ll see the processes inside the container running on your “host” machine - remember, it’s not a host - guest situation.

    There is no relationship between the user inside the container, unless you start mapping the UID and GID.

    The only exception to this is the root user which shares the UID/GID with the actual root user.

    See: https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/why-processes-in-docker-containers-shouldnt-run-as-root/

    Edit: I suspect, but don’t know for sure, that the root user inside the container is actually the same user as the one running the Docker process, which is typically the root user on the “host”.





  • So … you are basing you hypothesis on an article about Pedophile hunters written in German (or Swiss if you want to get frisky) that you linked using an English headline and summary in a software development community?

    I’m surprised that your post wasn’t removed.

    I’m mentioning this because it hardly seems like a genuine attempt to learn anything and any assertions you make about voting behaviour has to be suspect at best, not to mention that it’s based on a single example, hardly ever the hallmark of solid statistical analysis.

    Let’s move on to the attempted “fix”.

    You’re attempting to achieve what exactly?

    A relationship between votes and comments?

    How do you know how the users decide what to read, vote or comment on? You see a relationship with ordering by votes, I read whatever comes past on my “All feed” and vote when I think the pod warrants it. The two are not the same.

    In other words, your proposal seems based on a very poor foundation and I’m voting accordingly.




  • Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.

    You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.

    Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.

    The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.








  • As a point of reference, on Bluesky, it appears that if you’re blocked, you cannot see the account that blocked you. Essentially they just disappeared. They’ve not visible in search either.

    So, unless you create another account, they ceased to exist.

    Just to be clear, as far as I can tell, this invisibility is mutual as soon as one account blocks the other.




  • I moved country as a way to see the world. I left Nederland and started with Australia because I had an Australian passport. I was going to give it a year. I worked six months, was unemployed for 18, then got a three day gig that lasted for six and a half years.

    That move was 35 years ago. I’m still in Australia. In the meantime I met my partner, travelled around the country for five years and started my own business 26 years ago.

    I visited Nederland four years in, but it didn’t feel like home.

    It took many years for this to feel like home, from time to time I’d love to hug my family, but never felt homesick, I love watching YouTube videos of places where I grew up. I’ll visit the local Dutch Shop to remember smells and tastes and to bullshit in Dutch, but otherwise I’ll be doing my Aussie life.

    I was born here, but grew up in Nederland.