zurohki
@zurohki@aussie.zone
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 2 days ago:
Instead of running a magnetic tape over the cassette player’s sensor, you put an electromagnet on it powered by the headphone jack. The cassette player just reads the magnetic field and doesn’t know any difference.
- Comment on Billionaire Gina Rinehart criticises ‘relentless attack’ on former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith 2 weeks ago:
The general public can always use more reminders that billionaires are terrible people who stole their wealth from the people who produced it.
- Comment on Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier 3 weeks ago:
Most of the EVs in the Australian market seem to be SUV-like
Eh, there’s SUVs and there’s SUVs. Manufacturers have taken to calling everything an SUV because people will pay more that way.
My EV gets called a “compact SUV” but really it’s an oversized hatch.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 3 weeks ago:
And Linux nerds.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, best we can do is microtransactions, fear of missing out and AI slop. That’ll be $90.
- Comment on Right-leaning Australian opposition leader loses election, and seat 4 weeks ago:
does he just love that racist asshole look?
It’s his way of supporting truth in political advertising.
- Comment on Disney wolves 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on To whom it may concern 5 weeks ago:
This. Your mail isn’t going to be opened by the CEO. Hurt the business, not the worker. Mail them a box of rocks or something, the company will pay postage on it and the minimum wage guy opening packages will laugh.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 5 weeks ago:
I see !dadjokes@lemmy.world is leaking again.
- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 5 weeks ago:
There’s this weird belief that minority parties are supposed to ignore their own policies and just support whatever the closest major party wants. And not supporting the major party means they’re failing in this duty.
So Labor could drop the plan and blame the Greens for it, instead of actually pushing for their own policy. And the media frames this as a failure by the Greens.
The same media that almost unanimously supports Australia’s right wing conservatives, but I’m sure their opinion on this particular point is completely unbiased.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 1 month ago:
I do, because between every online service being hammered by scrapers training AI and every online service being stuffed full of AI slop, it’s ruining the internet.
- Comment on We are back in sync with lemmy.world! 1 month ago:
Lemmy works by sending a message between servers, waiting for an OK, sending another message, waiting for an OK, etc.
That means if servers are on opposite sides of the world and it takes 0.2 seconds to send a message and get an acknowledgement, you have a hard limit of 5 messages that can be sent per second, even if they’re both on 100 gigabit links.
Lemmy.world was sending aussie.zone about 16,000 messages per hour, which is about 4.5 per second. So around 220 ms per message. And it wasn’t keeping up.
Now lemmy.world has… it looks like two separate connections sending messages to aussie.zone, so it can have two messages in flight at a time.
- Comment on Battery tech really does move fast 2 months ago:
But then you can’t inflate the numbers by putting a 3.7 volt battery in a power bank, listing the capacity in amp-hours and implying that you get that many amp-hours at the power bank’s 5V output voltage.
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- Comment on Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average. 2 months ago:
I mean, where I work we’ve hired every female applicant we’ve ever had and we’re still at around 98% male. I’m not sure what we could even do about it.
- Comment on Controllers... 2 months ago:
Why is it we send things by car and it’s a shipment, but we send things by ship and it’s cargo?
- Comment on New report skewers Coalition’s contentious nuclear plan – and reignites Australia’s energy debate 2 months ago:
- No existing nuclear industry. We can’t just send the people who built our last nuclear power plant to build another one, we don’t have any of those people.
- Massive amounts of space and tons of sun year-round for solar
We do have a huge coal and gas industry looking to pay politicians to slow down the shift away from fossil fuels though, so the party that was trying to build new coal power plants last time they were in power is talking about nuclear while they’re in opposition. It isn’t about taking action, it’s about delaying renewables.
- Comment on Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching 3 months ago:
IIRC a bunch of distros moved to i586 or i686 as their minimum CPU version, which means packages get compiled with instructions that aren’t supported by 386 and 486 CPUs. So those 32-bit ISOs only work on relatively recent 32-bit chips and will crash on chips which are 30+ years old.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 4 months ago:
Yeah, but manufacturers abuse that to deny liability regardless of what the cause of the failure actually was. So we have laws against just assigning liability to the user.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 4 months ago:
(arguably they should have just let the phones stop working instead of blocking them outright). The allowlist they used was missing hundreds of 4G capable phones and was missing just about every overseas model of phone
IIRC the issue is that phones must be able to dial 000 if there’s any mobile coverage at all. A bunch of VoLTE-capable phones either force 3G for 000 calls or aren’t compatible with Telstra’s custom VoLTE implementation, and there’s really no way for telcos to know these things.
There’s no way for the owner to know, either. A bunch of 4G+VoLTE phones in the wild that people think are fine either can’t call 000 or can’t call 000 on Telstra’s network. So a phone on Optus might work fine on Optus VoLTE, might call 000 fine on Optus VoLTE, but wouldn’t be able to call 000 if there was only Telstra network coverage.
And there’s no way for Optus to know which specific modem firmware your phone has, so even getting the same model phone and testing it isn’t a reliable solution.
- Comment on Me when my parents told me they first met in the summer of 1999 & started dating the following year and I did the math (dad - 1959, mom - 1984) 4 months ago:
Yeah… One of my great great grandmothers, nobody was ever allowed to know how old she was while she was alive. It was this weird mystery.
Turns out if you knew her age you could easily count backwards and work out that when she got married she was 13 years old and about four months pregnant.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 4 months ago:
Half of them will print the highest bandwidth regardless of the actual cable’s capabilities so that won’t help.
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 7 months ago:
Yeah, that’s not happening. They’re desperate to push revenue per user up, so they keep hiking low speed prices to push people towards 100+ megabit plans.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age sold over 400,000 copies and sets a new player count record 7 months ago:
The foundry reminds me of Space Exploration’s industrial furnace and casting machines.
- Comment on Inquiry warns distrustful public wouldn’t accept COVID measures in future pandemic. 7 months ago:
don’t use masks, wait use masks
IIRC this one was about ensuring the supply of masks for medical staff early on before production ramped up.
- Comment on Churches Look Skyward for Energy Savings | Big federal subsidies drive a surge in solar installations on church rooftops 7 months ago:
That’s not the sort of power from above churches are supposed to believe in.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age sold over 400,000 copies and sets a new player count record 7 months ago:
Fulgora. It’s an experience.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age sold over 400,000 copies and sets a new player count record 7 months ago:
Just got to my first new planet.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 7 months ago:
IIRC different species of frogs make wildly different sounds, so all of the languages might just be what type of frog lives in that country.
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 7 months ago:
Our lizard people see how much money their lizard people are making torturing their peasants and want to get in on the action. That’s why we have the push towards private health care.
