Big international companies have no problem to create pseudo "national" versions of services if they can make more money with it.

So there should not be a problem for the social media companies to create versions that meets local legislation.

If you create a product and want to sell it in a certain market, you must also adhere to the laws of that country/region.

Protection of citizens against unjust ruling by a court is a protection-principle of democrary.

Why would you grant such a protection to an organisation aimed at destroying democracy (X/twitter)?

As a sidenote. This reminds me of a discussion I haver every so often on "tools that make things to easy".

There is something I call "the arduino effect:. People who write code for things, based on example-code they find left and right, and all kind of libraries they mix together. It all works .. for as long as it works. The problem is what happens if things do not work.

I once helped out somebody who had an issue with a simple project: he: "I don't understand it. I have this sensor, and this library.. and it works. Then I have this 433 MHz radio-module with that library and that also works. But when I use them together. It doesn't work"| me: what have you tried? he: well, looked at the libraries. They all are all. Reinstalled all the software. It's that neither me: could it be that these two boards use the same hardware interrupt or the same timer he: the what ???

I see simular issues with other platforms. GNU Radio is a another nice example. People mix blocks without knowing what exactly they do.

As said, this is all very nice, as long as it works

I wonder if programming-code generated by LLMs will not result in the same kind of problems. people who do not have the background knowledge needed to troubleshoot issues once problems become more complex.

(Just a thought / question .. not an assumpion)

OK. That makes a lot more sense.

Thank you for correcting the original post. 👍

(Posted this as a seperate message so not to mix multiple subjects)

As you mention "microcontrollers in the signal-chain of a transceiver", I am currently looking into OpenRTX.

It is really a very nice example of exactly what you mention and something that has become possible to last 1 to 2 years. With these radios that support opensource firmware, It really has allowed amateurs a look of what is inside of the firmware of a "commercial-grade" handheld radio.

Two weeks ago, I helped out in an infobooth on Amateurradio at a makerfaire here in Belgium. Things like OpenRTX allow to explain to IT-people (who normally only work on computers) how "embedded software" works, how software that runs in devices we use everyday operates. In that sense, FOSS is as much an educational tool as it is "just a piece of code that does something".

Kristoff (ON1ARF)

I completely agree with your remarks.

For people who are interested in opensource and amateurradio, I propose you have a look at the conferences on that topic.

Overhere in Europe, there are two of them

• FOSDEM ("Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting") is a yearly event held in Brussels every 1st weekend of February. In the 2024 edition, there was a devroom ("developers room") on SDR and Amateur-radio. https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/radio/

The videos of the talks are online. I propose to have a look at the talks on M17 and on OpenRTX.(*) Also open source hardware is becoming more interesting.

• Next september, we will be hosting "spectrum24", a new conference on "novel ways to use the spectrum we -as citizens- are able to use. It puts a lot of emphesis on Open-source as yes, most -if not all- of the new projects coming out in amateur-radio are open source.

For this conference, we are at the "cfp" (Call for Presentations) stage. See here: https://spectrum-conference.org/24/cfp

I know that Europe is the opposite side of the globe for you in Autralia. Perhaps there are similar events on your side of the world.

Kristoff (ON1ARF)

What was that saying again?

"the biggest thread to the safety and cybersecurity of the citizens of a country ... are managers who think that cybersecurity is just a number on an exellsheet"

(I don't know where I read this, but I think it really hits the nail on the head)

The issue is not cloud vs self-hosted. The question is "who has technical control over all the servers involved". If you would home-host a server and have a backup of that a network of your friend, if your username / password pops up on a infostealer-website, you will be equaly in problem!

Well, the issue here is that your backup may be physically in a different location (which you can ask to host your S3 backup storage in a different datacenter then the VMs), if the servers themselfs on which the service (VMs or S3) is hosted is managed by the same technical entity, then a ransomware attack on that company can affect both services.

So, get S3 storage for your backups from a completely different company?

I just wonder to what degree this will impact the bandwidth-usage of your VM if -say- you do a complete backup of your every day to a host that will be comsidered as "of-premises"

or a one-way trip from a window on the 10th storey of a building all the way down to the ground.

A /48 is quite overkill for a home customer. Do you have 65536 LANs at home? Here in Belgium, we get a /56.

Hi,

I have also been thinking about selfhoating a jisti-meet server. Just how easy / difficult is it to selfhost it? Do you run it in docker or natively? Linux or some other OS (FreeBSD)?

Kr.