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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  • Before you start consolidating, consider what might happen if the switch is in an unexpected state. For example, someone turned off the heater or pump and you were expecting it to be on.

    In other words, you need to consider what a “safe state” is for each thing and how your code, when it fails, reverts to that state. This is an example of “failsafe”.

    Note that I said “when it fails”. This is true for all software, even on mission critical systems.

    Source: I write software for a living.




  • I’m guessing in the same way as Bit Torrent and others before it … with big flaming headlines, politicians foaming at the mouth, lawyers rubbing their hands with glee and the world for the general public becoming a little bit more shit whilst the actual miscreants carry on with impunity on some other platform or get funded by venture capitalists who make everything legal but no less palatable.

    Source: I’ve been here for a while.


  • Only downside is that the 1080p monitor that’s currently got a full screen digital clock on it, facilitated by a recently dying Chromecast, will still be dying and the analogue clock attached to the hole in the Apple TV won’t allow me to see the time from the other side of the room in the dark.

    I suppose I could strategically drill the hole and do both, but my hands aren’t that stable and my eyesight is fading, so other suggestions welcome.

    As an aside, I just went hunting for the old Apple TV and haven’t yet found it, so there’s plenty of time before I have to commit either way.