Nath

@Nath@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liberals Plan To Blow Current Educator-to-Child Ratios To 1:50⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  we stop subsidising private schools and only give public money to public schools?
  I’ve always disliked this idea. I’m the product of public education and my kids are in public schools as well. I believe every kid has a right to government funding toward their education. If a rich family wants to spend fees above and beyond the government allotment so their kid goes to school with a swimming pool or rowing team, I am ok with it. Those kids shouldn’t lose their government education funds because they come from wealth. They are still citizens and have the same entitlement.

  Besides, if the million kids currently in private education suddenly turned up at their local schools tomorrow to enroll in the public system, they would totally break it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I promise not to buy anything from the USA today. 😆

  Looking around me, about the only things in my vicinity that came from the USA are my phone and iPad. And they were both purchased 2+ years ago. I don’t think there is that much in my bubble that comes from the USA. Maybe some oranges or avocados at the shops sometimes? Whatever is on offer from the USA is going to be such a teeny portion of their export market that they aren’t going to notice any action we might take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekend⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m flipping between this response, and @a1studmuffin’s response - how the hell do you go broke running a casino? A state monopoly casino with no competition?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Footage of first Sydney Mardi Gras parade unearthed after almost 50 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He said the crowd grew as it moved through Darlinghurst, in Sydney’s inner east, with many spilling out of clubs and bars into the procession.

  “A lot of people were just hanging around and joined the parade. [They] didn’t know about it, but just on the basis that it was a celebration.”

  I love this so much. A tiny start with a few people, a banner and a truck turns into a spontaneous party as they meander past the clubs. And look how big it is today!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farmers reduce plastic waste in supermarkets with cardboard berry punnets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm that I bought blueberries in Denmark (WA town) last month in a cardboard punnet. I thought it was just what the local farm that sold to the IGA did. I’m glad to hear it’s more widespread and potentially rolling out to everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like a misunderstanding of economics.

  I’d give this more weight if other commenters hadn’t already helpfully cited studies in this very thread on the topic at hand. The story from Miami in particular was very telling. I also liked the European method where they made fares themselves free, but still enforced people using their smart tickets to record journeys.

  Making people pay a token amount isn’t about preventing unnecessary travel. It’s about keeping everyone with a little ‘skin in the game’, where they feel they are paying for a service. Even if the amount itself is negligible. It also provides data where journey projections and trends are revealed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no expert on this topic, but I’ve previously read that when a thing is made free people stop valuing it. I don’t know how much weight to put on this, I certainly valued my hospital visits for my children and I and those were free.

  I think the simple fact is people evade fares because they believe they will face no consequences for it. If transit authorities put Coles style cameras on the entrances and flagged evaders who were then picked up every single time, evasion would drastically drop. And we’d hate having Big Brother watching us.

  I think a token amount is reasonable. It costs me more than 50c to ride my bicycle or walk/run 50km. When a train fare is cheaper than wear on your shoes for walking that distance, I can’t see how you can complain about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Ezy cards, 'decimated' money in 30yo wallet fished from river⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, the 1988 $10 note was an experimental thing. We went back to paper for a few years after that. It’s funny: A quick Google didn’t tell me when exactly we made the move to plastic, and paper notes were still common well beyond 1996. I’m sure the information is to be had - but I’m at work and can’t devote any time to actually researching this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Ezy cards, 'decimated' money in 30yo wallet fished from river⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, I meant to reply to this comment but missed and made a top level reply instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Ezy cards, 'decimated' money in 30yo wallet fished from river⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastic notes phased in through the 90’s over about 5-10 years starting with $5 and $10, going up. I’m not sure the exact year we started going plastic, but it was around then. I don’t think we were up to the plastic $20 yet in 1993.

  Paper notes were still pretty common in 1997. I remember finding them annoying because I had to separate them when doing the cash taking for work and the bank didn’t like getting paper and plastic notes bundled together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-26/…/104470674

  This article was fascinating. It really shows how blatant the Colesworth “Sale” cycle is. Particularly when it looks like a DNA double helix.
  So hard not to believe it’s coordinated. But price collusion is illegal - they can’t be doing that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Safeway! There’s a name I haven’t heard in about 10 years. Are there still any Safeways that haven’t turned into Woolies out there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I don’t have an official static IP with iiNet NBN, I don’t remember the last time it changed. It’s been at least 18 months on the same IP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having been on the other end of this situation before, I’m going to disagree with this take. On a normal network, yes - you have a firewall to block traffic except to specific IPs/ports. Once you are in the Millions of nodes realm though (and I only ever got into the hundreds of thousands), a firewall is too unwieldy. You can never keep it up to date with all your customers comings and goings. Imagine you have 10 million customer devices and 0.01% of them come or go on any given day. That’s 10,000 firewall updates per day. You’re spending a lot of tech time maintaining and updating that firewall, and you introduce a small risk of an incident with every firewall update. And for what? For the most annoying of your customers.

  Sorry to be blunt, but it’s true. The tiny proportion of customers who want to be able to remotely connect to their home networks are the first to complain about any sort of network congestion (particularly uploads, which regular users don’t even notice). They make a lot of noise about every $5/month price increase. They are the most likely to be doing sketchy stuff on the network. And six months down the line when there’s some new exploit, they’re the most likely vector into the network of the latest worm as they didn’t maintain their security updates diligently. It is far easier to simply not cater to them and let them be someone else’s problem. As customers, they aren’t profitable.

  You handle this by putting your static IP customers on a special VLAN and charge them for the service. And then yes: you have a manageable firewall sample.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All the noise that happened recently with the 3G shutdown tells us just how many old phones there out there on the cell networks. Running old iOS/Android versions with a gazillion exploits. I think it’s a good thing that telcos NAT their customers. The last thing we want is for the Internet to be able to easily connect to those devices.

  ipv6 does also reduce network congestion and improve routing efficiency.

  Unless you are moving gigabits of data, you won’t notice the difference the smaller header payload of ipv6 offers. That’s some serious ePenis bragging bullshit I see all the time among nerds who want to say they’re on the latest and fastest technology without understanding that while they are correct (uploading/downloading a gigabyte over ipv6 will probably complete a few seconds faster over ipv6 instead of ipv4), they’re also making a big deal about nothing.

  Your issue is you want to be able to access your home network over mobile infrastructure, while you are paying for a basic phone plan. Optus does offer what you want, but to business customers. Telstra will also permit you to apply a static IP to some of their plans, I managed to do this for a client about 10 years ago. It was just an add-on that Telstra offered. They were on a business plan, but I don’t remember whether a business plan was a requirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuine question:
  What does ipv6 give you that ipv4 does not? I genuinely can’t tell the difference as an Internet browser. Particularly on the phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, sort of but not really. Telecom had no 3G infrastructure - it didn’t exist yet when the carrier was privatised.

  But, I agree with you in essence that Telecom would not have disabled 3G like this. I also do not think they’d have decommissioned the analogue phone network when they did. Which also affected rural customers at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gina Rinehart screwing with our allies politics.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A peek into her mind:

  The globe is sadly groaning with debt, poverty and strife And billions now are pleading to enjoy a better life Their hope lies with resources buried deep within the earth And the enterprise and capital which give each project worth

  Is our future threatened with massive debts run up by political hacks Who dig themselves out by unleashing rampant tax The end result is sending Australian investment, growth and jobs offshore This type of direction is harmful to our core

  Some envious unthinking people have been conned To think prosperity is created by waving a magic wand Through such unfortunate ignorance, too much abuse is hurled Against miners, workers and related industries who strive to build the world

  Develop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores The world’s poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late

  • Gina, 2012

  She wrote this “poem”, had it imprented onto a plaque. Then, she placed a massive rock in front of a cheap market/shopping centre in Perth.
  theworstofperth.com/2012/02/13/la-gina/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just found out I wasn't registered as an organ donor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You may have been registered in your state. Health department and driver’s licenses are both state based records. Medicare is national and there are rules about government agencies using data from different departments without consent.

  It is better to register your organ donor status with Medicare, as that can be accessed by any hospital in the nation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bathroom Reno Question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There genuinely are visa restrictions on working for some people. They’re usually students who can have a maximum amount of paid hours or tourists who aren’t allowed to work unless they have a 417 working holiday visa. If they’re here on a regular tourist visa, they aren’t permitted to work.

  How did you find them? Most scams work by approaching you. It’s a bit hard to run a scam if you are waiting for people to google you. Not impossible, but less likely.

  I think the approach of contacting the UK version and clarifying is good. Just make sure they’re legit before you do. 😃

  I’d be cautious, for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annual General Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll pay the imgur thing. It happened during school holidays and we went away for the (WA) long weekend in there as well.

  I did have a shot at looking into it, but didn’t try very hard. I didn’t really prioritise it, because it only seemed to affect thumbnails and even then, it wasn’t consistent. I didn’t see it as that big of an issue.

  The lemmy.world lag drama was more nuanced. It’s not a time issue, rather the precedent that one would require. We would have needed to spin up a new server somewhere close to lemmy.world in Finland, batch their feed and send it home. All for an issue with one remote instance that the Lemmy devs said was about to be fixed.

  We didn’t want to eat into the finances for a temporary problem. Had we known in May that it would take until November to resolve, we may have made a different call. But the point is that one wasn’t a time problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annual General Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the much larger immediate/medium term issue is the lack of time Nath and Lodion have had in recent months

  Has this actually been an issue?

  I like to think we’re pretty quick on the moderation stuff, our main problem is time zone related. People making reports or signing up early in the morning don’t usually get seen until after 7am WA time (9am for half the country).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you’re drinking espresso. And only ever offering espresso to prospective guests. As a flat white drinker, I’d still need a kettle.

  This is a great week to pick them up for free/almost free as people got upgrades for Christmas and offload their old ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this doesn’t answer the “best instant coffee” question, but an $8 Ikea plunger and real ground coffee from Colesworth/Aldi negates the need to ever settle for instant. It actually works out a little cheaper, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it work for Australian purchases? I’m sure lots of the brands will be here also, but I doubt a US site would be testing Australian/New Zealand brands like Westinghouse or Fisher & Paykel (however that’s spelled).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article doesn’t mention superannuation, I wonder whether that’s also covered?

  I’m fairly sure that a former employer underpaid my super to the tune of about $5k, but I was young and lazy and stupidly didn’t follow that up.

  It’s a bit hard to go back 15 years later and ask. I don’t really even know what he should have paid vs. what he actually paid. My suspicion comes from other employees complaining that super was not being paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find value in it, but probably don’t use it enough to justify the $70 or whatever it is per year. I might use it for one or two purchases a year.

  Tell us what you’re interested in and I’ll tell you the Choice recommendation. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's Australia and Netflix launch Squid Game Meal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  4,000 kj?! That’s something like half an adult daily intake. Plus it’s awful for you, has little nutrition. You’ll just feel hungry again after a short time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He gets double time (2x $0/hr) on public holidays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spud Shed is a legitimate competitor in WA. At least as good as Aldi in terms of range. They’re also the only stores open 24x7, here. Colesworth close at 9pm on weekdays and 5pm on weekends.

  They don’t play on the same level as Colesworth though. Maybe a few percent market share even here?

  Woolies could argue that every dollar spent at Spud Shed isn’t being spent in their stores. That seems to be what they say that about literally any store selling a product found on their shelves.