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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  • 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.










  • It’s like “sugar free” and “green”, meaningless unless it’s regulated, policed and prosecuted.

    As others have said, the best labelling system we currently have is the licence that’s attached to the software.

    Mind you, that in and of itself is not sufficient, since the source code needs to come with it, and arguably the ability to actually compile it, neither of which are guaranteed, again more requirements for policing and prosecution.

    Also, when I say policing, I’m not talking about the law enforcement community, I’m talking about developers and end users paying attention and calling out breaches.

    Whilst contemplating all that, this costs money, something that is in very short supply within the wider open source software community and what little there is, goes to pay for food and lodging for a very very very small group of developers.

    Fix funding and you can have all the stickers in the world, in the meantime, nope.

    So, somewhat disappointedly … no.