Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Academic warns failure to pass Labor's superannuation tax changes could quash chance for broader reform 1 day ago:
Unless you are a teenager, you’ll be retiring far sooner than 50 years. Less than 20, for me (hopefully).
- Comment on Academic warns failure to pass Labor's superannuation tax changes could quash chance for broader reform 3 days ago:
Three million?! Who the hell has that much?
At that point, 5% interest will give you an annual salary of $150k. You can comfortably live off that and never touch the Three Million!
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 3 days ago:
Full disclosure: I honestly thought everyone could. 😆
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 days ago:
That sort of vote manipulation wouldn’t be posted to this community. 😄
I’m a little surprised at how many people have seen this post. More people subscribe to Meta/browse Local than I would have guessed. Whichever it is, I love how engaged our users are in the health of the instance. You guys are great!
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 days ago:
You are absolutely allowed to downvote anything you’d like to see less of. Yours was one of the two legitimate downvotes I was speaking of.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 4 days ago:
Nah, Eureka is legit. He just doesn’t think news should be in Australia. And that’s perfectly fine. There will come a time where we are getting enough content that we’ll want to introduce that as a rule.
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It has been reported, yes. I got the report because it was an aussie.zone user who reported it. As an admin, I can remove the post, but that will only remove it for aussie.zone users.
For reports on communities on other instances, I rarely take action unless one of my users is causing issues or the post is spam/something super nasty.
- Comment on Billionaire Gina Rinehart criticises ‘relentless attack’ on former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith 2 weeks ago:
Middle-income tech nerd criticises Gina Rinehart for:
- Being completely out of touch with Australians.
- Constantly releasing media statements on issues like we should care what she thinks (and the media for publishing them).
- Being on the wrong side of history on just about every topic.
- Her awful poetry. Seriously, mine is better and I don’t write poetry.
- Complaining that paying people in Australia more money than she pays workers in world African nations is an issue, while choosing to live in Australia and being a parasite on us.
- For defending a dude who did do some amazing heroic stuff as well as well as committing war crimes, domestic abuse, bullying and generally being a jerk.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 2 weeks ago:
Ha! We are not even the biggest instance in Australia. Nor are we the oldest or most used.
The biggest/oldest Australian instance I know of is Blahaj. While you can argue they’re more global than Australian, I count them because 1. I am super proud of them and what they’ve built and 2. Ada is in Brisbane and active in our communities. 😀
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
My client is spending waaaaaaay more money on Microsoft Online than it ever used to on software licenses. Every single user in the business is costing 🇦🇺$30 per month alone just for their Office suite. That’s before you get to the Azure stuff. Some hosted apps cost over 🇦🇺$1k/month to host in Azure.
Before you go too strongly after Microsoft for charging so much, this is cheaper than what we used to pay for running our own SharePoint, Exchange etc farms as well as the infrastructure required to host websites/database etc. All that has been outsourced to Microsoft Online and saves significant money.
Microsoft is doing very well out of its own cloud fees and can cope with AWS, Google and all the smaller private cloud operations getting some of that action.
- Comment on Star Ownership 3 weeks ago:
The hubris of claiming ownership of most of the galaxy because it’s above our little piece of rock aside, I liked the thought exercise.
I am now imagining that Earth falls under the night sky of some distant planet and we fall under their dominion as a result. They just haven’t gotten around to implementing their rule over us because of some stupid thing like spiders on our planet make it too difficult to impose. Or the Star Trek Whale thing. 😆
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 4 weeks ago:
I mostly let the upvotes lead me on these sorts of questions. We aren’t algorithms - I’m happy for something worth talking about being posted on Australia (I do it often enough).
As a counter question: if you’d prefer to see less news and politics, what sort of content would you prefer to be posted instead? There might not be enough.
- Comment on How many times will i hear about the evil left if the greens loose their leader 4 weeks ago:
Antony Green said on Saturday night that he believed Mr Bandt would end up retaining Melbourne.
Antony Green said 2 hours ago that he believed Mr Bandt would end up retaining Melbourne.Greens leader Adam Bandt looks like he’s in a good position to be re-elected in the seat he’s held since 2010.
Postal votes had been breaking strongly to Labor, with Bandt getting just 23 per cent of preferences from them. For victory, he needs that number to be above a third.
The good news for him is that all four of the polling places counted today have beaten that target.
Based on current preference flows, Bandt trails his Labor opponent, but if today’s counting trend continues, Bandt should be re-elected.
At this stage, no early voting centres have been recounted. - Comment on [Satire] Bunnings announces hostile takeover bid for all 8,000 polling booths to regain control of sausage sizzle market 4 weeks ago:
For reals though: you wouldn’t want to be the community group that gets a Bunnings slot on an election date. It would decimate your sales as everyone already had their sausage. People buying a second at Bunnings would not be the norm.
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank investigates ‘issue’ that has locked thousands out of account 1 month ago:
Does CBA not add a virtual card to the phone’s wallet? I don’t need to actually open my bank’s app to make a purchase swiping my phone. I only need to unlock the phone (and you can configure it to make small purchases with the phone locked if you like).
- Comment on ‘Copied the MAGA model’: The ‘grassroots’ lobby group funded by some of Australia’s richest 1 month ago:
I loved this teeny bit: “best of Howard”
Mr Howard is remembered for three things:
- Getting rid of guns.
- Introducing the GST.
- Tampa/children overboard.
And I nearly said “two things”, as 1 & 2 are far bigger points; though you could argue that 3 had a lasting impact on Australian politics and outright lying to the faces of Australians being permitted.
I am curious as to what this MAGA-Lite group thinks is “the best of Howard”, because I don’t think that means what they think it means.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Let me guess: it did fine for a few years until everyone had tried it once?
Now I’m torn between wanting to get it once before it closes to see what it is like and just not because apparently it is crap.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 month ago:
I agree with your first statement, but disagree with the rest. I am not their target market. I enjoy playing their games, but primarily because I am spending time with the kids as I do. Not many of their games are targeted to my demographic.
I disagree that they focus only on digital. Every single Nintendo game comes out on a physical chip. And sales on digital copies are rare and minor (30% off maybe). It is often cheaper to get a physical copy on sale cheaper than digital. And you can then sell it / buy it second-hand. I’ve read that with Switch 2, even the digital codes can be transferred to a new owner. Nintendo for all their faults have never forced you to lock in a digital library you can never resell.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 month ago:
I bought it second hand. Nintendo got $0 from the sale. In fact, two thirds of our physical games have been purchased second hand.
- Comment on Record enrolment [98.2%] ahead of 2025 federal election | AEC 1 month ago:
You don’t have to vote. You only need to get your name crossed off. You are then able to just leave if you really want.
And while those ‘how to vote cards’ (and their pushers) are annoying if you don’t need or want them, they do help people get something close to their wishes down on the ballot.
- Comment on The 24-year-old rule that lets politicians use your data however they want 1 month ago:
Some nerd like me will be affected by this one day and then script up something that emails them from 10,000 different email addresses that all bounce. Pollute their database.
- Comment on Why are WA Police driving around in a Maserati? 2 months ago:
Ha! A day later, I see the thing! It’s real all right:
Image - Comment on US tech companies joins winemakers, film studios and drug companies in urging Donald Trump to target Australia 2 months ago:
Adobe Haven’t these dickheads been charging Australians more for their products than anyone else for decades?
I think it’s more aligned these days. But it used to be cheaper to fly to the USA, buy a copy of Adobe creative suite, go to Disneyland for the day and then fly home than it was to buy Creative Suite in Australia. It’s all subscription-based, now.
- Comment on Why are WA Police driving around in a Maserati? 2 months ago:
Ha! It’d make a great pursuit car, but I expect maintenance costs and risk of repair after rough treatment excludes it from that role.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 2 months ago:
We may have actually exported it to the rest of the world! In 1970, we had the Hutt River Province secede from the nation of Australia. To be fair to old Prince Leonard - he had valid grievances and was not just a nutter. The Australian Government was imposing wheat quotas on him when he was just about to harvest, and frankly didn’t exactly offer him much in the way of services.
According to my 2-minutes of Wikipedia research (which makes me an expert on this topic, don’t you know?), the Soverign Citizen Movement appeared in the USA in the “early 1970’s”. Which sounds to me like it may have drawn inspiration from the waves that Prince Leonard was making in Western Australia.
- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 2 months ago:
So I had a brief look at the Labor policies, and to be frank, it all looks reasonable. I didn’t see anything there where I thought “that’s an awful position”.
So I re-visited the Liberal version. Maybe they all sound fine at first. Oh wow the Liberal one is awful. It’s all ‘Labor bad’ and ‘Under Labor…’ and ‘fix the mess of Labor’. Why are they the only party of the three to trash talk their opponents?
- Comment on The swimming carnival is nearly over and will cost lives 2 months ago:
Anecdotal, I realise - but this is the first time I’ve ever heard of any school in Australia school dropping swimming lessons. To hear that it is one-in-four is not just surprising, it’s downright difficult to believe. From looking on the Royal Lifesaving website, I haven’t found this report. I have found something that appears to refute the news article however.
I think I’m going to need a source on this one.
- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 2 months ago:
I was discussing this just a couple of days ago. Greens have terrible marketing and are in desperate need of a rebrand. I’m curious though: Which of their policies are you opposed to? Because honestly: if breaking up bank cartels, restoring Internet privacy laws, promoting local manufacturing, science and research as well as improving the calibre of education are bad, then I guess I’m bad.
For me, my criticism of Greens comes mainly from putting stuff in policies that would be better suited to “dreams and aspirations”. They have a tendency to put stuff in there that are unspecific or at least out of the realms of what government does. But for all of that, I struggle to point to anything on their policy stuff and say “that’s an awful position”. At least, even if I’m not totally on-board, I see where they’re coming from. And that’s another point. Their policies page overwhelms you with too much to actually go through in one sitting. But, look at the Liberal/Labor equivalent pages? Greens are super open about what they stand for and what they would like to achieve. Labor have a few bullet points and Libs have a marketing brochure.
