Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day 4 days ago:
It may seem like everyone has solar panels, but alas we don’t. For two-thirds of us, this would not be free anyway.
- Comment on Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day 5 days ago:
This doesn’t sound like much, but with very minimal effort, it could save over 10% on your power bill.
Do the washing.
Cook a meal.
Run the dishwasher.
Fill a thermos.
Crank the aircon to cool/heat the house.If your power bill is $400/month, that’s $40 for doing stuff you were already going to do - just in that 3 hour window each day.
- Comment on What is Red Rover, to you? 5 days ago:
This is the game I remember from primary school in the 80’s on the Gold Coast. Then the family moved to WA and I don’t think the game existed here. I haven’t thought about this game in over 40 years!
- Comment on What you need to know about why house prices aren't coming down 5 days ago:
Because the rest of us don’t have houses and aren’t set to lose half our net worth by such policy changes. So, we have a variety of election policies that we prioritise.
When Labor propose making changes to the status quo, even with mild changes, they have historically lost the election.
It might be different next time, but it’d be a huge political risk to propose changes again after previous rejections.
- Comment on What you need to know about why house prices aren't coming down 6 days ago:
Yes and no. There are a lot of owner-occupiers in Australia now who on paper are Millionaires, and they like being Millionaires. They are not going to like it if/when that status is stripped from them.
If houses nationally suddenly dropped in value by 50%, even if people’s mortgages were halved at the same time, I expect the change would still be met with hostility. It’s the unspoken truth of housing affordability: far too many Australians are happy with the present housing prices. They’re outnumbered by the rest of us, but they are a large enough voting block to decide any election.
- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 6 days ago:
I’ll buy the Aldi Tim Tam knockoffs when Tim Tams have been full-price for too long. I refuse to pay $6-$7 for 11 biscuits, but will pick up a few packets when I find them half-price and use them up over the subsequent weeks.
The Aldi “Divines” are like most Aldi knock-off products: Not as good as the real deal, but close enough that you don’t really miss the real product. And they’re even a little cheaper than half-price Tim Tams.
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- Comment on Outage Sunday Oct 26 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what metrics those sites adopt to determine whether the instance is up or not, but clearly they’re in error regarding us being offline. I can’t even get the second link to show instances to find us.
- Comment on Outage Sunday Oct 26 1 week ago:
I have no intention to help you do either of these things. Maybe possibly feed you in a pinch, but absolutely not the other one.
- Submitted 1 week ago to meta@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 2 weeks ago:
www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml
Just use one of their feeds. Why on earth would you mess around with scraping the web UI?
- Comment on As ANZ duped customers and ignored hardship notices, the bank’s bosses raked in $26m in bonuses 2 weeks ago:
There was. I got something like $236 from being a part of the class action.
- Comment on More than 300,000 Australians had Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, new analysis shows 1 month ago:
I hate how the Guardian routinely does this.
Payment cancellations have been paused since July last year
…
“The system is being applied unlawfully at worst, and it’s defective administration at best. It’s thousands and thousands of people who are having really serious consequences because there are errors in the automated processes.”
The system is not being applied unlawfully. They recognised that it is buggy and turned it off over a year ago. There is enough true stuff in this matter to make a story that is worth discussing, particularly since it affected people who are most in need of support. But because the truth isn’t scandalous enough for someone a the Guardian, they need to make it sound worse than it actually was.
- Comment on Australian kindergarten asks parents to pay thousands for their children's art 1 month ago:
Our primary school did this last year. The kids did some art project and the school submitted them to a website where you could buy it as a calendar, diary, tea towel etc. I thought it was a great idea. We bought a few tea towels that went down well as Christmas presents.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 1 month ago:
He discounted the preliminary dance, I assumed because it was not a battle. But I’m not going to go back and check. It wasn’t that interesting. 😀
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 1 month ago:
It was mildly interesting to watch (listen) to this perspective. He’s right: I don’t care much about Breaking as a sport. It turns out the scene in Australia is tiny and the people who do it are amateur. For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women to qualify as Australia’s entry into the Olympics. Which globally is a very low bar.
To sum up the video:
Yes, she sucked. But it isn’t like Australia was ever going to do well in this event no matter who we sent.
Dancers in the Australian breaking scene can’t afford to travel to global events and get good. - Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 1 month ago:
That is the title of the actual video with the bit in braces added.
The description reads:
Welcome to the Raygun retrospective.My name is Jafri, I’ve been dancing for 10 years and been going to events in Australia for the past 7. I’ve been observing all that’s been happening over the last year since the Olympics and wanted to provide my perspective on Raygun and Australian breaking.
Why now you ask?
I felt this was important for me to share as someone who has experienced breaking in Australia. You all know by now that breakers are a rare breed in this corner of the world and I feel like a lot of detail was missed in other videos, so I wanted to provide something for the scene that was actually substantial.
Now that the smoke and mirrors around Raygun has dissipated, I’m hoping you can watch my video from a different place.
Thanks for your time and enjoy.
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0:00 - Chapter 0
2:44 - Chapter 1: Australia’s Disadvantages
11:11 - Chapter 2: That Fateful Weekend
16:32 - Chapter 3: Complacency
20:15 - Chapter 4: Incidents
23:51 - Chapter 5: Picking Up The Pieces - Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 1 month ago:
Costs aren’t actually that high when the nerd labour is free. Hosting costs were around $200/mo last time I looked. It’s really a @lodion@aussie.zone question, though.
- Comment on 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! 1 month ago:
If your kid is into trains, go with Chuggington over Thomas. Dinosaur Train is also pretty great. Time-travel, Trains and Dinosaurs!
- Comment on Australians are in more pain – and our new data shows it’s not just due to ageing 1 month ago:
It feels like weight and pain would be connected, but the article doesn’t mention weight at all. It lists income, occupation, health (diabetes, arthritis and any type of cancer), smoking all as factors.
I expect weight plays its part, also. It makes sense that carrying an extra load around all day will contribute to muscle and joint soreness. Curious that it isn’t listed.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 1 month ago:
We’re pretty protective of our ~500ish regulars. We are not a large instance, but our users are very engaged. We don’t want them to be drowned out by a massive influx of new accounts utterly shifting the vibe of the site overnight.
It’s already a problem of us both being Perth-based: we’re weak on admin coverage first thing Eastern Time as that tends to be 3am-7am here. An explosion of users and an early morning incident is something it’s just easier to avoid.
At the end of the day, we’re a pair of nerdy full-time family guys doing this as a hobby. We aren’t interested in monetising this site or making it our jobs.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 1 month ago:
It’s a steady two or so new accounts per day. Occasionally Reddit does something silly and we get a wave of them, but that hasn’t happened for a few months.
- Comment on 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! 1 month ago:
Free advice: Watch Baby Race now, before your baby is born. This episode is for the parents.
The episodes are only about 7 minutes long. It’s well worth the investment.
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 1 month ago:
I ban spam bots almost daily, but I could probably count on my fingers the times I’ve banned human accounts. Unless people start flinging personal abuse or break site rules, we’re usually happy to let the vote buttons do their thing.
- Comment on Three people died after Optus network failure impacted triple-0 calls 1 month ago:
Telstra is a different matter. The government still has hooks into them. They’re under contractual obligations and service level agreements and if they breach those, there are financial penalties.
I suppose Optus must have signed something with the government also? Though I don’t recall reading anything about it. I can’t think under what other pretext the government can just issue a huge fine for not providing a product.
- Comment on Three people died after Optus network failure impacted triple-0 calls 1 month ago:
I’m not defending or particularly interested in the outage. If their service is unsatisfactory, leave them. That’s business and they probably deserve it.
What I find amazing is that they’re being held to a standard that no other private business is held to. I see no fundamental difference between this company offering a service and any other.
Forget tech, compare them to Macca’s. Imagine a service outage that meant Macca’s couldn’t sell you burgers today. You’d shrug and take your business elsewhere.
Optus is getting brought before the government for a “Please explain” and a $12 Million fine. Yes, they own infrastructure. That’s my point. It’s theirs. They can in theory decide to just stop offering their product tomorrow.
Somehow we have reached a point where enough people totally rely on their service that they face this level of scrutiny when they stuff up.
- Comment on Three people died after Optus network failure impacted triple-0 calls 1 month ago:
It’s fascinating how when you step back, this is a regular business that sells a service. Little different to any subscription service.
And the service is reliable almost 100% of the time. But because we the customers take that reliability for granted, the business is blamed if something bad happens in that 0.0001 of the time.
This is a regular company. In theory, they could close up shop and just leave. But they’re being treated as though the very thought of not being able to use the service is a massive deal.
This same company makes you sign an agreement when you join up saying you understand their service is not 100% reliable and should not be used if you require perfect access to emergency services.
Imagine your ISP getting a 12 million dollar fine when they have an outage.
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- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 1 month ago:
The Conversation is a reputable source and the article is relevant to the sub.
I can’t speak to the motives of the OP, but I have no issues with the content. I also only really hang out in “Local” these days. Given that this article is about the US president, I can believe it is widely posted across Lemmy. But this is the only one I’ve come across (so far 😃).
This is what the voting buttons are for.
- Comment on SBS resists calls to join EU boycott of Eurovision 2026 if Israel allowed to compete | SBS | The Guardian 1 month ago:
The SBS knows that it’s connection to Eurovision is tentative. We’re sorta a novelty, like a guest who is cool so everyone is happy we extend our visit. We are in because SBS is a member of the European Broadcasting Union - which is a bit of a technicality. But everyone likes us so they let it slide. If we start rocking the boat or making a fuss, the rules of membership will likely become more strict to exclude us. It would likely also exclude other non European nations like Israel.
Something that I see as already a bit of a risk. If they make the rules more strict to exclude Israel, that ruling would also likely exclude Australia.