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- Comment on Australian taxpayers on the hook to pay Chevron more than $500 million to clean up oil wells 5 days ago:
Nationalise the liability and privatise the profits. That’s the way of the capitalist.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 1 week ago:
I swear I’ve bought stuff at Costco before that was 1.3608kg.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 1 week ago:
It’s right there in the article.
over roughly the distance between New York and Florida
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 1 week ago:
over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
This is the most American thing ever. Taking a rounded number (1800km), converting it to customary units then converting it back again with rounding error.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 week ago:
I’d send them a pic of my hairy bollocks as proof.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 1 week ago:
ANCAP shits me.
The side impact test is done at 1600kg. A small < 1000kg car is expected to take this kind of hit, while these stupid monster trucks don’t even have to punch half their weight.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 1 week ago:
VHS player
VCR.
It stands for Video Cassette Recorder.
Who’s forgetting now?
- Comment on How to use a domain I own to self-host services? 2 weeks ago:
The educational route I took was Hurricane Electric’s free IPv6 online course. It taught me a bunch of networking principles. When you finish the course (and get “sage” status), you get free lifetime DNS access. This includes dynamic DNS that automatically updates when your IP address changes.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like a way to cause an outbreak of Corvid-19.
- Comment on YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list 2 weeks ago:
Ahh yes, the brainrot section.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 3 weeks ago:
When I built my house, I made the garage 8000x6000 even though the architect, builders and council all said I should do 5000x5500 or something absurdly small.
That extra metre of width meant that I had shelving down both walls of the garage, and I didn’t need anywhere as much storage inside the house (space which costs more to build, heat and cool).
My neighbourhood is full of houses with little garages. Every single one of them is filled with shit and there is a car or two on the street. The backstreets are all half-duplex because of it.
- Comment on A Shakespearean, small-town murder: why Australia became so obsessed with the Erin Patterson mushroom case 3 weeks ago:
This reads like it was written by Rita Skeeter from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Comment on I'm not sure what's worse, driving on the road to work assuming that you're surrounded by idiots, or knowing about it. 3 weeks ago:
It was hilarious that one gronk got caught 41 times.
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Gears On AI Chip Design Plans 3 weeks ago:
AI needs to be regulated with an energy cap. If you need more capacity, optimise your AI. Don’t just throw more electricity at it.
- Comment on I'm not sure what's worse, driving on the road to work assuming that you're surrounded by idiots, or knowing about it. 3 weeks ago:
WA has a population of 3 million. That’s equivalent to one in 20 people being detected.
Nobody is going to get fined for having a drink in their hand though. There’s no way of proving from a photo that it’s alcoholic. I’m not sure about WA, but it was legal in VIC to drink whilst driving up until the last few years (I think 2017).
The dog law is a clear law. The cameras absolutely can and should detect and issue fines for that.
- Comment on Can it take months to get over being laid off? 3 weeks ago:
How much did the job search burn you out?
The last time I jumped jobs, I was absolutely exhausted from the old job. The new job was perfect, but took another year before I didn’t feel exhaused 24x7.
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 4 weeks ago:
Have you tried not doing that?
It’s really as easy as not doing that.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 4 weeks ago:
If your reverse proxy only acknowledges jellyfin exists if the hostname is correct, you won’t get discovered by an IP scanner.
Mine’s on jellyfin.[domain].com and you get a completely different page if you hit it by IP address.
If it does get found, there’s also a fail2ban to rate-limit someone brute-forcing a login.
I’ve always exposed my home IP to the internet. Haven’t had an issue in the last 15 years.
- Comment on AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic 5 weeks ago:
The top result is always some AI-gen, 2000-word essay response to a simple yes/no question like “Can a dog eat onions?”
I swear they do it to train us to just use the shitty AI summary of the shitty AI essay.
- Comment on Uber, Lyft oppose some bills that aim to prevent assaults during rides 5 weeks ago:
The bill would jeopardize rideshare services in Colorado “to an untenable degree, and could very well lead to companies that Coloradans rely on exiting the market, raising prices, or reducing the number of drivers,"
What a bizarre statement. If they exit the market, everything will improve.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 5 weeks ago:
It was previously a “thread.sleep(5000)” in the client code IIRC.
- Comment on Taxing actual rather than unrealised super gains would mean ‘significant’ costs for millions of Australians, Treasury says 1 month ago:
Typical Mercer FUD.
It’s bugger-all work to slap those calcs together. The ledgers are already unitised at member level and it’s only a couple of function calls to calculate unrealised gains for a given period.
Even for defined benefit funds, you can pull quotes at two different dates to calculate gains with very little effort.
- Comment on climate.gov will stop publishing new content on July 1. 1 month ago:
Threw them over the wall.
- Comment on Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves 1 month ago:
If you extend the handle to be about 15cm long, it would be a perch and easy to operate.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I have one. I installed Rockbox on it so it can be used like a USB drive. I have no idea if my car will talk to it over the iPod Accessory Protocol. I never tried.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 2 months ago:
Done! I’ve been selfhosting for over 20 years now.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 2 months ago:
I would argue that it adds a new failure point, and a catastrophic one at that.
Yes, many hunans don’t monitor their oil properly. I’ve seen some destroy engines because they thought the low oil light could be ignored for a week.
Even if you still had the dipstick, owners would become reliant on the sensor and grenade the engine when it gets it wrong. Remember how Teslas had hoods that flew open while driving? The problem wasn’t the latch. The problem was owners relying on a crappy sensor.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 2 months ago:
It’s funny because any Aussie would read that and know exactly what he means.
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 2 months ago:
My current server is just my previous desktop PC hardware. $0 when you repurpose while upgrading your desktop.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 months ago:
It’s the “Plex Remote Watch Pass”. A new charge for something that used to be free. www.plex.tv/plans/