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• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was hilarious that one gronk got caught 41 times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Shifts Gears On AI Chip Design Plans⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried not doing that?

  It’s really as easy as not doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin over the internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Threw them over the wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you extend the handle to be about 15cm long, it would be a perch and easy to operate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the “Plex Remote Watch Pass”. A new charge for something that used to be free. www.plex.tv/plans/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And after you install your monthy server update, things break because Grandma’s client is suck in the Obama era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They won’t even get to the login screen.

  All my relatives seem to have Hisense VIDAA TVs. There’s a plex app on the store. Jellyfin would require an external device like a Chromecast or HTPC to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, all the family phones that are using this feature for handset backups. They’re just gonna stop backing up?

  Thanks, Google. Thanks for protecting me from free software that scans files on my own phone and transmits it across my own network to my own server. Such a privacy nightmare. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Android without Google services is basically taking the capitalism away.

  Install LineageOS or GrapheneOS without installing Google Play.

  Slap on F-Droid for apps and you have a phone that doesn’t talk to Google at all, and is completely beyone their control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a job, and the office is 35km away. I get a locker in my office.

  I have two backup drives, and every month or so, I will rotate them by taking one into the office and bringing the other home. I do this immediately after running a backup.

  The drives are LUKS encrypted btrfs. Btrfs allows snapshots and compression. LUKS enables me to securely password protect the drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far Out, Brussel Sprout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had both books as a kid and I have no idea where they went.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unfortunately happens too often I think⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My neighbours were like that. I saw them walk their dogs once in 10 years.

  Their dogs are long gone and mine turns 18 in July.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost all of selfhosting is editing config files, setting permissions and starting/stopping services.

  Setting it up so you can administer a server by desktop is probably as hard as learning how to edit config files from a terminal. Maybe harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped reading when it started suggesting VPNs. Your’re far more likely to be profiled by a VPN provider than your ISP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg's reboot homepage design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it, but it’s a desktop layout and they’ll get no adoption until it’s available as a native mobile app

  My work PC is so locked down these days that social media happens on my phone even when I’m at my desk.