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- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
There’s an old Monty Python sketch that comes to mind when people ask a librarian for a book that doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 1 week ago:
I eventually figured out that the Libre Freesytle 2 will significantly underread if you sleep on it. I would recommend doing a finger prick test before acting upon what a CGM tells you to do.
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 1 week ago:
So they can’t just write some probe code? It really can’t be that hard to determine if there’s support.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 2 weeks ago:
Rego is weight-based, but it’s utterly fucked.
My 900kg hatchback costs $149 more to register than a 2-tonne ute out in the country.
In the city, the rego difference is $1.10.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 2 weeks ago:
We should charge rego by weight and volume. We should measure safety by damage inflicted, not damage deflected.
- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 2 weeks ago:
Most? Dying is a mandatory requirement.
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 2 weeks ago:
You’d have to block whatever DoH server it’s using. They usually fall back to regular DNS. I’ve found that a Chromecast will use Google DNS, but will fall back to LAN DNS when blocked.
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 2 weeks ago:
I personally submitted Hisense’s ACR servers to a popular DNS adblock list that’s used by a lot of products.
And just like that, anyone with a VIDAA TV hiding behind a pi-hole went dark.
We should really make sure every TV gets checked.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 2 weeks ago:
No, and Rupert wants to change that.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 2 weeks ago:
Everything the federal government does is to the benefit of either Murdoch Media, the gambling empire, landlords or the mining industry.
I could also suggest that this ban was effected so Rupert could drive traffic to his news websites.
Seriously. Every law always benefits one of them.
- Comment on 4G Phone Blocking Update: The Missing Samsung 000 Settings for Vodafone - How to check your device 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bit of a joke. I can break outgoing 000 calls on a Pixel 9a with a perfectly reasonable network setup. Nobody can roll a stable radio firmware these days.
- Comment on Kia and Dettol ads top complaints list for 2025 3 weeks ago:
That’s actually a good ad! I thought they stopped making those.
The punchline is that zombies are triggered by noise and the Kia doesn’t set them off.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 3 weeks ago:
I always liked the dramatic…
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I’ve never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 4 weeks ago:
I’ll write my username above my pubes with a sharpie. That’ll prove I’m 16, yeah?
- Comment on oh no 4 weeks ago:
He said that Nvidia only care about money these days.
- Comment on Who wore it better? 4 weeks ago:
I also only recognise Trey and Matt.
- Comment on Are there any VPNs that support dedicated IPv6 addresses? 4 weeks ago:
Telstra (Australia’s largest telco) now provides IPv6-only to mobile handsets by default. They’ve deployed 464XLAT.
- Comment on Are there any VPNs that support dedicated IPv6 addresses? 4 weeks ago:
The main benenfit is not having to deal with NAT. You get your own address and your traffic is not conflated with other people’s.
You also get privacy extensions. Your device generates a temporary address for making outgoing connections. The address has no listening sockets. This means that you cannot get portscanned by every website you visit.
- Comment on What did I forget? 5 weeks ago:
It needs timepieces. Or am I the only one who likes NTP, ISO-8601 and Casio F-91Ws?
- Comment on How do you handle junk email? 5 weeks ago:
Enforcing SSL filters out a lot of spam connectikns too.
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 5 weeks ago:
With a motorcycle licensed rider and ADR compliance, sure. But not kids on toys.
- Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned? 1 month ago:
On Meta, it will be through Yoti’s facial assurance check, which requires users to take a video selfie to assess their age.
Can I send a video of the hair on my cock instead?
- Comment on Australian airlines are banning the use of power banks on flights. Here's what to know 1 month ago:
It would nice to jump on a Jetstar/Qantas flight with a working USB port though…
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 month ago:
I’ve got one, and it works well enough when offline. Sure, I’d love for manufacturers to have a downloadable server to self-host their physical product, but that’s literally never happened.
- Comment on Fourier 1 month ago:
Both the FFT and this story are anchored on things that are imaginary.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 1 month ago:
In Melbourne, the same premier who got us the F1 also removed the train line to the F1… so we could build a casino.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 months ago:
I just put a new clutch in the vehicle I’m teaching my kid to drive.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 2 months ago:
Whenever I ssh into it.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 months ago:
or, as you wrote, “steals”
Nice hallucination, clanker. Fuck off.
- Comment on Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions 2 months ago:
This is a great change. I wonder how long before the hate brigade comes along and complains.